Hi all! Guest blogger Laura back again! I know! I know! I said i’d post up about the book i’m illustrating, packed with ghosties, mummy’s, vamps, moving statues, gambling zombies, pond creatures, and such things as the unmentionables which dwell beneath manhole covers… but oh no, I have not done so (yet). This is becaaauuuse… [...]
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Get Your Crawl On
This… …is the new unabridged audio version of my book CRAWLERS. I’m delighted with it, and to celebrate its launch there’s a there’s a giveaway / competition going on right now at Spine Chills, the bloodcurdling blog of the supremely sinister Holly ‘Heart of’ Harkness. For the chance to win one of these fine items, [...]
‘Zonely Love
I’d heard that Interzone was one of the best places to find great new Science Fiction and Fantasy short story writing in the UK, but until just lately I never got around to checking out the magazine properly. This is the current issue… …and it’s terrific! In particular, Suzanne Palmer’s The Ceiling is Sky and [...]
Pssst!
Remember The Sixth Gun, the awesome cowboys-and-monsters comic I recommended back in Feb? Well now you can download the first issue as a PDF to try for free, here. Volume 1 was ace, and I’m counting the days ’til Volume 2 comes out next month. Here’s a quick video trailer for the series to whet [...]
Gateway To Amazing
On Saturday UK national newspaper The Guardian published this fantastic article, in which a host of awesome authors picked out some of their very favourite SF. Personal highlights for me included Stephen Baxter writing about the thoroughly astonishing Hothouse by Brian Aldiss, Liz Jensen writing about Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham, China Mieville [...]
Tales of Scream Street
Throughout the year, when the monsters let me, I visit a lot of schools to run creative writing workshops – and that means hundreds of stories are being written that no-one ever gets to see! I think it’s a shame that these terrific tales are being hidden away in exercise books rather than shared with [...]
ICE CREAM NIGHTMARE
A monstrous TBM welcome to today’s Guest Blogger, illustrator Phil Harvey, who, for your shuddersome delectation, presents the following: “It’s a one page comic strip about an ICE CREAM NIGHTMARE. The whole strip was off the top of my head really. I have attached a ‘making of’ after the final version.” “I have been trying [...]
Books Work Better Than Bombs
I’ve been glued to the news lately, awed and astonished by the bravery of the ordinary people struggling for their freedom at the risk of their lives in Tunisia, Egypt and now Libya. This BBC article caught my eye about Gene Sharp, author of a manual on how to topple tyrants by non-violent means. His [...]
How Will You Measure Up?
Meet The Undertaker… He’s the terrifying star of The Backwater Gospel, a wonderfully doom-laden and gorgeously animated new short film by eight students from Denmark. You can watch the whole ten mins of it (and another video about how it was made) at my favourite film-related-stuff site Twitch. But before I give you the link, [...]
Fill Your Brain!
True Grit by Charles Portis is one of my very favourite books in the entire world. Here’s a quick review/synopsis I wrote back in 2007 on my LibraryThing Review Page: Recently reissued by Bloomsbury in the UK, this Western was turned into one of John Wayne’s best-loved films. The book’s even better! When her father [...]
