Here’s a slightly unusual challenge a non-cavebound person has set themselves. A friend of a friend of mine (it actually is – this isn’t the start of a unconvincing urban myth) has decide to write a novel a month for the whole of 2011. She’s aiming to dash off 2000 words a day every single [...]
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Doctor Who ebooks and a Monster Morpher!
It’s a Doctor Who-related double bill from me today, but then everyone loves a bit of Who, don’t they? First up, the lovely people at the BBC have made a selection of classic Doctor Who novels available to read online, or download to your ebook reader, should you possess such a gadget. Like I say, [...]
Be my fan!
Completely forgot to mention in my earlier post that I now have a Facebook fan page. Not quite sure what it does, but I shall endeavour to find out over the coming days and weeks. In the meantime, if you’d like to officially declare yourself a Barry Hutchison Fan, then go along to this page [...]
Witchfinder Winner, and another competition.
The competition to win a copy of William Hussey’s brilliant Witchfinder: Dawn of the Demontide is now well and truly closed. The book will soon be winging its way to lucky winner, Adam Cook, who was drawn at random from all the entries received. Congratulations, Adam! Don’t worry if you didn’t win, we’ll have a [...]
Win a copy of Invisible Fiends: Mr Mumbles
Wha…? Where… where am I? Oh. Wow. I’m back in the cave. I never thought I’d say it, but I’m glad to be back in here. For the past few weeks the monsters have been running be ragged, shunting me from school to school, shoving me into libraries, and generally making sure I spoke to [...]
Let’s get reeeady to Mummmble!
There is now just over one week until my first ‘proper’ book – Invisible Fiends: Mr Mumbles – is officially published. It’s possible you may start to see it in bookshops before then, though, and if you do it’d be fab if you could let me know. It’s a very exciting feeling having your first [...]
HarperCollins want your shorts
By “shorts” I mean “short stories”. Sorry if I caused any confusion there. I found the following on the BookArmy site and thought maybe it would be of interest to some of you. HarperCollins and Act on C02 are running a writing competition. They would like you to re-write a short story or fairytale to [...]
MyVoice Write or Wrong
Stumbled across this today – it’s a bursary scheme for young people aged between 13 and 19, designed to help them fulfill their writing ambitions. To be eligible you need to live in certain areas, and … oh, why don’t I just post the criteria here? MyVoice Bursary the facts: Nine MyVoice Bursaries are available [...]
