There’s nothing I love more than popcorn with a movie… actually that’s complete poppycock! There’s lots of things I like more than popcorn with a movie, like: clean underwear, a comfy bed, decent food on a regular basis… and a whole host of other things that I’ve not seen in the past couple of years. [...]
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Well this answers the question…
… of what Philip Reeve named his two alpacas. Not Gandalf and Strider after all then, Philip! What a delightful little video this is. I particularly love the cartoon of the octopus driving the tractor through the field of alien tentacles. I feel a book in that somewhere.
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 [...]
Peur de Moi
Wary as I am about trailers’ ability to promise things their films don’t deliver, I do like the look of forthcoming French animated movie The Prodigies. Crank up your French listening skills and feast yer peepers on this (via Twitch) below:
Fans Make Great Movies
The talent of my fans is inspiring. This just turned up on youtube and I love it. It really captures the spirit of my books.
Phonetic Punctuation
Punctuation marks are brilliant! There’s one right there – at the end of that last sentence. And other one there… Commas, full stops (called periods in America), and exclamation marks are just a few of the tools we can use in written language to make sure that what we want to say is understood by [...]
Ask an Author!
Inspired by Sam Enthoven‘s brilliant Ask Sam video, check out my very first Ask an Author clip, in which I answer a question about Scream Street 11: Hunger of the Yeti…
Questions, Questions, Questios!
A couple of interviews I’ve done recently. I hope they’re of interest. Here’s the first one, which is about The Devil’s Triangle: The second is just a general chat about writing and how I became an author:
Look at these dudes!
Mudskippers are now my new favourite creatures. I love their eyes, especially those of the little ones looking around the place from inside their eggs at about 4.01. Sam
Running and Reading
Despite being what’s known in the business as an ‘old geezer’, I’m a big fan of the movies and music of a certain Will Smith. But not only that – I remember seeing him accepting a prize at the 2005 Kids’ Choice Awards and, in particular, his brilliant acceptance speech. It contains some of the [...]
