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Friday, September 24th, 2010
Credible Incredible Worlds
Hello to Marite from Mexico, who got in touch this week to ask the following questions: When you write, you think of incredible worlds? I write what I love – stories that contain a lot of action and fantastical elements, particularly (heh!) monsters. So: a lot of my job as a writer, I think, is […]
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Monday, September 20th, 2010
Ch-ch-ch-CHAINSAW!
I have joined a gang. Over the coming months I’m going to be teaming up with some of the finest writers of thrilling new books for young people around right now. If you want to meet Alexander Gordon Smith, Jon Mayhew, Alex Bell, Steve Feasey, Alex Milway, Sarwat Chadda (and, er, me) then The Crystal […]
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Wednesday, September 15th, 2010
All Hail the Mighty WebSphinx!
My brilliant mate Katie, who designs and maintains all my websites, is about to head off on maternity leave. Before she does, she’s just completed a mammoth list of updates. If you check out the sites for The Black Tattoo, Tim, Defender of the Earth and Crawlers you’ll find that all broken links have now […]
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Saturday, September 11th, 2010
It Begins…
A new Phase Five is underway. I’ll tell you more as soon as I can, but for now suffice it to say that for the whole of last week I spent all my writing time reading fashion magazines for research. For a man who has basically worn variations on the same outfit for the last […]
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Wednesday, September 1st, 2010
The State Of The Plan
I’ve been assessing the progress of my Sinister Masterplan to Conquer the Universe. Phase One: The Black Tattoo. I’m delighted to say that I recently accepted an offer from a company who want to translate and publish the book in Indonesia. I’ve also been receiving some wonderful and heartening messages lately in the Black Tat […]
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Saturday, August 14th, 2010
Sam is Mutating…
…into what, it’s too early to say. My pupal case is fully formed and hardening; what’s inside has already lost its old shape and is now splitting and twisting into strange and interesting new ones. The above pic is from this excellent photo gallery of various creatures viewed through an electron microscope. Cheerio. See you […]
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Friday, July 30th, 2010
Saw this and thought of you…
That’s not a patch of moss, that’s… GAH! Comments on the Boing Boing post where I saw this video have identified the species as harvestmen. –But, as anyone who’s read Crawlers might wonder, are they something more sinister? 😀 Here’s a link to my latest post to TBM, this week about a writer of some […]
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Friday, July 23rd, 2010
Meanwhile…
Recently on Trapped By Monsters: Are Cows Monsters? The Fighting T. Are Owls Monsters? and Alan Moore’s Top Five Tips for Would-Be Writers. Right: if you’ll excuse me I’ve got to climb back into my writing bathysphere. DIVE!
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Wednesday, July 14th, 2010
Book me!
My last school visit of this academic year was yesterday, to Sir William Ramsay School in High Wycombe. What a great one to finish up on! Over three sessions I met one hundred and eighty students from the school’s Year 7. All of them were a pleasure to speak to: attentive, enthusiastic and full of […]
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Thursday, July 8th, 2010
Radio Silence
No Crawlers News or Favourite Words from me just now: I’m in full deep dive mode on Phase Five of My Sinister Masterplan. But here’s a TBM post on one of the best things I’ve found out about so far this year. ;D
