Author Archive
Wednesday, August 31st, 2011
IT’S ON
The tickets are booked. The dates are set. This winter I’m spending three months in Japan. This is something I’ve been meaning to do for a very long time – ever since I was little, in fact, when my godfather came back from a long spell there and I asked him what it was like. […]
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Wednesday, August 24th, 2011
Two Best Things About My Summer So Far
This week on Trapped By Monsters: Are you in or near London? You’ve only a few weeks left to See The Universe For Free.
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Tuesday, August 16th, 2011
Shiver Your Timbers
My latest TBM manga tip is the joyous, thrilling and thoroughly awesome One Piece, by Eiichiro Oda.
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Wednesday, August 10th, 2011
Robots of Brixton
Robots of Brixton from Kibwe Tavares on Vimeo.
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Thursday, August 4th, 2011
Proofs
This is my next book, My Name is O, looking like a book for the very first time: It’s not the finished article: it’s what those in the book trade refer to as an Advance Reader Copy (ARC), or Proof. Publishers produce them (in very limited numbers) to send to reviewers, bloggers, authors and others […]
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Tuesday, July 26th, 2011
Blood Gushing Nubs
OK, as promised, it’s time to announce the winner of the Spinechills / Crawlers Competition, the horror writing contest that’s been running this past month or so based on creatures from CRAWLERS. Picking a winner was a nightmare. My congratulations and best wishes to runners-up Ajay, Veronica and Ecner for their bloodcurdling and brilliant work, […]
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Friday, July 22nd, 2011
It’s UNCANNY!
While making my lunch today I noticed a somewhat startling resemblance… -Stand by for the announcement of the worthy winner of the Spine Chills / Crawlers Competition! -Meanwhile, my latest TBM manga tip is the flawed but wild and audacious The Drifting Classroom, by Kazuo Umezu.
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Friday, July 8th, 2011
Sometimes No Monsters
Just posted to TBM: Top Notch Teenage Fiction.
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Thursday, July 7th, 2011
Thank You
Two school visits, this past week. I had a great time at both, as I think you’ll see from these pics… Here I am (above), gesticulating and grimacing as usual for the Year 8s of Meadowhead School near Sheffield. In this (below) I’m taking awesome questions from another group at Thistley Hough High School near […]
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Wednesday, June 29th, 2011
Things I Love
I’ve just spent a week in Iceland. It was wonderful. I love the Icelandic Sagas and I’ve put a big blog piece together about them at Trapped By Monsters. Meanwhile here’s a question that I found waiting for me in the Black Tat Guestbook on my return that (in answering it) allowed me to talk […]
