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Friday, June 17th, 2011
Get Your Crawl On
To celebrate the launch of the all-new unabridged audio edition of CRAWLERS 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, here’s what Holly wants you to do: Simply write a […]
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Thursday, June 16th, 2011
It’s days like this…
Not much (update – else!) to report: I’m currently in full research mode. So instead of a blog post here’s one of my very favourite things in the entire world ever. The Big Snit has been cheering me up and making me grin for over twenty years now. Here’s hoping it does the same for […]
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Wednesday, June 8th, 2011
Wrath of the Mega-Squirrel
A big thank you to everyone I met and spoke to today at Chilwell School in Beeston, Nottinghamshire for their warm welcome. The audiences for my two talks were my biggest in a while, and they were absolutely brilliant — enthusiastic, astonishingly pin-drop silent for the readings and full of awesome questions. At lunchtime in […]
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Tuesday, May 31st, 2011
The Chainsaw Gang Rides Again…
Steve Feasey, William Hussey, Stephen Deas and I will be teaming up for another Chainsaw Gang Extravaganza at The Stoke Newington Literary Festival this Friday 3rd June. We’ll be doing our stuff from 2pm to 3pm (plus signing time) at The Gallery in the library on Stoke Newington Church Street, London N16 — unless the […]
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Thursday, May 26th, 2011
Put Parasites In YOUR Ears, Today!
Behold… This is the all-new unabridged audio edition of Crawlers, as produced by Oakhill and performed by Joe Coen. I think they did a terrific job. Here’s the bit where Jasmine examines one of the crawlers for the first time – take a listen:[audio:http://www.theycrawl.com/news/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/crawlers.mp3|titles=crawlers] In other news, the language edit for my forthcoming (Jan ’12) […]
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Thursday, May 12th, 2011
HEE HEE HEE!
Before I became a writer I remember thinking that research was probably the boring bit of the job… …I’m happy to say I was wrong. 😀
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Thursday, April 28th, 2011
A Good News / Bad News Scenario
Bad first, because that’s generally the way around that I prefer: I’ve had to put a bullet in the head of my haunted house project. It was a grim decision after six months’ work, but a rational one I think. Do you know the moment in the film Apollo 13 when the near-despairing ground-crew chief […]
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Friday, April 15th, 2011
Man and Beast
OK, I think my latest short story (current title: The Last Duel) is just about good to go. On Monday I return to my larger work-in-progress – the prospect of which, I have to admit, is making me feel a little like this: This is “Sir Frederick Burke and His Leviathan“ by Travis Louie, exhibiting […]
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Thursday, April 7th, 2011
‘I have torn up the Future’
My favourite thing on the internet this week is this (below, via Boing Boing again) as typed – with more passion and belief than strict concern for grammar or spelling – by Ray Bradbury… As The Cookie Monster wisely once said, ‘To thine own self… be shoe.’ My manga habit continues to consume me: here’s […]
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Thursday, March 31st, 2011
Armchair Location Scout
No doubt about it, choosing and researching awesome places in which to set scenes of stories is a lot easier in the internet age. This week I was lucky enough to stumble across TENDER.IS/THE.NIGHT, an astonishing urban exploration / photography site. Hit the link and prepare to be amazed. Here’s a taste: This is Albert […]
