The onslaught continues! Here’s a link to another interview, this time about Crawlers, for terrific new horror fan website Snakebite Horror.

This one contains an exclusive sneaky early announcement of thrilling developments afoot at Trapped By Monsters. Take a look. ;D

OK, this is something I’m really proud of: I’ve been interviewed by G-Fan Magazine – the official periodical of The Godzilla Society of North America! To my enormous glee and delight I was approached by Allen Debus, one of the magazine’s writers, who’d read Tim, Defender of the Earth, liked it, and wanted to put together a feature about me. I’ve just received my copy of G-Fan’s Spring issue. Here, below, is how the piece ended up.

Ahem: as you’ll no doubt figure, these are my own ham-fisted scans of the actual pages of the magazine. I tried to darken the print a bit to make it more readable – with, erm, somewhat mixed results as you can see! If the pages aren’t reproduced clearly enough for you, my apologies. The text will be going up on the Tim Interviews Page just as soon as The Mighty WebSphinx can get on the case. 😀

Just a quick post to let you know that The Mighty WebSphinx has come through with some important updates to the website of my debut novel The Black Tattoo. She’s straightened up the Editions and Links pages. No less than eight recent questions and answers have been added to the Black Tat Q&A Page. We’ve also put together a radical new look for the Black Tat Reader Art Page. From now on, any Black Tat-inspired imagery that my readers choose to share with me can be uploaded to my Flickr photostream to appear in this stunning slideshow:

Meanwhile for a slightly obscure early hint about Phase Four of My Sinister Masterplan To Conquer the Universe, click here.

Mwaha. MWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

As anyone familiar with Tim, Defender of the Earth will know, I’m a MASSIVE fan of giant monsters. Imagine my delight this week when I discovered this site full of beautiful haiku about Godzilla and other classic kaiju.

Warren Ellis (on whose wonderful swear-filled blog I found the link) was particularly taken with this one:

But my current favourite is this:

While I’m linking to stuff, here’s my page on a new site called Author Hotline. There’s a whole bunch of other authors on there too – including my fellow Trapped By Monsters victims Andy Briggs, Mark Robson and Joe Craig – all answering questions such as ‘What were you like at school?’ ‘What strange habits do you have?’ and ‘What’s your favourite food?’ Take a look.

…OK, here’s that clip I promised of me talking about and reading from Crawlers last Friday evening at The Hackney Horror Show. My camera’s mic is tiny and the theatre is huge, so you may want to turn this up a bit. ;D

Sam Enthoven at The Hackney Horror Show, 23rd April 2010 from Sam Enthoven on Vimeo.

A giant monster thank you to Samurai Booksellers Simon and Tim of The Big Green Bookshop and Mark of Waterstone’s, awesome fellow authors William Hussey and Steve Feasey, and everyone we met and spoke to.

Some pics from those events I was telling you about on Fri and Sat…

Here’s William Hussey (author of the excellent Witchfinder: Dawn of the Demontide) putting the Jedi Mind Trick whammy on the first audience at Mossbourne Community Academy:

Here’s one of me attempting to mesmerize everyone with my demonic shiny eyes:

And here, from the evening show at the theatre of Stoke Newington School is Steve Feasey (author of the splendid Changeling series) gouging straight into the guts of the matter at The Hackney Horror Show.

From Saturday’s Waterstone’s signing, here’s this:

Maybe I’m still new to this ‘being published’ caper but the sheer delight at seeing stuff like the above doesn’t seem to be wearing off so far – as you can easily see from the expressions on the faces of William Hussey and I here.

Steve and Bill are wonderful to work with and both days were an absolute blast. I have some video from the Hackney Horror Show that I’m attempting (in my usual hamfisted way) to put together for you now. Stay tuned.

Two more quick things while I’m here.

First: here’s a link to a piece I wrote last week for the website of SFX magazine listing my current Top Ten Favourite Horror Books and Films.

Second: BEWARE of The Hackney Horror Show, a triple bill of chills from authors William Hussey, Steve Feasey and, er, me. It’s on Friday April 23rd and it’s FREE. Click here for all the details!

Friday’s launch party for Crawlers at The Big Green Bookshop was absolutely awesome. Here are a couple of pics (and a video-!) to give you an idea of what it was like.

First up, here’s the BGB Crawlers Wall…!

Seeing that many copies in one place put a massive cheesy grin on my face that basically lasted for the entire evening. But having a lovely turnout of mates and family and other kindly well-wishers helped make the party really special. 😀

Here’s a YouTube clip of the official launching ceremony, and the reading I did from the opening scene of the book.

An especially massive thank you to Big Green Booksellers Simon and Tim and Mark for their wonderful hospitality at their brilliant shop. I’ll enjoy the memory of this party as long as I live. HEE HEE HEE HEE!

Excuse me. Yes, you, reading this: Hello! I have a question. Will you be anywhere near the awesome independent booksellers The Big Green Bookshop this Friday 9th April from around 7.30pm?

If so, would you like to come to the launch party for Crawlers??

I don’t know how many people read this blog, and how many of those are anywhere in the area, but if you do and you are then consider this your invitation! No need to RSVP, but if you feel the urge and you’re on Facebook there’s a Crawlers Launch FB event page here. If you can’t make it no worries, I’ll probably post some pics from the night here on the News Page next week. But if by any chance you can get there, it would be great to meet you!

Meanwhile over on Trapped By Monsters a brand new and unusual collaborative story experiment has just begun. Prepare yourself, gentle reader, for The Unspeakable Horror! Episode 1 (by me!) is now live here.

No fooling, it’s CRAWLERS LAUNCH DAY.

I’ve just checked my work journals. I first started putting the ideas together in July 2007 and here we are at last: boxes of Crawlers will (I hope!) be being unpacked in bookshops all over the UK as I’m typing this. It’s a very weird feeling. This might be my third time at this ‘being published’ caper, but I’m not getting used to it at all. 😀

Several things. First, this week on Trapped By Monsters I’ve posted a couple of pieces on the subject of how to get published. Click here for Part One, and here for Part Two.

Second, from today the excellent Bookzone4Boys is running an entire month of Horror themed posts – and I’m honoured and thrilled to say that the start of these proceedings is marked with a brand new interview with, er, me. 😉

Third, if you have a website and you’re up for supporting Crawlers this way, RHCB have produced an embeddable Flash widget with the first thirteen pages of the book. If you press the ‘+’ button, you’ll see that all sorts of colours are available, from bilious green, urgent orange and pustulent purple to my own traditional festive BLACK. Click the link to check it out.

Finally, here’s something I’ve been saving for you. I’d like to celebrate the launch of this, the latest of my mutant offspring to wriggle from my skull and wallop off into the world, in what seems to me to be the only appropriate way — namely, with a video clip of some real-life mysterious and horrifying creatures skulking and pulsating in a sewer.

If this video makes you feel nervous or nauseous — and if you don’t, secretly or otherwise, quite like being made to feel that way once in a while — then I should say right now that maybe Crawlers isn’t for you. For anyone else, Happy Reading! HEE HEE HEE!