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The Darkest Corners
The concluding part of this darkly funny, horror series Darren Shan called... read more
The 13th Horseman
Drake is surprised to find three Horsemen of the Apocalypse playing snakes and... read more
Doc Mortis
The fourth thrilling book in this darkly funny horror series Darren Shan called... read more
Raggy Maggie
The second book in the award-winning Invisible Fiends series. Billy is the... read more
Monthly Archives: July 2008
This Emerald Isle
As we’re now coming towards the end of our second full day in Ireland, I thought I’d do a quick blog update, for the handful of you who may be even remotely interested. We arrived on Saturday evening after a mammoth two-day journey in a jam-packed Renault Laguna Estate. The back suspension was creaking under the strain the whole way, and every time I nudged the speedo over 50mph the whole car began to shake wildly, but we made it …
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A Collective Noun of Spiders
Two words into the title of this post and I hit a stumbling block. I don’t know what the correct term for a group of spiders is. I received my ten author’s copies of Spider Swat today and so was cleverly going to call this post A __________ of Spiders, with the __________ being replaced by the correct collective noun for spiders. It would have made me seem both knowledgeable and witty. Instead I look like a frickin’ idiot. Way …
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More Gorgeous Gangrene
Here’s another pic of Dan Green, the lead character in GANGRENE, the comic I’m working on with top artist fella Neil Chenier. Click here to see some more of his work, and revel in its brilliance.
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Gorgeous Gangrene
Neil Chenier, the penciller working on my comic script, has sent over a bundle of sketches he’s done of various characters in the series. I don’t have time to show them all at the moment, but here’s one of my favourites to whet your appetite … Isn’t he lovely? I’ll post some more later, along with a link to some of Neil’s other work. As I’m sure you can tell from the above, he’s a really talented guy.
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Saturday’s Doctor Who
I was busy on Saturday night, so recorded the last in the series of Doctor Who and watched it on Sunday, as I couldn’t wait to see what was going to happen after the series of cliffhanger endings the previous week left us dangling over. Absolute rubbish, that’s what happened next. The Doctor’s regeneration didn’t happen. Despite he himself announcing ‘It can’t be stopped!’ the previous week, it could, in fact be stopped. Quite easily, in fact. He just had …
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17 Days
17 days. That’s how long’s left until we leave these fair shores and relocate to County Wexford in the Republic of Ireland. We’ve found a house, so now only have about 499 other things to do before we go. The main one being finding a way to transport all our stuff several hundres miles into a different country. Still, I’m sure if I have a nice sit down and a cup of tea, a solution will present itself soon enough. There’s …
An all round SMASHING day
Yesterday, my proper job called for me to go to Inverness – a 140 mile round trip along some of the most rubbish roads in the UK. While there I found myself with some time to kill, and so headed out to the multiplex on the outskirts of the city, where I watched The Incredible Hulk. It was all right. Not brilliant, but all right. The best thing about the experience was that for the first time ever I was …
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