Barry's Books
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: September 2008
For God’s sake, be my friend!
I’ve just started up a MySpace profile for all my writing an’ that. At the moment I have no friends. None. Nada. Zip. Zilch. If you’re reading this and you have a MySpace account, and you’d like to make me blissfully happy, go to my profile and be my friend! Please. Don’t make me beg.
Potentially exciting news …
As you can probably guess from the subject line, yesterday I received some potentially very exciting news regarding one of my manuscripts. I can’t say any more at the moment, but hopefully will be able to reveal all in a couple of weeks. In other news, today I get my feedback on the last-but-one book I wrote for Egmont. Hopefully there won’t be too much work needed in the rewrite. Got to run – currently working on a new novel …
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Cry Fowl!
Today I caught up with Artemis Fowl author, Eoin Colfer. Literally caught up. I had to chase him down two alleyways, before finally rugby tackling him outside the Carphone Warehouse. One way or another, though, I was going to congratulate him on being picked to write the next installment in Douglas Adams’ Hitchiker’s Guide to the Galaxy series. He’s a lovely man, and we had a lovely chat for a bit, before I left him in peace. I’m not sure …
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Five things I have recently realised
1. I make faces which correspond with what I’m writing. For example, if I write about someone scowling, I scowl. If someone smiles in a story I’m working on, I smile as I type the phrase “she smiled”. I only caught myself doing it the other day, but have since realised that I do it all the time. 2. It’s possible to write two novels in three weeks. I know because I today finished the second – a full 30 …
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Comic buying capers
Today I picked up a Marvel/DC crossover comic from a second hand bookshop here in Wexford. It features Superman and Spider-man teaming up to take on Dr Doom and The Parasite. There’s also a smattering of the Incredible Hulk thrown in for good measure. Anyway, as with most Marvel and DC comics of this era (1970s – 1980s) it’s painfully overwritten to the point of being almost impossible to read. The characters explain what they’re doing in painfully intricate detail …
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Wasting time
As a writer, you have some days where everything just flows. You fingers glide across the keyboard, clicking and clacking as they perform some elaborate dance which inevitably results in several thousand words of sheer, quivering brilliance. Other days, things aren’t so simple. On these days you fingers don’t dance, so much as hover just above the keys, tentatively prodding the occasional button as if it may explode at any minute. On these days you drink more tea than usual. …
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ALIENS! ALIENS!!
Surely? http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/7506355.stm
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Google Chrome
Being a fool for all things Google, I’ve just downloaded their shiny new browser – Google Chrome. Only been trying it for about forty seconds, so can’t really comment, but it’ll have to go some way to knock Firefox off my Top Browser spot. Wow, what an unfeasibly boring blog post. My sincere apologies.
Scream Street: Fang of the Vampire Review
I’d forgotten. Somewhere in among our late night brainstorming sessions, our manuscript swapping, and our discussions about the series as a whole, I’d forgotten how genuinely brilliant Tommy Donbavand’s first Scream Street book – Fang of the Vampire – actually is. Last night, I read it. I’ve read it a few times – usually to give feedback, or to see how Tommy has dealt with a problem from an earlier draft – but last night was the first time I …
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An Open Letter to Wasps
I have just been chased around my kitchen by an incredibly persistent wasp. Fortunately, I survived, which is reason enough for me to post this letter I wrote to the wasp species as a whole a few years back. An Open Letter to Wasps Dear Wasps, Well…where to begin? This letter has been a long time coming to be honest, but it was only the events of the past few days which finally prompted me to sit down and write …
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