Archive | September, 2008

For God’s sake, be my friend!

27 September 2008

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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.

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Potentially exciting news …

23 September 2008

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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 [...]

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Cry Fowl!

18 September 2008

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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 [...]

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Five things I have recently realised

15 September 2008

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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 [...]

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Comic buying capers

9 September 2008

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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 [...]

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Wasting time

5 September 2008

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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 [...]

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ALIENS! ALIENS!!

3 September 2008

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Surely? http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/7506355.stm

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Google Chrome

3 September 2008

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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.

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Scream Street: Fang of the Vampire Review

2 September 2008

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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 [...]

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An Open Letter to Wasps

1 September 2008

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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 [...]

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