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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: November 2008
Not much time …
I’ve mentioned before that I don’t work Sundays, although I’ve had to do some stuff today which was vaguely work-like. I’ll explain in more detail tomorrow. I intended this to be a big let’s-look-back-at-November type post, reliving the highs and lows of 30 days of steady posting, but: 1) This is post 99. I’ll do a 100th post spectacular type thing tomorrow instead of a big one today, and 2) Louis Theroux is on in a minute, and I’ve been …
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Things what I done today.
Today I: Wrote a prologue Met Santa Fell asleep Deleted the prologue Wrote another one Watched the X-Factor Watched the X-Factor results Realised I hadn’t eaten in 11 hours Ate Panicked that I hadn’t saved the second prologue Realised I had Wrote this blog And that’s it. On paper it almost looks like a busy day. Almost. Of course in reality it wasn’t. I class Saturdays as working days, but spent perhaps one hour in total doing any actual writing. …
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Settle down at the back
We’ve a lot to get through in the blog tonight, so if everyone could please shut up for five minutes, we can get started … First up, Happy Birthday to me old mucker, Tommy Donbavand, who turns ancient today. I think he’s like eight-six or eighty-seven or something. I forget. He looks good for it, though. Well, quite good. Actually, he’s nowhere near that age. He’s still just a young ‘un, relatively speaking. Barely older than me, in fact. Just …
Return of the Triffids
As a long-time fan of monsters-which-really-shouldn’t-be-frightening (e.g. slow moving fog, killer rabbits, and people pointing a bit and going “waaaaah”) I was delighted to discover that the BBC is doing an adaptation of John Wyndham’s Day of the Triffids, to be screened in 2009. I for one can’t get enough of the whole walking killer plant concept, so I’m already eagerly awaiting the two feature length episodes. Like virtually everything noteworthy at the BBC at present, it’s being shot in …
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Batman R.I.P.
I’ve just finished reading Batman #681, which – I’m sure you’re all only too aware – was the conclusion to the Batman R.I.P. storyline. Written by my fellow Scot, Grant Morrison, Batman R.I.P. has been hyped up to insane levels in the comic book community over the past few months. Morrison promised a saga with shocking twists, and what he called “the end of Bruce Wayne as Batman”. What was delivered was – to my mind – something of a …
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Almost December
It’s hard to believe that it’s nearly December. Well, not that hard. I mean the calendar speaks for itself. But you know what I mean. I started this blog in February of this year. The very first post was made while I was on a train to Glasgow, to meet up with my (then prospective) agent, Kathryn Ross. That meeting went well, and things have continued to go well writing-wise ever since. I’ll do a recap of the year’s events …
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Another quickie
Sorry the last few posts have all been painfully short. This whole being-left-in-sole-charge-of-everything lark is proving to be trickier and more time consuming than I expected. So before I go iron school clothes, prepare school packed lunch, wrap shoebox for school shoebox appeal, tidy away dinner dishes, load the washing machine, load the tumble drier, and ultimately collapse exhausted into bed, here’s a link to the new trailer for the upcoming Star Trek reboot. It looks excellent, and you even …
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Lone parenting. Kind of.
Tomorrow, my other half returns to the UK for a few days, leaving me in sole charge of our six-year-old son. God help us both.
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Google Mail Themes – hooray!
As a long time user of Google Mail, I was surprised to log on today and find a new announcement waiting for me. As I read it, I felt a big bubble of excitement well up inside me like … er … a big bubble (I’m the similie king – fact). Google has today launched a range of themes for GMail. Rather than having just the plain old blue and white interface, I can now customise it in a number …
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