Archive | February, 2009

New look for the blog

27 February 2009

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I’ve changed the look of the blog, as you may well have already noticed.  I still need to do a few things to get it looking just right, but what do you think so far?  Better?  Worse?  I’d love to hear your comments.

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The Colonel

23 February 2009

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While I’m posting one video, I might as well post another…

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She farted and created the world

23 February 2009

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She Farted And Created The World from Scott Coello on Vimeo. See I usually consider myself pretty creative, and then I see stuff like this and realise I’m really not all that creative at all…

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Invisible Fiends 2 – second draft complete

20 February 2009

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Well, after much tweaking, retweaking and thrice-tweaking, I’m now happy to announce draft two of the second book in the INVISIBLE FIENDS series is finished. I thought it was finished last week, but I decided to make a few changes. I was sure it was finished a couple of days ago, but then an idea [...]

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Happy Birthday, BarryHutchison.com

15 February 2009

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One year ago today I was on a train to Glasgow to meet my then-potential agent, Kathryn Ross.  I wrote this, the first post on BarryHutchison.com A lot has happened in the year since then.  I’ve covered most of it over in this post, so there’s not a lot of point going into it here. [...]

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Now on Twitter

12 February 2009

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As part of my ongoing quest to physically become the internet, I’ve now signed up to Twitter. You can follow me at Twitter.com/barryhutchison If you want.  No pressure. But if you don’t, five hundred baby seals will die.

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An artwork day

12 February 2009

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Today my email inbox is virtually bursting at the seams with the amount of artwork I’ve been sent. First in was a jpeg of the cover that will be gracing the proof copy of INVISIBLE FIENDS: MR MUMBLES.  It looks utterly brilliant, and as soon as I’m permitted to post it here I will. Fortunately [...]

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A picture says a thousand words…

9 February 2009

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I’ve been clearing out my hard drive today, and I just found this photograph.  I took it last year during a family outing to some park or other in Inverness. I should set the scene.  It was coming towards early evening on a glorious summer’s day.  We had walked a fair distance away from the [...]

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4,057 words. 5 hours. Yay me.

7 February 2009

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Well the ending I had come up with for Invisible Fiends book 2 was a bit rushed and rubbish, so I sat down today and wrote the ending the story deserved. As the title of this post announces, I managed to write over 4000 words in 5 hours, and have now properly finished the first [...]

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Mr Ripley’s Enchanted Books

6 February 2009

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I’ve been given a nice mention on this blog.  I feel all special now…

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