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: December 2009
The Fright Before Christmas
Rushing about like a lunatic today, preparing for Santa’s arrival tonight, so not much time to write anything. However, let me direct you to a poem I published today on Trapped By Monsters. It should get you in a suitably festive mood. If you’re a monster, that is. Read the poem here. Merry Christmas to all of you!
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InvisibleFiends.com now live
So yeah, the reason I’ve been a bit remiss in my blog posting duties over the past few days is that I’ve been focused on getting the official website for Invisible Fiends up and running. Over at InvisibleFiends.com you can now read an exclusive extract from book one, watch the teaser trailer, find out more about the series, and customise your computer desktop with Mr Mumbles’ big ugly face. Scoot on over to the site and check it out, then …
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Abject failure and a favourite site
And yet again I forgot to write a blog post yesterday. I put it down to the time of year, really. What with all the school carol concerts, pressie buying, wrapping, Christmas card writing – not to mention all the actual work I’ve been doing – my sieve-like brain just can’t keep hold of everything. Poor thing. Anyway, let’s not dwell too much on my inability to carry out simple tasks. In fact, let us never speak of it again. …
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Challenge: Failed
As you might have noticed, yesterday I didn’t make a blog post, and so I have failed in my attempt to make a post every day during the month of December. There’s a good reason why I didn’t post anything. It’s a very good reason, actually. You see, I did write a post, but there was this dog that ate it. No? OK then, a big boy stole it and chucked it in a puddle? Oh, all right, the truth …
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Mr Mumbles teaser trailer
I had a seemingly endless number of technical problems while trying to get this thing shot and edited, and the finished video is nothing like I had intended. It was really just cobbled together from the few bits of footage on the video that hadn’t been corrupted by the faulty tape heads. Anyway, this is my first attempt at a Mr Mumbles teaser trailer. I’d love to hear what you think – good or bad – so please do leave …
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Es ist gut, ja?
I’m delighted to be able to reveal the front cover of the German edition of Invisible Fiends: Mr Mumbles. Published in February by Gulliver, an imprint of Beltz & Gelberg, the book is going to look like this… Nice, eh? It takes its inspiration from the UK edition and gives it a twist. I think I still prefer the original cover, but that could be because I love the work of the artist, Jonny Duddle. This one ramps up the …
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Over half way
It’s December 16th, which means I’m over half way through my 31 day blogging challenge. So far it has been easy to get something up here every day, but the real difficulties are going to start cropping up towards the end of the month, since that’s where all the action is. It’s hard to believe there are only 9 days left until Christmas. I’ve been working flat out on a website today (to be revealed next week, all being well) …
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New story idea!
I’m all abuzz today, because I’ve come up with a new concept for a trilogy of books. They’re sci-fi horror, and I think the concept is – as we say in Scotland – a stoater. Obviously I’m not going to tell you what it is, but I’m currently working it up into a proper pitch to send to my editor at HarperCollins. Hopefully he’ll see the potential in it. Before I can get the pitch done, though, I’m going through …
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If the answer is “February 12th 2010″…
…then what is the question? Simple. The question is “On what date is the unabridged audio version of Invisible Fiends: Mr Mumbles available?” Yes, as you can see over at the website of Oakhill Publishing, a hefty great 5 CD audio book set is on its way. Clocking in at 4 hours and 40 minutes, this great big beast of a set is certain to scare the pants off you, like a Burger King Whopper made of fear. The set …
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Vetting scheme – my thoughts
You may or may not have been aware, but the government announced plans this year to introduce a ‘vetting’ scheme, where all adults who had regular contact with children would have to undergo a criminal records check, to help ensure they weren’t a danger to the kids they were working with. A lot of people were unhappy about this, with some children’s authors even announcing they would stop visiting schools all together, rather than go through the vetting process. Many …
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