Archive | December, 2009

The Fright Before Christmas

24 December 2009

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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 [...]

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InvisibleFiends.com now live

23 December 2009

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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 [...]

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Abject failure and a favourite site

22 December 2009

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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. [...]

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Challenge: Failed

20 December 2009

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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 [...]

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Mr Mumbles teaser trailer

18 December 2009

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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 [...]

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Es ist gut, ja?

17 December 2009

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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 [...]

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Over half way

16 December 2009

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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 [...]

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New story idea!

15 December 2009

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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 [...]

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If the answer is “February 12th 2010″…

14 December 2009

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…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, [...]

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Vetting scheme – my thoughts

13 December 2009

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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 [...]

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