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: April 2010
Competition winner
Just a quick post tonight to belatedly announce the winner of the signed copy of Invisible Fiends: Mr Mumbles. I was supposed to randomly select the winner on Tuesday, but … um … I forgot. Anyway, I now have randomly drawn a winner, using the age-old names in a hat technique, and the winner is Joanne B. Thanks to all those who commented and took part in the competition. I’ll be running more giveaways soon, so maybe your luck will …
Help bring Gangrene to life
You might have noticed a new menu option has appeared just below the logo up at the top of the page. Because the Gangrene website is woefully out of date, I’ve put together a Comics page here on BarryHutchison.com, which will allow you to keep up to date with everything I’m doing in the wonderful world of comic books. My big project at the moment is Gangrene, which has been mentioned a number of times on here before. The book …
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What a loser.
Well, I didn’t win the Author Blog Awards, but then I didn’t really expect to. The well-deserved winners were Emily Benet, Sam Starbuck, and the living legend that is Neil Gaiman. All three blogs (well, Twitter feed, in Neil’s case) are brilliant reads, and well worth adding to your bookmarks if you haven’t got them in there already. The whole competition was an excellent idea, and I’m really pleased that BarryHutchison.com made it to the final shortlist. I had been …
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The 250th Post!
It has been a long, bumpy ride, filled with danger, excitement, and some stuff about water pistols, but we made it, loyal readers. We made it to 250 posts. Being a naturally lazy person, with little or no inherent motivation to do anything that requires any effort whatsoever, getting to post 250 is a big achievement for me. It gives me hope that one day I might reach as many as 260, or even 285 posts! Can you imagine? But …
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The Countdown to 250: 1…
On the day before the 250th blog post we’re taking a look back at the very 1st one. It was written on my mobile phone, using a tiny bluetooth keyboard, as I travelled to Glasgow to meet Kathryn Ross, who would soon after become my agent. Back then, Invisible Fiends was still called Imaginary Friends Reunited, and had yet to be sent to a publisher. I had written Beastly! for Egmont, but hadn’t yet done any of the now-too-many-to-count Ben …
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The Countdown to 250: 2…
Not got much time to post tonight. Had a hectic day of stressing, worrying, panicking and eating ice cream (the last one wasn’t so bad), so going to try to get a couple of hundred words of Invisible Fiends book 4 done before heading down to watch Flash Forward. So, very quickly, here’s your post from the archives – a five page preview of Gangrene, my comic mini-series due to be published by Markosia later this year. And, even more …
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The changing face of Mr Mumbles
As mentioned yesterday, I miscounted where we were in the countdown to blog post 250, so I said I was going to stick another post in so the countdown didn’t actually land us on post 249. I had planned just to chuck out any old rubbish about how I’d spent my Sunday (eating ice lollies and playing Frisbee, if you must know), but then I found something much, much more worthwhile to tell you about. Jonny Duddle, the artists behind …
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The Countdown to 250: 3…
I’ve just realised I’ve made a grave mathematical error when counting the number of posts remaining until the 250th. I thought that, after today, there would be 2 more posts and then it would be the 250th. But I was wrong. After 2 more posts we will only be on the 249th. Aaargh! Still, never one to abandon an idea, no matter how flawed it may be, I’m pressing on regardless. I’ll sneak an extra post in somewhere between now …
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The Countdown to 250: 4…
Continuing our countdown to the 250th blog post here on BarryHutchison.com, I’ve dug this little gem up from the archives. An Open Letter to Wasps. And as for today’s Thing That Used to Scare the Crap out of Me…? This is a still from a movie produced in 1978 – the year I was born – called The Swarm. It stars British acting legend, Michael Caine, and tells the story of a swarm of African killer bees descending on a …
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The Countdown to 250: 5…
Technically it should be “The Count up to 250″ but that just looked stupid as a post title, and I look stupid enough in my day to day life without doing it here, too. By my reckoning (or, more accurately, by my website stats) this is the 244th post on BarryHutchison.com. Since I did nothing whatsoever to mark the 200th post, I’ve decided to do something special for the 250th post. I have no idea what it’ll be yet, but …
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