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: September 2010
I have fans – the proof!
Back in this post I mentioned Ryan, Julie and Rebecca, three fans of the Invisible Fiends series I met at the closing day of the Fife Children’s Book Festival. Knowing how cynical you all are, I’m fairly confident none of you believed me when I said I had fans, but now, thanks to their mum, Rona, I have proof! Check it out… Note that those aren’t tattoos on the girls’ faces. It’s facepaint. They’re not mental or anything. Look! Ryan …
W is for Waterstone’s
This morning I jumped on a train (not literally, that would be dangerous) and zoomed over to Glasgow, where I met the lovely Kate Manning from HarperCollins Children’s Books. Kate had roped me into being guest speaker at a Waterstone’s staff training day, with the plan being that I would stand up and talk to 60 or so members of Waterstone’s staff, all of whom work in children’s departments. I was a bit unsure of what to say, so in …
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Back on the Blogging Trail
I know it’s been 11 days since my last blog post, and I know, quite frankly, that that just isn’t good enough, but it’s been a crazy month full of busy stuff and madness, so I’m hoping you might be able to chuck me a few handfuls of pity and forgiveness if I promise to make an effort to post more regularly in future. Looking back, I’m not entirely sure if that paragraph makes any sense. Let’s just forget it …
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Book 4 and a Book-signing
I was amazed to find yesterday that Invisible Fiends book 4 is already available to pre-order on Amazon, almost a full year before it is due to be published. There’s no cover or description for the book, just the title – Doc Mortis. It’s way too early for me to be able to reveal much about the book, particularly as it’s still only at first draft stage! What I can say is that it’s far and away the scariest of …
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Royal Mail Award Shortlist
Check out this fancy schmancy doohickey, showing off all the lovely books shortlisted for the Royal Mail Awards 2010. Click the buttons at the bottom to navigate around them, then click on a book cover to be taken to its page on Amazon, where you can find out more about it. null
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The Royal Mail Awards 2010
This morning, the shortlist for the Royal Mail Award for Scottish Children’s Books was announced at the HQ of the Scottish Book Trust in Edinburgh. I was lucky enough to be invited along to the announcement because I now live quite close by and, well, because one of my books made the shortlist! The awards are split into three age categories – 0-7, 8-11 and 12-16. There are three books in each category, and Invisible Fiends: Mr Mumbles has been …
Random Photos from my Phone
Back in December 2008, I reached a whopping one hundred posts here on BarryHutchison.com. To celebrate, I posted a selection of random photographs I had stored on my mobile phone. You can see that post here. We’re not celebrating anything today (although, we will be celebrating something towards the end of next week…) but I thought I’d stick up a few more photos from my phone, so I can finally delete the bloody things off my memory card. So, here …
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