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 2010
Bag a Bargain
Just a quick post tonight, as the whole household – me included – is down with the flu. For those of you who don’t already have my first two INVISIBLE FIENDS books (shame on you!) you might like to know that Amazon currently have both on sale at the unbelievably low price of just £1.99 – a whole £4.00 less than the RRP. That means you can pick up both books for less than the cover price of just one. …
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Fiendish Christmas Wishes
Well, another year is almost over and the Christmas festivities are racing up fast. On this day last year I launched InvisibleFiends.com, and wrote this poem for TrappedByMonsters. This year, I haven’t been nearly as creative, although I did write a few thousand words of a book, so that was something. It’s been quite a year, all in all. I’m not going to get into doing a bit retrospective thing – I’ll save that for the end of the month …
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Bilingual Invisible Fiends interview
With book 3 about to be published, my German publisher, Gulliver, has decided to ramp up its marketing of the series. As part of that, I’m doing a number of interviews with various websites and magazines, and a new one has just gone online over at Zauberspiegel, a site covering all aspects of fantasy, horror, and much more. You can read the interview in both English and German. Click either of those links to be taken to the respective pages.
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Meet Mr Mumbles
Last week, I was browsing through some of the reviews of Mr Mumbles on the Scottish Book Trust website when I came across this one by a young lad called Kieran from St Brigid’s Primary in Glasgow. One part of the review in particular made me positively tremble with excitement: “This enabled me to draw him and so the whole class made a six and a half foot tall Mr.Mumbles.” Surely not, I thought. Surely Kieran is telling fibs? Bad Kieran. …
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We are the Wordies
Been having a bit of a stressful, hectic time of late, and just realised I’ve forgotten to A) finish my Five Frightening Fings series, and B) mention Wordies. I’ll do B now, and sort A out later on tonight. Wordies is a brand new podcast done by me (Hello!) and my good friend and fellow writery-type person, Tommy Donbavand. We’ve only just started, but our plan is to produce a new podcast every month, in which we talk about different …
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Vote Crowmaster! Again!
Thanks to your votes last time around, The Crowmaster won its heat in the Book Cover Wars at Mr Ripley’s Enchanted Books. But now the sack-headed old psychopath needs your help again in the final, where he is up against some stiff competition indeed, including fellow HarperCollins horror author, Darren Shan. Ironically, a quote from Darren is going to appear on the cover for The Crowmaster when it is published, but don’t let that sway you. For now Mr Shan, …
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