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
Awards and Events
Last week was a pretty big week for me. The 13th Horseman had been shortlisted for the Grampian Children’s Book Award, and I in general had been shortlisted for the Lennox Author Award, and the winners of both were due to be announced. The first award ceremony was the for the GCBA, so on Wednesday I headed up to Aberdeen where I met up with Dave Cousins, Mark Lowery and the ever-lovely Cathy Macphail. The ceremony was great fun, with …
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Winner: The 13th Horseman
So, um, yeah. I won an award yesterday. Go me! The award in question was the Scottish Children’s Book Awards 2012 and The 13th Horseman rode to victory in the older readers category. It was a grand day out, with magicians, music, and a number of bewildered authors being forced to dance Gangnam Style in front of a thousand strong audience of book lovers. One of my favourite part of the whole day was meeting loads of pupils who’d voted in the …
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Adventures in Aeroplaning
Yesterday I was due to fly to Kirkwall in Orkney to begin two days of school events. Following the 80 mile drive to Inverness Airport, I boarded the flight and took to the air. From this point on, things started to go wrong. After 45 minutes of flying we reached Kirkwall Airport and the plane began to circle. And circle. And circle. An announcement was made by the pilot: There was too much fog for us to land. We looked …
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And Here’s What Happened in 2012
First up, for those of you who were following my Book Advent Calendar until it stuttered to a halt, let me apologise. What can I say? It seemed like a great idea on December 1st, but with Christmas closing in, Christmas pressies to buy, tinsel to hang, nativity plays to go to and general Christmassy stuff demanding my attention, I just couldn’t squeeze it into the day any longer – especially as I had my 13th Horseman short story, The 3 …
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Scottish Friendly Children’s Book Tour
Earlier this month I spent a fantastic evening in Liverpool with some fellow author types as part of Scarefest 3: Beyond the Book which was set up by the brilliant Tony Higginson of Formby Books. I was appearing on stage with Tommy Donbavand, Jon Mayhew, David Gatward, Phil Caveney and Joseph Delaney to talk about all things scary. Curtis Jobling was supposed to be there, too, but he called off sick. The wimp. Anyway, it took around nine hours of …
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The 400th Post!
I have been a bad blogger. A lazy blogger. My last blog post was way back on 26th April, and it’s now… um… some time in June. I can only apologise. I’ve let you down, and I’ve let myself down, and I can assure you that it probably won’t happen again. For a while. BUT ANYWAY. It’s the 400th blog post here on BarryHutchison.com. What does that mean? It means there have been 399 other posts before this one. It …
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Win a Part in Invisible Fiends 6
This Saturday – 17th March 2012 – I will be signing books at the Edinburgh Fort Kinnaird branch of Waterstones from 12pm until 1pm. Anyone coming along to see me on the day will be able to enter a competition to win a “role” in the final book in the Invisible Fiends series, The Darkest Corners. To enter, just turn up, say hello, then fill out your name, age and contact details on the entry form. At the end of …
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Apocalypse Now
Happy World Book Day! I’m currently off in Aberdeenshire visiting lots of lovely schools to talk about my books. Today the events will be extra special, because they’ll be launch events for The 13th Horseman which is officially published today. Woo-hoo! At the weekend my darling children and I made the Horseman themes cupcakes below. At first glance the link to the Horsemen of the Apocalypse may not be obvious, but once you read the book it’ll all make perfect …
Best. Event. Ever?
For the next fortnight I’ll be touring the country, bigging up my new book, THE 13TH HORSEMAN, to anyone who’ll listen. This week I got the chance to do some warm-up events at three schools here in Scotland. The first two events took place in East Ayrshire on Tuesday. They were great fun, and I really enjoyed myself. But I want to talk for a bit about my visit to St John’s RC Primary in Edinburgh on Wednesday, because it’d …
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My Mad November
It has been a right rollercoaster of a November this year, with me zooming all over the country doing events. Back at the start of the month I took part in the Faclan Hebridean Book Festival which saw me jetting off to visit schools on the Isles of Lewis, Harris and Barra. I was there for three days in all and I’ll post some photos when I manage to wrestle them from my phone. I was home one day before …
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