BarryHutchison

Edinburgh 2011

Well that’s it for another year. My appearances at the 2011 Edinburgh International Book Festival are done and dusted. This was my second year at the festival, and this year I was taking part in two events, instead of one. Yesterday I spoke to an audience of around 200 from four or five different schools. [...]

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Getting published – my story

Last week, I was asked on Twitter how I first got published. I promised I’d write a post about it the very next day and I did, but… um… a big dog ate it and ran away. So, for @LaraNoJutsu and anyone else who might be interested, here (more or less) is how I got [...]

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Guest blog post for Edinburgh Book Festival

I’ve done a guest blog post for the Edinburgh International Book Festival, all about the short story I wrote for them as part of the Elsewhere project. Go, check it out. Clicky clicky.

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Snowed in

Got back from a couple of days at the AYE WRITE festival in Glasgow on Friday night. Great fun, just like last year, and it was good to meet up with me old mucker, Tommy Donbavand, and to finally meet CHANGELING author, Steve Feasey in person. While there, I managed to finish a rewrite of [...]

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Mega Blog Catch-up Post

Wow. March. When did that happen? I know, I know – immediately after February and right before April, but, I mean… how did it get here so fast? February in particular seemed to fly by with a whoosh. First there was the Crowmaster Tour. Then we moved house (again!). And then there was the little [...]

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Terrifying Denizens of the Deep

Yesterday, myself and my family took a trip to Deep Sea World, on the outskirts of Edinburgh, to look at the fish an’ that. I’ll be honest, I wasn’t expecting much, but it was actually pretty good, and it kept the kids entertained for a few hours. The most interesting creatures from my point of [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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The Lennoxlove Book Festival

About 17 or 18 years ago this man came and spoke to my English class at Lochaber High School: Iain Banks – or Iain M Banks, depending on which type of book he’s writing – is an author of both mainstream fiction and Science Fiction. His first published book – The Wasp Factory – was [...]

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Now you see it…

I was off doing a bit of shopping today, and stopped off at the Fort Kinnaird branch of Waterstone’s, just outside Edinburgh. It’s a half Waterstone’s, half HMV branch, so I got to look at books and play with the X-Box Kinnect in the same visit. While in the bookshop side, my son, Kyle spotted [...]

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