BarryHutchison

Well, Christmas has been and gone and I’m hoping that Santa was nice to you all. He was very nice to me and brought me a Kindle ebook reader, even though – whisper it – I’m not really a very big fan of ebooks. I much prefer the feel smell and taste of a real [...]

Tomorrow sees the beginning of what is destined to be the greatest battle in the history of all mankind. A thousand years hence, citizens of what shall by then be known as “Baztopia” (currently “Earth”) will look back and say “ooh, that was quite exciting, wasn’t it?”, before returning to their blissful, joy-filled lives. Because [...]

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 [...]

In tribute to our fallen friend and colleage, Sir Jimmy Savile, who sadly passed away… um… recently, here’s an old article I wrote for a spoof news website I used to run, The Observant. I can think of no more fitting a tribute. SIR JIMMY SAVILE SECURES GRAND NATIONAL VICTORY First published Sat 8th April [...]

You may remember that last year, The Crowmaster was one of the finalists in the Book Cover Wars event held over at Mr Ripley’s Enchanted Books. I asked you to vote and you voted in your tens! Sadly, The Crowmaster was beaten by… someone else. I forget who. That pesky Shan, probably. Anyway, that was [...]

Utterly fab author, Gillian Philip, sent me a message on Twitter to say that her son, Jamie, was going to dress up as Mr Mumbles for Halloween. Jamie has been a fan of the Invisible Fiends series since he, his twin sister, Lucy, and the rest of their class came along to see me at [...]

At the time of writing, according to the Apocalypse Countdown, there are 125 days left until the publication of my first standalone novel, The 13th Horseman. I’m already well into the rewrite of the follow-up book, and have pitched ideas for a third and fourth book in the… um… not series. Because it isn’t a [...]

The end of the world is coming. There’s no point crying about it, we just have to accept it and do what we can to prepare for the Day of Judgement when it eventually comes. Luckily, I’ve been given some advice on how best to get ready for The End, and being the caring sort, [...]

The final book in me old mucker, Tommy Donbavand’s SCREAM STREET series has recently been published, and to mark the occasion Tommy has written an exclusive thirteen part story which is running over a whole load of blogs. When Tommy asked if I’d be happy to host a chapter of the story here I jumped [...]

I’m not going to write a huge amount at the moment, because I’m hammering away at the final Invisible Fiends book which is due to be sent to my editor in a little over a month (ulp). I’ve spent more time plotting this book than I usually would, what with all the plot strands that [...]