BarryHutchison

This year the Bath Festival of Children’s Literature decided it would be a right laugh to start a blog story, co-written by a whole heap of children’s authors, illustrators, and other creative types. I was lucky enough to be asked to take part, and today is the day my little ‘chapter’ goes live. You might [...]

We’re into October, so I can finally allow myself to start getting excited about the BIG EVENT I’m taking part in later this month. On Thursday, 20th October I’ll be teaming up with five other horror authors to bring you SCARE FEST 2 – a three-hour extravaganza of scares, shocks and screams. Who knows, there [...]

After several months of writing, including a few weeks in which I feared I was never going to get there, I today reached the end of my latest book. It’s a standalone novel which is loosely connected to THE 13TH HORSEMAN, but that’s not important right now. What I’d like to talk to you about [...]

He stood by the wall, his gnarled hands clutching his leather case. In three minutes, the only friend he had ever known would be dead. And he couldn’t wait. Back in August I took part in a blog tour, contributing posts to a number of blogs as I promoted the latest Fiends book, DOC MORTIS. [...]

If any of you are around Stirling in Scotland this weekend, you might want to come along to my two-hour author talk and writing workshop combo as part of the Off the Page Festival. I’ll be talking about all things INVISIBLE FIENDS and taking questions, then spending an hour discussing writing techniques and how to [...]

Check out the absolutely Fiend-tastic (sorry) image below by top artist and all-round great bloke, Drew Moss. It’s Drew’s interpretation of a scene in DOC MORTIS. I won’t tell you exactly what’s happening, so as not to spoil things for those who haven’t read it, but I will say it’s probably my favourite scene of [...]

There is now just a little under six months until my first standalone book, THE 13TH HORSEMAN, is published. I’ll be launching a new website when the book comes out, and the countdown has now begun to publication day, and the Apocalypse it brings with it. Go check out The13thHorseman.com to see for yourself. While [...]

Did you know that 1 in 6 adults in the UK have the reading age of an 11-year-old? This is a problem that the National Literacy Trust is working hard to address, and yet the government this year announced that they would no longer be providing the trust with funding. While the government appears not [...]

Don’t worry, Invisible Fiends fans. With all this talk lately of The 13th Horseman, I haven’t forgotten about Kyle and Ameena and their adventures with the monsters from The Darkest Corners. The fifth book in the series, THE BEAST, is now finished and will be coming out a little earlier than expected – on January [...]

Last night, I met a hero of mine. It was in a crypt below a church with the thunder of drums hanging heavy and ominous in the air. And a right cracking night it was, too. You might not have heard of Neil Gaiman. At least, you might not have heard of him if you’re [...]