The lovely people at New Writing North have got together with Andersen Press and Waterstones Newcastle to organise a terffic launch event on Tuesday 29th January! Not only will Sorrowline get the star treatment, we’ll also be toasting the launch of fellow Northern Writers Award winner Celia Bryce’s teen novel Anthem for Jackson Dawes (Bloomsbury, …
Publication Day!!
After waiting 15 months the day finally came! PUBLICATION DAY!! With getting copies from Amazon early it was something of a vague date to celebrate, but it was still the official Publication Day and deserved marking in some way.We’d planned a family day in York, so by 9.30am we were settled in First Class on …
1 Day!
Tomorrow my first book, Sorrowline, is published. This is something I’ve dreamed about since I was a small boy, a day I sometimes thought might never come. It’s been a long wait, but it’s finally here. It’s a strange feeling, a mix of uncertainty and excitement, wondering what people will make of my book. I …
100 days!
I love a countdown. Who doesn’t? If its good enough for Astronauts and Bond villains then its good enough for a début author. So, today is exactly 100 days till publication of Sorrowline on January 3rd 2013. And by way of a celebration of that landmark date it gives me great pleasure to finally reveal …
Announcing Sorrowline
Finally, after a busy, brief few months that have felt like an eternity I can finally shout about my brilliant two book deal with Andersen Press. Here is the press release: Andersen Press Have Bought Rights In Two Children’s Novels, Sorrowline And Timesmith, By Debut Writer Niel Bushnell Andersen Press have bought rights in two …
Enterprising Hartlepool
When I first set up my animation studio, Qurios Entertainment, back in 2002, I had a lot of help and support from the enterprise team from Hartlepool Council and from Business Link (one of the region’s business support agencies). They were both very proactive and supportive, especially Mick Emerson and Andrea Miles (then working for …