So, I promised I’d do some blog posts about how I got published. Well, ok, but this could take a while. I’ve always wanted to write a novel. I think everyone does. Its one of those things that, if we just had the time, if we could just focus, we could get that brilliant idea …
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 …
Life on the Farm
A long time ago I created a comic strip with Gordon Fraser about talking animals and the Farm that time forgot. Gordon and I had met at school and soon became firm friends. During College we went everywhere together and when the real world beckoned we stepped into it together. We both harboured dreams of …
How the Multiplex is killing Cinema
I love the cinema. Don’t we all? I remember the excitement of going there as a child, sitting in the darkness, watching the swirling cigarette smoke create shafts of dancing light in the projector beam, the red dots of fire as a match was lit, the boiled sweets being thrown from the balcony, the torn …
The Letter
When I was at junior school we were asked to write about ‘The letter that changed my life’. I wrote about receiving a letter from NASA telling me my application to be an Astronaut had been successful. I recall the teacher enjoying it, and I might have had to read it out in front of …
The Children’s Media Conference 2011
A busy week meant that I could only make one day of this year’s Children’s Media Conference in sunny Sheffield, (what is it about that place? Its been glorious every time I’ve been there!) With only one day to take it all in, and meet up with some people, I knew it was going to …
A stab at Ricky
Something else from the sketchbook – my attempt at Ricky Gervais, drawn last September while watching him being interviewed.
Forgotten Sketch
Just discovered this sketch I did for a project in 2009. It never happened in the end, so I thought I’d share it here.
Half a Matt
Doctor Who returned on Saturday night – and a belter it was too! Here is a half-hearted sketch of Matt Smith I did before I got completely distracted.