Writer for Animation, Film, Television, Books, Comics and Audio
2013 was my first year as a proper published author, and what a strange, exciting, terrifying, anxious, fun year it’s been! I think Charles Dickens was onto something with his opening line from A Tale of Two Cities: It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, …
Hot on the heals of the German edition of Sorrowline comes the Thailand publication by Class Act Publishing!
We all do it! We’re not supposed to but we DO judge books by their covers. If we didn’t then why would publishers spend money commissioning artists and designers to create works of art to represent the book’s contents? It’s the closest books come to having film-style trailers. They’re there to intrigue you, to make …
Today I got a parcel from my publishers! Inside was a proof copy of my second book, Timesmith! It feels great to have a copy to put next to Sorrowline. They look perfect together! It’s due out in March 2014, so not too long to wait now. Right now Timesmith is competing in the Book …
Yes, it still feels like a long way away but I started counting down to Sorrowline 100 days before publication and the time flew by! So here we go again – 100 days to go till Timesmith is out! All the heavy lifting has already been done, the book is written, edited and copy checked. …
This post is the first in an occasional series on the research and inspiration for some of the characters in Sorrowline and Timemith. I wanted a lot of the things in my stories to feel real, as if they might have once existed, and I found inspiration in many myths, legends and folk tales. So …
I’m very excited to be published in another language! Today Jack Morrow und das Grab der Zeit hits the shops in Germany!
If you’d like to know more about my first book, Sorrowline, you can read an extract here. Alternatively I can read it for you! Here’s a short video of me doing just that with the prologue from Sorrowline. Chapter one will follow some time in the next few weeks. Hope you like it!
When New Writing North asked me if I’d like to go to the Gothenburg Book Fair my first impulse was to look up exactly where Gothenburg was. I’ll admit I had no idea. It sounded like it could be in Germany, or maybe even the home to a well known Caped Crusader. I quickly discovered …