Writer for Film, Television, Books, Comics and Audio
I think for many people, the last two years can be filed under ‘strange’. For me it’s been a time of self-doubt, uncertainty, depression and renewal. Some positives: after my first adventure into writing for a licenced property came out in November 2020, I returned to the worlds of BLAKE’S 7 for the release of …
I’m stunned and delighted to say that my feature screenplay THE WAITING ROOM only went and WON the Best Unproduced Screenplay award at the LA Sci-Fi and Horror Film Festival! I’m over the moon! The next step is to get this thing produced. Any Producer friends out there want to take a look?
More than 40 years since his first (and last) appearance, Bayban the Butcher is back! In case you don’t know, Bayban was a memorable character from the Blake’s 7 episode City at the Edge of the World played with gusto by Colin Baker. A fan favourite, Bayban was presumed dead at the end of the …
New audiobook alert! Here’s the cover for my first Doctor Who audio adventure, due out in October. Adjoa Andoh reads a dynamic new story featuring the Ninth Doctor and Rose, as played on TV by Christopher Eccleston and Billie Piper. When the Doctor diverts an asteroid from its collision course with Earth, the TARDIS is …
+PLASMA BOLTS INBOUND AT VECTOR SIX EIGHT THREE+Zen’s detached voice filled the flight deck, his measured tone at odds with the urgency of the situation.+FORCE WALL CANNOT SUSTAIN A DIRECT HIT IN THAT SECTION. RECOMMEND EVASIVE ACTION…+ As a damaged Liberator drifts in the skies above, Blake, Vila and Jenna scope out the planet below. But what …
I love going to London. It’s where most of my friends live, it’s where a lot of my work comes from, and it was my home between 1994 and 1998. I have a lot of memories embedded in the grime of that city, so if there’s an opportunity to go there I usually grab it. …
I’ve always loved writing, ever since I was a little boy. For years it was comic strips, then it was TV and film scripts, and in between I dabbled with writing a book, but I never got much further than a chapter or three. It always seemed like too big a task. I’d write a few …
You might have noticed that I’ve been a little quiet lately. (Maybe you haven’t, you’ve got a busy, demanding life to tame after all.) I haven’t sent out a newsletter in a while, and – more importantly! – my latest book has failed to appear. Arkship Omega was due out last month but, due to many other …
Earlier this year I entered my first feature screenplay, The Waiting Room, into the Page International Screenwriting Awards. Now celebrating its 16th anniversary year, the PAGE Awards is, according to their website (and who am I to argue?), widely regarded as one of the industry’s top sources for new screenwriting talent. Each year some of …