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A Bookseller’s Thoughts
Following my recent posts (here and here) about the grim inevitability of having to direct people to Amazon until such times as more bookshops outside Scotland stock my books, I had a long late night...
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Another Bookseller’s Thoughts
Ace Edinburgh Bookshop bookseller and friend of mine, Cat Anderson (who is responsible for getting a copy of The 13th Horseman into Neil Gaiman’s hands) has sent me her thoughts on some of the posts I...
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First Draft Jitters
Well I’ve done it. This week I finished the first draft of the second book in my brand new and still top secret series. What I can tell you is that it’s completely different to anything I’ve done...
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Box of Awesome
I’ve been meaning to blog about Box of Awesome for a while now, but a combination of looming deadlines and sheer laziness have prevented me. However, yesterday’s announcement about publisher Simon...
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Useful Apps & Software for Writers
I mentioned on Twitter recently that I’m a big fan of the note-taking software, Evernote, and said I use it extensively when planning my books. I soon got a reply from top author fella, Chris...
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A Tarzan Trailer Swings In
One of my favourite action adventure series of recent years is Andy Briggs’ Tarzan reboot. It’s dark, gritty and modern, while still harking back to the classic adventure tales which first introduced...
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The 13th Horseman Reviews and Awards
It’s now well over a year since The 13th Horseman was published, so it’s great to see new reviews still regularly popping up online. Here are a few I’ve come across recently. I’m sharing them now...
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More Apps & Software For Writers
Yesterday I blogged about some software I find useful, and promised to come back with some more today. For perhaps the first time in history I’m actually following up with one of my blog promises, so...
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Awards and Events
Last week was a pretty big week for me. The 13th Horseman had been shortlisted for the Grampian Children’s Book Award, and I in general had been shortlisted for the Lennox Author Award, and the winners...
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DIY Book Trailers Part 2
Way back in early March I blogged about how to make your own book trailers, using my Invisible Fiends: Mr Mumbles trailer as an example. I promised then that I’d do a follow-up post on how I put my...
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Lots of Exciting Stuff
Ah yes, I have a blog. I’d forgotten about that. It has been two months since my last update but, well, things have been a little bit hectic during that time to say the least. First up, let’s kick off...
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Bottom Knocker Street
Last week I was officially given the go-ahead to talk about Bottom Knocker Street, the new kids’ comedy show I’ve been writing for ITV. It’s a live action show starring comedian Phill Jupitus and many...
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Bottom Knocker Street – the App
What’s ‘appening? (See what I did there). Hopefully by now most of you will have caught some of Bottom Knocker Street on ITV and CITV on Saturday and Sunday mornings. You can read more about it in this...
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Books! Zombies! Prizes! Other Stuff!
Howdy stranger. It’s been a long time. Six months in fact – six long months since I wrote my last blog post. I’ve missed you all dearly (except you at the back with the dodgy haircut), and promise I...
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The Shark-Headed Bear-Thing
All things considered, today has been a pretty good day. First up, I found out today that there will be two new books coming from me – one in October 2015 the other in early 2016. I can’t tell you...
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BBC Comedy Room to Write
If you’ve read The 13th Horseman or The Book of Doom you’ll know I’m a fan of comedy. If you haven’t read them, then I’m sorry but you’re dead to me. A month or two back I submitted some comedy...
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Edinburgh Book Festival 2014
The Edinburgh International Book Festival 2014 is almost upon us, and I’ll be running events – twice – on the opening day of the festival. In fact, I’ll be kicking off the whole festival at 10am on...
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My Road to Yes
ADVANCE WARNING: The following post is of a political nature, and is not about books, telly or Skeletor out of He-Man. If you don’t want to know my thoughts on the upcoming Scottish Independence...
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Largs Academy Book Cover Competition
It has been a busy few weeks of touring since the schools went back, so I’m frantically trying to catch up with writing. I’m taking a quick break from working on my latest book, though, to share some...
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Brian May Ant
Sometimes, when I’ve been doing too much writing, I like to recharge my brain by doing something else creative. Today I did this. It’s the no expense spared opening credit sequence to “Brian May Ant,”...
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