Writer for Animation, Film, Television, Books, Comics and Audio
Now that the inconvenient nuisance of Christmas and New Year have been bashed about the head and put out of its misery we can look forward to the publication if Timesmith on March 6th! It’s not long! 50 days! That’s all! I know some of you are too impatient to wait that long so I’ve …
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 …
I’m very excited to be published in another language! Today Jack Morrow und das Grab der Zeit hits the shops in Germany!
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 …
One thing I’ve learned is that things take a long time in publishing! Way back in September 2011 the German publisher Heyne (part of Random House) bought the German rights to Sorrowline and Timesmith. This was my very first book deal – the UK rights sold a few months later. So you can imagine I’ve …
Every year Teesside University hold a week long animation festival called Animex. I’ve been going along for about 11 years and it just keeps getting better and better. It now has speakers and workshops covering games, comics, animation and VFX. In previous years I’ve helped out chairing events but this time I could relax and …
The day I’d been looking forward to and dreading in equal measure had finally arrived: the launch of my very first book, Sorrowline. I’ve done my fair share of public speaking before – mostly as part of my day job as an animation director and producer – but this was different, this was my …