Category: Events/News
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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…
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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…
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The lovely people at New Writing North have got together with Andersen Press and Waterstones Newcastle to organise a terffic launch event on Tuesday 29th January! Not only will Sorrowline get the star treatment, we’ll also be toasting the launch of fellow Northern Writers Award winner Celia Bryce’s teen novel Anthem for Jackson Dawes (Bloomsbury,…
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After waiting 15 months the day finally came! PUBLICATION DAY!! With getting copies from Amazon early it was something of a vague date to celebrate, but it was still the official Publication Day and deserved marking in some way.We’d planned a family day in York, so by 9.30am we were settled in First Class on…
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Tomorrow my first book, Sorrowline, is published. This is something I’ve dreamed about since I was a small boy, a day I sometimes thought might never come. It’s been a long wait, but it’s finally here. It’s a strange feeling, a mix of uncertainty and excitement, wondering what people will make of my book. I…