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If you’re a Doctor Who fan you might have heard me shouting about the release of The Ice Warriors on DVD recently. Like many early Who stories some of the episodes are missing from the BBC’s archive. The Ice Warriors, first broadcast in 1967 is a six part story with episodes 2 and 3 lost…
Last week I spent an hour with BBC Radio Tees presenter Bob Fischer on his show. We talked about animation, comics, Doctor Who and writing. Here’s a short clip from the interview when we talked about Sorrowline. Niel Bushnell Radio Tees Interview from Niel Bushnell on Vimeo.
It might seem like a long time to next March but it’s amazing how far ahead publishers have to work. They need time to promote a new title and sell it in to the shops so even though it’s more than six months away my next book, Timesmith, is finished, copy-edited and typeset. Even the cover…
Earlier this week I had to go down to London for a couple of meetings. I used to live there and I love going back, especially on a bright sunny day. I decided to walk between the meetings, avoiding the sweaty nightmare of the Tubes, when I stumbled upon this beautiful square that reminded me…
So now I’m a published author I must have all the answers, right? Right! I’ve been given the secret code to the secret door to the Super Dooper Secret Club Of Super-Evil Published Authors, or SDSCOSEPA for short, but as no one could agree how to pronounce SDSCOSEPA everyone calls it MWAHAHAHAH! When you’re initiated into MWAHAHAHAH!…
I don’t like Taxi drivers talking to me. I prefer them to keep looking at the road and keep the conversation to its bare minimum. Why? Well, if we get talking they usually end up asking what I do for a living. When I say I’m an animator (I’ve not had the courage to say I’m a…
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…
Labels are always tricky things. As soon as you give something a label you run the risk of pigeon-holing it and limiting its potential This is true with books as much as anything. When Sorrowline was published in January it was recommended for 9-11 year old readers – a label which I feared might put off older readers.…
Last week I went back to my old school to talk to some of their Year 7 pupils about writing Sorrowline and my career in animation. I’ll admit I was pretty nervous as I pulled into the car park and went into the reception, dodging groups of lunch-time pupils looking at me suspiciously. It’s changed…