May 2011
9 posts
Hay Festival
I had a great visit to the Hay-on-Wye Book Festival this weekend. Arrived late on Sunday and had a splendidly convivial evening with some of my fellow Random House authors, including Mini Grey, Candy Gourlay and the Etherington Brothers. Next morning, bright-eyed and bushy-tailed, we all went to the festival itself, which was humming with activity despite the heavy rain. Lots of authors were...
London MCM ComicCon
I had a great trip to London’s Docklands yesterday for the MCM ComicCon. Andrew Donkin, Lee Sullivan and I were talking about the Amulet graphic novel. As we drew close to the convention centre, we began to see hundreds of amazing costumes - weird, beautiful and funny: the halls themselves were packed with thousands of fantasy and comic addicts celebrating their love of the genres. We did a...
A Busy Summer Ahead...
Sorry it’s been a while since the last post. There’s been lots going on - mainly me working on the beginnings of a new novel, which I think might become a series… though you can never tell until you get further in to the writing. At the moment there are many scattered fragments of story episodes in a red file on my desk, and each day I play about adding to one or the other, or...
April 2011
12 posts
