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Exclusive competition – win tickets to the UK premier of AUTUMN

My UK publishers Gollancz have launched a competition to win a pair of tickets to the UK premier of AUTUMN on 1st November at the Grimm Up North film festival in Manchester.

To enter the competition, just visit this link and answer the very simple question…

And if you win, don't forget to drop me an email to let me know so I can say hello at the event!

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Hamilton Zombie Walk 2009 – 24th October

Attention readers in North America: the third annual Hamilton Zombie Walk takes place at 3pm on 24th October. You can find out more about the event here on Facebook or MySpace. As many of you may know, the AUTUMN movie was filmed in and around Hamilton so expect a strong contingent from the cast and crew to be in the undead crowds. As in previous years, the event will be hosting a food drive in support of the Hamilton Food Share so please contribute and help the organisers to meet their...

Grimmfest – AUTUMN UK premier details

Tickets are now available for the UK premier of the AUTUMN movie at the Grimmfest festival in Manchester on 1st November. Here's the announcement from the official press release:

AUTUMN GUESTS. To celebrate the premiere screening of Steve Rumbelow's AUTUMN, we are pleased to welcome the film's stars Dexter Fletcher (Lock Stock, Layer Cake) and Dickon Tolson (The Bill, Casualty, Peak Practice), together with author David Moody, whose cult novels were the basis for the film. David has just had...

The World is Dead

Permuted Press have just released The World Is Dead, an anthology of zombie stories looking at life after the dead have risen. There are no outbreak tales here, instead we're presented with 18 vastly different visions of a world where we're forced to live alongside the undead.

I've worked my way through more than my fair share of zombie anthologies recently. This book – edited by Kim Paffenroth of Dying to Live fame – stood head and shoulders above the rest. It's bloody good. Recommended...

The AUTUMN movie – set report

Here's the second in my series of blog posts about the AUTUMN movie. Principle photography on the film began in November 2007 and, in early December, I was fortunate enough to be able to fly over to Canada to visit the set and meet the cast and crew. On my return to the UK I posted a report which I'm reposting (in a slightly re-edited form) here:

Do you have children? If you do, have you experienced the hell which is their first day at school yet? Anyone who has will know exactly what I'm...

He didn't kill anyone!

If you've read chapter four of HATER, the title of this post will make sense! A fantastic time was had last night, courtesy of The Men They Couldn't Hang. I finally got to meet Swill in person, and he even wore his MAG shirt for me (as per his appearance in HATER!).

TMTCH are an absolutely cracking live band with a loyal and dedicated following. There's still time to catch them on tour in the UK, click here for dates and venues. I'd thoroughly recommend going. The missus and I had an...

The Autumn movie – UK premier

The Autumn movie will receive its UK premier at the Grimm Up North festival in Manchester (running Friday 30th October – Sunday 1st November). See the festival website for more information.

I'm planning to be there, along with Steven Rumbelow, the director of the movie. It would be excellent to meet as many of you who are going as possible so drop me a line if you're planning to attend. It should be a cracking weekend with some great films being shown including Colin, The Descent Part 2 and...

Put your questions to Steven Rumbelow

As I mentioned in my last post about the Autumn movie, next month director Steven Rumbelow will be taking part in an exclusive Q&A here and answering your questions about the film. To submit a question for Steven, either use this site's contact page, or complete the form below.

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Scott Sigler's Rookie Tailgate Tour

Damn fine author (see this post) and marketing genius Scott Sigler is hitting the road for a 20 date bar tour of the US in support of the limited edition hardback release of 'The Rookie'. Tour dates are as follows:

Sept. 5th: Atlanta, GASept. 7th: Birmingham, ALSept. 8th:  Nashville, TN
Nashville stop sponsored by BUDWEISER!Sept. 9th: Indianapolis, INSept. 10th: Chicago, ILSept. 11th: Grand Rapids, MISept. 13th: Ann Arbor, MISept. 14th: Cincinnati, OHSept. 15th: Canton, OHSept. 16th: span

A few September releases

Orion books in the UK have released a mass-market (i.e. cheaper!) edition of HATER which, from today, you'll find in supermarkets, airports etc. etc. You can also get it online from Amazon.co.uk, Waterstones, Play.com and the Book Depository amongst others.

German readers can now get their hands on the first publication anywhere in the world of Autumn: Disintegration (Herbst: Zerfall). Whilst this is good news for readers in Germany and Austria, it's not so good for those of you who've been w...