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April 28, 2009
Sci-Fi London
I’ll be appearing at Sci-Fi London this Sunday May 3rd, taking part in a panel discussion: ‘Where’s My Jetpack?‘
“Science fiction has promised us interstellar travel, flying cars, hoverboards, teleportation, universal translators, colonies in space and so much more. So where is it? In a world where London’s transport infrastructure can be brought to a standstill by 6 inches of snow and end-of-the-world scenarios play out in fiction, films and TV, is the mobile phone and the Internet really the be
April 27, 2009
The Autumn movie
The team at Renegade want you to see the Autumn movie, and so do I. I know they’re as frustrated as anyone that the film’s not yet been released, and they’re working hard behind the scenes to get it onto cinema and TV screens.
Over at the movie’s official blog, they’re asking for your input. If you’re in the UK or Canada, please head over to their site at autumnthemovie.blogspot.com and answer their questions. Alternatively, you can email your views to: autumninfo (at) renegademotionpictures.com.
When half the people want to kill the rest
I love that sentence! It’s a Google translation of the headline from a nice article about HATER / ODIO in today’s edition of the Spanish newspaper Público. Here’s a link to the online version of the story:
http://www.publico.es/culturas/221661/mitad/gente/quiere/matar/resto
…and you can download a pdf of the paper from this link here.
April 23, 2009
Horror Blog Fest
I just took part in the Horror Blog Fest over at the MyFavouriteBooks site. Click here to read my interview, then check out the various other author contributions which have so far been added. The Fest runs throughout April and May so check back regularly.
April 22, 2009
Writer’s Forum magazine
There’s a nice feature in this month’s Writer’s Forum magazine about my work, specifically my experiences with self independent publishing and how I went about promoting my books. I just don’t understand why they wanted to put a glamorous burlesque star on the front cover and not me!
Competition
Remember, there’s just over a week left to enter the HATER / The Men They Couldn’t Hang competition! Click here or on the image below to enter.
April 20, 2009
Gatecrasher
Last night Steven Rumbelow (director of the Autumn movie) and Dickon Tolson (who plays Carl) appeared on Steve Genier’s Nocturnal Frequency radio show. Amongst other things they talked about working on the movie, working with David Carradine and the daily dedication of Autumn’s method-acting zombie extras! Unfortunately there was no specific news about release dates, but it’s definitely worth a listen.
Oh, and I gatecrashed half way through!
You can listen to the show (or download it) here.
April 18, 2009
Australia and New Zealand
HATER is now available in Australia and New Zealand. The Canberra Times had this to say:
Hater has had an unusual publishing history, being self-published by Moody in 2006, but now picked up by Gollancz. A movie version is in pre-production by Guillermo del Toro of Pan’s Labyrinth fame. Hater is a fast-paced novel written in a staccato style that highlights the growing horror of a British society falling apart. The main character, Danny McCoyne, stuck in a dead end office job and suffocating co
April 17, 2009
Blog of the Day
Earlier this week, this site was made ‘Blog of the Day’ by Fuelmyblog. They asked me a few questions about my site and writing, and my answers can be found here.
Oh, and they sent me a cool little award! Here it is!
April 15, 2009
Scott Sigler liked HATER!
My wife often says ‘there’s no such thing as coincidence’.
A couple of weeks back I was reading INFECTED by Scott Sigler. For those who don’t know him, Scott has a similar background to me in that he initially built up a readership by giving away his stories for free online. The main difference between us is that Scott has an extremely cool approach where he distributes his books as top-quality, episodic podcasts.
Anyway, while I was reading the book, I got an email from an associate who mentioned
