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Now Available – The Dragons of Bloodrock

Long ago, the citadel of Bloodrock fell. Now the dragons of Bloodrock are scattered across the desert and the mysteries of the past have been forgotten. But nothing lies hidden forever. When cruel Viscero brings terror to the land, Abalone — the last member of a knightly order known as the Peregrines — vows to bring the ruthless dragon to justice. To do this, he must first unravel the secret history of Bloodrock. As past and present overlap, Abalone and his new-found companions embark on an ...

Loop and Boys in Cinefex 171

The summer issue of Cinefex is out, with no less than six articles on some of this year’s top television streaming shows. Jody, Joe and I contributed two articles each, turned around in record time when the effect on theatrical releases of a certain global pandemic forced us to ditch our planned editorial halfway through production and turn our attention from big screen to small.

The silver lining was that I got to cover two amazing shows that might otherwise have slipped through the ...

Mutants and Mulan in Cinefex 170

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Towards the end of January 2020, I began interviewing for my Cinefex 170 article on The New Mutants. Little did I know that by the time Id submitted my final copy, the whole world would be caught up in a pandemic.

In fact, as Cinefex 170 moved into production, the COVID-19 crisis resulted in cinemas closing and the release dates of all the big upcoming films getting shunted until later in the year, or next year, or some undetermined time in the future. The New Mutants was one of these films....

Cinefex 40th Anniversary Issue

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I grew up reading Cinefex, the journal of cinematic illusions. As a teenager, I made regular pilgrimages to London with my movie-mad mates where I scoured the shelves of Forbidden Planet – then just a grungy little comic shop off Tottenham Court Road – in the hope of stumbling on a new issue of this strangely-shaped quarterly publication imported from America. Falling inside its pages, I explored the mysterious world of motion picture visual effects, and learned the secrets behind the...

Dragoncharm 25th Anniversary

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This year is the 25th anniversary of my first novel, Dragoncharm. You’ll forgive me if I take a little trip down memory lane, right?

Dragoncharm was one of the first fantasy paperbacks published under the Voyager imprint launched by HarperCollins in 1995. I wrote the original draft longhand, and submitted the final typescript to two other UK publishers, both of whom roundly rejected it. Third time around it landed on the desk of Jane Johnson, then editorial director of Voyager. Jane...

“School of Alyxa” Wins Northern Lights Book Award

[image error]I was thrilled to learn today that School of Alyxa: Secrets and Shadows has just won a Northern Lights Book Award for Best Fantasy!

So what’s the book about? Well, it’s the first novel in a trilogy for younger readers, which I wrote under the pseudonym R.L. Ferguson. The story begins when two brothers, Finn and John, are ripped from their normal lives and sent to Alyxa, an island school that doesn’t appear on any map. Here they learn that, like the other students, they possess super-senses which give them e...

Six Years of Cinefex

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Back in September 2013, I was putting the finishing touches to my very first article for Cinefex – an 8,000-word article on the making of Ron Howard’s Formula 1 racing drama Rush. The title of the article was Formula for Fire, and it was published in Cinefex 136.

Six years on, I’m just finishing up my 40th article, due for publication in Cinefex 168 in December 2019. I have absolutely no idea where the time has gone.

What I do know is the job is as challenging and as rewarding as ever. Every...

Game of Thrones Meets Spider-Man

 

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I’ve got two articles in Cinefex 166, our August 2019 issue. First up is When Dragons Go to War, my coverage of the much-antipicated final season of HBO’s fantasy phenomenon Game of Thrones.

Full disclosure – I’m not regular viewer of the show. I watched Season 1 but it never really hooked me, so I let it slide. Preparing for this article, I crammed as if for a final exam. Binge-watching all six episodes of Game of Thrones Season 8, I was blown away by the quality of the production and, co...

Six Months of String City

Jeepers, can it really be six months since String City was published? Apparently it can. To celebrate, I’ve combined some of my favourite review quotes into this little video. If you’ve read the novel, maybe you’ll agree with some of them. If you haven’t read the novel, what are you waiting for?

Learn more about the interdimensional thriller String City

Titans, Angels and Demons in Cinefex 165

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Cinefex 165 just hit the streets! Weighing in at a whopping 136 pages, our bumper June issue contains my in-depth articles on Godzilla: King of the Monsters and the Amazon Studios adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s and Terry Pratchett’s Good Omens. Peel back the cover and you’ll also discover Jody Duncan’s coverage of Avengers: Endgame, plus Joe Fordham’s stories on Dark Phoenix and Detective Pikachu.

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My 9,000-word Godzilla: King of the Monsters article was a titanic assignment in all respects. MP...