Dan Abnett's Blog, page 15

Monster Birthday

Thanks to Mike Mignola, I now know that today is the 75th anniversary of the release of The Bride of Frankenstein. Wow. Seventy-five years!

That is all.

Sci-Fi London 9

And so to Cardiff, which was as lovely as I remembered it, and where everywhere feels like you're in an episode of Doctor Who or Torchwood, for obvious reasons. Had great, work-related doings there which I can't talk about yet, nor even offer material on which to speculate. Yes, I know. I am an absolute spoilsport. Or 'soilsport', as I just typed.

But instead, I can tell you that I will playing a part in the Sci-Fi London 9 event during the weekend of the first of May. Sci-Fi London is an inte...

How Do You Do, New Doctor Who?

It's said we all have our own Doctor Who. I don't think it's anything to do with favorites in a conscious sense, I think it's about the Doctor you encounter at a particular, receptive point in your life's geography. I find myself, like many, referring to 'my' Doctor in terms that make him sound like part of a map. 'My' Doctor is Third and Jo, though I'll very happily, on a good day, ride all the way down to Fifth and Tegan. I'm also quite fond of Seventh and Ace, because I worked there for a ...

Ooooh! This is cool!

New stuff up on the Ultramarines movie site, where some of the actors talk about the performance capture process, plus the latest 'guest blog' from me about the production experience.

Remember to register at the site if you want to get this info as soon as it goes up.

On an entirely separate note, this is really cool too.

And kudos to my daughter Lily, who just landed her first proper acting role.

Now I'm off to drink tea and read the papers. Ooh! New Who tonight!

Remember Tanith!

While he was out at Adepticon in Chicago, m'learned friend Aaron did an interview for the splendid 40K Radio (oh, the fake DJ slogans that name conjures up in my mind!). Aaron sent me a link to it, which I share with you here, in case (he said) I had half an hour to spare and I wanted to find out how much he loved me. Bromantically, obviously. My name comes up a couple of times.

Work continues apace on the Sabbat Worlds Anthology (at left). Let me tell you a bit about that. Because my schedu...

It's your weekend, use it wisely

Nik and I are off celebrating our wedding anniversary today - we eloped on an Easter Saturday, so that's the date we always recognise, no matter where it falls. Anyway, that means I haven't got time to tell you how excited I am about my new Bluetooth mouse, or to discuss the 'new' kind of human being they found in a Siberian cave. Not today, anyway. But I'm sticking my head round the blog vault door long enough to point you in the direction of a nice new comics interview here, and to suggest ...

Oh, stuff

Stopping by in a bit of a rush today - inspiration has struck, and she is a cruel mistress. Wow, there's a sentence open to interpretation. Anyway, just two things that I've come across to drop into your amusement and edification shopping basket:

1. This link to a little collection of the worst bootlegs around. It's just very funny indeed.

2. And this, which reproduces a note the great David Mamet wrote to the writing staff of his TV show The Unit. Yes, he does write in ALL CAPS, which sugges...

The Ultramarines Movie (need-to-know-basis)

People keep asking me questions about the Ultramarines movie, and obviously I'm dying to answer them but I can't, because of confidentiality clauses and other exciting grown-up reasons.

The one thing that surprises me, however - here, on Facebook, and on places like the BL page - is that the questions are often very basic. I realise that's my bad. It's too easy to take for granted that people are in the loop, that they've read the right post at the right time. So (and I apologise to anyone who...

Yes, I DO love film, actually...

I managed to subscribe to Love Film AND unsubscribe to it again, all in the space of about ten minutes yesterday. How? Glad you asked.

Increasingly these days, I am reminded of TV shows or movies that I want to see again, and I go looking for them, only to find they are mysteriously unavailable. In this case, it was the lovely Australian movie The Year My Voice Broke, which Love Film, the on-line rental people, made a particularly fancy mess of teasing me with. I'd googled the movie, and it l...

British Fantasy Awards 2010

I was amazed yesterday to discover that my novel Triumff: Her Majesty's Hero has been longlisted for Best Novel at the 2010 British Fantasy Awards, organised by the British Fantasy Society. The longlist will become a shortlist later this year, and then the winner decided, but it's a big deal to get this far, and it puts me in some illustrious company. You can view the longlist here.

When I did so myself, I scrolled down and discovered that Guardians of the Galaxy had ALSO been longlisted in t...