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Man Inside The Stormhouse

Honestly, those UK film releases are like Number 9 buses. You wait half a lifetime for one of your own, then along come two.

Yes, in July, two films are released which I worked on. This is good.

I wrote and executive-produced the supernatural horror film Stormhouse, which hits UK DVD on July 9 via High Fliers.  Somewhat unusually for a British film, Stormhouse was released in America first, through Lionsgate (see their wonderful trailer here) in February of this year.  Last year, it w...

Ebook Price Rise Imminent

Last year, I released an ebook called How To Interview Doctor Who, Ozzy Osbourne And Everyone Else.  It drew on my journalistic past to tell readers everything I know about interviewing people, from planning the interview, through conducting the chat, to writing the whole thing up.

The book has sold steadily and consistently.  It's had glowing reviews from the likes of The Spectator ("Boy, I wish this book had been around when I started out") and Den Of Geek ("It's golden for jo...

10 Reasons Why Twitter Is Great For Writers

Sure, Twitter might seem detrimental to writers, by dint of being a colossal, neverending Procrastination Circus From Hell.  This social network can indeed be extremely distracting, but like pretty much everything in life, it depends how you ration it out.  We writers have always been highly skilled at finding displacement activities.  Twitter is merely the new aiming-paper-balls-at-a-bin-across-your-study.
I've been on Twitter for over three years.  I love the place and be...

Two Photographs I Love

I don't consider myself to be much of a photographer.  The iPhone snaps I take are generally to capture people in places, or things to post on Twitter, and are rarely masterpieces of composition.  Neither are the two photographs which follow, but I like them a great deal - probably because they're of things which link back to my childhood in Lowestoft.


I took this one beneath Lowestoft's Claremont Pier, which is one of my favourite buildings.  I love piers in general.  This...

The Man Inside: Trailer

The trailer for Dan Turner's new urban thriller The Man Inside has arrived.  Dan wrote and directed the film in Newcastle last Summer, and it's set for release this year.

I script edited The Man Inside and am really pleased to see the trailer communicating the passion and power of Dan's story.

The film stars Ashley 'Bashy' Thomas, Peter Mullan, David Harewood, Michelle Ryan and Jason Maza.  Fine cast.  Take a look!

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Stormhouse UK Release Confirmed

Now, then.  Look at that for a top-notch 3D box.

Yes, Stormhouse has a UK DVD release.  It'll be out through High Fliers on July 9.  Exciting stuff.  John Carpenter's The Thing is my all-time favourite horror film, so it's wonderful that HorrorTalk.com's box-quote compares us to that stone cold classic.

You can pre-order Stormhouse at Amazon UK here.  If you've already seen and liked the film, feel free to hit that 'Like' button, or write a review.  All very much h...

Reigning In The Twilight Zone

Yesterday, the impossibly evil James Moran blogged it the hell up, on the subject of his writing process.  If you haven't read it yet, and think you're getting the link right now then you're insane, because I want you to read this post first.  You'll get the link at the end, now settle yourself and commit.  No speed-scrolling down!  I'm not some cheap word-hooker you can skim before linking off into the night.

One of Moran's passages particularly thrilled me (oh dear God, w...

Death In Paradise's Creator On Selling TV Scripts

Sara Martins and Ben Miller in
BBC One's Death In ParadiseBig topic, this - and one which newer writers often want to know about.  Before you consider who's going to option, buy or generally give two hoots about your scripts, however, you need to spend years honing your craft and knowledge of how the industry works.

I can't think of a single person who coasted into the TV-writing industry without first paying dues by slaving over countless scripts which never got made.  Without...

Five Ways To Kill Audience Satisfaction

Being a writer tends to taint your experiences of film, TV or novels, albeit in a way which can improve your own work.  While absorbing fiction, I'll inevitably analyse why I'm enjoying, or especially not enjoying, a story.  Finding faults can be brilliantly instructive, in terms of avoiding the same mistakes - provided, of course, that it's not simply an issue of taste.  You don't learn much from not enjoying a gangster film, for instance, if you don't particularly care f...

Taking America By Stormhouse

When I think about it, it's pretty unusual for a British horror film to be released in America before all other territories.  Still, I'm certainly not complaining.

Yes, Lionsgate unleashes Stormhouse today in the good ol' USA, via the media of DVD, On Demand and Digital Download.  I wrote and executive produced the film, while Dan Turner directed it and, like the fiend that he is, came up with the original idea: "The military capture a ghost".

I'm as yet unsure as to the exact details...