Author Archive
Thursday, November 5th, 2009
Research, Research
Two items of Q&A – with one ‘A’ from me and one, I hope, from you…! The first is something I was asked this week via the MySpace page of Jagmat from The Black Tattoo. Huge respect and kudos – partly just for not letting the whole shapeshifting blancmange monster thing put him off! – […]
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Saturday, October 31st, 2009
Mr Theophilus invites you to dine…
Meet Mr Theophilus… He’s the star of an experiment I’m doing over at Trapped By Monsters. During the next few weeks I’m seralizing a short story of mine called Jethro’s Ace of Hearts. I’ve broken it down into thirteen chunks, each one of which – to my enormous glee and delight – has been beautifully […]
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Friday, October 23rd, 2009
“Quite famous”? Hee hee hee!
Here’s a nice piece of Black Tat art that was sent to me this week: ebirk wrote: Charlie with the Scourge on his back in Hell. Thank you for the opportunity to submit my art. Thank you for sharing it, Ethan! Whenever my stories inspire people to do or make stuff, that gives me an […]
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Monday, October 19th, 2009
The dreaded THIS AND THAT
I recently received this from my friend, the brilliant illustrator Barnaby Richards: Long-term Trapped By Monsters followers might remember Barnaby’s work from last February, when he sent us poor, captive authors a Message of Support. The monsters certainly do: his ’support’ was for the monsters! If you feel the urge to create some monster art […]
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Saturday, October 10th, 2009
Trent No Tremble
Some people might find the sight of two hundred expectant young faces looking up at them to be somewhat alarming. Not me. Yesterday I did my stuff at Trent College, near Nottingham, and spent most of the day cackling like a loon. 😀 A huge and gleeful thank you to everyone in my sessions there […]
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Thursday, October 8th, 2009
FOOM!
This week (Oct 5th-11th) is the Booktrust Children’s Book Week – a celebration of reading for pleasure for young people here in the UK. The theme this year is Words and Pictures. Their focus is on picture books, which is awesome of course. But I and my fellow cave denizens at Trapped By Monsters have […]
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Saturday, September 26th, 2009
Horrifying ’em in Harwich
My first school visit of the new academic year was a two-day booking at The Harwich School in Essex. It was brilliant. The library, where I did my talks, was equipped with a laptop and a digital projector. Since I’ve just this week been sent the latest version of what might become the cover for […]
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Monday, September 14th, 2009
Five of my Favourite Books Ever
Awesome independent booksellers The Big Green Bookshop are currently running a rather wonderful poll. What (they ask) are your five favourite books of all time? Anyone who answers has the chance to win a brilliant prize: twenty books of their choice from whatever ends up in the Big Green Top Fifty when the results are […]
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Friday, September 4th, 2009
small explosions
Slowly, quietly, I have started pulling ideas together for what may be Phase Four. As ever, ‘he sat there thinking,’ while true, doesn’t exactly make for riveting blog material! But on my breaks I’ve been putting stuff up on Trapped By Monsters: click the link for (lately) Warren Ellis on Rescue Fiction, Elmore Leonard’s Rules […]
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Monday, August 24th, 2009
Wow!
TWO amazing pieces of Black Tat Reader Art today. First up, here’s Iain from Johannesburg, who followed up some cracking questions in the Black Tat Guestbook last week with this awesome manga-style image: This is a depiction of Charlie. I decided to be subtle with his evil look and that’s why instead of him having […]
