Author Archive
Thursday, June 25th, 2009
Braaaiiiiiiinnns -I mean, Books! Books!
The pics from my talk at yesterday’s fabulous Leicester Teen Read Expo are… a bit worrying. Perhaps the combination of my recent Trapped By Monsters ordeal and the oncoming deadline for draft three of Phase Three is affecting me more than I thought. I remember an excellent session, full of great questions from a brilliant […]
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Monday, June 22nd, 2009
I survived… for now.
What do you see here? A humble bottle of sauce? Or what’s soon to become the most feared literary harbinger of doom since The Black Spot in Robert Louis Stevenson’s Treasure Island? For the full story of Saturday’s shenanigans (including heartrending footage of the last words of Joe Craig) click here, and also here. I’ve […]
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Wednesday, June 17th, 2009
Trapped by Monsters – LIVE!
I think this clip’s pretty self-explanatory. 😉 Are you, reading this, anywhere near Abingdon, England on this coming Saturday June 20th? Then click here for all the details! 😀 ————————– Comments? Suggestions? Questions? Me and THE WEBSPHINX would love to hear from you! Drop us a line at the Tim, Defender of the Earth Guestbook […]
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Friday, June 12th, 2009
Lunchtime Literary Lurkage
Here’s a quick pic from today’s terrific visit to Woodbridge High School… I gave two short talks in the morning – doing my best to answer some excellent questions – and then stuck around for something new on me, a Literary Lunch. Myself, fifteen young writers from various year groups and Woodbridge’s Supreme Ninja Librarian […]
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Wednesday, June 10th, 2009
Nose To The Grindstone Time
I’m currently hard at work on the third draft of PHASE THREE OF MY SINISTER MASTERPLAN TO CONQUER THE UNIVERSE, so bloggage here may be intermittent for a bit. -Check my freshly-updated homepage for links to my new Twitter foolishness, plus other places where I might be lurking/procrastinating! ;p -Like the warning sign above? Click […]
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Thursday, June 4th, 2009
Show Me the Monster!
When lovely Liz at blatantly brilliant blog My Favourite Books asked me to take part in her current Horror Blog Fest I was thrilled and chuffed and delighted. You can read wot I wrote here, but do click around: the Fest has included some of the finest writers of scary stories working today. They’ve certainly […]
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Monday, June 1st, 2009
Thank you, Finn!
Have you seen the TIM Reader Quotes page? My favourite quote on there is from a young gentleman called Finn. It says: “If you don’t like books with action-packed chapters with big scary monsters wrecking national monuments and giant cockroaches killing people, you will not like this book. I loved it.“ Yesterday I got the […]
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Wednesday, May 27th, 2009
A Taste of TIM! (and, um, me!)
If you’ve been following this blog you’ll have seen a lot of pics of me at my events. But if you’re curious about what I actually /sound/ like… well: It’s a clip of the talk I gave at The Crystal Palace Children’s Book Festival, on April 25th, as recorded at excellent independent bookshop The Bookseller […]
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Friday, May 22nd, 2009
Chinjford. I mean: Chingford!
Here’s a quick pic from today’s events at South Chingford Library, where I was invited to do my thing as part of this year’s Waltham Forest Literature Festival. I did three sessions of readings and Q&A with Year 7 students from nearby Heathcote School. There were around fifteen students in each group – smaller audiences […]
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Tuesday, May 19th, 2009
You’ve got to start somewhere
I’ve just embarrassed myself with this on Trapped By Monsters, so I figured I may as well do the same here, too! Following on from a post there by Ali Sparkes asking other TBM authors about our early writing efforts, here’s, um, this below…! It’s called THE HAUNTED CAVE. I found it in a cupboard […]
