What's Up With Grandad?
The new Mad Grandad book and the latest on my events.
Seizing The Means of Production – Part 1
I’m going to post this in three parts – blogging is meant to be an exercise in short, sharp writing and I’m tackling a complicated issue. That brevity in writing will be part of what I want to talk about. In this post, I’d like to put forward an outline of what publishing has been up until now, and…
Kellogg's Funny Faces at Hughes & Hughes
The Kelloggs Storytime Launch, in association with Hughes & Hughes and the O’Brien Press.
Drawing Doppelganger
So the illustrations for ‘Mad Grandad’s Doppelganger’ are done. Actually, they’ve been done for a couple of weeks, but it’s taken me that long to get round to this post. I was hard up against the deadline and it involved a lot of late nights – not helped by a lovely one-year-old who has developed a nasty habit of…
A 3D Vision of the Future vs. A New Take on an Old Icon
The spectacle of ‘Avatar’, a steampunk ‘Sherlock Holmes’, the bizarre imaginations of Jeunet et Caro, and a very fitting prequel to the ‘Mortal Engines Quartet’.
Well RED Scottish Teenagers
The RED Awards ceremony – a break from the norm.
Showing Signs of Stross
Charles Stross’s blog and the discussion about how to make a living in the new world of digital publishing.
Scottish Serendipity
‘Strangled Silence’, the ‘The Goblin of Tara’ and ‘The Evil Eye’ audiobooks and the Scottish Connection.
Snap, Crackle and Pop into Hughes & Hughes
This is a first for me. One of my books is now available in your local shop or supermarket – in the breakfast cereal section. With boxes of Rice Krispies. ‘Mad Grandad and the Mutant River’ is part of a promotion from Kelloggs, along with Hughes & Hughes bookshops and the O’Brien Press, to sell cereal and reading material…
Death of a Sales Outlet
I was reading Eoin Purcell’s post on the problem bookshops are faced with as they lose more and more customers to online booksellers, both for print and digital books. Actually, he was passing on a point made by another blogger, Seth Godin (Is this all we do in blogs now – talk about other people’s blogs?), but it amounts…