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  • Open Book Theatre

    My little theatre company made the front page of The Stage this week. For those of you too far from a newsagent to pick up a copy for yourself, or who live in the future where paper is considered a barbaric relic of our savage past, you can also read the article online. As you’ll […]

  • Giant Happy Crab Is Happy

    Some fantastic news: The Just So Stories – which I produced at The King’s Head Theatre over Christmas – is transferring to the Pleasance Theatre for a three-week run over Easter. The show’s going to be better than ever, with a bigger and more comfortable snuggle pit for the children and a brand-new set from […]

  • The London Screenwriting Gin Festival

    I went to The London Screenwriters’ Festival last year. Successor to the now-defunct Cheltenham Screenwriters’ Festival, it’s a good way to meet other writers and learn from those already doing well in the business. I had a great time, met some lovely people, and would thoroughly recommend going. As you may have seen elsewhere on […]

  • Why the Dead Island trailer is one of the best short films you’ll ever see

    If you haven’t seen this yet, it’s embedded below. Watch it now, because there be spoilers ahead. I’ll wait. Right. So, what’s so good about that then, eh? It’s just a zombie attack done backwards, right? Wrong. It’s a fucking masterpiece of emotional film-making, is what. Let me talk you through it. Fade in close […]

  • Those Panels In Full

    So here’s what I’m down for at Redemption this year… Friday 4pm – Spies in Science Fiction. There’s a surprisingly high crossover. Friday 6pm – Artificial Intelligence. I actually did a degree in this, back in the day. Saturday 2pm – Does listening to fans make a show better or worse? If you don’t see […]

  • Redemption 11

    This is a quick plug for the SF convention that I’ll be attending in a few weeks. It’s called Redemption, and is really rather good. There will be many lovely people there, including Guests of Honour Ben Aaronovitch and Simon Guerrier. As usual, I shall be on a few panels over the course of the […]

  • Everyone’s a Critic

    On my last trip to Mum and Dad’s I retrieved a few boxes that had been taking up space there for Some Years. And in one of those boxes, my English homework books from secondary school. It may not surprise you to learn that I liked to write stories. And those stories were marked. With […]

  • Don’t Tell Beckley

    Over at his blog, the delightful Jason Arnopp has introduced a new feature for the procrastinating writers of this world. It’s called Tell Arnopp, and it works like this: Whenever you’ve completed your writing for the day, you email him saying the type of project you’ve worked on – “World War II Drama” – and […]

  • Review: The Just So Stories

    Hope you had a lovely Christmas Day. Mine was full of Christmas Pudding and Turkey and Family and Wine, and was generally all-round lovely. I just discovered a review of The Just So Stories in the Hampstead and Highgate Express. You can read it via the Internets using The Ham and High e-edition. It’s in […]

  • Can’t stop.

    Updates have been a bit slim recently due to work on The Just So Stories. Who know that producering was such bloody hard work? I’m having an assistant next time. Definitely. Anyway, I’ve just found out that there are a whole bunch of reviews for my adaptation of A Christmas Carol up at the Giant […]