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Great Humbaba
That fella leering out of you from the front of our poster? That’s Humbaba. A demon with seven auras, the touch of any of which bring death. He’s also sometimes known as Huwawa, and the picture is of a clay mask made of the demon about 3,800 years ago and currently in the British Museum. […]
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Gilgamesh
My new play Gilgamesh has its world premiere at the White Bear theatre in Kennington this October. I’m teaming up again with that giant of the stage Ray Shell, who previously directed my adaptations of A Christmas Carol and Oliver Twist to great acclaim at the Lion & Unicorn theatre. The play is on at the White Bear theatre in Kennington […]
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Hacking D&D 5e for a more cinematic experience
Is the name of an impromptu talk I gave at this year’s GameCamp. If you’re at all interested in games and their creation, you should make sure to come along to the next one. As it seemed to go down quite well, I thought I’d write it up here in case anyone else finds it […]
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Live Forever
Image © The Trustees of the British Museum
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Emergency Proxy Voting: A Public Service Announcement.
You are a writer. You’re registered to vote. You have just realised that you won’t be able to make it to the polling station on Thursday. Possibly your script editor or showrunner has given you a bastard deadline. Possibly you may need to go to a TV Drama Writers Festival. Either way, you want to […]
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Redemption Schedule
I shall be at friendly multimedia convention Redemption this weekend in Sheffield. Here’s the panels wot I am on, and the times wot they are currently scheduled to happen: Friday 24th 11am: Super Flashing Arrow Legends Just why are the Berlanti DC shows so awesome? May include geekery about the late 80s DC comics universe. 3pm: Defending the […]
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Buy early, buy often.
As mentioned in the post below, my short story Monsters is now available to buy in short story anthology The Jurassic Chronicles. Get it on Kindle now for just 99p. (This first-week offer won’t be around for long, so if you’ve missed it – soz!) Paperback edition to follow…
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Monsters
Rawr! Happy to be able to say that I have a story called Monsters in this very fine anthology of dinosaur tales known as The Jurassic Chronicles. The book is being released on January 29th.
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I lit a candle today.
I lit a candle today. It was blue. The colour of a summer sky. The kind of sky that you lie on your back on the green next to your friends and loved ones with, and look up into, and know that it goes on for ever. That kind of blue. The kind that comes for a […]
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I didn’t think they’d want to keep him.
A little over two years ago I wrote on this very blog that if Nick Clegg didn’t resign as LibDem leader before the 2015 election, the party would be destroyed as a political force in this country. Well, that worked out pretty much as expected. My other prediction in that short essay, though, was not […]