It’s time I admitted to a particular vice; an addiction I have that would be impossible to break, even if I wanted to. In fact, I’d go so far as to say it’s an obsession of mine…
I’m a Laurel and Hardy fan. Actually, ‘fan’ might be too weak a word for how I [...]

A closer look at the first four titles in the Scream Street series, published this October from Walker Books..
Scream Street: Fang of the Vampire
Meet Luke Watson: reluctant werewolf and Scream Street’s latest arrival…
With his new friends, Resus Negative (wannabe vampire) and Cleo Farr (tomboy mummy), Scream Street might just be somewhere Luke can call home. [...]

Writing uses muscles, and I don’t just mean the ones in your fingers as you type. I’ve had a couple of days away from my desk, doing house and family stuff. Last night, I came back to work on SS5, and found that I couldn’t get into it. It wasn’t that I [...]

Ooh, I’m all excited! My new iMac arrived today, contributing to my fandom of all things Apple. It’s a big computer, right enough, and the bluetooth keyboard and mouse are a joy to use. The 24″ screen is a beast next to my 13″ Macbook:

You can see Eddie - the Headless Horseman’s skull [...]

I need silence in order to write.
I wish I didn’t. I wish, like other writers, that I could have the radio on in the background or, at the very least, some instrumental music to inspire me. But, I can’t. I can’t have any music playing at all. It makes it impossible [...]

Now, I don’t actually subscribe to the notion of writers’ block; if you can’t write, it’s because you don’t know enough about your story or characters. Something that can easily be fixed with a brainstorming session, allowing you to proceed.
I do, however, believe in the situation where a writer doesn’t know what should come [...]

I tried to get some writing done this afternoon, I really did. But…
My 8 (er… 9) year old got a Wii for his birthday, and it needed testing. I mean, anything could have happened if I’d just set it up and let him play with it straight away. So, I had to [...]

…and the TV unit, and the DVD cupboard, and the living room door, and the fireplace. And, if I’m to be perfectly honest, they’re more scribbles than pieces of prose.
Yes, my 18-month old son, Sam, has reached the scribbling on the wall stage:

Curiously enough, he makes a point of carefully choosing his colours for [...]

Darren Shan has made a couple of very interesting posts on why writers write over at his blog. Some of his readers asked why anyone would sit down at a keyboard day after day if success is not guaranteed and, even if you are published, the financial rewards are often not enough to live on.
It’s [...]

I’m delighted to finally reveal the covers for the first four titles in the Scream Street series:

I think they’re fantastic! What do you think?
Tommy
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