Archive for July, 2008

Fang Of The Rising Sun

Sunday, July 13th, 2008

I’m delighted to announce that you can now pre-order the first four Scream Street books on Amazon in Japan:
Scream Street by Tommy Donbavand on Amazon, Japan
The quest to own the world continues…
Tommy
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Walkies!

Saturday, July 12th, 2008

Every year, the publishing industry takes part in a charity event called the ‘Walkies’, where teams go on a ‘pub crawl’ style ramble around central London to bookshops and agents’ and publishers’ offices, raising money as they go.  I was delighted to learn today that, this year, the participants from Walker Books dressed up in [...]

 

Going Dutch

Thursday, July 10th, 2008

More pre-ordering fun!
You can now pre-order Scream Street at Dutch online bookshop, Van Stockum:
Scream Street by Tommy Donbavand at Van Stockum
More soon…
Tommy
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Time To Play!

Wednesday, July 9th, 2008

Play.com have joined the long list of sites where you can now order titles from the Scream Street series.  To be fair, there’s only one of the books listed - SS4: Flesh of the Zombie - but, hey… they’re trying!
Scream Street by Tommy Donbavand at play.com
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12 Weeks And Counting…

Monday, July 7th, 2008

It’s now just 12 weeks until the first four Scream Street books are published here in the UK:

Nervous, me?
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Doctor, Doctor…

Sunday, July 6th, 2008

Congratulations to Russell T Davies and everyone at Doctor Who for a brilliant season finale!  I was on the edge of my seat throughout and even cheered when K9 appeared near the end!
The regeneration cliffhanger from the end of the last episode was cleverly dealt with, as was the ‘killing off’ of Donna.  In a [...]

 

Sunderland High School Junior Speech Day

Thursday, July 3rd, 2008

A BIG thank you to everyone at Sunderland High School for making me feel so welcome at their Junior Speech day.  I had a great time, enjoyed a lovely meal and met some wonderful people.
Congratulations to everyone who won prizes, books, trophies and shields; it was amazing to see so many talented children together in [...]

 

Holding Out For A Hero

Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008

Every now and again, as a writer, I come across a book that is so simple, yet powerful, in its concept, that I consider it to be genius.  It’s those ‘why didn’t I think of that?!’ ideas that seem so obvious in retrospect.  Vampirates by Justin Somper is one of those concepts (brilliant, yet incredible [...]

 

Yet More Pre-Ordering Fun!

Tuesday, July 1st, 2008

Even more great places to pre-order Scream Street are popping up all over the web, including The Independent:
Scream Street by Tommy Donbavand at The Independent
and Woolworths:
Scream Street by Tommy Donbavand at Woolworths
More soon!
Tommy
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