I’m a little late posting this as I’ve only just watched the series after taping it a few weeks ago…
Congratulations to Charlie Brooker and everyone involved in the production of Dead Set - the zombie strewn take of Big Brother gone wrong.  Although I do love me some zombies - I don’t normally watch horror [...]

Y! Live, the site from Yahoo! that I use to broadcast my webcam, is going off the air from 3rd December.  I’m going to have to find another way to push images of me hard at work in my office out to the world.  I’ll let you know as soon as I find a replacement [...]

I’m delighted, honoured and slightly speechless today (something of a first…)
Not only has RIF (Reading Is Fundamental, part of the National Literacy Trust) asked me to become RIF Ambassador to North Ormesby Primary School, but the school itself has name a trophy after me for it’s forthcoming prize day: The Tommy Donbavand Writing Hero Award.
If [...]

My younger son, Sam, is two years old today.

Happy birthday, Sammy!
Love, Mummy, Daddy and Arran x
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Hurrah and Harooh!  There’s a new Mr Gum book in town - and if that doesn’t get you excited, you must be a flippin’ crazer!
In Mr Gum and the Dancing Bear, Andy Stanton continues his skewed look at the odd goings on in Lamonic Bibber.  This time, a bear arrives in town and is befriended [...]

I appeared briefly on The National Lottery on BBC1 last night to help promote Seven Stories’ bid for one of the National Lottery Awards.  Unfortunately, we didn’t win - but I’m sure the publicity will attract lots of new visitors to the centre.
Tommy
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A recent email asked if I could show a screenshot of my computer desktop, so here goes… (You can click on the image to get a better look.)

As you can see, I work on a Mac, and I’ve made my own Scream Street desktop wallpaper (you can download a Scream Street desktop of your own [...]

Today would have been my Mum’s birthday.  Sadly, I have to say ‘would have’ as she died from cancer three years ago.  I miss her more than I could possibly say.
As my career grew - first as an actor, and then as a writer - she always used to say: ‘When you’ve made it, you [...]

I’ve received a couple of emails from people asking why I’ve stopped reviewing the books I read.  The answer is that I haven’t stopped - I’ve just been reviewing them somewhere else…
The magazine, Junior Education Plus asked me to review ten spooky kids books for their October issue, and I’ve been reading little else for [...]

Arran and I have just got back from seeing Artemis Fowl author, Eoin Colfer’s one man show - Fairies, Fiends & Flatulence.  It was a fantastic performance with Eoin talking about his childhood in Wexford, Ireland and - in particuar - dealing with his four brothers.
He explained where the inspiration came from for the characters [...]