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Filed under: Uncategorized — Alex @ 11:15 am

Just another chance for you to hear the audio version of the short story A Tall Tale again, click here to listen.

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Filed under: Alan Moore, Monsters, maniacs and Moore, Swamp Thing, Watchmen — Alex @ 10:04 pm

Had the privilege of going to the opening of a new school library in Dulwich on Wednesday night and read to the gathered govenors and teachers et al. They were all sat down on bean bags and on the floor and were ‘treated’ to a a splattering of poetry and Fynoderee. The loveliest part was having one or two people coming up to me, not just with kind words of praise, but excitment that this was the first time they had been read to since they were children.

I also approved of one teachers comments that he had tried to order in several childrens books that were now sadly out of print…..’Curious George and the High Voltage Fence’ and ‘Strangers Serve the Best Candy’….you can always rely on teachers to be un-p.c.

Some wonderful person has found and put up a terrific Alan Moore documentary called Monsters, Maniacs and Moore from the mid ’80s with thin white ties and everything. It was made just after his legendary run on Swamp Thing for DC and just at the start of Watchmen….as he was changing the face of popular fiction. Watch it here (there’s also a good song about ducks……I promise) Our online pharmacy is the perfect resource for people to get their drugs without any hassles or awkwardness. buy cialis We work hard to make sure you save money every time you shop with us. buy levitra buy soma At our online store, you pay less and get more. buy viagra

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Night of the living authors

Filed under: Susanna Clarke, neil gaiman, Stardust, Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell — Alex @ 4:33 pm

Been to a few very fun author evenings in the past fortnight. First with Susanna Clarke, the huge brain behind the huge book Jonathan Stange and Mr Norrell, a book a got so lost in whilst on tour in sunny Windsor, that I hardly spoke to anyone and was asked to leave a coffee shop because I’d only bought one cup in four hours. The perfect Victorian fantasy where a career in magic is considered as dull as a career in academia, except with far more dusty old books and dusty old men. The evening was made slightly more interesting with a fire alarm and the building being evacuated and a cold 45 mins spent on the street before the fire men decided it was something to do with the nano technology in the opposite building….

Secondly was an ever entertaining evening with Neil Gaiman at the Criterion Theatre, where we were treated to a reading from Stardust and a very amusing moment where a raffle bucket was handed around the theatre and people got very stroppy. Also managed a small moment with the man himself where I shoke one of his hands and forced a copy of Fynoderee shamlessly into the other, I won’t quote what he said but he seemed very pleased and used several flowery expletives….

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Take Note

Filed under: Pulp Secret, The Mice Templar, Glass and Oeming — Alex @ 5:13 pm

Wonderful new site over at Pulp Secret, where you get the pleasure of watching three very funny guys be funny about funny things (oh and there’s comics too…or ‘funny’ books as their sometimes known).

I took heed of one of their recommendations and went and picked up the first issue of the terrifically titled The Mice Templar and oh-my-days please go and read it. It’s some sort of fabulous melting pot of ancient folklore, Richard Adams meets Mike Mignola. Glass and Oeming have brought us a true original that jumps off the page and has some of the most tense battle scenes that I’ve come accross since the early Terry Goodkind books. Oh, and did I mention there’s mice in it…a lot of them.

As the sun is still rising over Laxey and lending its light to the great Lady Isabella, I thought I’d pause and find a little pic for you…..

Autumn is slowly rearing it’s head in the city, and though few of you would have to guess, it’s fairly obvious it’s my favourite season. Fynoderee was started in the autumn and I’ll have pen in hand this autumn for it’s sequel. More news on that soon.

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Filed under: Uncategorized, The Dark Tower, Steven King, Bleak Expectations — Alex @ 5:14 pm

Back on English shores, after a terrific time on the Isle of Man full of walking and driving through the countryside and more walking….only to be halted by red tape and nasty signs declaring Foot and Mouth warnings (which thankfully haven’t grown into the horrors of a few years ago and double thankfully haven’t crossed the sea onto the island).

And my online absense for a short while has fortunately been due to writing a little more. Several things in the pipe, including some graphic novel work, more short fiction and work on the Fynoderee sequel (which may or may not contain these very steps where your author once jumped off and swam with seals)

Reading Steven King’s Dark Tower series and loving it, un-nerving and wonderful to be in the middle of a fantastical world and story that could jolt in any direction…part western, part urban drama, part sci-fi, part fantasy quest and part nothing like anything else I’ve ever read.

And on a lighter note, you probably know how much I like the spoken word and audio drama and comedy. If you know what’s good for you you’ll check out the wonderful new BBC Radio 4 series Bleak Expectations, wonderfully lampooning Dickens in a very Blackadder with extra sillyness kind of a way. Listen Here.

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Island ho!

Filed under: Uncategorized — Alex @ 10:12 am

I’m flying back to my lovely island in the sea today, so if you happen to see a man who looks suspiciously like the photo opposite but with worse hair then do make sure to say hello to him and make him feel welcome and all of that.

The wonderful manx artist Juan Moore is holding an exhibition on the Isle of Man, if you happen to be passing go and see it….

another look at his fantastic Fynoderee pics, just ‘cos I love ‘em….

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