Friday, September 25th, 2009
STAR Academy has just made it onto the Chapters Indigo Top 10 “New and Hot Books For Young Readers” list. Very gratifying to be there in such good company with some of my favourite authors: Neil Gaiman (Odd and the Frost Giants) and the team of Holly Black and Tony DiTerlizzi (Beyond the Spiderwick [...]
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Sunday, September 20th, 2009
Besides the release of my first novel, STAR Academy, this past week, another great pleasure has been to start working on my first script for League of Super Evil. It’s a smart, brilliantly funny animated series about a gang of would-be Super Villains. But the League of Super Evil’s acronym, L.O.S.E., provides a big hint [...]
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Thursday, September 17th, 2009
After two years of plotting, writing, re-writing, and re-re- writing, it was a huge thrill this week to see STAR Academy at last on the shelves at my favourite booksellers! In fact, it was such an incredibly long if enjoyable process creating the novel that seeing it mutely on display seemed perhaps too staid an [...]
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Friday, September 11th, 2009
For any foreign film producers or publishers who don’t yet have access to the hard copies, or anyone else who would like a sample, here’s a first taste in the form of Chapter 1. Feel free to leave comments. And if you’d like more details re. ordering, distribution, etc., click here for a link [...]
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Friday, September 11th, 2009
For anyone who can’t wait until next Tuesday, Sept 15th to get started on reading STAR Academy – or for any foreign film producers or publishers who don’t yet have access to the hard copies, here’s a first taste in the form of Chapter 1. Feel free to leave comments. And if you’d like more [...]
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Thursday, September 3rd, 2009
STAR Academy will be on the shelves in a little less than two weeks from today, so it is gratifying to learn that, through the miracle of advance copies, it has had its first review. I know that one is not supposed to care about reviews, but having said that… damn, it feels good when [...]
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