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Impossible Worlds, Impossible Things

Posted in Anthologies, Doctor Who on Jul 14th, 2010

Impossible Worlds, Impossible Things: Cultural Perspectives on Doctor Who, Torchwood and The Sarah Jane Adventures Edited by: Ross P. Garner, Melissa Beattie and Una McCormack The successful regeneration of Doctor Who in the twenty-first century has sparked unprecedented popular success and renewed interest within the academy. The ten essays assembled in this volume draw on [...]

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The King’s Dragon – prelude

Posted in Doctor Who, Novels, Television, Writing on Jul 5th, 2010

My Doctor Who novel, The King’s Dragon, is published on Thursday, and you can read an exclusive Amazon prelude, linked from here.

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Doctor Who: The King’s Dragon

Posted in Doctor Who, Novels, Television, Writing on Jan 21st, 2010

I’m delighted to be writing an Eleventh Doctor novel, titled The King’s Dragon! In other news, Big Finish, producers of Doctor Who audios, are inviting pitches from new writers for a one-off, 25-minute Fifth Doctor and Nyssa audio adventure: more information here. Deadline Monday 1st February, so hurry up!

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Please read the letter wot I wrote

Posted in Doctor Who, Television, Writers, Writing on May 23rd, 2008

I haven’t updated in a while properly, have I? So today I shall. I’ve been busy writing. Which is obviously good, but it turns me into a bit of a hermit who fails to notice the passage of time. I seem to have hit a creative vein at the moment, which means I’m likely to [...]

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Don't look back

Posted in Anthologies, Doctor Who, Writing on Jan 18th, 2008

This week I’ve been revising a story. I read somewhere once that revision is one of the chief pleasures of writing and this time round I really got what that was all about. It was enormous fun. One piece of advice I had in mind all week was something David Almond says on his website [...]

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Your childhood stories will come true

Posted in Doctor Who, Television on Jul 4th, 2007

Some spoiler-filled thoughts on season 3 of Doctor Who. If any question why we died, Tell them – because our fathers lied. I went to see The Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer at the weekend, and when the planet-devouring cloud finally arrived at Earth, the little girl sitting next to me – she [...]

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