The backlist has been selling surprisingly well this past year, with no particular effort on my part. You’d think that would be enough of a reason just to let things be. But it’s New Year’s Day and in this idle, slightly worse-for-wear moment I’ve been inspired to risk rocking the boat with a gratuitous ebook…

Here’s the second tranche of favourite movie books from my bookshelf. It was supposed to stop at ten, but… well, what can I tell you? Maths O level grade 4. You may notice that there are no books on screenwriting here. I’ve read a few but the only one I ever recommend is Goldman’s Adventures…

Well, it was going to be ten, but it’s so hard to narrow down the choices. Last week I browsed through a similar list online and immediately leaped to order Kirk Douglas’ I Am Spartacus, which had somehow slipped by me before. It’s exactly my kind of thing, a personal memoir mixing craft and business…

    A note from the Management… Remember those horror portmanteau movies of the past, such as Tales from the Crypt, From Beyond The Grave and Doctor Terror’s House of Horrors? They’re back and now on stage!  Five passengers meet on a train and agree to tell each other monstrous stories of possession, hauntings, devilry…

Looking through some old stuff I found this short piece that I wrote on request for Starburst magazine in 2005. Even if you read it back then, I’m sure you’ll have forgotten it by now. I know I had… Somewhere in the cuttings files they’ve got me tagged as “the man who killed K9”, and…

They’re doing publicity now – mostly tied to interviews with Stan Lee around the release of his graphic novel-style memoir – so it’s probably OK for me to say that I worked on this. Stan Lee’s Lucky Man will air on Sky in 2016. The series was developed by Neil Biswas from a concept by…

I’m reposting this from October 2009.  The night before my birthday, I had an idea for a way to mark it. I’m spending a lot of time on my own here in Los Angeles, but it was no big deal being alone on my birthday. It’s not like I’m twelve or anything. But… one of…

There’s no official announcement yet, but it’s probably OK to tell you that the first hardcover edition to hit the market will be a signed limited from Subterranean Press in 2016. Other editions to follow. I’ve been through the proofs, and the interior’s a lovely piece of design in tune with the novel’s 1913 setting.…

Crusoe begins a run on the UK’s Drama channel this Sunday at 6pm. Channel 20 on Freeview, 158 on Sky, 190 if you’re looking for it on Virgin. Poldark offered you just the one shirtless hero. We give you two! Philip Winchester, Tongayi Chirisa, Anna Walton, Sam Neill, Sean Bean, Joaquim de Almeida, Georgina Rylance……