Ten Turin Brakes Songs For A Sunny Day

Added on 23 April 2011

Being a cold-loving Scotsman, personally I can't stand sunny days, but there are some things to make them palatable. Cricket, ice cream and, in no particular order, ten great Turin Brakes songs: 1. Feeling Oblivion: First song on their first album The Optimist. "Cub Scouts are screaming and ne...

The Guy In The Invisible Dinosaur Suit

Added on 22 April 2011

Nine days until the marathon. That would be the marathon that I'm running, not the marathon which most people ran which was last weekend. I'm going for the North Dorset Village Marathon starting in Sturminster Newton, entry list capped at 350. Five years on since I last ran a marathon, training is ...

Celebrating The 4,458th Day of Awesomeness

Added on 20 April 2011

Incredible to think, but today marks exactly the 4,458th day since The Long Midnight of Barney Thomson was first published. To mark this auspicious occasion, we're having a day of celebration here at Long Midnight Publishing HQ in Bandar Sera Begawan. All the staff are dressing up as characters from...

Destination Mars: The Countdown Continues

Added on 18 April 2011

As Professor Brian CoxTM likes to say on television on a regular basis, "the vastness of space is so vast that its vastness cannot be recognised merely by using the word vast." Or, as the less eminent Professor Malky Eight Feet of the University of Glasgow East likes to say, "space is...

A Gentle State of Writer's Madness, When You Start Anthropomorphising Your Novels

Added on 15 April 2011

All that stuff I wrote a couple of weeks ago about deciding that I probably wouldn't publish the next Barney Thomson novella - Barney Thomson & The Half-Blood PM - because it was too similar to The End of Days... well, damn it, damn it to Hell, I'm going to publish it anyway. Is it as good as T...