The Case For The Return of Harry Potter

Added on 13 October 2008

These are grim times, with the financial world on the verge of collapse. Two years ago, when banks were handing out mortgages to anyone who asked, when credit card companies were upping limits on a whim and people were running up enormous personal debt, when house prices were skyrocketing to absurdl...

More Long Midnight Covers

Added on 11 October 2008

One of my concerns with the four original designs for the reprint of The Long Midnight of Barney Thomson was that they were all very sombre. Very Crime Novel. The black cover was particularly bloody and mean, suggestive of a much higher brutality content than was actually there, but none of them sug...

The Quarterback Song

Added on 10 October 2008

Have been working on a few songs with the intention of going into the recording studio at the beginning of next year with my friend and fellow band member, Richard. We don’t have a name yet, we don’t have a record label, we don’t have a producer, but we have some songs, and we can ...

Bloodied, Broken And Everything Else

Added on 09 October 2008

There’s a scene in The Long Midnight of Barney Thomson where there is a large queue of customers, none of whom wish Barney to cut their hair, and they all sit and shake their heads as he desperately tries to get one of them to acquiesce. It’s a slight exaggeration of a scene I witnessed ...

The Da Vinci Stoat

Added on 08 October 2008

Found this picture whilst trawling through the web yesterday. It's from Thomas Rowlandson's early 19th century The English Dance of Death. I'd love to make this the cover of a Barney Thomson book, because it's almost appropriate. But it would also be completely wrong. Just couldn'...