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Lovers in Paris
Can your love live up to the most romantic city in the world? It’s Disneyland... read more
Touchstone (2. Family at War) – a time travel Blitz story
The unforgettable fire… Continuing the adventures of Rachel and Danny, a... read more
Meet me in Montmartre
New Year’s Eve. An English girl. A French boy. A blind date. A kiss... read more
The Striker’s Fear of the Open Goal
Get a life. Get the girl. Get to Wembley. Ewan Glumie was born on the day Man... read more
The Budapest Breakfast Club
This summer: Go to Budapest… Make a movie… Have an affair. Ten... read more
The Very Thought of You
What happens when you fall in love with a woman who died before you were born?... read more
Train Can’t Bring Me Home
Love. Literature… and Tom Waits. Lots of Tom Waits. 1993. The former... read more
The Girl with the Bomb Inside
School is shit, your hero killed himself and your girlfriend’s pregnant.... read more
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Touchstone (2. Family at War) – a time travel Blitz story
The unforgettable fire… Continuing the adventures of Rachel and Danny, a pair of mismatched History students who stumble upon an old gravestone that catapults them back in time. Dealing with the catastrophic fallout of their previous encounter with Amy Parker in 1912, they now race to locate Amy during the 1940 Blitz and become caught up in the nightly German bombings of Birmingham and their chilling aftermath. Touchstone explores a city’s dark past: a gritty world of real danger where …
The story therapy that will rock your constellation
How can a German family relationship therapy exercise help with your story? I went along to the London Screenwriters’ Festival to find out. And boy, was I surprised at what I found. I volunteered to be a guinea pig for new story tool Constellations, when script editor Hayley McKenzie innocently asked me if I’d like to take part in one of the workshops at this weekend’s London Screenwriters’ Festival. They needed a writer who had a problem with a script. …
And the award for best ebook cover goes to…
I’m not a designer, so it’s something I hire experts to do on my behalf. Almost all my book covers have been designed by Pete Bradbury at digit64. He’s done a sterling job, and it’s the kind of Photoshop wizardry that is way beyond my meagre talents. He handles the difficult, complex Photoshop work for me. I’ve had no design training, but I used to run a web company with a very talented designer and picked up some basic principles …
OutsideLeft are having a special week
I’ve had good weeks and bad weeks before. I’ve had weeks off, weeks sick, and weeks away. But I’ve never really had an Andy Conway Week. Even though I am Andy Conway. But here it is. Outside Left, the online international pop culture magazine, have just announced their Andy Conway Week. This all came from editor, Paul Lamont, who I met through friends of friends at a party. He told me how much he liked Girl With the Bomb Inside …
Touchstone
One touch… and you’re who knows when? Rachel: the dirt poor girl brought up by her single parent father. Danny: the arrogant rich kid who has everything his wealthy parents can afford. Two History students who wouldn’t normally mix, but whose lives become entwined when an old gravestone catapults them back in time. In 1912, they explore their city’s dark past, a gritty, violent, gaslit world of real danger, and try to prevent the murder of a teenage girl at …
Why Hollywood wants your ebook
Today is a day of conflicting emotions. You see, my good friend Jonathan Turner, the man who wrote the best spec script I’ve ever read, is at the 2011 Screenwriting Expo in LA, and I was supposed to be there with him. I don’t feel too bad. It wasn’t a concrete promise. In fact, it’s something we’ve promised each other to do every year since we met, rather like the Jews of the diaspora who every Passover say ‘next year …
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Radar now online
I posted about the current issue of Radar a few weeks back and my article about the e-publishing revolution. Well, Radar magazine is now available to view online, in the very funky little guise of the Issuu app. All you do is go to their blog, click on the issue and see it fill your page, then go straight to page 34 and have a read. Oh, and if you read to the end of my article, you’ll see an …
Arjun & Alison: the trailer is out!
Been waiting all year for this, and it’s finally here. The trailer for Arjun & Alison, the indie feature film I was hired to script in February 2010, worked on all that year and saw shoot in Birmingham last November. It’s been in a Mumbai edit suite most of this year and this is the first glimpse of what the film might actually look like. (The security guy with his back to camera is me, by the way).
Jimmy Sangster 1927 – 2011
I suppose it’s normal that most screenwriters who pass away go to that Underwood in the sky with little ceremony. Sometimes we don’t even notice their passing ourselves, and often we don’t realise how much certain screenwriters mean to us or what they’ve given us over the years. Jimmy Sangster was a self-effacing screenwriter, director, producer who, while giving DVD commentaries recently, seemed surprised that anyone would be interested in his life’s work. But to this screenwriter, he was a …
Radar love
If you live in Birmingham, particularly my stomping ground of Moseley, you might be familiar with the brilliant culture and listings magazine, Radar. They’ve been running for over a year now and giving the low down on all that’s worth seeing in the city. So I’m particularly pleased that my ebook publishing project is a major feature in this month’s issue. Intrigued by my 11 before 11.11.2011 project, and not averse to the DIY indie ethic themselves, they asked me …
