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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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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 …
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 …
TV can blow me
So a good friend of mine has published his first ebook, and I can’t recommend it highly enough. Yes, James Donaghy’s first collection of TV reviews (they’re more like Wildean autopsies, really) is now available on Amazon Kindle for under a quid. They’d even shell out for that in Greece. And let’s face it, they could do with a laugh. I’ve actually been a fan of James Donaghy’s writing for years now. I read most of these TV reviews as …
Independents’ day
Well, well, well. Talk about a seismic shift! If you’ve been following my contribution to the indie-publishing debate and my thoughts on the brave new world of the ebook and what it means for writers, that debate took a quantum leap with the news yesterday that JK Rowling has chosen to go indie and will be self-publishing her franchise as interactive ebooks through her own website/channel. She announced this on her new Pottermore.com website and it’s fair to say it …
Bloomsday and Ulysses
Today is Bloomsday. The day when James Joyce fans insist on re-reading an unreadable book, eating fried kidney for breakfast and walking around Dublin in Edwardian costumes following the steps of literature’s most unlikely hero, Leopold Bloom. I don’t do most of those myself, but it’s not out of a lack of desire. I do pick the book off my shelf and read it again, and maybe watch one of the dramatisations, and always find myself saying ‘next year in …
