Preliminary sketches- Susie Pepper's Teeth

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!

And for all of you after a macabre tale, let this fateful night be the begininning of your wait because as a Halloween treat i have the preliminary sketches that artist Thomas Tuke did for my comic strip Susie Pepper's Teeth, appearing in the next issue of Murky Depths.

Thomas Tuke has a site called Genma Visage

http://www.tstuke.cosmic-hero.com/psyomaster-ryuken/

Please have a visit after looking at these great sketches.

Blue Box Issue 2 - Escaping Sunbeams

Here's some interesting news for you. Issue 2 of Blue Box, a Doctor Who fanzine, is now available, and it features a Doctor Who story that I wrote.

The story features the seventh Doctor and Ace. If anyone isn't as nerdy about Doctor Who as my good self and the sweaty masses who love it now, the seventh Doctor was played by Sylvester McCoy, who I believe has just been offered a role in The Hobbit. Anyway the story, entitled Escaping Sunbeams, contains a boys diary, burning monsters and a shoelace.

You can buy it through paypal from dalek82@hotmail.co.uk. and it only costs £1.50 in the UK, and only £2.50 in the rest of the world. so you have no excuse, it's just pennies. Please buy it, it's a good old fashioned fanzine and I'm really proud of my story in it.

On a final note Gallifrey News Base is a blog i always check for Doctor Who news and to see my name on there was quite a thrill, here's the link to that.

http://gallifreynewsbase.blogspot.com/2010/10/blue-box-2.html

October Opportunities

Lots of good schemes out there for writers this months. Here's 3 which have caught my eye.

Firstly, the inspired by science award is offering £5,000 to writers who have a project inspired by biomedicine, in order for them to develop the idea further.

http://londonscreenwritersfestival.com/competitions/treatment

Shine Pictures is offering £25,000 to develop a BIG idea, so get your hollywood heads on for that.

http://www.shine-pictures.com/

And finally White Lantern pictures are looking to make a film with actor Mem Ferda details can be found at www.killerscript.co.uk

Good luck All!

Red Planet Prize & More

I'm extremely happy to say that I've made it through to the second round of the prestigious Red Planet Prize with the first ten pages of my script THE DOLE.

A quick read through and redraft and Thursday night, I sent off the full script.

Also yesterday Friday 10th September, was the day my first short film was shot. Done in a day, with one location, one actor and no budget. I'm hoping it comes out ok, because it was so much fun to film. There will be plenty of details on www.thefearofliving.blogspot.com in the coming months.
It'd be nice if you could follow that blog and show some support. I know you'd be following something you haven't even seen, and know practically nothing about, but it may build up some excitement for the project.

Cheers,

Robin

The Fear of Living

Shameless Plug, i know, but, I'd like to send you to a log for the upcoming short film, based on one of my short scripts.

www.thefearofliving.blogspot.com

There's not much on there at present, just a synopsis for the film, but keep checking there will be some exciting news coming this week.

Cheers

Podcasting

I'm thinking of starting up a few podcasts. Wondering if anyone would be able to help me out, just with some info. Best programs to use to upload it etc?

I have a mic that create's WAV files. Can you upload those? I am so computarded.

HELP!!!!!

Susie Pepper's Teeth

You may remember a while back I posted some news about a Murky Depths commision. Well here I reveal the commision is for my story Susie Pepper's Teeth. It will be appearing in Issue 15. You may have heard me refer to Susie Pepper's Teeth before as it started life as a short film script, but one that was unfilmable on a normal budget. Hence fitting the comic strip format perfectly.
The adaptation went smoothly, and hopefully in the run up to it appearing I'll be able to post some script samples, and previews of the story.
Make sure you have some money spare in February to purchase your copy.