The nominations for the annual Scribe Award have been announced, and I'm very pleased to see Star Wars:The Force Unleashed II on the list. Presented by the International Association of Media Tie-in Writers, the awards acknowledge excellence in the field of licensed tie-ins--novels based on TV, movies and games--and I'm absolutely chuffed to have ( Read more... )

Music is my other love. In a parallel universe, I chose composition over novels and am now writing soundtracks for TV or strange electronic music for an audience of, say, twenty. So you can imagine my delight to be the first ever author interviewed for Tracksounds: the Film Music and SoundtracksExperience! The interview was ostensibly to promote ( Read more... )

I am slow in posting links to some interviews recorded while at Comic-Con a couple of weeks ago: with Darth Hater, and with Club Jade, and here's a little snip of video of me on stage in the Star Wars pavilion. Below is a shot of me looking slightly stunned at the Lucas Books stand, where I signed dozens of copies of Fatal Alliance, scores of The ( Read more... )