P.G. Bell

The entrance to Grange Park Primary School. The sign features a stylised line drawing of a prancing stag.

Author P.G. Bell, who could definitely take Michael Morpurgo in a fight, posing with two young female readers in the school library. One girl looks happy to be there, the other looks like she's being held hostage. She's also being made to hold a cardboard standee advertising P.G. Bell's book, The Beanstalk Murder, in a totally naturalistic fashion. It was definitely her own idea. Yup.

I had an amazing three days visiting schools in Enfield, with back-to-back author talks and story-building workshops. Met hundreds of super enthusiastic and imaginative kids, who really threw themselves into it. Happy World Book Day! #KidLit #KidLitUK

You was robbed on the writing front, but congratulations on the wins!

Happy book birthday! 🎉🎂

A copy of The Unfinished Business, showing a night-time cityscape with glowing windows. A girl stares out of one window at three ghosts floating overhead. Next to a copy of the book is a wind-up ghost.

We have ghosts!! The Unfinished Business is now in shops, libraries, or wherever else you get your books today!

Happy reading, friends!

www.amazon.com/dp/1646036751
bookshop.org/a/975/978164...

Sickening. This is a betrayal of every screenwriter, playwright, poet and novelist in the UK. We’ve had copyright laws since around 1710 and they intend to upend all of that to help feed billionaire tech companies. 😡

#ScriptSkyUK #ScriptSky #WritingCommunity

Good luck!

Thanks. Me too.

I emailed my (Labour) MP, @annamcmorrin.bsky.social about this last year, got no reply, and she's consistently voted to let international tech companies steal my work for their own profit. Now the government seems willing to ignore the results of its own consultation.

This - after a public consultation that came down c95% against corporate copyright theft - is a hearty move towards this government’s spineless purchased representatives needing to be hoofed in the crotch by us all, in a big queue until they get the message.

I'm really enjoying it so far!

A view from a window overlooking a multi-storey carpark. It's dawn, with a blue sky and whisps of gold and white cloud.

I'm touring schools for World Book Day all this week, and the first stop is Enfield. So here, as is tradition, is the view from a travelling author's hotel window. #KidLit #KidLitUK

Morning, Stephen. I'm touring schools for World Book Day all week, and I'm reading Four Weddings and a Funeral Director by @stephcampisi.bsky.social. I promised myself I'd read more widely this year, and I've never tried a romcom!

Rewatching '90s Trek in recent years, it struck me that they're (mostly) soap operas in space. They're not epic adventure quests. Even DS9, for all its serialisation, is a soap opera set during a war.

This where being a Doctor Who fan has come in handy over the years. Continuity is great until it gets in the way, at which point you simply ignore it.

A copy of The Unfinished Business on a rusted surface. The book is a softcover (although there's a hardcover available!) and shows a night-time cityscape with glowing windows. A girl looks out a top-storey window at three ghosts floating overhead. In the background is a wind-up ghost with "boo!" written on its belly.

Me again, talking about my ghostly middle grade novel The Unfinished Business. It's out in two weeks, and it would mean a lot if you wanted to help spread the word!

Bookshop: bookshop.org/a/975/978164...
Zon: www.amazon.com/dp/1646036751

#HappySaintDavidsDay #DyddGŵylDewiHapus

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Picture of Marjane Satrapi alongside a quote from her. The quote reads: The world is not divided into countries. The world is not divided between East and West. You are American, I am Iranian, we don't know each other, but we talk together and we understand each other perfectly. The difference between you and your government is much bigger than the difference between you and me. And the difference between me and my government is much bigger than the difference between me and you. And our governments are very much the same... - Marjane Satrapi, Iranian-French graphic novelist

Thinking about this quote from Persepolis creator Marjane Satrapi again.

I've said it before but it's worth saying again; Murder for Dummies is the sort of comedy that BBC 2 used to do so well. Shades of League of Gentlemen and Psychoville. Dark, silly, but played dead straight.

Rob Grant. I can’t believe it. All love and respect to his family.

Half of the team that showed teenage me how ambitious sitcom storytelling could be - so well that I made it a career.

I rewatched Red Dwarf: Terrorform tonight. Because it always felt to me like an especially Robbish episode.

Gutting. I recently started watching Red Dwarf with my youngest, and was looking forward to the new novel. RIP, Rob, and thanks for all the laughs.

a barnes and noble display of emerald fennel movie branded copies of WUTHERING HEIGHTS. the sign over them reads: "It's Wutherin' Time!" -- Heathcliff

thought you probably needed to see this

Six more days! It's about a girl who inherits a business called The Unfinished Business, and is then tasked with finishing the unfinished business of the late, ghostly owner of The Unfinished Business. It's very whimsical and (I think) very charming.

Was thinking of The Owl House just the other day, and it's good to see there are new stories on the way.

Why do I have to pretend that I'm going to print something in order to save it as a PDF. Why do I have to engage in a little ruse.

Always nice to see Machine popping off. It was my main back in S1.

I bet!

Some BTS shots I got yesterday on the set of Gwrach Y Rhibyn (Ribbon Witch), a Welsh folklore horror short by Peacock Media, for the @fearscreen.com festival!

I seem to have a thing for being covered in blood!

It was trippy enough sober, I wouldn't dare try it stoned.

a man in a gas mask is holding a light in his hand . Alt: a man in a gas mask is holding a light in his hand .

Mad God by Phil Tippett. Like a Hieronymus Bosch painting come to life. Wonderful, strange, but very unsettling.