On the 25th of March, 2015, it was announced at a ceremony in Dundee that my book, The Wreck of the Argyll, had won the Great War Dundee Children’s Book Prize, and would be published by Cargo in September of that year. A year and a day later, on the 26th of March, 2016, it… Read More
Month: March 2016
I’ve been sitting on this news for a wee while, so it’s really nice to get it out in the open. I’m delighted to announce that I’ve agreed a deal with Cranachan Publishing for my next book, The Beast on the Broch. My book will form part of their Yesteryear series of historical children’s fiction,… Read More
The end of the world is a common theme in books, films, and TV. Zombie outbreaks. Alien invasions. Meteor strikes. Virus epidemics. Nuclear war. But in The Great Chocoplot, Chris Callaghan has come up with the most chilling apocalypse yet: the end of chocolate. Jelly (real name Jennifer, but if your name’s Jennifer Wellington you’re… Read More
Issue 3 of Shoreline of Infinity magazine is out now – and this issue contains Time for Tea, a short story by me, under the cunning pseudonym of J.K Fulton. (I decided to use a slightly different name for this story – J.K Fulton is the sci-fi short story writer, John K. Fulton is the… Read More
Hell’s Belles is the sequel to The D’Evil Diaries, which I reviewed last year and thoroughly enjoyed. Fans of the original will be glad to know that Hell’s Belles is more of the same, with an extra twist – this time, the main character is Tommy, the only human child in the underworld, and Jinx’s… Read More
Superheroes are most definitely “in” right now. You just have to look at the schedule for Marvel films over the next few years, the forthcoming Justice League films starting with Batman v Superman, the succession of TV series from Gotham to Flash to Agent Carter… Yep, superheroes are popular. It’s not just films and TV (taking… Read More