Father and Son

Very quick update, three more things before Christmas!

 

My 2017 Doctor Who novel Plague City has just been re-published in paperback. Its subject matter is even more topical than it was back in 2017. Edinburgh in lockdown, 1645. Plague doctors and ghosts in Mary King’s Close. You can order it from Waterstones here.

 

I also had the opportunity to write the ‘Afterword’ for the Doctor Who Magazine 2020 Yearbook. With all the episodes covered within, I decided the only thing to do would be to write something personal about what Doctor Who meant to me in 2020. Because the personal is often universal. The article is called You Are The Timeless Child and I’ve had a few kind words back, which is lovely. The Yearbook is available in all good newsagents, if they are open in your area. If not, you can also order the yearbook here.

And finally, I've contributed a short story to a charity e-book collection in aid of Scope called Once Upon A Time Scope. A worthy cause very close to my heart so please check it out here.

Unbelievable

Latest news, in brief.

 

Look at this – a trailer for my just-released Doctor Who story, Genetics of the Daleks. I’ve listened to the first half of it so far, and even though I say it myself, it’s turned out rather good. It appears to be going down very well, some people have even been kind enough to say it’s their favourite Big Finish story of the year, so that’s a relief. You can order it here.

Here's a photo of Tom Baker recording the story at home:

Tom Baker as Doctor Who in a story I have written! It still doesn't seem real. It's like entering a competition as an adult where the prize is getting to be eight years old again. It is very, very difficult to come to terms with the fact that me watching Tom Baker in Doctor Who as a child and me writing for him forty years later are two events in the same reality. It is a very unrealistic thing to have happened! (My son, on the other hand, thinks it is perfectly normal that daddies write Doctor Who stories). 

Listen to this – a trailer or the forthcoming River Song box set which includes my story Queen of the Mechonoids. The last quarter or so of the trailer are clips from my story. The box set can be pre-ordered here.

Listen to this – another trailer, this time for my forthcoming Doctor Who story The Day of the Comet, which can be pre-ordered here.

 

 

And finally, don’t forget to pick up the latest issue of DWM. My contribution is the annual Christmas quiz, which is always fun to do, if very hard work because you have to try to come up with questions that can’t be solved using google and the TARDIS wiki. The magazine also contains reviews and previews of some of my things, along with some excellent articles about The Feast of Steven and I’m Gonna Spend My Christmas With A Dalek. A real Christmas bonzana.

 

 

And that’s it for now. Whenever I write one of these blogs I have the sense that there’s something I’ve forgotten because I have so many things working their way along various pipelines, as well as all the confusion, excitement and despair of real life. But if I don’t blog before the big day, a very Merry Christmas to anybody who is still reading this.