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Monday, February 11, 2013 10:08:22 AM
Tony Kerr wrote a blog post titled Resurrecting an old friend:
Tony said, "The good news is, I've started writing again ... But not quite what I expected to.I have started writing The Resurrection Bureau again - this is one of the many projects - along with Lonely Emily, The Tell Tale Boy and Mabel Maybe - which I started..." more
Friday, November 30, 2012 8:24:56 PM
Tony Kerr wrote a blog post titled Destination Mars:
Tony said, "It has been - more or less exactly - a year since I finished Super Maxwell 3, The Isle of the Dead, and lost my publisher. Over the last 12 months I've struggled to write some other stuff, never really quite achieving what I'd hoped, and, to be..." more
Friday, August 31, 2012 1:39:26 PM
Tony Kerr wrote a blog post titled Previously, in the whole of time and space...:
Tony said, "I will publish the first part of Trevor and the Time Thieves this Friday, but, to remind how our hapless hero ended up trapped on Halruga with no possibility of escape, here's another chance to read Trevor and the Dragon (below). The next part of..." more
Friday, August 31, 2012 1:39:26 PM
Tony Kerr wrote a blog post titled Trevor and the Time Thieves - Part 1:
Tony said, "1.Halruga is a planet so distant that even the most powerful telescope could not even see the galaxy it is in, never mind find the little purple, gold and blue planet itself. But, if you know how to get there, it is a place that is literally just..." more
Friday, August 31, 2012 1:39:26 PM
Tony Kerr wrote a blog post titled On hiatus for retooling:
Tony said, "Unfortunately, through circumstances beyond my control, Super Maxwell 3 no longer has a publisher. These are tough times for publishing, as for everyone else, so I can't really have any hard feelings for my former publisher. It is very..." more
Friday, August 31, 2012 1:39:26 PM
Tony Kerr wrote a blog post titled And for tomorrow's menu ... autocanibalism:
Tony said, "Trevor and the Time Thieves Part 2 will be online tomorrow morning (or evening, depending where you are in the 101 Realms) which will see Trevor return to Virporta Island at a very unfortunate time ... Titus Mamble has returned, the Shades are free,..." more
Friday, August 31, 2012 1:39:26 PM
Tony Kerr wrote a blog post titled Trevor and the Time Thieves - Part 2:
Tony said, "3.‘Oh no!’ snarled Trevor. ‘I don’t flipping believe it!’ ‘Well, there’s a nice greeting,’ said the small figure in the green space suit in front of Trevor. He leant forward on his wooden rocking chair, and pulled the suit’s..." more
Friday, August 31, 2012 1:39:26 PM
Tony Kerr wrote a blog post titled 1 year older, not a day wiser:
Tony said, "Today is my birthday, and as a special treat here's a chance to read the opening page of my newest project, a new book, 'Mabel Maybe and the Slow Children'. It is, well, a bit unusual - Blade Runner for the under 12s, with genies - would be a good..." more
Friday, August 31, 2012 1:39:26 PM
Tony Kerr wrote a blog post titled Germs, Crusades and giant spiders:
Tony said, "I am quite ashamed to say that I have not written another word of Trevor and the Time Thieves since last you checked in. There are a number of reasons for this, partly I've been very busy in my day job doing a big research project; partly because I..." more
Friday, August 31, 2012 1:39:26 PM
Tony Kerr wrote a blog post titled Nano-Nano (Write):
Tony said, "I have decided to jump start my writing again by joining National Novel Writing Month. Today I (kind of) wrote 288 words - which, by their calculation, means I will be finished by April 12, 2012. Never mind, I shall crack on, and let you know how I..." more
Friday, August 31, 2012 1:39:26 PM
Tony Kerr wrote a blog post titled Pratchett and the distant siren call of 1K:
Tony said, "Hit 971 words for Mabel Maybe today - according to the National Novel Writing Month website this means I'll now be finished by February 11, 2012 - I have to wonder about the science of this (and admit that I'm cheating, and have no intention of..." more
Friday, August 31, 2012 1:39:26 PM
Tony Kerr wrote a blog post titled Goodbye Mabel, Hello Lilly:
Tony said, "My work on the National Novel Writing month has halted, as I have been offered a contract by a publishers to write a new book, Lilly Alone. There's not much I can tell you about Lilly Alone - it's in its very early stages - except that it is a ghost..." more
Friday, August 31, 2012 1:39:26 PM
Tony Kerr wrote a blog post titled Two Lonely Girls:
Tony said, "I have started work on Lilly Alone, and so far, so good - it will, of course, be a while down the line before you can read it, but here's a bit of a taster ... the first 200 words or so.It's a little bit scary ... and it gets scarier!TonyEvery night..." more
Friday, August 31, 2012 1:39:26 PM
Tony Kerr wrote a blog post titled Lilly lives:
Tony said, "Have just confirmed that Lilly Alone will be published as a limited edition first edition by Chapter First in 2012 - I'll be signing the contract later this week. They are very keen to get the book into print, so it will be a fairly rapid process -..." more
Friday, August 31, 2012 1:39:26 PM
Tony Kerr wrote a blog post titled Feeling Earnest:
Tony said, "You could say the last few weeks have been a bit tricky.After dissolving my contract with my publisher (more a matter of common sense than choice) and then managing to pick up another publisher, I have now managed to lose that publisher.To misquote..." more
Friday, August 31, 2012 1:39:26 PM
Tony Kerr wrote a blog post titled Lonely, but not alone:
Tony said, "After struggling a bit with general post-Christmas can't-be-bothered-ness I have started writing again. My aim is to put the new book into the Northern Writing Awards, and hopefully get a bit of support (but mostly to give me a goal, now I don't..." more
Friday, August 31, 2012 1:39:26 PM
Tony Kerr wrote a blog post titled It's just an allusion:
Tony said, "I haven't blogged for a while as I have busily writing (the curse of the writer is that you have to write stuff, sadly) but I am now at the half way point of Lonely Emily (formerly Emily Alone and Lilly Alone). I was trying to get a first draft in..." more
Friday, August 31, 2012 1:39:26 PM
Tony Kerr wrote a blog post titled Back to the past:
Tony said, "I have finished the first half of Lonely Emily, and moved on to rewriting one of my old plays which I never finished, and hit a ... er ... slight snag. I discovered the play - originally called The Man Himself and now renamed Dead Funny -..." more
Friday, August 31, 2012 1:39:26 PM
Tony Kerr wrote a blog post titled Sunshine and blisters:
Tony said, "I have finished my new (well, new-ish, heavily rewritten "old" play) Dead Funny, despite the lure of that strange orange thing hanging in the weirdly discoloured blue sky. I'm now going to have a bit of a barbie break, have a toast to Queen Liz and..." more
Friday, August 31, 2012 1:39:26 PM
Tony Kerr wrote a blog post titled Another swift about turn - straight into the clouds:
Tony said, "Yes, I have finished my new play, Dead Funny, and No, I haven't returned to writing Lonely Emily. It's the lure of the sun, I'm afraid, but I will be starting Emily again soon, with the intention of finishing a first draft by the end of June..." more
Wednesday, September 21, 2011 4:58:44 AM
Tony Kerr wrote a blog post titled The Great Pumpkin:
Tony said, "Halloween is approaching - one of my most favourite times of the year, and to celebrate - and to ease my spinning brain as it careers towards Super Maxwell 4 - I will start publishing a new Trevor Smethurst story next month.Trevor and the Time..." more
Monday, September 19, 2011 7:23:23 AM
Tony Kerr wrote a blog post titled Three Falling:
Tony said, "The last full stop is stopped, the last comma is commed, and the big question I face now is - where does Maxwell Jones goes from here?This morning I handed Super Maxwell and the Isle of the Dead over to my intrepid proofer, DD, so all that remains..." more
Monday, August 15, 2011 1:23:20 PM
Tony Kerr wrote a blog post titled A picture tells a thousand words...but I don't:
Tony said, " So this is John Gallagher's final cover design for Isle of the Dead - wonderful. Now we're entering the endgame for the third Super Maxwell book I'm going to be working on some other stuff and formulating Maxwell 4 ... But effectively 3 is the..." more
Wednesday, July 27, 2011 9:30:02 AM
Tony Kerr wrote a blog post titled It's all in the detail...:
Tony said, "John has sent me the latest version of the Isle of Dead cover today - fantastic, isn't it? There is some wonderful detail here - you can, for instance, see the Watchmen Academy logo on Maxwell's blazer, the street lamp in the alley below, the Spiker..." more
Friday, September 6, 2013 2:59:27 AM
Tony Kerr wrote a blog post titled Danger Ahead:
Tony said, "After some considerably faffing about I am beginning work on Lonely Emily again, and hoping to finish it (well, first draft, anyway) within the next four weeks. But, there's a problem.I've always been of the opinion that, as much as possible, my..." more