30 April
'The Horrors' has
been signed off, and will be on BBC1 in early September.
1
April
I'm writing 'The Horrors', another
episode of Doctors.
7 February
Part one of 'The Halls of Sacrifice' appears in
Doctor Who Adventures issue 50, out today. The comic strip concludes next
week, and is followed by another two-part story, 'The Old Kings of Skarab'.
2 January 2008
I will be speaking at the
Yeovil Community Arts
Association event at the Johnson Studio on 10th
January. If you happen to be in the area, do come along!
30
October
My Doctors
episode 'Angels and Shadows' is on BBC1 on Friday 9th November
at 2.05pm. It stars Martyn Read, Simon Scott and George Pensotti.
19
July
My comic strip 'The Last Soldier' starts in the latest issue of Doctor Who
Adventures, published today. The story concludes in two weeks.
2
July
My next Doctors story has been signed off.
It will be transmitted in November. The audiobook version of Wooden
Heart is released today; there is a little review of it on the BBC Doctor
Who website here.
24
May
Part one of my first ever comic strip, 'The Green, the Bad and the
Ugly', appears in Doctor Who Adventures today. Part two will
be along in a couple of weeks.
17
May
I've been commissioned to write another episode of Doctors - and I'm going to the BAFTA TV awards on
Sunday!
19
April 2007
Doctor Who: Wooden Heart, my novel featuring the tenth Doctor and
Martha Jones, is officially published today. (If you would like to order it online, it's
available here
and here, and doubtless elsewhere.)
It will be released as an (abridged) audiobook in July, read by Adjoa
Andoh.
7
December
Just a reminder: my Doctors story 'All You Need is...' will be transmitted on
BBC1 on 18th December. It stars Gareth Hunt, Tim Briggs and Heather
Bleasdale. As
reported in Doctor Who Magazine and elsewhere, I'm working on
a novel for the BBC featuring the tenth Doctor and new companion Martha.
17
November
No Man's Land is now in the shops. (Incidentally, here
is my (unused) version of the back
cover blurb.)
4
August
The Doctor Who audio play No Man's Land (formerly We are the
Dead) has now been recorded. It stars Sylvester McCoy, Sophie
Aldred, Philip Olivier, Michael Cochrane, Rob
Dixon, Rupert Wickham, Oliver Mellor, Ian Hayles, and Michael Adams. More
details here.
10
July
'All You Need is...' has been signed off. (I'll just note here, in passing, that Doctor Who: The Sleep of Reason
was voted third best Eighth Doctor novel (out of 73) in the final online Doctor Who Novel
Rankings. Thanks to all who voted for it.)
23
May
My next episode of Doctors - 'All You Need is...' - has been
commissioned.
14
March 2006
'ASBO' stars Josef Altin, Julia Worsley, and
Jeanne Mockford (who you might remember as Senna the Soothsayer from
Up Pompeii!). 'We are the
Dead' has been pencilled in for a November release.
26
September
I have been commissioned to write We are the Dead for Big Finish's
Doctor Who range.
16
September
My third episode of Doctors
has been signed off. It will be transmitted on 21st March 2006. My last Doctor Who novel was
voted second best of 2004 by readers of Doctor Who Magazine.
15
July
I've been commissioned to write 'ASBO', another episode of Doctors.
27
January 2005
My latest story for Doctors
has been signed off, and it will be transmitted on Tuesday 24th May
(BBC1).
8
December
I have been commissioned to write a second script for Doctors
called 'The Girl Who Came Back'. Doctor Who - A Christmas Treasury,
featuring a short story of mine, is published this month (and can be
ordered here).
25
October
Magazine reviews of The Sleep of Reason have been positive. SFX
called it "one of the most elegant Doctor Who novels ever
written" (and awarded it five stars); Doctor Who Magazine concluded: "Filled
with disturbing scenes and horrific images, The Sleep of Reason is
one of the grimmer Eighth Doctor books - and also one of the best
recently." There is an interview with me on the
BBC's Doctor Who site here.
The Discontinuity Guide, a Doctor Who reference guide written
with Paul Cornell and Keith Topping, is about to be reprinted by MonkeyBrain
Books in the US. I will be attending the Gallifrey convention
in LA in 2005 (more details here).
22 July
The new issue of Doctor Who Magazine carries a mini-interview with me
as part of a 'Coming Soon' piece on The Sleep of Reason, which is
officially due out on 2nd August. The novel can be
pre-ordered here.
I will also be doing a book signing at the Tenth
Planet shop in Barking on 31st July.
16 June
My first story for Doctors has been signed off the producer. It will be transmitted
on BBC1 on Friday 7th January 2005 at 2.05pm.
3 June
I've just received the draft cover of my Doctor Who
novel, The Sleep of Reason. Click here
to see it.
11
May 2004
I have been commissioned to write a script for Doctors entitled
'True Romance'.