This is the official website of Danny King, author of The Burglar Diaries and Wild Bill and it’s all free – at least until he can figure out some way of making money out of it. There’s not much to it, to be honest, just a few bits and bobs you might find interesting if you liked the books. So enjoy, and don’t waste your time looking for porn because there isn’t any.
LATEST NEWS & DEVELOPMENTS
03/02/12
PORN FOR THE STAGE
I had originally released this one a few years ago but withdrew it shortly afterwards for contractural reasons. Those issues have now been resolved so once again I'm able to make the text of my play available to either download on Kindle (for 99p) or buy as a printed booklet from Lulu (currently discounted to £4.72 + P&P). The play is also available to perform should anyone be interested. Just drop me a line first to make sure there are no further scheduling or contractural clashes, as the original book is currently being developed into a feature film by Formosa Films.
25/01/12
THE EXECUTIONERS
Here's one a did earlier, as the saying goes – seventeen years earlier to be precise. I wrote The Executioners (originally entitled Do Killers Dream of Angels?) way back in 1995 and spent several years trying to find a publisher for it. Three dozen rejection letters and one crushed dream later I put it to one side (got hammered) and found more success with my next book, The Burglar Diaries. The Executioners has sat on my hard drive ever since, unread and forgotten, but I dug it out last year, gave it a good edit and am happy to finally see it leave home. In contrast to my other books, The Executioners was my one attempt at straight fiction (no humour), so please don't judge this one by them or vice versa as they're quite different (hence the DM King author name). Priced at just 99p, surely it's worth buying just to see if your Kindle's still working. I did.
16/01/12
PRINT COPIES OUT NOW
When paper was invented in China some 2000 years ago stone tablet merchants everywhere dismissed it as a passing fad but I'm out to prove them wrong with my latest book,
Infidelity for Beginners now available in this revolutionary new-[ish] material.
Priced a mere £6.99 (plus a shocking £2.99 P&P unfortunately) you can order Infidelity along with my other recently released titles, The Henchmen's Book Club and The Monster Man of Horror House from Lulu.com (*buyers will need at least 12mm of shelf space for storage). All of these titles are also available on Kindle, priced £1.53.
03/01/12
IT'S A MONSTER!
No, not my post-Christmas yuletide log but my latest novel, The Monster Man of Horror House. It's a homage to the old portmanteau horror novels and films of the 60s and 70s, such as Tales from The Crypt and Vault of Horror etc, and is made up of four inter-linked tales of vampires, werewolves, ghosts and serial killers, as spun by a creepy old neighbour who's encountered them all. It's available on Kindle (£1.53) and in paperback (£7.99 + P&P) and is probably the truest reflection of the kinds of books I used to read as a kid instead of the ones my teachers kept sending me home with. But hey at least I used to read. Not like kids today (insert meandering diatribe here) etc...
08/12/11
HENCHMEN IN PRINT
In response to popular demand (three emails counts as popular demand in my household) I've now sourced print copies of The Henchmen's Book Club through lulu.com. Lulu is a Print-On-Demand (POD) publisher who will process orders, print and despatch copies as they receive them. I've used them before (for printing copies to proof) and they're good and reliable. There's obviously a sliding scale of delivery charges ranging from £2.99 to however much you want to blow on postage but I've always gone for the cheapest myself and got my books within a couple of days, regardless of what the estimated delivery date has predicted. So if you're stuck for that last minute gift for dad or the garage has run out of logs for the hearth, order while stocks last (not that there's any danger of them running out if they're printing on demand) at the special discounted price of just £7.99.
18/10/11
INFIDELITY FOR BEGINNERS
And so some seven years after I wrote the first chapter here is Infidelity for Beginners. This book was originally called White Collar and was actually written before Blue Collar but it had a few problems and has been hacked about more times than Mrs King's Christmas turkey before I finally settled on this version. I don't know how it'll go down because it's quite different from my other stuff, but I guess everyone's entitled to one slightly leftfield book so here's mine. I promise it'll be guns and villains and monsters from here on in though. Infidelity is available on Kindle from the usual places. Just go to this book's page for details. And if you enjoy it please post a review for it on Amazon or elsewhere. Every recommendation really helps. Thanks.
12/10/11
MILO on KINDLE
And finally we have Milo's Marauders and Milo's Run, now out on Kindle. These are the last two book in my back catalogue I'll be releasing. Serpent's Tail retained the e.book rights to School for Scumbags and Blue Collar, so they'll be releasing those ones themselves, but it was great that they allowed me the Diaries and Milo books, so my thanks to them for this. Each book again is £1.49 + VAT. And the various links can be found on the Milo pages. Next out will be an all new book, Infidelity for Beginners.
30/09/11
PORN ON KINDLE
Amazon have just launched their brand new Kindle (three weeks after I bought the old model obviously) so now there's no excuse (other than the obvious) not to buy one of my books on Kindle. The latest to hit the e.shelves is The Pornographer Diaries. Now available for immediate download from Amazon.co.uk, Amazon.com and Amazon.de for just £1.53, $2.99 and €2.99 respectively. It tells the story of Godfrey Bishop, a hopeless and hapless lump who's landed "the best job in the world" – working on a top shelf porno mag. I spent some time in this industry myself so a lot of the stories and anecdotes are based in truth, as are the disturbing readers' letters Godfrey has to trawl through by the sack load. A slight departure from my crime stuff but still in the same throbbing vein. Any mention you'd care to give it anywhere, even if it's just in a police report, all helps spread the word.
15/09/11
HITMAN ON KINDLE
Next out of the e.printers is The Hitman Diaries. Now available for immediate download on the Kindle from Amazon.co.uk, Amazon.com and Amazon.de for the "how does he do it?" low price of just £1.71, $2.99 and €2.99 respectively. There will now follow a short break while I sit on my laurels for few weeks and try to finish those shelves I started last year, then I'll get cracking on the next Kindle release, The Pornographer Diaries. As ever, tell your friends, leave a review on the web or spray paint the side of a bus for me if you can. Every little helps. Thanks.
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12/09/11
CLOSE TO THE BONE
Those learned chaps at that rabid literary blogoshere, Close to the Bone, have established a regular ASK THE AUTHOR feature in which readers get to fire questions about publishing at a couple of 'experts' who are fooling no one.
My second session in the chair is now on-line and can be found by clicking here – Week 2 – while my first can be viewed here – Week 1.
08/09/11
WILD BILL AT THE LONDON FILM FESTIVAL
Wild Bill will be competing at this year's London Film Festival in the New British Cinema category. The film will be screened on October 21st and 23rd at Vue Leicester Square and tickets go on sale to BFI members on September 19th and to the general public a week later on September 26th. Don't ask me how much they are. Me and Dexter get to go for free although we do have to buy (or sneak in) our own popcorn. The film will also be shown at the San Sebastian and Chicago Film Festivals and is up for Best Director (Dexter) and Best Foreign Film respectively. Click here to go to the BFI's site or check out my own Wild Bill page.
04/09/11
BURGLAR & BANK ROBBER NOW ON KINDLE
Following on from the success of The Henchmen's Book Club, Serpent's Tail have very kindly allowed me to make the rest of my back catalogue available on Kindle too. I've started with The Burglar Diaries and The Bank Robber Diaries and given them a slight polish on the inside and a couple of spanking new covers on the outside –
I know most of you thought I'd doodled the old covers myself (in five minutes whilst hammered) but seriously they were designed by a proper graphic artist (in five minutes whilst whilst hammered, I think). Both of the above books are now available to download in the UK from Amazon.co.uk for £1.71 each, in the US from Amazon.com for $2.99 and in Germany from Amazon.de for €2.99. The Hitman and Pornographer Diaries will follow shortly.
16/08/11
FOLLOW ME
You can now sign up and follow me on Twitter if you are cutting edge techno communicater like wot I am (where do I stick the stamps again?). I've resisted the urge to join the online gabber until now because I couldn't really think of anything to say but after eight years of listening to my witty asides my wife has begged me to take it out on someone else, so find me by clicking here (hopefully – although I may have done it wrong)
09/08/11
FRIEND MY HENCHMEN
I've just done a (technical term) Facebook page for The Henchmen's Book Club and will be updating it initially with all the latest Henchmen news and later Chelsea transfer speculation when I run low on Henchmen news. If you can't buy my book because you don't have a Kindle, iPad, Android phone, Ceefax or want to part with £1.71 you can still play along by joining my Henchmen page and helping me spread the word. Click here and sign up today or hold out until the end of August, just like Luka Modric will.
05/08/11
THE HENCHMEN'S BOOK CLUB
ON KINDLE
I'm very happy to finally be able to annouce the release of The Henchmen's Book Club initially available on Kindle through Amazon's Kindle Store. For those of you who have no idea what any of that means you might as well stop reading now because it's not going to get any clearer ("you want woofers and tweeters with that Grandad?"). The novel tells the story of a lowly supervillain's foot soldier who starts a book club amongst his fellow henchmen only to see it take off and become so much more than the sum of its parts. It's a corking summer read full of spies, guns, gadgets and book mark scores and available to download instantly for just £1.71. For more information go to the Henchmen page or buy it direct from Amazon.co.uk now (also available on Amazon.com and Amazon.de).
27/06/11 MORE BURGLARS ON KINDLE
Great news for those of you not rooted in the past. More Burglar Diaries is now available to download on Kindle for just 99p. The jokes aren't any better but at least now they're cheaper. Kindles are the must-have 2011 bit of kit that allows you to carry your entire library with you wherever you go and leave up to 3,000 books at a time in the back of a cab after the Christmas party. They're ideal for people who like the thought of reading in theory, but would really rather play Gameboys on their way to work. I'm thinking of getting one. Are you? So if you do decide to take the plunge and go electronic why not kick off your e.shelf with a copy of Bex & Ollie's most recent adventures? Published by Byker Books (and still available in good old fashioned paperback too), More Burglar Diaries is now just a few clicks of the curser away.
21/01/11 WILD BILL WEBSITE
Filming has now wrapped (or is it rapped? Who cares?) but it's all gone surprisingly well considering the recent weather. What's more, those clever technical chaps in the warm offices have cobbled together a website for the film, which'll no doubt soon have clips and such like on it. So if you'd like to keep tags on the film's progress click here. Cheers.
17/11/10 ROUND-UP
It's been a quiet year from me so here's a round-up of what I've been working on and where things are:
BOOKS: Unfortunately, Serpent's Tail announced they were no longer able to publish my books earlier this year, which knocked me off my stride a little. All power to Serpent's Tail, they've published eight of my books to date, so I've nothing but respect for Pete and the gang. So now my new agent (Tim Bates) has two manuscripts INFIDELITY FOR BEGINNERS (formerly White Collar) and THE MONSTER MAN OF HORROR HOUSE and he's sending them out to potential publishers as we speak. Fingers crossed we'll hear something soon. I've had to put THE HENCHMEN'S BOOK CLUB on hold to give the other books a chance, but if things pick up I hope to find an outlet for it at some point. And I've just started a new book, THE NO.1 ZOMBIE DETECTIVE AGENCY, which I hope to have completed by next summer.
FILMS: TOP SHELF (film version of The Pornographer Diaries) is still ongoing. I've completed the latest draft of the script and Formosa Films are putting a financing package together for next year. SCHOOL FOR SCUMBAGS and THE HENCHMEN'S BOOK CLUB are still under option with DM Productions, and in fact David recently renewed SCUMBAGS and hired a new screenwriter to develop the screenplay. REIGN OF BLOOD is still under option with Coracle Films, and they are working hard to put a financial package together. THE HITMAN DIARIES is still under option with Stella Nova Films, who report they are hoping to start filming next year, although the option expires before they say they're able to start so there will need to be some talking before then. The options have expired on the MILO books and things have gone quiet on that front. But I've just completed the first draft of a screenplay called THE DEVIL & ME for a Latvian/Russian production team who are very keen on the project (this is the same team who produced the stage version of The Hitman Diaries). More details to follow. And finally I co-wrote a screenplay with actor Dexter Fletcher called WILD BILL which is to begin filming next month, with a cinematic release date penciled in for 2011. Dexter's directing with Sam Tromans producing. Once everything's confirmed I'll post a cast list and synopsis, but suffice to say, it's good news and after a year of huff and puff it's nice to have something to show for the year – other than the lovely Katie King, of course. Cheers.
17/11/10 BACK ON-LINE
Apologies for the temporary black-out, but a quick trip to the pawn shop sorted out the technical glitch (well, what's Jeannie need a wedding ring and an engagement ring for?). My thanks to eagle-eyed Steve Pickwell for letting me know I had the shutters down. I've renewed the domain for another five years now so hopefully I'll get around to posting another news story before it expires again – I know, I'm hardly prolific. That said, watch this space as I should have some exciting developments to announce soon. Thanks for watching (Steve).
27/10/10 ZOMBIE BEARS
A quick plug for a couple of friends of mine. Nat Saunders and Chris Hayward (aka. Worm Hotel) have been making comedy sketches for the BBC's Website for the last year or so featuring a character called Misery Bear. Misery Bear is basically a miserably teddy bear who has a rotten time going to the seaside, London, dating and so on. They've done a whole bunch of them and have just finished the latest in time for Halloween so please check it out if you've got three minutes of your life you can spare. To view Dawn Of The Ted either go to the BBC Comedy Website (click this link), along with all the other Misery Bear videos or visit Worm Hotel's website (click this link) and see a whole load more. It's all FREE and it's better than actually working so park those insurance claims for three minutes and watch a teddy bear being chased around a cemetery by some zombies instead.
22/04/10 RADGEPACKET 4
Ray Banks, Ian Ayris, Andy Rivers, Tom Arnold, Paul Brazill – need I say more? Well I guess I'd better if you're to understand what this is all about. Yes, Radgepacket 4 is published and available now, featuring stories from all the aforementioned, as well as my good self and some 20 others. Edgy, vibrant writing at its best (and one from me, as I said), Radgepacket is the urban anthology straight from the mean streets from gals and geezers who know them like the backs of their partners' hands. A steal at only £5.99 (you can't even get a large doner and chips for that these days) and bigger than ever, with 174 beer-reeking pages of burglars, nutters, chavs and dregs. Published by Byker Books and available from Amazon by clicking HERE or HERE. Or even HERE. Get Radge!
17/04/10 KATIE KING
Once again, forgive the indulgence but I'm happy to announce me and Jeannie had a little girl last month. Katherine Marie King joined our clan on March 23rd and a very welcome addition she is too. Older brother Charlie's quite taken with her, but this is just because he's too young to understand his life as he knows it is over and all his favourites toys are suddenly forfeit. Still, in sixteen years time, when Katie's got all her little mates around with all their hair and hormones flying about in different directions, I'm sure he'll forgive her.
17/04/10 BLUE COLLAR NOMINATED FOR PRIZE
Anyone wondering why I'm not on Twitter, just check the dates on these postings and that should tell you. Still, when I do post a new story, it's usually a good one, as you can tell from the above, so here goes with another: I'm delighted to announce that Blue Collar has been short-listed for this year's Melissa Nathan Award for Comedy Romance. The Award is the UK's only literary award dedicated to comedy romance and was set up, along with the Melissa Nathan Foundation, to commemorate the life of comedy romance writer, Melissa Nathan, who sadly died in 2006 at the tragically early age of 37. This year's judging panel features writer and comedienne Jo Brand, mega-selling novelists Joanna Trollope OBE and Sophie Kinsella, actor and comedienne Morwenna Banks, and actor and television presenter Liza Tarbuck. The complete short-list looks like this:
I Heart New York by Lindsey Kelk (HarperCollins)
Wedding Tiers by Trisha Ashley (Avon)
Tug of Love by Allie Spencer (A Little Black Dress Book)
Love Letters by Katie Fforde (Century)
Moon-Light in Odessa by Janet Skeslien Charles (Bloomsbury)
Blue Collar by Danny King (Serpent’s Tail)
Previous winners have included Marian Keyes, Lisa Jewell and Farahad Zama. This year's winner will be announced at a plush gala evening in London on June 15th, so hopefully I'll be able to tell you all about it when my wife bails me out of the cells the next morning. UPDATE: Alas, I didn't win. First prize went to Janet Skeslien Charles. Congratulations and any chance you canlend us a tenner Janet?
That's right, the headline says it all. More Burglar Diaries is now priced just £5.99 through lovereading.co.uk. Those smooth-talking Geordie Arthur Daley salesmen at Byker Books have wangled an almighty discount from the UK's no.1 literary website, so now there's no excuse not to buy a copy – unless of course you hate me, my books and everything I stand for. In which case what are you reading my website for? To see me fall flat on my arse and fail, huh! Well fair enough. But for those of you I didn't used to date or go to school with, click HERE to find out more.
08/11/09 RIGHTS SAID FRED
In response to several recent emails, I've drawn up a list of the rights available to my various books, scripts and scribblings, from publication rights, television, film, stage, audio, large print and radio etc. These can be found on my contact page or by clicking here. If you wish to enquire after a certain right, please drop me a line at the usual address. And if you wish to acquire a particular right to a particular book, I accept all currencies, including pounds, euros, dollars, blood diamonds, heroin and filipino ladyboy child brides (in units of ten only please).
31/10/09 MORE BURGLAR DIARIES
After two months away from the office, I'm back on-line, so apologies if I've not responded to any of your emails over the last few weeks, but life kind of got in the way. We've now shipped out to the cathedral city of Chichester, so for those of you stalking me, I should be a lot easier to find as the town's only got one Wetherspoons. Which brings to my first bit of pub-related business; MORE BURGLAR DIARIES is will be available to buy on Amazon.co.uk from November 9th, thanks to the world's hardest publishers, Byker Books. Priced £7.99 and delivered for FREE with Amazon's Super Saver Delivery scheme, the book's now much more affordable than when I was punting it out myself, so my sincerest thanks go to the Byker lads. So, to mark the occasion (and this is the pub bit), we will be launching the book on Saturday, November 14th, in The Buck and Bell in Banbury, Oxfordshire from 2pm to 4pm (50-52 North Bar Street, OX16 0TH). Copies will be available, so will drinks and peanuts presumably, and I'll be there in the flesh along with big Andy and a pint pot full of empty pork scratching wrappers, so if you're free that afternoon, come along and say hello. More details can be found on Byker Books' website, or on their Facebook page, if you're one of them cyber types.
06/09/09 ROCK N' ROLL PUB TOURS
Excuse the blatant plug, but my esteemed mate, Kev Molloy, is one of London's best official tour guides and he's just established a walking tour of Soho pubs with infamous Rock 'n' Roll connections. Kev will take you around seven or eight pubs of note and dazzle you with an array of anecdotes. It's the perfect way to celebrate a social-occasion, birthday-bash, or plain old jolly up.
The cost is £120 per group (so 20 people £6 each – very cheap).
Phone 070 222 12345 or e-mail info@yourlondontours.com for more details! And tell your friends. Tell them old Kev's alright by me. Kev also does loads of other fantastic walks and tours for party groups, and can collect smaller parties in his London Black Cab, so visit his website www.yourlondontours.com and take a look for yourself. And because we used to work together, he's got lots of dirt on me too. Hence the free advert.
04/09/09 GOING OFF-LINE
I'll be off-line for the next few weeks while me and Jeannie move house. The website will still be up and running but they'll be nobody home to answer questions or satisfy requests for naked JPEGs of myself. After 17 years of living in The Big Smokey Apple, we're upping sticks and moving to the south coast. Chichester to be precise. I should be back on-line soon enough and I'll try to check my emails when I can, but if you drop me a line and I don't get straight back to you, it's because I can't find which box I packed the internet in. Cheers.
29/06/09 IT'S A REET GOOD READ
Football might be more popular now than it's ever been before, but for those following the black & white stripes of Newcastle United it's been a tough last half a century. One such long-suffering fan is my esteemed friend, Andy Rivers of Byker Books fame, who attempts to off-load some of his own private misery onto the book-buying public through his excellent publication, I'm Rivelino. Charting a life of despair, hope and then yet more despair, Andy takes us on a tour of the pies and lows, and through 30 years of shattered dreams (I've got news for you Andy, it ain't getting any better). Forward by former Magpie Lee Clarke and priced £6.99, I'm Rivelino – A Life of Two Halves is available from either Amazon or Byker Books from August 1st (pre-order now). It's the book Fever Pitch was trying to be and packed with anecdotes and incidents that fans of all teams will be able to identify with – except obviously fans of Brazil, Man Utd, Liverpool, Arsenal etc.
12/06/09 RADGEPACKET THREE
Yes that's right, Radgepacket – Volume Three is upon us and it's harder than ever before, mixing it up on the shelves and beating the crap out all those high-brow, snooty anthologies who dare look at its ISBN number in a funny way. Featuring stories from some of Britain's best unsigned authors, Radgepacket's pages are packed with tales of giant rats, bent politicians (no these are two separate stories), teenage car thieves and violent vigilantes. There's even a story from me about the birds and the bees, so don't delay, buy yours today, either direct from Byker Books (FREE P+P) or from Amazon. What else are you going to do with £5.99? Have your moat cleaned?
10/05/09 BURGLAR BOYS
As a great patron of the arts (the piss arts), it's incredibly satisfying to see my work influencing future generations, therefore I was delighted to discover that 17-year-old college student Will Samuel had made a short film based on The Burglar Diaries as part of his Media course work. The budding director was tasked with shooting the opening five minutes of a theoretical full-length feature and ended up creating an exciting and funny intro interspersed with stylish credits. Richard Brutan and Lewis Chapman star as Bex and Ollie, while Will adapted the screenplay himself. All the boys are now doing two years in HMP Ashfield and good luck to them too. Check out their endeavours on You Tube by clicking the links.
09/05/09 BLUE COLLAR IN SHOPS
If you don't already know (and why should you unless you were stalking me or married to me or both) my next book will be in all good bookshops as of June 4th. Don't panic, there should be more than enough copies to go around, or you can just do what I normally do when one of my favourite authors brings out a new book and wait until somebody makes a film of it (then download it for free off the internet). Blue Collar is a slight departure from the beaten track for me in that nobody gets killed or robbed in it, but it's still in my usual style with silly gags, sub-GCSE spelling and English-as-a-second-language-style grammar. Published by Serpent's Tail and priced £7.99, unless you're able to find in on the 3 for 2 tables. If not, do us a favour and look in the back of the shop for it, grab a big handful and stick them out front for us will you? That should help shift the fucking thing. Cheers.
09/05/09 HOLLYWOOD HENCHMEN
I'm pleased to report I've just optioned the film rights of my future novel, The Henchmen's Book Club, to DM Productions in Los Angeles, USA. The book's finished, though not due for publication any time soon, but DM's exec, David Matalon, was keen to see an early draft after he also optioned School for Scumbags. Those are all the details I have for the moment, except of course how much I got paid, but I ain't posting that, so watch this space for further developments.
05/02/09 RADGEPACKET 2 – NOW WITH EVEN MORE PUNCTUATION!!!
After the knock out success of Radgepacket – Volume 1, those enterprising boys from BykerBooks are back up off the canvas with Radgepacket – Volume 2. Packed with great stories from the seamier side of life, Radgepacket is the perfect showcase for some of Britain's premier unsigned authors. So, for all those interested in taking a detour off the beaten mainstream, this is the tome for you. There's even an interview with, and story from, the best-selling literary phenomenon that is Sheila Quigley, so if that's not worth £5.99 of your PayPal tokens (includes FREE P&P) I don't know what is. Available direct from BykerBooks at http://bykerbooks.co.uk/ourbooks.aspx or from Amazon.co.uk from March 2nd, 2009. Pre-order now. Oh, and I forgot to mention I've got a previously unpublished story in there too. I knew there was some reason I was writing this news piece.
22/01/09 FILM CLUB
Here's a quick unapologetic plug for a movie that's been released this week. 'Clubbed' is on general release across the UK and stars Mel Raido as a born-again hard man who turns to security work on the doors of some of Birmingham's toughest clubs. Set in the 1980s, it has a wicked soundtrack (as you'd expect from an era that brought us Now That's What I Call Music), some brutal violence and cars that spew out exhaust fumes you could hang your hat on. Check out a trailer at www.clubbedthemovie.com. I've seen it and it's well worth a trip to the cinema. Now to declare my interest. The company that produced Clubbed, Formosa Films, have bought the rights to my book, The Pornographer Diaries, and are in the process of adapting it for the big screen. Watch this space. Actually don't. Go and watch Clubbed instead.
16/12/08 FREE THE THIEVES LIKE US 6?
Earlier this week I was emailed by a fan of the Thieves Like Us. This came as something of a surprise to me as I didn’t realize Thieves Like Us had any fans. They asked if there were any plans to release the show on DVD and drew my attention to a message that phoenix-192 had posted on imdb.com’s message board. It reads as follows:
"If anyone is interested, I recently e-mailed the BBC about a possible DVD release and this is the reply I got:
Thanks for your e-mail regarding Thieves Like Us. I'm glad you enjoyed the programme. I'm currently unaware of any plans to release this series. However, if you'd like to make a suggestion for its release as a DVD, you can put it in writing to the Programme & Acquisitions Department who're responsible for the commercial DVD release of BBC programmes.
Please write to:
Programming & Acquisitions Dept
2 entertain
33 Foley Street
London
W1W 7TL
Please note that there must be adequate public interest before a release can be arranged."
I really enjoyed Thieves Like Us so I will be writing to call for a DVD release. If you know anyone who liked this, get them to write in!! – phoenix-192"
Like BBC matey above, I don’t know of any plans to release Thieves Like Us, but if anyone would like support phoenix-192 in their campaign to get the show a DVD release, they won’t hear me going mental in protest. And in case you’re wondering, no, phoenix-192 isn’t me or Jeannie.
Bex and Ollie chat with the Programming & Acquisitions Director about a mutually beneficial release deal
19/11/08 3:AM INTERVIEW
Anyone interested in all things me (ie. me, my wife, and the man from the Inland Revenue) might be interested to be directed to an interview I did with those fine upstanding fellas at 3:AM Magazine. My thanks to Andrew Stevens for putting the questions to me and for not muttering "wanker" under his breath when he heard my answers.
Check it out and a lot more besides at www.3ammagazine.com/3am/king-of-the-wild-frontier/
05/11/08 HAVE SOME OF THAT!
I'm a great admirer of folks with get-up and go, particularly when that same get-up and go allows me to lazily ride their coat tails. So it is with great pleasure that I bring you news of Radgepacket – Volume 1, an anthology of short fiction from some of Britain's most promising unknowns (as well as a couple of barely knowns like myself who need the exposure). It's packed with tales of armed robbers, funeral frolics, sexy shenanigans and drunken escapades and is brought to you by the boys from bykerbooks.co.uk, a bunch of surprisingly literate lager louts from the wrong side of the library who got fed up with wading through a mountain of chick-lit and worthy-unoriginals in their hunt for something to read and finally did something about it. Published 17th November, 2008, this strictly edition publications costs only £5.99, including FREE P&P, and can be bought on-line by clicking here. It's what Christmas stockings were invented for. Visit http://bykerbooks.co.uk/ourbooks.aspx.
03/09/08 TEN THOUSAND PICTURES OF YOU
If you managed to catch Thieves Like Us or have ever read the acknowledgements of any of my books, you'll know that my brother Robin is a fine up-standing thespian of the noblest traditions (ie. he's out of work). But unlike the vast majority of unemployed actors, Robin hasn't spent his time sobbing over a silent phone, wanking into a full-length mirror or loitering around the bogs on Hampstead Heath (at least, I've never seen him up there), Robin has spent his time making some rather excellent movies of his own. His debut, the live-action animated short, Ten Thousand Pictures of You, has been scooping up awards and has played in festivals all over the world, from California to Hiroshima. It's only three minutes long, so you can watch it free online at www.vimeo.com/2554266. Check it out, it's great.
05/06/09 OUR FRIENDS IN THE NORTH
A brand-new never-been-seen-before Burglar Diaries story has been published by a dynamic new on-line POD publisher called Byker Books Industrial Strength Fiction. You can find The Man With No Life on the Radgepacket page of their site, as well as an interview I did with the boys in Radgepacket Interviews. The chaps have great ambitions for Byker Books and I think they¹re off to a flying start, so check them out and keep an eye on them at the following address: www.bykerbooks.co.uk.
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18/04/08 CHARLIE KING MAKES HIS DEBUT
Forgive the indulgence, but I'd like to take this opportunity to announce the birth of mine and Jeannie's first son, Charlie Stewart Milo King.
Charlie was born at 5.19am at London's UCH on 09/04/08 and he weighed in at 7lbs 10oz. Just like his old man, he likes to lounge around the house all day while the rest of the world's at work and enjoys a liquid lunch.
I gave him the extra middle name of Milo as I've always liked it and reckoned it was all free advertising space anyway. Still, he was lucky, if the coin had come up heads he could've been called Scumbag. Again, just like his dad. |
01/02/2008 CORACLE SNAP UP VAMPIRE FLICK
Coracle Films have optioned the rights to my comic horror vampire screenplay, Reign of Blood (see FORTHCOMING PUBLICATIONS page for details). Coracle producers, Dexter Fletcher and Jason Flemyng are now in talks with a top line production company about finance and development but so far things are looking good. Watch this space.
09/01/08 SCUMBAGS GO TO HOLLYWOOD
DM Productions have optioned the film rights to School for Scumbags. DM producer, David Matalon, is the former President of Columbia Tri-Star. He left Tri-star in the late eighties to produce movies before becoming President and CEO of New Regency in the nineties. He returned to producing in 2007 and "is one of the most well connected guys in Hollywood." Negotiations were held up only slightly by the writers' strike, but the deal's now signed and sealed. Fantastic.
06/11/07 SCUMBAGS MAKE SOME NOISE
WF Howes are to publish School for Scumbags on audio book. WF Howes have already done a great job on The Burglar Diaries and The Hitman Diaries audio books and will publish Scumbags in 2008 on CD, cassette and download.
