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Jason Arnopp's Bloggery Pokery: Journalism

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Wanted: Mad Hatter Magic. In a past life, I was a journalist. A music journalist at first, on rock weekly Kerrang! Magazine, then a film/entertainment journalist for the likes of heat, Doctor Who Magazine, Metal Hammer, The Face, The Word and SFX. In the '90s - then I almost certainly wouldn't be the scribbler I am now. All that getting drunk and quacking at bands was character-building. Dammit, and that's the excuse I'm sticking to. In July 2011, I started a site called How To Be A Journalist. 160;Im th...

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Jason Arnopp's Bloggery Pokery: Ghost Writer

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Wanted: Mad Hatter Magic. Ghost Writer is a 24-minute one-off drama, written by me and produced by the TAPS organisation in 2009. It's about love, death and letting go. It was a great experience, from which I learnt a lot about the necessary economies of time and money in TV production. I wrote the script under several technical restrictions. Such as:. 1) A maximum of three locations (although that craftily became four on the day). 2) A maximum of six characters. 3) A maximum of 20 scenes. John Yorke's N...

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Jason Arnopp's Bloggery Pokery: Sarah Jane Adventures

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Wanted: Mad Hatter Magic. I was very proud indeed to write a story for the BBC audiobook range of The Sarah Jane Adventures. Especially as it was read with such glorious gusto by the show's star Elisabeth Sladen herself. The story of Deadly Download has dangerous life-forms invading computers via the internet and bursting out through hard drives and keyboards. Can Sarah Jane and her gang work out who's behind the rapidly spreading chaos and stop it for good? Check out my: Script Notes service. Internet M...

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Jason Arnopp's Bloggery Pokery: British Fantasy Awards 2015: Jury Duty

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Wanted: Mad Hatter Magic. British Fantasy Awards 2015: Jury Duty. Here's an unusually brief post to say how delighted I am to serve my third summer of jury duty for the British Fantasy Society's British Fantasy Awards 2015. I'm handling Non Fiction in the distinguished company of Johnny Mains. Over the last couple of years, it's been great to help hand gongs over to the deserving Pornokitsch. And Speculative Fiction 2012. But now the process begins afresh. You can see the full list of juries here. Yourse...

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Jason Arnopp's Bloggery Pokery: Doctor Who

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Wanted: Mad Hatter Magic. I've loved Doctor Who ever since I was four years old, terrified by a disembodied, spider-like hand crawling around in 1976's The Hand Of Fear. One of the biggest joys of entering the fiction world has been writing officially-licensed Doctor Who material. Here's my Doctor Who work so far. Doctor Who: The Gemini Contagion. And so an anti-viral handwash becomes a virus with nasty later stages in store, in my favourite Doctor Who tale I've written so far. Amazon UK link. Four-part ...

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Jason Arnopp's Bloggery Pokery: Steven Moffat interview

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Wanted: Mad Hatter Magic. EPISODE ONE: THE POWER OF SECRETS. Oh, and he’s also the man destined to become Doctor Who’s showrunner in 2009. Not too shabby, then. 8220;You think of an idea,” says Steven, on how his Doctor Who stories are born, “then think of all the things you’d like to do with it. “Ooh, it’d be creepy if that happened.” “Oh, my God, suppose the cliffhanger was like that! Cool bits.”. He pauses, then smirks, as he becomes aware of his self-congratulation. “Well it is! With Doctor Who you&#...

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Jason Arnopp's Bloggery Pokery: Subscribe To My E-Mailing List, The Necronoppicon

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Wanted: Mad Hatter Magic. Subscribe To My E-Mailing List, The Necronoppicon. Enter your email address below to subscribe to my irregular newsletter mailing list, THE NECRONOPPICON. Your email address will ONLY ever be used for the newsletter and never for sending you photographs of yourself asleep*. And you can unsubscribe at any time, if you really must. Put a great big crimp in my day. Those will be snail-mailed to you. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). My official site can be found here. MY AMAZON UK STORE.

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Jason Arnopp's Bloggery Pokery: Friday The 13th

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Wanted: Mad Hatter Magic. I've always loved the Friday The 13th films, so was delighted to write an official tie-in novel for New Line Cinema in 2004. Here's an interview from around the time of the novel's release:. What is the novel all about? How did you get involved with it? Friday the 13th has produced 11 films, right? Does this mean it's a new chapter for Jason Voorhees? Was coming up with 95,000 words a hard task? Writing a novel was 10 times more work than I expected, for some reason, but it was ...

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Jason Arnopp's Bloggery Pokery: Ten Years After 7/7: How Best To Live Our Lives?

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Wanted: Mad Hatter Magic. Ten Years After 7/7: How Best To Live Our Lives? Worryingly, the mobile phone network soon became unusable, clogged up with desperate speed-diallers. My mum phoned Heat to make sure I was okay. I called through to Boots on Oxford Street, where my then-girlfriend Sarah worked, to make sure she was okay. For the rest of the morning, the country would be just one big jittery chain of people checking on others in a pre-Twitter age. With over 700 injured. Urvived a dice roll. The...

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Jason Arnopp's Bloggery Pokery: The Week In Genre Books - July 16 2015

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Wanted: Mad Hatter Magic. The Week In Genre Books - July 16 2015. Let's go: what's out today? UNDER GROUND - SL Grey (Macmillan). The latest pulse-pounding novel from SL Grey, which is the combined pen name of. Authors Sarah Lotz (The Three) and Louis Greenberg (Dark Windows). Hardback out today! They're trapped fifty feet down. and someone wants them six feet under. THE HUNT - Tim Lebbon (Avon). Out in paperback today, in bookshops and supermarkets. Rose is the one that got away. She was the prey in...