Adam Colston

I watched the Writers of the Future awards ceremony 2010 online. It was held in Hollywood at the Roosevelt Hotel–the site of the first Academy Awards ceremony.

As usual, it was a superb show. I was especially touched by the keynote speaker, June Scobee Rodgers, Founding Chairman of Challenger Center for Space Science Education, who described the moment her husband died in the space shuttle disaster. It was inspiring to hear how she moved forward with her life to create something worthwhile from the awful situation.

I was unable to attend the ceremony for various reasons, so I watched the writers and illustrators collect their prizes. For me, the week was been a vicarious existence…not ideal, really.

I am looking forward to my goody parcel arriving from LA (hopefully real soon), especially getting some copies of the book in my grubby mitts!

The book cover is in the post below–click on it and you’ll go to amazon where you can buy it .

Saw this today with my 15 year-old son.

First a little background–comics were my first love. I hated reading and the only way my parents could get me reading ANYTHING was to buy me comics. It was the ’70s, so every Saturday some spotty kid would deliver Beano and a few others I don’t remember the names of now. Later it was 2000 AD (I had issue 1, damn it!), Spiderman, Ironman, The Phantom, etc, etc. So that’s my credentials…

The film was good. I have pretty low standards and expectations when I go and see a film full of teenage boys and their Dads, but the film pretty much grabbed me by the scruff of the neck and didn’t let go until the end. There were some cool bits–quite a few–plus the odd plotish issue, but nothing terrible. Would I recommend it? Well, if you like the first one, then you’ll like this one…

I have about a month to go on my academic work. If I have passed my exams–last Thursday–and my portfolio of work passes muster then IT WILL BE OVER.

On the flip side, my brain is already going mad with regards story generation. So I am developing various electronic notebooks full of cool ideas (I think they are).

So, hey-ho, back to work I go…

Hi Welcome to my new wordpress site.

It has been a struggle setting this up and transferring images is proving a nightmare. Still I hardly blog–at the moment–so it’s no biggie.