Bride on BBC 23.11.07 An email from the BBC regarding scheduling for the 3 part all new Brenda and Effie radio adventure: "We are hoping to schedule these as dramas for March 2008, although this may be subject to schedule changes. We've just been doing post
production on the three "Never the Bride" episodes this week.
Like the novel and the original Radio 4 short story of 1998, they're narrated in the first person by the character of Brenda. She's played by the actress Joanna Tope (who also read that first Radio 4 story).". Also starring Gareth Thomas of Blakes 7 fame it's a very funny story and highgly recommended listening. Paul (along with the Marks, Michalowski and Morris) will be signing copies of Sick Building at Tenth Planet and Forbidden Planet in London on 8th September, and will be appearing with the same Two Marks, BBC books overlord Justin Richards and ex-BBC Books editor, Steve Cole, at the Bath Children's Litfest on 28th September. Provisionally, Paul will also be at the Guildford Festival and in Whitby for Goth Hallowe'en Weekend. Not at the Edinburgh Festival though, which is a pest for those of us who live there. Paul's Sixth Doctor audio,The Wishing Beast will be on sale from the end of July. Current cheapest place to buy it is Amazon. The BBC will be broadcasting a series of three original short plays, written by Paul and featuring Effie and Brenda from his hit novel, Never the Bride. More detail here. The first review for Paul's new book, Twin Freaks, is now online (particularly impressive given that it doesn't come out until next month). The reviewer is generally pretty positive about it.
It seems that Paul's TDA will not, in fact, now be called 'The Wicked Bunglaow', as Russell T Davies thinks that it might be a means by which some mysterious single-storey hating journo could criticise the BBC. Not the sexualisation of the Doctor throughout season 28 then, or the fact that he was responsible for the mess which was Torchwood?
Following on from his BBC7 Doctor Who play, Horror of Glam Rock, Paul will be writing both two new Doctor Who stories for the Big Finish audio range and one of the official BBC news series novels to be released in September 2007.
The two audios will be released together in July 2007, and are titled The Wishing Beast (a 3 parter) and The Vanity Box (a single episode), both to star Colin Baker as the Sixth Doctor.
Details of the audios can be found here.
Meanwhile, Paul's Tenth Doctor novel is provisionally entitled 'The Wicked Bungalow' (which is the best Doctor Who novel title ever), according to DWM.
Another award Nomination for Exchange 04.01.07
Paul Magrs has received a second award nomination for Exchange - this time for the prestigious Carnegie Medal. June Hudson, famed designer of many Who costumes, including the Doctor's season 18 outfit, has a new website which includes her fabulous drawings for Mad Dogs and Englishmen. Piers Britton, a Professor of Art History in the USA, has adapted The Blue Angel for stage. Grab a copy here... There's a new interview with Paul online at WordMavericks.com. Amongst other info, it turns out that Paul hopes to do another Doctor Who book some day!
Big Finish have now sent out copies of Wildthyme at Large and The Devil in Ms Wildthyme to subscribers. Both discs can be ordered from Big Finish. Phil Purser-Hallard has put extensive notes and annotations to his Wildthyme on Top short story, 'Minions of the Moon' up on his website.
Book Signings 27.07.07
Wishing Beast released 25.07.07
Bride on BBC 13.06.07
New Books 11.05.07
Like the reviewer I wasn't entirely sure about the idea behind this one but as he says 'Singing Siamese twin sisters' are a sure fire winner.
http://marcusgipps.livejournal.com/41671.html
Also, the cover to Something Borrowed, the sequel to Never the Bride, is now on Amazon.
Finally, Paul has a short story in the Horror collection Phobic, from Comma Press. The collection is available from Amazon and also features Rob Shearman and Paul Cornell.
Scared of the Bungalow 01.03.07