The last book on screenwriting you’ll ever need

The last book on screenwriting you’ll ever need

Tim Adler grumbles about two new fiction writing books giving away trade secrets I hesitate to review these books. Who wants a magician to give away the secret of how he does it? Keeping a secret from the audience is after all a perfectly valid position. Both these...
Why Urbane Publications is the future of publishing

Why Urbane Publications is the future of publishing

Or how the publishing world has changed beyond all recognition. Tim Adler explains why Urbane represents a new business paradigm for authors and publishers This week I signed a paperback publishing deal with Urbane Publications, an independent publisher which launched...

Mindfuck movies are my favourite sub-genre

*WARNING* *contains spoilers* The moment in The Truman Show when Jim Carrey’s boat bumps up against a soundstage and he realises that he’s in a TV set. When Michael Douglas touches a price tag hanging from a lampshade in his girlfriend’s apartment in...
The genius of James Bond

The genius of James Bond

Poor Ian Fleming. All that success in his own lifetime as he witnessed James Bond taking off, selling millions of copies around the world — Even his wife called him “Beatle Bond” –yet he was utterly miserable. “He gave the impression of not geing able to...
Between a rock and a hard place

Between a rock and a hard place

Readers of Slow Bleed will know that Dr Jemma Sands flees the police through the Gorges du Verdon, one of Europe’s mightiest canyons. This month I revisited the canyon to see if I could put myself through Jemma’s endurance test. Driving upwards through the Gorges du...