Persona Season 3 Starts This Week (And I've Written For It)

The third season of smartphone drama Persona launches this week (the first episode was yesterday, but don't worry, you can catch up), and I'm the writer on one of the stories in it - specifically, this one:


It looks like the cast and crew have done a great job, so I'll be watching eagerly - can I ask you to do the same? Persona is absolutely free of charge for iPhone/iPad and Android users, and you get a new episode every day for no charge too.

Interested? Good-o, here are the relevant links:

On iTunes you can download it here

On Android, you can get it here

Please do give it a look, and let me know what you think. Thanks!

It Doesn't Last That Long, But It Made Me Happy

I'm pleased to be able to report that I've had another joke included in Newsjack, the topical radio comedy on Radio 4 Extra (formerly BBC7). I'm included in the credits which you can see here, and if you'd like to hear the jape itself, the show can be listened to or downloaded as a podcast here, and it's probably available via iTunes too (must admit I haven't checked yet).

It's the gag in the opening monologue, at 0'56" to be precise, about the passing of the NHS Bill. I think the show'll be there to listen to or download for another week or so, which is probably about right as the joke itself'll probably make less sense as time passes.

Anyway, this blog post is a shameless brag really, as I'm pretty chuffed to have a second BBC broadcast credit, even if it has been a couple of years since the first. I shall see if I can narrow down the intervening period between the second and third...

Ah, Remember When Columnists Used To Talk About The Wire All The Time? Those Crazy Bygone Days

I've come to appreciate that there's a lot of hype and nonsense around many TV shows - particularly ones which a lot of journalists are watching but in which yer general public show less interest (The Wire, Mad Men and the like), but the quote on the front of this forthcoming novelisation of the TV show The Killing may set some new hyperbolic record:

Seriously, Radio Times? Sarah Lund, who's been in 30 episodes of a TV series in the past five years (and only shown in the UK in the past 15 months) is the top female detective in the world? That seems rather short-sighted, almost as if the person claiming it has a very short memory indeed, or at best is a bit caught up in Killingmania. Has the source of that quote never heard of Jane Marple? Or even Jessica Fletcher?

Now, it's possible that the publishers of that book are being rather selective with the quote, so I went looking, and found this: The Radio Times Rundown Of The Top TV Women Police Officers, November 2011.

Sarah Lund above Jane Tennison? Oh, Radio Times, you disappoint me.

Get The Car Running, I'll Meet You At The State Line

I received this very scary e-mail this morning:

Obviously, I'm deeply troubled by it.

But more amused by the fact that the above shows the subject line; the e-mail had no content whatsoever.

I'm beginning to wonder if the phishy-spamsters are losing their mojo.

The Better Devil, You Know

As long-term readers will know, I'm currently working on a novel - but enough about me, let's talk about M'colleague, who's has finished his book, and guess what? E's only gone and made it available to buy on the Kindle Store, innee? Ee as! Ee really as!

Ahem.

Anyway, I was lucky enough to read a draft of the book, and it was a cracking read, and the author assures me that he's done further polishing on it since, so it's probably even sharper now.

So, get thee to Amazon, and for less than the price of a large coffee (ie: £3.08), you can get yourself a slice of fiction*. What's not to like?

The cover's pictured here, and this is the link to click on: Designer Devil - Stuart Peel

Go on, give yourself a present. You know you want to.

*You don't need a Kindle to be able to read it, there are Kindle 'apps' for mobile phones and PCs and the like. I know, this 'living in the 21st century' lark, it's nifty, isn't it?

The Maturity Level Of The Blog Maintains Its High Standard

... but don't tell me you wouldn't have giggled like a fool when you saw this item on the shelf of a French-themed grocery store: