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Time to announce the winner of the The Writer’s Tale competition. Through the mighty power of the Internet Random Number Generator and atmospheric noise, I can reveal to you that the lucky recipient of my review copy of Doctor Who: The Writer’s Tale – The Final Chapter is…
Authors: Russell T Davies, Benjamin Cook
Price: £16.99 (Amazon price: £11.04)
ISBN: 978-1-846-07861-3
Pages: 704
Publisher: BBC Books
Published: January 14th (that’s tomorrow, baby)
Writing’s not easy. It’s very hard. Ask a writer. Go on. Any writer. They’ll tell you about it at length. Really quite absurd length.
Journalist Benjamin Cook asked Russell T Davies how hard writing is, some time just before the launch of the third series of Doctor Who in February 2007, and the resulting email and text correspondence lasted, well, years. But in a radical move, Cook and Davies decided to turn all that correspondence into a book, and thus Doctor Who: The Writer’s Tale was born.
Since then, Russell T Davies has continued to tell Benjamin Cook just how hard writing is, and the additional 300 pages or so of correspondence have been collected together and added to the original book to produce Doctor Who: The Writer’s Tale – The Final Chapter. This not only continues Davies’ insights into writing for Doctor Who, as well as Torchwood, The Sarah Jane Adventures and indeed television in general, but also looks at the politics of television, the nature of television production, how PR and the press work, and more.
And if you keep reading this exciting review, you’ll be able to win a copy of it. How’s that for fun?
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Firstly, a great big thank you to everyone who wished me a happy birthday. Possibly the most number of happy birthdays I’ve had in my life. Ever. Who says the Internet is good for nothing, because I’ve found a use for it – eliciting happy birthdays.
Secondly, it’s time to announce the two winners of the Amazon vouchers competition. Using the mighty power of the online random number generator, I’ve picked two names completely at random to get a £25 Amazon.co.uk voucher. And the lucky people are:
I’ll be in touch shortly to send you your prizes.
Thanks for entering everyone, and I should have a DVD competition starting very soon (fingers crossed), so keep your eyes peeled for that.
It’s my birthday today (December 7th). Woo hoo!
So in an unfeasible act of generosity, I’m giving away two £25 Amazon.co.uk vouchers in time for you to do your Christmas shopping. This time, there’s no barrier to entry, since all you have to do to enter the competition – subject to the terms and conditions – is leave a comment below (or if you prefer, email me). No anonymous entries for obvious reasons, please.
Deadline for entry is 11.59pm GMT on Sunday 13th December, after which two winners will be randomly picked from a hat and told how lucky they are.
Incidentally, the prizes are being provided by PromotionalCodes.org.uk, which offers free promotional voucher codes for shops like Argos and Marks and Spencer. Thank them nicely by clicking through (they might offer more prizes): at the very least, you might get some shopping vouchers.
Time to announce the results of the Misfits competition from last Monday. Winner of the DVD, T-shirt and exclusive comic version is Fraser Coull, who clearly loves his superheroes. Your goodies will be winging their way over soon, Fraser, just as soon as I’ve emailed you to get your postal address.
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