A year long celebration for the 50th anniversary of Doctor Who!
‘The Mystery of the Haunted Cottage’
By Derek Landy
Published by Puffin, EBook, £1.99
Suitable for readers aged 9+
Award-winning Derek Landy has been annouced as the author of the tenth and penultimate short story in Puffin Books' e-range celebrating Doctor Who's 50th anniversary.
Doctor Who is the longest running sci-fi TV show in the world and celebrates its 50th anniversary in 2013. To celebrate, Puffin – in partnership with BBC Worldwide – is publishing an exclusive series of eleven ebook short stories each based on one of the Eleven Doctors, priced at £1.99 and released on the 23rd January to November 2013. Each story is written by a different author, bringing together some of the most exciting names in children’s fiction, from commercial blockbusters to literary award-winners. These authors will each bring their own interpretation and re-imagining of their chosen Doctor to create a unique Doctor Who adventure in their own inimitable style.
Following on from short stories by Eoin Colfer, Michael Scott, Marcus Sedgwick, Philip Reeve, Patrick Ness, Richelle Mead, Malorie Blackman, Alex Scarrow and Charlie Higson, Derek Landy has written the tenth adventure in the series, based on the Tenth Doctor played by David Tennant.
Landy, who has penned the Skulduggery Pleasant series of children's books, commented:
"I can proudly say that I was one of those kids who hid behind the sofa while experiencing Doctor Who - one doesn't "watch" Doctor Who, one experiences it - and that crazy blend of science-fiction and adventure and horror has made me the writer I am today.
I owe the character, in whatever incarnation, an enormous debt of gratitude, so when I was offered the chance to write a Tenth Doctor adventure my answer was always going to be "yes". The Tenth Doctor, with his love of the spoken word, was practically tailor-made for me, and there is no part of this story that I did not write with the utmost joy. It all started with "What if the Doctor met the Famous Five?" and went on from there ..."
The
author and title of the series' final instalment, to feature the
Eleventh Doctor, will be announced on Tuesday 5th November. It will be
published on Thursday 21st November alongside a paperback anthology of
all 11 stories - to be called Eleven Doctors, Eleven Stories and which
can be pre-ordered here - plus an audio collection. - See more at:
http://www.feedhammer.co.uk/feed-item-details.php?id=36490#sthash.LyzZgQZ7.dpuf
The author and title of the series' final instalment, to feature the Eleventh Doctor, will be announced on Tuesday 5th November. It will be published on Thursday 21st November alongside a paperback anthology of all 11 stories - to be called Eleven Doctors, Eleven Stories and which can be pre-ordered here - plus an audio collectionSynposis: When the TARDIS lands on a planet that looks identical to Earth, the Tenth Doctor and Martha are amazed to find it packed with fictional characters from her childhood. But who has the power to create an entire world out of books and why? The Doctor and Martha must solve the mystery before their story ends!
Before writing his children's story about a sharply-dressed skeleton detective, Derek Landy wrote the screenplays for a zombie movie and a murderous thriller in which everybody dies.
As a black belt in Kenpo Karate he has taught countless children how to defend themselves, in the hopes of building his own private munchkin army. He firmly believes that they await his call to strike against his enemies (he doesn't actually have any enemies, but he's assuming they'll show up, sooner or later).
Derek lives on the outskirts of Dublin, and the reason he writes his own biography blurb is so that he can finally refer to himself in the third person without looking pompous or insane.
The
author and title of the series' final instalment, to feature the
Eleventh Doctor, will be announced on Tuesday 5th November. It will be
published on Thursday 21st November alongside a paperback anthology of
all 11 stories - to be called Eleven Doctors, Eleven Stories and which
can be pre-ordered here - plus an audio collection. - See more at:
http://www.feedhammer.co.uk/feed-item-details.php?id=36490#sthash.LyzZgQZ7.dpuf
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