New eBooks Available on iTunes
February 26, 2010
Our latest eBooks for the iPhone and iPod touch are now available to buy on the App Store.
The Ghastly McNastys and the Jam Sandwich Adventure is a hilarious high seas adventure featuring fearsome pirates, fearless children and a cat that thinks he’s dog!
Dead Man Talking is a brand new story by The 2 Steves, which follows the comedy adventures of a dead rap star and a teenage classical pianist.
Priced at just £1.19, each eBook also includes an interactive bonus quiz to test your knowledge!
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Charity eBook Available On iTunes
February 24, 2010
Our latest eBook for the iPhone and iPod touch is now available to buy on the App Store.
Boris Baloo is a beautifully illustrated book, written by Leicester Tigers‘ Assistant Coach, Ben Herring.
Priced at just £2.99, this eBook features beautiful illustrations and also includes a fun, interactive quiz to test your knowledge!
All profits from the sale of Boris Baloo will be donated to The Matt Hampson Trust.
Matt Hampson, Leicester Tigers and England U21 player, was paralysed from the neck down when a scrum collapsed in 2006.
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GUN-play
February 14, 2010
Jean-Luc Godard memorably remarked that “all you need for a movie is a girl and a gun“, but because we like to put a fresh twist on everything, in Slingers one of our girls is a gun. The relationship that stems from Frank carrying her and not quite understanding her makes for some interesting situations and it’s this odd-couple dynamic that gets one of the biggest grins from people discussing the potential of the show.
Slingers was built around it characters first and foremost. If you like them then you’ll follow them anywhere. Luckily the setting and the technology that forms the backdrop makes for some interesting situations, but as Toby is fond of saying, if you follow Frank into a bar for a quiet drink something is going to happen. He’s just that kind of guy.
But we also spent a great deal of time thinking about current technology and where its heading. We’ll have missed stuff for sure, but every now and again we spot something that either makes us redraft a scene (because the future happens far faster these days) or smile because we know we’re not too far off the mark. Nik recently pushed this article our way via Twitter and you could be looking at one of GUN’s ancestors – right down to the beginnings of her signature green glow:
A lot of modern technology is currently catching up with the science fiction we grew up on, but that’s ok. Slingers is also about style and attitude and that’s something that our mid-Atlantic aesthetic (American scale combined with a British sensibility) has in spades. Thinking about it in that way probably goes a long way to explain the lasting influence of a character like Dredd. Or maybe it’s just his ability to kick ass and arse alike:
Slingers has killer robots too. We’re hoping our budget is as unflappable as Joe Dredd.
Note: You can check out some fan art and read the SFX magazine piece on Slingers here.
Slingers Featured in SFX
February 11, 2010
Sleepydog’s forthcoming television series, Slingers has been featured in the latest issue of SFX magazine.
Talking about how we developed the Slingers concept, writer Mike Atherton said:
“Our approach was always that Slingers would be a ’60s-style heist show that just happened to be set in space. I’m not trying to dismiss the SF element because I live and breathe this stuff myself, but our initial take was to try and focus on something different from just the tech and the ships.”
The coverage also includes some fantastic concept art by the Brownlee Brothers, so grab a copy of this month’s SFX magazine to read the full article.
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New eBooks available on iTunes
February 11, 2010
Our latest eBooks for the iPhone and iPod touch are now available to buy on the App Store.
Beneath the Moon and Beneath the Stars are two delightful collections of poems for children, written by Hazel Bowden.
Priced at just £1.19, each eBook features beautiful illustrations and also includes a fun, interactive quiz to test your knowledge!
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FREE eBooks Available on iTunes
February 2, 2010
Our ‘Heart of…’ series of eBooks for the iPhone and iPod touch are now available to try completely free!
Written by Louise Cooper, these spine-tingling Gothic romance stories are crammed with mystery, excitement and adventure.
Each free eBook contains one chapter of the full book and a sample quiz to test your knowledge.
Find out what happens in the rest of the story by purchasing the full version for just £1.19.
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