Farewell to Michael Keating. Such a lovely man. I wanted to be Avon but Vila was my spirit animal.

#Competition! Free-to-enter prize draw to win one of 100 copies of my new book ahead of publication thanks to National Book Tokens. Please repost.

🎨NEW EPISODE!🎨 Remember #DoctorWho - The Art of Destruction? We speak to @stevecolewriter.bsky.social about his Tenth Doctor and Rose novel from 2006. Plus, we have excerpts from the audiobook too, and the usual review. soundcloud.com/powerof3pod/...

🚨NEW EPISODE!🚨 What happens when the Ninth #DoctorWho, Rose and Captain Jack find an old Russia submarine base? The answer is in The Deviant Strain! We speak to the book's editor, Steve Cole, who talks about editing the work of range editor Justin Richards. soundcloud.com/powerof3pod/...

It’s real! #DoctorWho Circle of Memory has arrived - my first BBC Audio Original. Read by Dan Starkey, sound design by James Murray and cover by Lee Johnson. Thanks to Morrison Ellis, John Ainsworth, @stevecolewriter.bsky.social and Michael Stevens. Out on the 7th May!

The Eighth Doctor's time to shine never ends! @reecypontiff.com poured so much time and love into this book. Obviously the section on the BBC Books is especially good haha. Check it out!

🚨NEW EPISODE!🚨 The new #DoctorWho Target novelisations are here - and we take a look at Aliens of London with author @josephlidster.bsky.social and editor @stevecolewriter.bsky.social. soundcloud.com/powerof3pod/...

🌙NEW EPISODE!🌙 We're talking about #themoon today. Well, sort of. We look at #DoctorWho - The Moon Cruise, in a shorter than usual episode. (There is a reason) Featuring a guest appearance by @stevecolewriter.bsky.social. soundcloud.com/powerof3pod/...

2 new missing Doctor Who episodes tomorrow! FIF have done wonderful work, but we must also consider Alex Kingston's influence. It's as if, by setting a chunk of her book during the final episodes of The Daleks' Masterplan, she somehow willed its opening episodes into existence. Thank you, Alex!

Back from visiting schools in Bangkok, I return to my desk. But a part of me will ever be in Thailand. Several parts in Phuket where I got terrible food poisoning. Onward!

DALEKS MASTER PLAN WHAT WHAT WHAT

Any day with an elephant is a good day.

Happy World Book Day! I’m visiting a school in Kuala Lumpur today as part of a tour of SE Asia. Good luck and happy events to all my fellow authors.

A blog post what I wrote about Why Dystopian Fiction Still Matters - more now than ever, perhaps.

I've shared glimpses of this piece along the months it took to complete: here at last is the finale. open.substack.com/pub/majnouna...

Josh Barry is a pop culture journalist who's interviewed everyone from Gary Lineker to Kenny Lynch, so I was really happy to be interviewed for his Beyond the Title podcast! www.beyondthetitle.co.uk/portfolio/st...

I’m talking Astrosaurs at the Isle of Wight festival on Feb 20th at 12pm. You know, just in case anyone interested is passing the Isle of Wight that day www.iwstoryfestival.com/steve-cole

I teach #salsa on Thursdays at Salsa in Aylesbury (counter-intuitively in Aston Clinton). A couple of hours' dancing is the best way to beat writer's block while lifting mood I know!

#DoctorWho #8thDoctor #PaulMcGann And to top off #McGannuary... The book I have written on the history of the (ongoing !) McGann era, "Leap of Eighth", is up for presale through Telos Publishing & due out in May! telos.co.uk/shop/doctor-... (cover art by Martin Geraghty of #DWM comics fame)

Just heard that my latest @barringtonstoke.bsky.social novella got Children's Book of the Week in The Times! Blimey.

🚨NEW EPISODE!🚨 We bring you an exclusive on #DoctorWho - Catastrophea, by Terrance Dicks. Courtesy of his widow Elsa, and @0tralala.bsky.social, we share early draft details of this book - with its working title too. @stevecolewriter.bsky.social joins us too. soundcloud.com/powerof3pod/...

Always good to see new Targets fast approaching… and these three make an excellent set!

I was going to post about my new book coming out today, but then I found out my mum is in the local press! 💟

🚨NEW EPISODE!🚨 We travel back to the 60s with the First Doctor, Steven and Dodo - will they find Salvation in New York? Author Steve Lyons and editor @stevecolewriter.bsky.social join us. #DoctorWho soundcloud.com/powerof3pod/...

Astrosaurs: Mission To Infinity - @stevecolewriter.bsky.social, Tobey Cole & Alex Lopez (pub. @piccadilly-press.bsky.social) Originally in chapter books in 2005, we’re so happy to see the Astrosaurs back in graphic form! We just know these new adaptations will be as beloved as the original series.

The Sainsbury’s emulation of Spotify Wrapped is going to ignite social media

A gold variant US edition publishes April 28th across the pond. www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/818935...

The lovely #DoctorWho 1001 Nights in Time & Space book by @paulmagrs.bsky.social and @stevecolewriter.bsky.social is currently a bargain half-price £11 at Foyles, Waterstones and Amazon.

And a merry Christmas to all of you at home!

I’m excited to kick off the New Year with my New You

Blankety Blank in March 1979: "Doctor Who rewards his robot dog K9 by giving him BLANK." Your answers, please! Find out if you match with celebrities like Faith Brown, June Whitfield and Windsor Davies!

That moment you go to your tool box and find a sonic screwdriver there. That additional moment when you realise the sonic screwdriver is the only tool you can honestly say you’ve used in the last five years

Today I received a Blue Peter badge through the post. But why? There was no note with it. It must be the Christmas miracle.

A review of the utterly beautiful The Butterfly Who Became a Caterpillar from 1001 Nights in Time and Space #DoctorWho. A lovely retelling of the under-appreciated The Web Planet. @paulmagrs.bsky.social @stevecolewriter.bsky.social tardis.guide/reviews/stor...

Lovely to listen to nice people talking so warmly about this book, which was one of my especial favourites and a proper labour of love. @paulmagrs.bsky.social @anghelides.bsky.social

@appletonacademy.bsky.social secondary book group ate enjoying their proof copies of #NewYouForever by @stevecolewriter.bsky.social .Thanks @readingagency.bsky.social @barringtonstoke.bsky.social

You are never alone at dinner with a good book. Not even in Swindon!

I love toast, so I’m happy to find it’s mutual! But what topping to place upon its buttered self?

stroudbookfestival.org.uk/events/astro... Just remembered I’m talking in Stroud tomorrow lunchtime! Eek.

Lovely afternoon catching up with that @gossjam.bsky.social

Gripping new dystopian thriller #NewYouForEver by @stevecolewriter.bsky.social is @thebookseller.com's Children's Book of the Month for January! Congratulations Steve ⚡️

Play... sing... Don't look at the wine... Don't think about alllllll that wine behind you. Wine. Oh! Wine! Forget all that lovely wine! SO MUCH BLOODY LOVELY BLOODY WINE...! And the song is called 'Take What You Want' 🤯

On my way to a school event my tyre blew on the M40. Standing on the hard shoulder as the artics thundered by, I considered the state of the tyre. 'The task is not impossible,' Optimism cried. 'Maybe you can do it!' 'Possibly,' said Realism hesitantly, 'if by "do it" you mean "call the AA".'

Excited that my new book got into this Waterstones promotion. 25% off til midnight tonight. www.waterstones.com/book/new-you...

🌸NEW EPISODE!🌸 At last! @cybermatt.bsky.social and I discuss #DoctorWho - The Ancestor Cell, to finish season 8 of Pieces of Eighth! Authors @stevecolewriter.bsky.social and @anghelides.bsky.social share their memories. creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/...

The Astrosaurs and I were on BBC Look East last night! A sweet report on the Milton Keynes Literary Festival.

Basil nails it, as he so often does...

This book by @stevecolewriter.bsky.social and @paulmagrs.bsky.social reimagines #DoctorWho stories. Not traditional “novelisation” versions; each of 22 tales offers unexpected, delightful new insights and perspectives on moments and characters from the show. www.penguin.co.uk/books/470292...

🤖NEW EPISODE!🤖 We chat to the fab @unamccormack.bsky.social about writing her first Target novelisation, with #DoctorWho - The Robot Revolution. Featuring MC @stevecolewriter.bsky.social and guest vocals from Varada Sethu. soundcloud.com/powerof3pod/...