News and Updates
New Teaser Image for The Bug Revealed
It is with much pleasure, excitement, happiness and a tiny amount of arousal that I can now reveal the first teaser image for my upcoming six-part horror serial, The Bug, which begins publishing on 24th March 2016, then every two weeks thereafter. Dare you catch The...
Unleashing The Bug
I can't remember if I've mentioned this before or not, but I actually dabbled in self-publishing an ebook for grown-ups a year or so back. I decided I was going to produce a serialised horror story about a new type of insect which burrows into the flesh of human...
An Open Letter to the Cars Behind Me
One of the great things about having a website which isn't aimed at children is that it gives me the freedom to post stuff that might be in some way inappropriate for young 'uns. Things like this open letter I wrote several years back, and have had sitting on my hard...
Weighing up Self-Publishing Options
So, now that I've decided to self-publish my books for adults (as opposed to my children's books, which I'm going to continue to publish traditionally), it's time to look more closely at the different options available. The Olden Days... Cast your mind back just five...
Some Pros and Cons of Self-Publishing
As I've mentioned elsewhere on the site, I'm currently a full-time traditionally-published children's author. In case you're not clear what I mean by 'traditionally-published', I mean I write my books, I send them to one or more publishers, then the publisher pays me...
The Bone House – short horror story on Amazon Kindle
While I'm putting together my plans for self-publishing my adult fiction novels, I thought I'd rebrand The Bone House, a short horror story I wrote a couple of years ago. It's previously been available under the name Barry John Hutchison, so all I've really done is...
An Experiment in Self-Publishing
First of all, let me introduce myself. For the past six years or so, I've been writing books for children, kids TV shows and comics under the name Barry Hutchison. My books have been produced by publishers such as Penguin Random House, HarperCollins, Little Brown,...
