Sascha Martin’s Ripping News: the Podcast, by John Arthur Nichol

Teaser 1: Sascha Martin’s Gobbly Goo, Part One

Yes, it’s all great fun, until somebody loses their knickers!

When Sascha’s latest news drops, it falls on Mary-Alice to reveal its unspeakable secret. Now the air is full of bugs, beasts and birthday suits, and Landfill is vanishing faster than you can say bare bottoms.

Who ever thought the apocalypse would be so embarrassing?

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I’ve created an epub and pdf version of Sascha Martin’s Gobbly Goo, the story I narrated in the three podcast teasers. Here it is. But I don’t have a cover design yet and I don’t see one of those arriving any time soon. Zombie Dust and Pitchy Witch have the same issue. And the Derry Girls book.

A Wee Bit of Integrity: Limericks After Derry Girls Seasons 1 and 2: the free sample is ready.

I’ve also finished the free samples for these books now: Sascha Martin’s Pitchy Witch Sascha Martin’s Zombie Dust The Fifth Line: Limericks After Lear Book One The Next Hundred Lears: Limericks After Lear, Book Two You’ll find them in the shop at JohnArthurNichol.com.

I’ve also finished the free samples for these books now:

Sascha Martin’s Pitchy Witch
Sascha Martin’s Zombie Dust
The Fifth Line: Limericks After Lear Book One
The Next Hundred Lears: Limericks After Lear, Book Two

You’ll find them at JohnArthurNichol.com.

Sascha Martin’s Christmas Eve: the free sample is ready for download. More titles to follow.

I’ve started on the free samples of my books. The first ones are ready: Sascha Martin’s Rocket-Ship, Sascha Martin’s Time Machine and Sascha Martin’s Super Ball. These are the three full colour picture books that Manuela Pentangelo illustrated.

The samples I’ve made are pretty fair, I think. Each one begins at the start of the story itself, and skips all that front matter (title page, copyright and so on) that usually fills up free book tasters. You can choose the PDF or Epub version, or download both.

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My kind of writing isn’t really meant for picture books. It goes on too long. It follows ideas into the undergrowth and loses sight of the main path. It arrives, eventually, but it’s all about the journey.

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Work continues on episodes of the podcast. When I started this I didn’t appreciate how many obstacles I’d be facing. Surely, I thought, I can record myself reading the stories.

I’m not an actor, though. I’m not a performer, and I’m not an audio engineer.

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It’s science on the fly as Sascha crafts a critically cataclysmic collision of cosmic consequence, and suddenly it’s the girls they’re all afraid of. Sascha Martin’s Zombie Dust.

Where can you run, on a mountain made of balls? How do you hide from a drooling girl? It’s all slippery slopes and midnight cravings as Sascha battles a pair of apocalypses only he could have created.

A Wee Bit of Integrity is my book of limericks based on the Irish TV show that I loved, called Derry Girls.

I wanted to use some of the show’s imagery on the book’s cover, and wrote to Channel 4 in the UK (many times) to seek their permission. They’re the copyright holders, but I also wrote to Hat Trick, the production company, and even tried to contact Lisa McGee, who wrote the series.

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Sascha Martin’s Ripping News: the Podcast, by John Arthur Nichol

Teaser Episode 1: Sascha Martin’s Gobbly Goo, Part One

This story was written years ago, but I could never work out how to finish it because, as you’ll hear, there’s not much left to work with in the end. But I liked the story because it was funny and rude, and diabolical for the grown-ups involved. So here it is - Sascha Martin’s Gobbly Goo: an embarrassing story in three parts.

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