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Andrew Lane

@AndyLaneAuthor

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Author of the 'Young Sherlock Holmes', 'Crusoe', 'Agent Without Licence' and 'Secret Protector' mid-grade series, plus several 'Dr Who' audio dramas. And stuff.

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@AndyLaneAuthor
Andrew Lane
8 months
So, nobody's worked out the anagram yet. Interesting. It's there in plain sight.
@BadWolfArchives
Bad Wolf Archives
8 months
Go on then, what are your predictions for Wild Blue Yonder? I'm hoping for a psychological horror based script, pushing Tennant and Tate's performances to the limits. I'm not anticipating any returning characters etc, but I'd still like the story to surprise me. #DoctorWho
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3 years
Nice, but I far prefer the Tim White version...
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70s Sci-Fi Art 🚀
3 years
1974 Dean Ellis cover art for Alan Dean Foster’s Icerigger
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2 years
So, I can talk about this now, after over a year of tongue-biting. It's audio, it's being released by the lovely people at @bigfinish , it's script-edited by @ImJamieAnderson and @BriggsNicholas , it comes in two boxes of three episodes each, and I wrote it. All of it. Woohoo me!
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Andrew Lane
3 years
I have just delivered a new #DoctorWho project to the BBC, which is nice for several reasons...
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3 years
I still have two bits of magnificent concept art he did for the movie SLIPSTREAM, including this one... @70sscifi
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Mal Franks @merseymal on bs/mastodon.social/thrds
3 years
@AndyLaneAuthor My introduction to his art was the magnificent cover for the manual for my ZX Spectrum 48K which I got for Christmas 82.
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5 years
Just noticed this on Amazon. So, it's a thing, then. I've only just delivered it, though, so you'll have to wait a couple of months. You will wait, won't you..?
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Andrew Lane
9 months
It's been a surprisingly good few weeks. I delivered an audio script to Big Finish & signed an audio script contract with the BBC, then was told something incredible about a project I can't yet talk about, then got offered a contract by a publisher I can't yet talk about. Great!
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Andrew Lane
9 months
I'm guessing this involves extracts from previous audios, given that nobody at @bigfinish asked me about the availability of Cwej and Forrester. Not being nasty, but @ArcbeatlePress are currently using Cwej *with* my permission, and it's best to avoid overlaps and conflicts...
@bigfinish
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9 months
❓ CAST UPDATE ❓ Meet some of the friends and foes joining the Seventh Doctor on his Last Day
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Andrew Lane
10 months
'Will You?' by Hazel O'Connor. No contest.
@il0venostalgia
I❤️Nostalgia '𝕏'
10 months
What is the best 80s song with a sax in it? 🎷
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Andrew Lane
1 year
My tactical mistake was not, as you might think, visiting the Midlands' biggest second hand bookshop. My tactical mistake, if mistake it was, was visiting the Midlands' biggest second hand bookshop without my wife holding me back...
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Andrew Lane
6 months
Stupid question (not the first, won't be the last): has anyone ever produced badges showing the patterns from the DOCTOR WHO title sequences? No faces, no logos, just the patterns?
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Andrew Lane
8 months
Is it just me, or could we have seen the creation of Swarm and Azure in last night's DOCTOR WHO?
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Andrew Lane
1 year
My small claim to fame...
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@Astrozombies777
Claire ☕
1 year
Any Benton fans out there? #DoctorWho
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Andrew Lane
2 years
For my DOCTOR WHO friends: I just found these while clearing out. All originals. If you've got a hole in your collection that needs filling, DM me with an offer...
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Andrew Lane
2 years
Craig would be overjoyed to know that people are still appreciating his books.
@TheMestor
Mestor The Magnificent
2 years
#DoctorWho MA Millennial Rites is a joy! It’s a feast of ideas that never becomes overwhelming, despite featuring: the Doctor transforming into the Valeyard, Anne Travers, the Great Intelligence, Yeti, and the revelation that the Great Old Ones were once Time Lords 5/5 Superb!
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Andrew Lane
1 year
Fourteen years ago, and such incredible fun to write. Thank you, @bigfinish , for that marvellous opportunity.
@alexwilcock
Alex Wilcock 🔶 🏳️‍🌈
1 year
OTD 2009: #DoctorWho The Mahogany Murderers Jago & Litefoot reunite with such chemistry (and such an entertaining @AndyLaneAuthor script) that dozens of new stories flow on for Christopher Benjamin and Trevor Baxter – the most joyous of all @BigFinish productions.
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Andrew Lane
8 months
Or what?
@IanLevine
Ian Levine
8 months
2 of 2 - who doesn't want it. Whether you liked it or not, it was a shocking misuse of the show's SIXTIETH ANNIVERSARY. Feel really deflated and let down by the man who I pinned my hopes upon. Next week has to be a lot lot better.
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Andrew Lane
2 years
In the mist of the present chaos and uncertainty, I am currently in A&E after an acute asthma attack. Great paramedics, great nurses, great doctor. No wait in the ambulance or a corridor. Currently on oxygen, nebulisers and steroids. The NHS is brilliant and must be preserved.
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Andrew Lane
8 months
I was only kidding about the anagram, but I love the responses!
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Andrew Lane
8 months
So, nobody's worked out the anagram yet. Interesting. It's there in plain sight.
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Andrew Lane
5 months
Well that's a thing! I wrote the middle piece for this BLAKE'S 7 audio late last year, and great fun it was too. Being sandwiched between James Goss and Gary Russell (ooh Matron!) is an added privilege and joy. I hope that listening to it is as much fun as writing it was.
@scifibulletin
Paul Simpson (SFB) 💙
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Andrew Lane
1 year
I may have died and gone to heaven...
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Andrew Lane
2 years
I discovered when I was researching in the BBC archives a while back that there is an episode of 'The Magic Roundabout' that the BBC never showed because it had Dougal climbing into an abandoned fridge and getting trapped.
@ScarredForLife2
Scarred for Life
2 years
In the 1970s, fridges were finally becoming commonplace in British homes. But they, like everything else (at least, according to public information films), were out to KILL.
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8 months
If I could award you five 'like's, I would.
@WholeWhoniverse
WholeWhoniverse
8 months
Easy anagram: "Wild Blue Yonder" = "Nude Yellowbird". and there's only one nude yellowbird it could be. At least we now know why the pilot's chair is so big 🤷
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9 months
It's an armless mistake ...
@MichaelRosenYes
Michael Rosen 💙💙🎓🎓
9 months
Someone has written to me and signed off with 'All the vest'. It's a typo apparently. The person has written me another letter to apologise. I've said, 'Don't worry. I love 'all the vest'.' And why not 'all the vest', anyway? The weather's on the turn.
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Andrew Lane
2 years
Or do we just misremember where things were? And even their existence? What happened to those walnut yogurts I used to buy? And that wonderful Lymeswold cheese?
@MichaelRosenYes
Michael Rosen 💙💙🎓🎓
2 years
Who is the expert who advises supermarkets to move round all the stock so that nothing is where it used to be? Is it someone with a social psychology degree who says that gets us to buy more? Buy differently? Get angry? Or get lost?
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2 years
@MGLnrd @frankcottrell_b "If you had to eat a dog, which breed would you choose?" True story. I think the kids had had a competition.
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Andrew Lane
1 year
Obviously Sherlock Holmes is real - the Seventh Doctor meets him in the novel 'All-Consuming Fire' by, er, some bloke.
@juliasfanart
Julia - #deadboydetectives
1 year
The Doctor casually mentioning to Donna that Sherlock Holmes is real, lol (The Fires of Pompeii)
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Andrew Lane
2 years
2 weeks after receiving an email from a publisher saying they were interested in taking up my proposal for a new series of books, if I could put together some more detailed plots for them, I've had an email confirming that they want to go ahead. Contracts will be discussed. Weee!
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Andrew Lane
2 years
You know those emails from publishers you want to get but never do? I just got one. Last thing on a Friday, just before they left the office. Press 'Send' and go. I will be having a great weekend, thank you very much. There may be wine.
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Andrew Lane
2 years
I'm adaptable. I can do both. (Has anyone noticed how I am very subtly referencing the oncoming Time War in my BBC audios?)
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Andrew Lane
8 months
Absolutely. And ten years from now Ncuti Gatwa will be replaced with someone who is probably about 16 now ...
@ChrispyContent
Chris
8 months
The point of this scene is to show that the series is still alive and moving on constantly from one actor to another. From Hartnell, to Smith, to Gatwa, it's forever growing and changing! The Matt Smith version still exists, but I'm so happy to see Ncuti here now too! #DoctorWho
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5 months
Just found, while checking my Mum's post in case something needed to be actioned, a draft of a letter she has been writing to her bank manager accusing me of stealing money from her. Ah, dementia - the gift that keeps on giving.
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Andrew Lane
2 years
I'll write it. You know where I am. I can be contacted. Easily.
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Andrew Lane
1 year
Name a bigger downgrade.
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John Bensalhia
1 year
Name a bigger downgrade.
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Andrew Lane
6 years
For those of you who love Sherlock Holmes, or who know someone who does, or even just want to give me some money, I've just published a collection of short stories on Amazon for Kindle. It contains every Holmesian short story I have had published to date. You saw it here first.
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Andrew Lane
10 months
I thoroughly recommend this range, and the price reduction makes it imperative that you buy a few. I have three in here (one of which was written under a pseudonym).
@bigfinish
Big Finish Insider
10 months
🚨REMINDER 🚨 The Companion Chronicles sale ends TONIGHT (23:59 (UK time) on 2nd October 2023)
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Andrew Lane
10 months
One day I shall write a comic for you. Yes, I shall write a comic for you.
@cutawayuniverse
Cutaway Comics
10 months
Happy times and places at the BFI. Do come see us at the foyer, we have comics..
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Andrew Lane
2 years
I first watched 'Alien' 43 years ago (yes, I was underage: sue me). I've kinda-watched it a couple of times since, but tonight I accidentally sat and watched it front to back on cable. It's a work of brilliance, and easily the best of the 8 Alien movies. Argue with me.
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Andrew Lane
2 years
@lauramarspar "Elaine Miller’s Minge Wig". Wasn't that the working title for "Monty Python's Flying Circus"?
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Andrew Lane
1 year
Let me know what you think... I had the chance to thank Jeff Cummins for that incredible cover a few weeks ago. He said, "To be honest, I thought we were going to be sued by the estate of Basil Rathbone, but nothing happened..."
@selsi_john
John Isles
1 year
I'm about to re-read this one for the first time since 1994.
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1 year
I don't know how widely it's known, but a whole bunch of NA writers contributed paragraphs to this book. As I recall, it was for a party scene where our own characters turned up as guests.
@TheMestor
Mestor The Magnificent
1 year
It’s back to the #DoctorWho NAs on this half term afternoon, as I begin the 50th book in this series, Happy Endings. I know next to nothing about the story, but remember scrutinising the new cover design on the bookshelves of my youth. NGL, I don’t like the revamp!
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Andrew Lane
8 months
I was once sent an email by the editor of an anthology for which I had already had a story accepted. Accidentally attached to the email was one from someone at the publishers saying, "This story is terrible. Bury it in the middle of the anthology and hope nobody notices it."
@zoiya_morell
Zmorell
8 months
I have a theory that writers are incredible at handling insults. What's your favorite critique or scathing review you've gotten about your writing? Mine is: "I can certainly tell *you* wrote it." 😆 #WritingCommunity #writingq #ouch
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Andrew Lane
5 months
"When you’re twenty-one, life is a roadmap. It’s only when you get to be twenty-five or so that you begin to suspect you’ve been looking at the map upside down, and not until you’re forty are you entirely sure. By the time you’re sixty, take it from me, you’re fucking lost."
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Andrew Lane
5 months
For those that don't know (or weren't born then) Audio Visuals was, for all practical purposes, the fan precursor to the officially licensed Big Finish. And Nick Briggs was the Doctor! I'm incredulous that something I wrote (cough cough) years ago is somehow still alive.
@connell_hunter
Hunter O’Connell
5 months
I think it’s probably safe to say now, @AndyLaneAuthor ’s Requiem story, from the acclaimed and influential fan-produced Audio Visuals, will be released very very soon, novelized as a story featuring Chris Cwej as the lead. Set before Down the Middle, you won’t want to miss this!
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Andrew Lane
2 years
The cravat is a lovely touch.
@BenOxlade1
Ben Oxlade
2 years
Happy Saturday everyone! Little man is getting ready to tell some friends of ours that they're going to be his godparents, so thought he'd dress up for the occasion!
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Andrew Lane
1 year
@SoVeryBritish Avoiding potential cases of assault and batter.
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Andrew Lane
2 years
One of my favourite writing aids: a USB keyboard built to look (and feel, and sound) just like an old typewriter. Just written 1,000 words of a new project related to one of my favourite TV shows. It feels nice to be back.
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Andrew Lane
8 months
Just had my car written off by someone suddenly pulling out of a side road and into the side of my car. As a writer I now know what it's like to be in a car crash. Nothing like true experience. Still intend visiting East Bergholt School if a courtesy car is provided @EBEnglish01 .
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Andrew Lane
2 years
Just watched my wife as 'Stern Prisoner #1 ' in ENOLA HOLMES 2. Couldn't be more proud.
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Andrew Lane
2 years
You could heat up a mince pie with that stare. Coincidentally, the same stare I got recently when I told @TheHStirling that I'd written off our Toyota hybrid by driving through a flash-flood...
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Andrew Lane
3 years
I actually owned this for about 20 years, and only sold it a few weeks ago. Sigh.
@retroscifiart
SciFi Art
3 years
Art by John Harris for Jem 2 by Frederik Pohl (Granada, 1981)
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Andrew Lane
2 years
And people wonder why, after 36 years, I still love her.
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Andrew Lane
2 years
After a period in which very little was earned, for reasons of lockdown and health, I appear to be back in the game!
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Andrew Lane
2 years
You know those emails from publishers you want to get but never do? I just got one. Last thing on a Friday, just before they left the office. Press 'Send' and go. I will be having a great weekend, thank you very much. There may be wine.
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Andrew Lane
1 year
The best thing that ever happened to me, writer-wise, is someone I knew in the USA telling me that the way I portrayed the relationship between Steven and Marlowe gave him the courage to come out to his parents. If I've done one good thing in my life...
@BraxiatelKS159
April 💫 Irving Braxiatel era
1 year
Steven Taylor in Empire of Glass is so funny to me, because he meets three most famous historical figures. Galileo he becomes drinking buddies with, Christopher Marlowe becomes his boyfriend and he shakes William Shakespeare hand without knowing who he is.
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Andrew Lane
8 months
Craig would be pleased.
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Andrew Lane
8 months
Distressingly, I realised yesterday talking to Year 7 at East Bergholt High School ( @EBEnglish01 ) that 'Death Cloud', the first book in the Young Sherlock Holmes series, was published the year before they were born. That hurt.
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Andrew Lane
6 years
I've read them all, and I thoroughly recommend them...
@BrockingtonLib
BrockingtonCollegeLibrary
6 years
Mystery, crime, adventure, villians and a young investigator: all eight of the "Young Sherlock Holmes" books by Andrew Lane @AndyLaneAuthor are in the library. KS3 and KS4
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Andrew Lane
11 months
A. There would be a vaccine without Boris. Several countries were working on one. B. The decision not to protect old people's homes caused irreparable harm. C. Boris's government wasted billions of pounds on unusable PPE. D. Ordinary people were fined for rule-breaking.
@Anniesomeone1
Anniesomeone
11 months
I understand this is put here as a laugh. But actually, it’s entirely unfair. Boris and his team were working 24/7to keep us safe in pandemic and without him there would be no vaccine. So what if they had cakes and a few drinks , they earned it. Why do we hate success so much ?
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Andrew Lane
1 year
No no no they have redesigned the entirety of the Tube to match your socks. Big yourself up, mate!
@joseph_lidster
Joseph Lidster
1 year
Friends fear he’s dressing like the tube trains again
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Andrew Lane
1 year
Researching the history of diving suits for something DW-related I am writing, I discover the first inventor to build a completely enclosed pressure suit was John Lethbridge, while the suits used by British navy divers during WWII were called Sladen Suits. Funny old world...
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Andrew Lane
8 months
Had a great day today, at the far edge of the world (East Bergholt). As I suspected, the kids knew far more about my books than I did, and one of the English teachers (I'm looking at you Mr B) has developed a theory about lantern-based symbolism in 'Death Cloud' that astounds me.
@EBEnglish01
EB English
8 months
@AndyLaneAuthor visited the Year 7 students today and spoke with them about #SherlockHolmes and his #YoungSherlock books. A massive thank you from students and staff who all enjoyed the sessions!📚📚🔎 @EastBergholtHS @EBHS_HT #EastBergholt
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Andrew Lane
3 years
Might I humbly draw the attention of any interested parties to the recently released CWEJ: DOWN THE MIDDLE anthology, available from Arcbeatle Press. . I have a story in there. It's very good. Not my story: the anthology. @ArcbeatlePress .
@alexwilcock
Alex Wilcock 🔶 🏳️‍🌈
3 years
OTD 2954: Adjudicator-to-be Christopher Rodonanté Cwej Happy -933rd birthday, Chris! [Cwej has other birth-days too; they’re complicated] Created by @AndyLaneAuthor in Doctor Who: The New Adventures – Original Sin Now brought to voice-life by @TheTravisOliver in newer adventures
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Andrew Lane
2 years
I'm nervous now. BTW, I wrote some notes to go with the ebook version that was on the BBC site at one stage. I might have put them on my website. Not sure: a lot of wine has flowed under the bridge since then...
@TheMestor
Mestor The Magnificent
2 years
It’s time to visit The Empire of Glass, the next MA on my #DoctorWho literary marathon. Let’s see what joys await…
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Andrew Lane
2 years
@DrPLee @TimelessOwen I think you will find that he spent several weeks gorging himself on the Fugitive Doctor's adventures...
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Andrew Lane
2 years
There are a lot worse things that could happen than accompanying my 87-year-old mum around a supermarket, but it's no picnic. Her technique seems to be to aimlessly choose aisles to go down, until, through some bizarre mathematical algorithm, she's got everything she needs.
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Andrew Lane
8 years
I shall build one forthwith. It shall be near the town of Dunking, on the River Tea.
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Andrew Lane
2 years
Delirious on painkillers and lack of sleep, I started mentally writing poetry for the first time in, er, 35 years. "The octopus under the sofa, The langoustine under the bed, We've screwed up their seas and their oceans, They've come to live with us instead." Day job stands.
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Andrew Lane
1 year
"Funding cuts bite as BBC production of 'Macbeth' accused of reusing old costumes from other programmes'."
@CrazyCaptionWho
Crazy Caption Who!
1 year
Crazy 🤪 Caption This! #drwho #doctorwho
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Andrew Lane
10 months
34th Wedding Anniversary (me and the incredible @TheHStirling ) and drinks were had in the company of the wonderful @Abrahams_Ian . Good fun, memories of times past, and discussions of obscure TV programmes ('Zodiac'?) were had by all.
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Andrew Lane
6 months
Currently writing the fourth of my linked 8th Doctor audios for the BBC (hopefully the acting force of nature that is @StanDarkley will be available to read it) and it's all getting quite dark. The seeds that I've laid in the previous three are beginning to hatch. Or something.
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Andrew Lane
1 year
Maybe the crisis triggered a regeneration we never knew about in which he regenerated back into himself (as Tennant's Doctor once did) and his clothes changed with him (as they have done on several previous occasions). I should write a book about that...
@CommanderHales1
Halestrom
1 year
Trapped in the TARDIS and dying for lack of oxygen, the Third Doctor prioritizes getting changed above helping himself out of the TARDIS and that feels simultaneously completely out of and very much in character
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Andrew Lane
1 year
As @brooligan so insightfully observed, I did have a spare seat in my car. That is now occupied by these little gems, bought from @TreeHouseBkshop in Kenilworth - an absolute gem of a 2nd hand bookshop very close to five or six coffee shops. But they have their own cakes as well.
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Andrew Lane
1 year
A pupil at @CanfordSchool , where I was today, asked me who my favourite classic and new Doctors were. I said Jon Pertwee (3rd) and Peter Capaldi (14th - fight me). The look of pity and contempt I got from him will take a long time to forget.
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Andrew Lane
9 months
You guys are doing incredible things with Cwej. Long may it continue.
@arcbeatle
James Wylder aka Arcbeatle
9 months
@AndyLaneAuthor @bigfinish @ArcbeatlePress We appreciate your faith in us, thank you.
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Andrew Lane
2 years
I actually own the original. It's hanging in my living room. I get to admire it every day.
@70sscifi
70s Sci-Fi Art 🚀
2 years
John Harris
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Andrew Lane
1 year
Currently staying at my Mum's place while she's in hospital. Lying in my old bed, half-awake this morning, I felt a *thud* as something joined me on the bed. "Awww," I thought sleepily, "It's the cat!" And then, very slowly, my next thought came along. "Mum doesn't have a cat..."
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Andrew Lane
3 years
I don't have a podcast, but if I did it would probably be about things from my childhood that don't exist any more. Last week's episode would have been about tutti frutti ice cream, and this week's about eyebaths. Next week: building a ring of rice around the curry on your plate.
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Andrew Lane
1 year
Most elaborate crop circles I've ever seen, but what are the aliens trying to tell us?
@WhovianLeap
Whovian Leap
1 year
Supporting all farmers! They are outstanding in their field!
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Andrew Lane
2 years
After 3 days, a lot of drugs and much oxygen, I am being realised ("on my own recognizance", as they say on TV) from hospital tomorrow. The attending doctor said earlier that I had a good set of lungs. Is it wrong that I wanted to say, "I have the lungs of a Birastrop, Doctor!"
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Andrew Lane
3 years
I remember breathlessly explaining to Trevor Baxter my theory that Litefoot was gay and had been through a tragic relationship when in China. Christopher Benjamin reached across, patted his knee and said, "He's giving you character notes, dear boy!" @TheLisaBowerman
@alexwilcock
Alex Wilcock 🔶 🏳️‍🌈
4 years
OTD 2009: #DoctorWho The Mahogany Murderers Jago & Litefoot reunite with such chemistry (and such an entertaining @AndyLaneAuthor script) that dozens of new stories flow from it for Christopher Benjamin and Trevor Baxter. One of the most joyous things @BigFinish have ever done.
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Andrew Lane
1 year
You'd think they could post it for free ...
@SandmanJazz
Michael Storm (he/him)
1 year
And I thought Lungbarrow went for a lot
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Andrew Lane
1 year
The great thing about being a YA Author (or am I MG; I can never remember) is that I get to visit great schools like East Bergholt High School & meet their incredible teachers (including, but not limited to, @EBEnglish01 ). Apparently I'm also big in San Francisco ( @thetimescales )
@EBEnglish01
EB English
1 year
#SherlockHolmes is trending, as he should be. A perfect time to enjoy the #YoungSherlock series by @AndyLaneAuthor . Perfect for KS3. @EastBergholtHS was fortunate enough for him to visit last week and share his ideas and experience about Conan Doyle's detective.
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Andrew Lane
1 year
It was lovely meeting you.
@BraxiatelKS159
April 💫 Irving Braxiatel era
1 year
Going to @whoovers Doctor Who authors event on Saturday and who knew deciding which books to take was going to be so difficult 😆
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Andrew Lane
7 months
No. The one you're writing now is the hardest. Trust me.
@ChrisDavidGill
Chris Gill
7 months
Is the first book the hardest to write?
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Andrew Lane
8 months
"Barbara is performed by Helen Stirling-Lane @TheHStirling who just so happens to be best friends with author Andy / Andrew Lane @AndyLaneAuthor ." I wouldn't go that far. Although we have been married for 34 years...
@thetimescales
🪐The Time Scales🪐
8 months
Doctor Who: A Meeting on the Common (Trailer) Barbara is performed by Helen Stirling-Lane @TheHStirling who just so happens to be best friends with author Andy / Andrew Lane @AndyLaneAuthor People I admire and consider to be friends. Check it out!
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Andrew Lane
6 months
I've disagreed with editors many times, mostly over small things. In the end traditional publishing is a team game, and the publishers are paying. Unless I have a really good argument against accepting their comments I find a way of managing. I had an entire chapter cut out once.
@thetimescales
🪐The Time Scales🪐
6 months
@AndyLaneAuthor @charlotte_reads Andy, if you don't mind me asking, have you ever disagreed with an editor? For example, something cut out of the story that was vital and the editor didn't get it? And if you did, were you right or were they ultimately right?
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Andrew Lane
1 year
As a writer with a partner who voices audiobook I am unsure how I should feel about this.
@darrenshan
Darren Shan
1 year
My Archibald Lox series is coming out as AUDIO BOOKS exclusively on APPLE, narrated by APPLE'S AI narrator!! Official announcement to come in the near future, when all 9 books are on sale. Meanwhile the current UNofficial annoncement can be read here:
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Andrew Lane
1 year
I wrote an (unpublished) fan fiction story where the TARDIS lands in 'The Village', and, while the Doctor thinks he's back in the Land of Fiction, Number 6 believes it's a plot to make him think he's going insane...
@purserhallard
Philip Purser-Hallard
1 year
I've said it before, but... you just have the TARDIS appear on the holodeck. The Enterprise crew recognise it from Doctor Who. They think the Doctor's a hologram that's worked out how to escape. The Doctor thinks he's in the Land of Fiction. You never establish who's correct.
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Andrew Lane
9 months
Great artwork. Sorry the resolution wasn't that great. Maybe you could post a higher-res version for everyone to see...🙂
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Andrew Lane
6 years
Can someone put the #Thunderbirds theme over this please?
@Beetlephylo
BeetleMania
6 years
Slow motion taking off of Enoplotrupes sharpi at Doi Inthanon National Park, Thailand 🇹🇭
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Andrew Lane
2 years
I interviewed him on stage at a convention many years ago. He was bitter about the (undeniable) fact that he used to deliver 14,000 viewers on a Saturday night but now he had no traction with young script editors. I told him that I wouldn't have been a writer if not for him.
@scifibulletin
Paul Simpson (SFB) 💙
2 years
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Andrew Lane
11 months
I appear to be third. Which is nice. Or, as you point out, I'm second in the "original audios" category. Thanks to Michael Stevens and John Ainsworth for making it possible. Such fun to do.
@HadcroftWill
Will Hadcroft
11 months
Voted Number Two by readers of #DoctorWho Magazine! If the Audio Originals had their own category (rather than being lumped in with readings of printed books), mine would be Number One. 😮 I can cope with coming second to Nicholas Briggs reading a classic TV story.
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Andrew Lane
2 years
Snails? Or small Kaled creatures? Check for tentacles.
@colonelbarker
Aaron J Climas
2 years
Pew pew pew. After two years he comes out from storage for a couple of repairs. I found some snails living inside.
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Andrew Lane
6 months
"Vworp Vworp! has always rewarded buyers with a fine array of free gifts... My personal favourite was Andy Lane’s Interlude on Totter’s Lane, a tale involving the Doctor returning with Steven (voiced by Peter Purves) to that famous junkyard..." Ah, bless ( @SioGallichan )
@VworpVworpZine
Vworp Vworp
6 months
Indebted to @AndrewOnSeeAIR For pointing out this lovely review of Vworp Vworp 6 to us from the lovely Doctor Who Companion. We predict much @brockhurst pleasure..
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Andrew Lane
2 years
After a couple of weeks following my bad fall where my brain decided to give me a break on the anxiety dreams while I recuperated, apparently we're back to normal. Last night I dreamed I'd joined a band as their keyboard player without being able to play keyboards.
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Andrew Lane
1 year
"Dave - you've got your invisibility shield switched on "
@CrazyCaptionWho
Crazy Caption Who!
1 year
Crazy 🤪 Caption This! #drwho #doctorwho
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Andrew Lane
2 years
No, that's actually us.
@MaxKashevsky
Max Kashevsky
2 years
Met up with Graeme Burke and the lavish waxworks of Virgin New Adventures writers they keep behind glass
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Andrew Lane
2 years
Bok in 'The Daemons' is actually a Weeping Angel freed from its quantum lock by Azal. Discuss.
@RebecTV
lil romana 👸🏼❤️
2 years
ASK ME MORE ASK ME EVIL TOUGH ONES
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Andrew Lane
3 years
I bought three Jack Gerson books from EBay today, having been reminded by the showing of his incredible THE OMEGA FACTOR series on Forces TV what a fantastic writer he was. I'm a happy bunny. @NatashaGerson @bigfinish
@rebauthor1
Rachel Brooker
3 years
@AndyLaneAuthor 🤣 same, I’ve bought another one today but it’s a book of word origins for name ideas etc
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