Scott in Tellyland
In January 2013, to mark the launch of School’s Out Forever, Simone Thorogood interviewed me for Loaded’s late night book show – my first TV appearance (as an adult).
Toodle-pip 2012! Brace yourself, 2013!
So 2012 was a hell of a year for me, personally. I started the year two stone overweight, in financial freefall and actually pretty much depressed. I had no writing gigs lined up, was struggling to find any joy in my day job and generally felt like things were Not Going My Way. But did […]
2012 â half-time report
I started this year with a long list of shit I needed to get done, some personal, some professional. The personal stuff has gone damn well, thanks for asking đ On the professional front, I needed to get my hand back in to writing after a year off. I picked four projects and worked through […]
Announcing ‘Target: Hitler!’
Last summer I was lucky enough to do some writing for the forthcoming computer game Sniper Elite V2. Basically this meant doing some plotting, developing the narrative and scripting a bunch of cut-scenes and voiceovers. It was loads of fun and has now led to this press release, hot and shiny from the, um, press […]
A Scott by any other name
I was christened Scott Keegan Andrews. My middle name was chosen with care. It means ‘son of the little poet’ apparently, and since my dad’s a songwriter he deemed it appropriate. I think it’s kind of neat. However, the Keegan was a bone of some contention at school, as everyone who discovered it henceforth called […]
State of play – 16 August 2011
New and imminent Bad Haven talk to me about stuff, including my involvement with the film of Schoolâs Out. Mass Movement Magazine review Highlander: The Four Horsemen âMoran and Andrews have taken show favourites and crafted incredible tales that carry the legacy of the show to new realms.â I have a long memoir in the second issue […]
School’s Out film news
The news story below appeared in Screen International yesterday, so I can  talk about it now. In brief: the film has got development funding, I’m on board as script consultant, and Oliver Milburn is writing and directing. I met with Oliver and Emma, the producer, a few weeks back. We got on famously and they have a […]
An interesting day
Well, it’s been an interesting day, and it certainly got this new site off to a flying start. I was first told that School’s Out was about to be optioned over two years ago. Needless to say I was pretty excited. Quick as a flash, nothing at all happened. The recession hit, companies retrenched, silence […]
School’s Out – Optioned!
Abaddonâs âAttack the Block meets Lord of the Fliesâ novel optioned by Multistory Films Abaddon Books is proud to announce that  it has struck a deal with Multistory Films to bring Schoolâs Out by Scott Andrews to the big screen. Attack the Block meets Lord of the Flies in a post-apocalyptic landscape where pupils at a public […]
School’s Out – unpublished prologue
The blog Daily Writing Tips recently published Three reasons to ditch your novelâs prologue. It contains much wisdom. The following extract was part of the pitch that got Schoolâs Out commissioned, and it stayed in the book âtil very late in the day, but I eventually decided to cut it. My editor was a bit wary […]