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).
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 […]
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School’s Out – unpublished prologue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 […]
Interview with Mass Movement Magazine
The following interview was printed in Mass Movement Magazine. It was conducted by Jim Dodge Jr and is reproduced here by kind permission of the editor. Where did you first come up with the idea for Schoolâs Out? I know your bio says that your time spent in boyâs schools only minimally affected the story but Iâm […]