| Author | Message | ||
     Allybird (Allybird) Username: Allybird Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 80.47.103.170 |
New book out from Zed at TTA PRESS. http://ttapress.com/books/9/the-harm/ | ||
| Stephen Walsh (Stephenw) Username: Stephenw Registered: 03-2009 Posted From: 194.32.31.1 |
Where is Zed these days anyway? | ||
| Weber_gregston (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 194.176.105.56 |
I think he might have been kidnapped. Either that or he had a really strong curry and he's not left the bathroom for a week or two... | ||
| Des (Des) Username: Des Registered: 06-2008 Posted From: 217.43.29.197 |
Where's Stephen King, too? | ||
| Weber_gregston (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 194.176.105.56 |
Could be they've gone off for a dirty weekend together... | ||
| Gcw (Gcw) Username: Gcw Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.167.117.37 |
I don't want to speak for Zed, but I think he got a bit hacked off with all the fighting a couple of weeks ago and is taking time out. I for one, hope he comes back when he wants to. gcw | ||
| Ian Alexander Martin (Iam) Username: Iam Registered: 10-2009 Posted From: 64.180.64.74 |
I'm all for Zed returning. Again, when he likes. Granted, once he returns, I'll start freaking him out by pledging my eternal love for him… Is is only my perception, by the way, or is he having about 87 books of his being launched at WHC? There's this one, the Ash-Tree one, and I'm pretty sure there's at least one more (Morrígan?). Does he sleep? Dopes he compose stories whilst having a bath? He's not yet chucked the day job, and his output seems even incredible for someone who does write full-time…! Is he actually two different people? | ||
| Joel (Joel) Username: Joel Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 91.110.166.95 |
I hope Zed comes back too. Ian, I think Zed is having a super-prolific phase like Lovecraft in 1926-7 or Bradbury in the late 1940s. He's on a roll. What's especially good to see is that he's 'making it' at a professional level, while still writing the kind of specialist press gems that mean so much to losers like us. It's like watching a comet pass by: don't ask how, just remember it so you can tell the next generation (if there is one) what you saw. | ||
| Gcw (Gcw) Username: Gcw Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.167.117.37 |
Go Zed Go! Indeed he is doing well, and the absolute best of luck to him, ride that creativity wave! (....I hope he's keeping his strength up though..He may need a tonic...  ) gcw | ||
| Gcw (Gcw) Username: Gcw Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.167.117.37 |
By the way Joel...You aren't a loser. your books are incredible. gcw | ||
| Des (Des) Username: Des Registered: 06-2008 Posted From: 217.43.29.197 |
None of us are losers - we simply aspire to the aspirations that suit us best. I've always admired the career of Zed since reading him in Nasty Piece of Work in 1998 - and his honourable mention or two in Nemonymous - and real-time reviewing his work in recent years. Zed is the Zed Male. Far better than any Alpha imitation. And may his current 'on-a-roll' (identified appropriately by Joel above) become exactly what Zed wants it to become. | ||
| Steve Bacon (Stevebacon) Username: Stevebacon Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 90.204.111.236 |
I think his ambition is matched by his talent. He isn't content to just prattle around at a modest level. It strikes me that many of his peers would do well to follow his lead, but fear of failure halts their effort. | ||
| Gcw (Gcw) Username: Gcw Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.148.244.61 |
"None of us are losers - we simply aspire to the aspirations that suit us best." Exactly. We all have levels of 'success' which suit us. As long as you are happy at the level you are, then you are - A success. (More sales are always good though.. ) And Zed's work has a lot of commercial potential. gcw | ||
| Des (Des) Username: Des Registered: 06-2008 Posted From: 217.43.29.197 |
I hope Zed is reading this? | ||
| Gcw (Gcw) Username: Gcw Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.148.244.61 |
..Yes, I'd like to think there was a good guy that hangs around the board reading all the posts on the quiet.... gcw.... | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.96.240.106 |
I couldn't read this without passing comment - thank you folks, for all your kind words and support. Seriously. It really is very much appreciated. I'll be back, just not yet. I'm so busy that it's actually becoming rather surreal. I'm currently working at night on the Angry Robot books and have a new three-book deal in the pipeline which I'll announce as soon as the contracts are signed. Also we're putting our house on the market and looking for a new place, so I'm trying to fit in a lot of DIY/tidying/viewings around the day job and the writing. I'll return here when everything calms down a bit...there are several of you on here whose banter I miss very much. | ||
| Soozy (Soozy) Username: Soozy Registered: 09-2009 Posted From: 81.148.244.61 |
Hurrah! the Zed returns (if not just in passing) xx | ||
| Gcw (Gcw) Username: Gcw Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.148.244.61 |
Another three book deal...??? Bloody hell! - gcw | ||
| Allybird (Allybird) Username: Allybird Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 80.47.103.170 |
'Another three book deal...???' Very prolific....: >) | ||
| Mark West (Mark_west) Username: Mark_west Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.151.35.154 |
Another 3 book deal? Blimey, Gary! Good luck with it all" | ||
| Chris_morris (Chris_morris) Username: Chris_morris Registered: 04-2008 Posted From: 12.165.240.116 |
Good God, Zed. Keep it up, eh? You're really on a roll! Well done! | ||
| Matthew Fryer (Matthew_fryer) Username: Matthew_fryer Registered: 08-2009 Posted From: 90.195.182.241 |
Looking forward to tucking into the Harm, and everything else. Very well done fella, and keep it coming. | ||
| Stephen Walsh (Stephenw) Username: Stephenw Registered: 03-2009 Posted From: 194.32.31.1 |
As I said elsewhere - on the strength of one story - he appears to have the storytelling ability and attention to detail of a Stephen King. So I'm not really surprised at this sudden surge of success. Having said that I still consider the finest authors I have read material by on this site to be Ramsey Campbell and the man Tony (who has a sense for the poetically haunting that is very fine indeed). While the regular on here I am most looking forward to reading (through pure instinct) is Joel Lane. "Say it as it is" has always been my motto... | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.27.30.20 |
Yes, Roy Walker is my favourite philosopher, too. Whenever I'm tempted by the morally reprehensible, I respond, "It's good but it's not right." | ||
| Stephen Walsh (Stephenw) Username: Stephenw Registered: 03-2009 Posted From: 194.32.31.1 |
LOL!!!! | ||
| Ian Alexander Martin (Iam) Username: Iam Registered: 10-2009 Posted From: 64.180.64.74 |
So… three book deal, working on completing the Angry Robot thingamajig, selling house, moving house, viewing potential new houses to select one to move to, researching DIY things (presumably both on old and new houses)… I'd ask if the house moving was due to Emily being pregnant, but you clearly haven't the time nor the energy for that. I've read some books by many people here, but never Joel's books. This must mean that a) I'm broke, b) I'm clearly wasting my time reading books by losers, or c) Joel's books are insufficiently important for me to bother with.  Pop by the table at WHC, Joel, and introduce mew to a book with your words inside (preferably English ones). | ||
| Steve Bacon (Stevebacon) Username: Stevebacon Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 90.204.111.236 |
Wow, Ian - I envy your position. All that fantastic fiction you've yet to experience. | ||
| Gcw (Gcw) Username: Gcw Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.148.244.61 |
Joels books are great! At conventions he carries supplies for us needy ones around in his satchel! gcw | ||
| Des (Des) Username: Des Registered: 06-2008 Posted From: 217.43.29.197 |
I don't know how anyone can publish any writers, without first publishing Joel Lane. I did. But only once. | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 213.219.8.243 |
I thought you folks might be interested in this: http://matthewfryer.wordpress.com/ the first review of THE HARM: | ||
| Kate (Kathleen) Username: Kathleen Registered: 09-2009 Posted From: 86.169.163.57 |
I'm really looking forward to this one, Zed! | ||
| Steve Bacon (Stevebacon) Username: Stevebacon Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 90.204.111.236 |
Nice review, Gary. Sounds like this is just up my street (literally!) | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 213.219.8.243 |
Some of you might be interested in this. Or not. But I thought I'd let you know anyway, cos I'm the kind of guy who likes to live on the edge (of the park). http://solaris-editors-blog.blogspot.com/2010/03/new-commissions-ahoy.html | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.27.30.20 |
Nice work, Mr Casually-Slips-It-In-In-All-Aspects-Of-Life. | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 213.219.8.243 |
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| Matthew Fryer (Matthew_fryer) Username: Matthew_fryer Registered: 08-2009 Posted From: 90.202.180.203 |
I like the title, and your urban stuff is always most unnerving. Well done mate! | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.96.240.106 |
Thanks, Matt. If I pitched this trilogy as a film, I'd say they were something like Shane Meadows crossed with Arthur Machen. | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.27.30.20 |
Yeah, Arthur Meadows. A Yorkshire shopkeeper who sells manky oranges to grannies who suffer short-sightedness. He's also been known to frighten local kids with his (in his view) sterling impression of a kangaroo. He keeps his hands in his pouch and never stops clicking and licking his lips. The kids have nightmares. He's that kind of fella. Arthur Meadows. You heard about him here first. | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.27.30.20 |
And don't get me started on Shane Machen . . . the Aussie/Welsh windbag. | ||
| Mark_lynch (Mark_lynch) Username: Mark_lynch Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 62.254.173.34 |
Hey, Zed's showing off again . . . (Well odne, fella.) | ||
| Mark_lynch (Mark_lynch) Username: Mark_lynch Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 62.254.173.34 |
Or even done. | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 213.219.8.243 |
Cheers, Mark...and Matt and GF. | ||
| Mark_lynch (Mark_lynch) Username: Mark_lynch Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 62.254.173.34 |
Hey, look. No cover. http://www.amazon.co.uk/Pretty-Little-Dead-Things-Thomas/dp/000736458X/ref=sr_1_ 2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1268735179&sr=1-2 | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 213.219.8.243 |
It's still being worked on, mate. Don't worry; I'll whore it as soon as it's done. | ||
| Mark_lynch (Mark_lynch) Username: Mark_lynch Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 217.171.129.69 |
Tart. ;-) | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 213.219.8.243 |
Yeah, a five-figure advance and I'm anyone's. ;-) | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.27.30.20 |
I'll offer you £100.01 for your life's work. | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 213.219.8.243 |
It's a deal. Paypal me. My life's work, however, consists of a small vial of jism I've been scraping off the underside of my bedsheets since I was 12 year's old. | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.27.30.20 |
May I pay for your instalments by instalments? | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 213.219.8.243 |
The price will go up if you do - I'll need to buy more vials. | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.27.30.20 |
It all sounds sufficient vial to me. Count me . . . out. | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 213.219.8.243 |
(sq)Welcher! | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.27.30.20 |
No, Scwottish! A Yorkshireman with all the generosity extracted. | ||
| Ian Alexander Martin (Iam) Username: Iam Registered: 10-2009 Posted From: 64.180.64.74 |
I'm not sure which is more disgusting: the image or the grocer's apostrophe. | ||
| Des (Des) Username: Des Registered: 06-2008 Posted From: 86.169.217.52 |
Greengrocer's | ||
| Mark_lynch (Mark_lynch) Username: Mark_lynch Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 212.74.96.200 |
I'm more concerned about the number of books Zed's putting out. What is he? The new Guy N Smith?! | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.96.240.106 |
I've killed men for less than that, Lynch. Life's work has a possesive apostrophe, does it not? It is the work of my life, my life's work. I have only one life (as fars I know a), so the apostrophe is valid. | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.96.240.106 |
Ah...now I see. Yes, that rogue apostrophe: "year's". You'll have to forgive me for typing at speed with the window minimised so my boss couldn't see. I should have my posts here proof-read by three different people and a person selected at random from a line-up. | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.96.240.106 |
s (the missing "s", just for you pedants) | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.96.240.106 |
Is there an emoticon for showing your bare bottom?  | ||
| Mark_lynch (Mark_lynch) Username: Mark_lynch Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 217.171.129.70 |
)( | ||
| Mark_lynch (Mark_lynch) Username: Mark_lynch Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 217.171.129.70 |
uu | ||
| Mark_lynch (Mark_lynch) Username: Mark_lynch Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 217.171.129.70 |
Uh, no, then... | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.96.240.106 |
 I'll just have to upload a photo, then... | ||
| Ian Alexander Martin (Iam) Username: Iam Registered: 10-2009 Posted From: 64.180.64.74 |
Ahem. You probably meant "as far as I know", yes? | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.96.240.106 |
I hope you pay this close attention to the proof reading of the Atomic Fez books. | ||
| Ian Alexander Martin (Iam) Username: Iam Registered: 10-2009 Posted From: 64.180.64.74 |
Zed: Yes. Although please do not examine the cover of one of them too closely. | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.96.240.106 |
Is there a willy hidden on it? | ||
| Steve Bacon (Stevebacon) Username: Stevebacon Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 90.210.209.136 |
There might be a willy hidden INSIDE one; perhaps that's the Golden Ticket, to win a breakfast with Ian and John?.. | ||
| Ian Alexander Martin (Iam) Username: Iam Registered: 10-2009 Posted From: 64.180.64.74 |
Trust me, were JLP or myself to hide a willy somewhere, it wouldn't be difficult to find. |