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Tony (Tony)
Username: Tony

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 86.132.32.205
Posted on Thursday, April 04, 2019 - 08:44 am:   

Started reading this again. Am just a few pages in but wow, it's so vivid and cinematic. You can practically hear it, see it. It feels dirty and alive, and is a much smoother read than maybe some later books. There's less style but more impact somehow.
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Protodroid (Protodroid)
Username: Protodroid

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 213.233.132.177
Posted on Friday, April 05, 2019 - 02:09 am:   

I really enjoyed that one. The scene with a conversation taking part in a darkening room still stays with me and the twist amazed me.
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Tony (Tony)
Username: Tony

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 81.131.135.252
Posted on Saturday, April 06, 2019 - 09:07 am:   

It's like I've just discovered him. It's so alive. And it's really showing me why I went on to write a little later. I'm currently doing up my stories with an aim to trying to get them published and I can see I owe him a massive debt.
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Protodroid (Protodroid)
Username: Protodroid

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 213.233.132.132
Posted on Sunday, April 07, 2019 - 12:47 am:   

Yeah, I found it very raw and real. It was simply written, but resonant, and had a clear narrative.
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Tony (Tony)
Username: Tony

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 81.131.135.252
Posted on Monday, April 08, 2019 - 05:12 pm:   

I sent my antho off to Tartarus press!
I hate plugs for book sales, even at this stage, I'm just trying to share my excitement because I can't keep it in.
I'll regret it in a minute.
No, talking about publishing isn't what places like this are about. It's not a shop.
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Protodroid (Protodroid)
Username: Protodroid

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 213.233.147.102
Posted on Wednesday, April 10, 2019 - 02:19 am:   

That's great, Tony, congratulations!

Want to say what it's called?

Don't worry, you're unlikely to succumb to available-in-all-good-bookshops disease.
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Protodroid (Protodroid)
Username: Protodroid

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 213.233.147.102
Posted on Wednesday, April 10, 2019 - 02:20 am:   

I just remembered, I scraped together a couple of short short stories into the flimsiest chapbook you've ever seen. I'll send it to you if you like.
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Tony (Tony)
Username: Tony

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 86.169.180.118
Posted on Wednesday, April 10, 2019 - 12:57 pm:   

Yes! Have you still got my address? 3 Office Street, Wheatley hill, County Durham?
DH6 3QR.
I got a rejection email today from Tartarus. A very nice one, though, saying they liked my stuff and thought it well done, it just didn't fit with what they did. I actually agreed.
The antho would be Other Castles.
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Protodroid (Protodroid)
Username: Protodroid

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 147.252.230.86
Posted on Wednesday, April 10, 2019 - 01:13 pm:   

Ah, I'll just email it to you. There's nothing special about the book as an object.

Too bad, but keep it out there always underconsideration. Make it a constant game of creepy-uppy.
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Tony (Tony)
Username: Tony

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 86.169.180.118
Posted on Wednesday, April 10, 2019 - 01:23 pm:   

I was happy to self publish, to be honest. In fact I was even curious about what would happen. The tide has turned regarding self publishing; it's not vanity publishing now - people have realised it's no different to producing craft or art, both of which get made and put out without any governing body deciding it's quality. That said, I think a lot of it is shit.
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Protodroid (Protodroid)
Username: Protodroid

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 51.37.86.52
Posted on Wednesday, April 10, 2019 - 02:40 pm:   

Yes, vanity publishing means nothing now that the infrastructure seems to have collapsed (has it?). Lots of rubble we're scrambling over now. How does an artist make money any more? I'd love to know.
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Tony (Tony)
Username: Tony

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 86.169.180.118
Posted on Wednesday, April 10, 2019 - 08:36 pm:   

I don't think new writers do. They have become wheat and chaff. Only time will sort out what was good, blow them apart.
But I do think the backlash against writing and books has come from the vast amount of bad writing out there, the sheer volume of stuff available to read, all the praise for so-so writers from other so-so writers. There's a book called The Chalk Man and it got a blurb by Stephen King - 'If you love my stuff you'll love this.' This to me is the sneakiest ambiguous blurb I have ever read; nowhere does it say it's any good or even that he enjoyed it. That said, I bought the book because of it and couldn't get two pages in. It's awful. Really amateurish.
(I hope the author isn't reading this. Not that they are - this place is like a well.)
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Protodroid (Protodroid)
Username: Protodroid

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 213.233.147.124
Posted on Wednesday, April 10, 2019 - 09:38 pm:   

Hmm. Does that mean Stephen King doesn't like his own stuff? By stuff did he mean something other than his writing? Stuff in his desk drawers? His collection of bobble heads? Mysteries abound...
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Tony (Tony)
Username: Tony

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 86.137.109.102
Posted on Tuesday, April 30, 2019 - 09:28 am:   

Well, I just finished reading this. While the ending was so beautiful I missed characters who had fallen away amid the action, and felt some descriptions and scenes got a tad repetitive and drawn out. Also the city, a character in itself, kind of slipped into the background. I loved so much of this book but it feels it's missing an eye or a limb or if it were a car, a wheel. But I'm sad.to see.It go - it's just a shame it felt like it left before the story did.
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Protodroid (Protodroid)
Username: Protodroid

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 213.233.132.181
Posted on Tuesday, April 30, 2019 - 03:43 pm:   

I've only read it once, 25 years ago, but my memory is that it felt like a very promising early novel. I think it's his first?
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Tony (Tony)
Username: Tony

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 86.137.109.102
Posted on Wednesday, May 01, 2019 - 10:42 am:   

I think The Face That Must Die came first but got published second. I tried to write a novel a few years ago. It is SO HARD. Haha off to anyone who writes even a bad one.
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Tony (Tony)
Username: Tony

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 86.137.109.102
Posted on Wednesday, May 01, 2019 - 10:42 am:   

Hats. :/

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