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Gary Fry (Gary_fry)
Username: Gary_fry
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 82.3.65.135
| Posted on Monday, September 29, 2008 - 10:54 am: | |
After a bit of a writing slump, I've just heard that PS Publishing will publish my first novel The House of Canted Steps. Thought I'd share the news with you guys first. I'm delighted. It's due out in 2010. It's a haunted house story. |
John Llewellyn Probert (John_l_probert) Username: John_l_probert
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 213.253.174.81
| Posted on Monday, September 29, 2008 - 11:11 am: | |
Very well done mate! Wish I could have a 'slump' like that! |
Mick Curtis (Mick)
Username: Mick
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.163.48.186
| Posted on Monday, September 29, 2008 - 11:55 am: | |
Good news Gary - well done! |
Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 213.219.8.243
| Posted on Monday, September 29, 2008 - 12:03 pm: | |
Huzzah! |
Jonathan (Jonathan) Username: Jonathan
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 91.143.178.131
| Posted on Monday, September 29, 2008 - 12:35 pm: | |
Fantastic news. Well done that man. |
Hubert (Hubert) Username: Hubert
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 78.22.238.203
| Posted on Monday, September 29, 2008 - 12:45 pm: | |
Another brick in the wall of your eternity! |
Ramsey Campbell (Ramsey) Username: Ramsey
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.93.21.74
| Posted on Monday, September 29, 2008 - 12:48 pm: | |
Hurrah for you and PS! |
Tony (Tony) Username: Tony
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.129.151.199
| Posted on Monday, September 29, 2008 - 12:51 pm: | |
Well done, Gary. Also Mark tells me to say well done too - he's away in Geurnsey. He also says to say 'the lead character swung it', if that means anything. |
Albie (Albie)
Username: Albie
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 77.86.114.169
| Posted on Monday, September 29, 2008 - 01:01 pm: | |
HUH! A "slump". I dream about GETTING to the level of a "slump." I think someone left the plug out on my inspiration...sink. |
Lincoln_brown (Lincoln_brown) Username: Lincoln_brown
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 58.165.11.223
| Posted on Monday, September 29, 2008 - 01:05 pm: | |
Well done GF! Another one to add to the 'must buy' list. |
Huw (Huw) Username: Huw
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 218.168.176.239
| Posted on Monday, September 29, 2008 - 01:21 pm: | |
Great news, Gary - congratulations! |
Gary Fry (Gary_fry)
Username: Gary_fry
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 82.3.65.135
| Posted on Monday, September 29, 2008 - 01:41 pm: | |
Thanks, all! You're all too splendid. Tony, tell Mark that I'm glad his monicker isn't Monica, or else it would all have been silly. |
Simon Strantzas (Nomis) Username: Nomis
Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 38.113.181.169
| Posted on Monday, September 29, 2008 - 02:48 pm: | |
Best! |
Adriana (Adriana) Username: Adriana
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 99.230.239.233
| Posted on Monday, September 29, 2008 - 05:46 pm: | |
Fanbloodytastic!!!! |
Craig (Craig) Username: Craig
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 75.5.15.100
| Posted on Monday, September 29, 2008 - 05:59 pm: | |
Gary - I've already downloaded it illegally, and will congratulate you (depending) as soon as I finish reading it/passing it on.... |
Alansjf (Alansjf) Username: Alansjf
Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 93.97.93.216
| Posted on Monday, September 29, 2008 - 06:16 pm: | |
Congratulations, Gary. That's a great title for a haunted house novel. |
Gary Fry (Gary_fry)
Username: Gary_fry
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 82.3.65.135
| Posted on Monday, September 29, 2008 - 06:24 pm: | |
Thanks again, all. Craig, feel free to pass it on to Hollywood! |
Craig (Craig) Username: Craig
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 75.5.15.100
| Posted on Monday, September 29, 2008 - 06:27 pm: | |
Yeah, get in line, Gary! Speaking of, though... and don't bother if you feel it ruins it, but... what's the logline?... |
Gary Fry (Gary_fry)
Username: Gary_fry
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 82.3.65.135
| Posted on Monday, September 29, 2008 - 06:30 pm: | |
What's a logline? Sounds like an emergency call number for when you have diarrhoea. |
Gary Fry (Gary_fry)
Username: Gary_fry
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 82.3.65.135
| Posted on Monday, September 29, 2008 - 06:32 pm: | |
Here's the pitch blurb, if that's what you mean: When Mark Cookson values a house and then puts it on the market with his estate agency, he slowly begins to suspect that the place is actually haunted. Mark's ex-wife has a new lover and is now pregnant with a second child. They and Mark's seven-year-old son are seeking a bigger property, and see this house on the agency's website. It is perfect for them. After they all move in, Mark must confront some of his own familial demons in order to save his son from the terrible ghostly ones that still linger in... ...The House of Canted Steps. |
Craig (Craig) Username: Craig
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 75.5.15.100
| Posted on Monday, September 29, 2008 - 06:50 pm: | |
Sounds like a classic, fun ghost story Gary! Hollywood would ask you to shorten that down to one sentence, though.... Oh yeah, and you have to do this-movie-meets-that-movie. What's the two movie comparison? |
Joel (Joel) Username: Joel
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 217.37.199.45
| Posted on Monday, September 29, 2008 - 06:55 pm: | |
Well done, Gary! |
Gary Fry (Gary_fry)
Username: Gary_fry
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 82.3.65.135
| Posted on Monday, September 29, 2008 - 07:51 pm: | |
Craig, no problem: One sentence: Where's Scooby-doo when you need him, the ginger floppy-eared pussy? Two movie: It's Four Wedding and a Funeral meets Apolcalypse Now. That clearer? |
Gcw (Gcw) Username: Gcw
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 217.43.119.113
| Posted on Monday, September 29, 2008 - 09:01 pm: | |
Well-bloody-done Gary! I was thinking at FCon you had been quiet on the publishing front.... The blurb makes this sound a little more commercial (...Sorry, there isn't a good way to describe what I'm...trying to describe!) than your short stories. Will this be in a similar vein or a departure? PS. 2010 is good for me....I have a mountain of books to get through! gcw |
Gary Fry (Gary_fry)
Username: Gary_fry
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 82.3.65.135
| Posted on Monday, September 29, 2008 - 09:10 pm: | |
It's very much like my short stories, GCW. But, er, longer, of course. If you've read 'The Familial' from Sanity and Other Delusions, you know what to expect: queasy psychology and ghosts from behind the eyes. |
Gcw (Gcw) Username: Gcw
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 217.43.119.113
| Posted on Monday, September 29, 2008 - 09:17 pm: | |
Yes, I read 'Sanity...' Gary, one of my favourite recent books. gcw |
Gary Fry (Gary_fry)
Username: Gary_fry
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 82.3.65.135
| Posted on Monday, September 29, 2008 - 09:24 pm: | |
You flatter me, sir. |
Allybird (Allybird) Username: Allybird
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 218.103.135.129
| Posted on Wednesday, October 01, 2008 - 08:01 am: | |
Just popping in - Congrats from Hong Kong Gary! |
Gary Fry (Gary_fry)
Username: Gary_fry
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 129.11.77.197
| Posted on Wednesday, October 01, 2008 - 02:19 pm: | |
Thanks, Ally! Have a plateful of insects for me! |
Michael_kelly (Michael_kelly) Username: Michael_kelly
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 99.243.50.232
| Posted on Wednesday, October 01, 2008 - 04:38 pm: | |
Congratulations, Gary! |
Allybird (Allybird) Username: Allybird
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 203.218.232.36
| Posted on Thursday, October 02, 2008 - 04:23 am: | |
I've been bitten to buggery! No deep fried chocolate locusts for me and had to walk down the creepiest pathway near the jungle last night besides the gravestones. It was called Snake Path and I didn't have a torch :>( |
Gary Fry (Gary_fry)
Username: Gary_fry
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 82.3.65.135
| Posted on Thursday, October 02, 2008 - 03:24 pm: | |
Still safer than Bradford, though. |
Hubert (Hubert) Username: Hubert
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 78.22.229.34
| Posted on Thursday, October 02, 2008 - 03:31 pm: | |
Wish I were there. No, not Bradford. |
Mark_lynch (Mark_lynch) Username: Mark_lynch
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 88.110.221.72
| Posted on Monday, October 13, 2008 - 11:59 am: | |
Very good news, Gary. Michelle and I were well chuffed when Tony sent us the news. "Mark's" an estate agent, though . . .?! ugh . . . |
Gary Fry (Gary_fry)
Username: Gary_fry
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 82.3.65.135
| Posted on Monday, October 13, 2008 - 12:01 pm: | |
He's the exception that proves the rule, mate. |