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Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 213.219.8.243
| Posted on Monday, October 13, 2008 - 01:47 pm: | |
Since we're on the subject of zomies...well, sort of. I'm delighted to announce that the fabulous Abaddon Books (http://www.abaddonbooks.com/main.php) have commissioned me to write a zombie novel for their exciting TOMES OF THE DEAD series of paperback originals. This will be my first mass market release, so I'm obviously thrilled to be writing it. Hungry Hearts is a stand-alone story set in the north of England during a zombie apocalypse. I don't want to give too much away regarding the plot, but rather than examine the large-scale effects of the dead rising to feast upon the living, my novel will focus right in on three very damaged characters and their, well, truly weird love triangle... Expect madness, mayhem and the usual McMahon bleakness. Oh, and zombies. Thousands of 'em. |
Gary Fry (Gary_fry)
Username: Gary_fry
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 82.3.65.135
| Posted on Monday, October 13, 2008 - 01:49 pm: | |
Yee-ha! |
Allybird (Allybird) Username: Allybird
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 79.70.39.75
| Posted on Monday, October 13, 2008 - 01:51 pm: | |
Great news Gary - well done! |
Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 213.219.8.243
| Posted on Monday, October 13, 2008 - 02:03 pm: | |
Thanks folks...I've also just posted this review of the current Year's Best Fantasy & Horror, and my tale gets a lovely mention: http://www.greenmanreview.com/book/book_ve_ybfh21.html Today is a good day. One of the few. :-) |
Jonathan (Jonathan) Username: Jonathan
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 91.143.178.131
| Posted on Monday, October 13, 2008 - 02:25 pm: | |
Indeed, it will be a pleasure to work with you Mr McMahon. |
Simon Strantzas (Nomis) Username: Nomis
Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 99.225.111.224
| Posted on Monday, October 13, 2008 - 02:36 pm: | |
Many happy returns. |
Michael_kelly (Michael_kelly) Username: Michael_kelly
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 207.188.88.217
| Posted on Monday, October 13, 2008 - 03:39 pm: | |
Yay, Zed! |
Albie (Albie)
Username: Albie
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.195.236.131
| Posted on Monday, October 13, 2008 - 05:30 pm: | |
Could the zombie curse stem from Hull, please? And could it be nuked in some fashion? |
Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 213.219.8.243
| Posted on Monday, October 13, 2008 - 05:50 pm: | |
Which fashion? Zombie chic? |
Mark_lynch (Mark_lynch) Username: Mark_lynch
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 89.168.146.81
| Posted on Monday, October 13, 2008 - 06:14 pm: | |
Zombies in Ug ug ug boots? Nice sale, Zed. |
Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.96.242.126
| Posted on Monday, October 13, 2008 - 07:41 pm: | |
Cheers, chief. |
Allybird (Allybird) Username: Allybird
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 79.70.39.75
| Posted on Monday, October 13, 2008 - 11:14 pm: | |
Jonathan - are you still open to submissions? |
Jonathan (Jonathan) Username: Jonathan
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 79.77.106.135
| Posted on Tuesday, October 14, 2008 - 12:37 am: | |
Not at the moment I'm afraid Ally but there may be opportunities in the not too distant future. |
Huw (Huw) Username: Huw
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 218.168.184.66
| Posted on Tuesday, October 14, 2008 - 01:24 am: | |
This is great news, Zed! I'm excited for you - well done! |
Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 213.219.8.243
| Posted on Tuesday, October 14, 2008 - 09:58 am: | |
Thanks, Huw. I'm currently writing like a man possessed...I've become even more prolific than usual. :-) Having a ball writing it, too. I love zombies, me. :-) |
Frank (Frank) Username: Frank
Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 79.187.206.46
| Posted on Tuesday, October 14, 2008 - 11:00 am: | |
Fantastic mate. Well done, mucker. |
Gary Fry (Gary_fry)
Username: Gary_fry
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 82.3.65.135
| Posted on Tuesday, October 14, 2008 - 11:26 am: | |
Jonathan, can you just give me some money? |
Mark_lynch (Mark_lynch) Username: Mark_lynch
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 88.110.198.232
| Posted on Tuesday, October 14, 2008 - 12:24 pm: | |
I think I may have a Guernsey pound note left over somewhere, Gary, if you're desperate . . .. |
Mark_lynch (Mark_lynch) Username: Mark_lynch
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 88.110.198.232
| Posted on Tuesday, October 14, 2008 - 12:25 pm: | |
What's good about the Abbadon books, is that they can be found, with only minor diffculty, in Waterstones -- and for under a tenner. |
Huw (Huw) Username: Huw
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 218.168.188.151
| Posted on Tuesday, October 14, 2008 - 12:33 pm: | |
They're all really good too - there's not been a bad 'un published. sorry |
Jonathan (Jonathan) Username: Jonathan
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 79.77.99.150
| Posted on Tuesday, October 14, 2008 - 01:06 pm: | |
Not as bad as Ian Watson's suggestion that we start a new line of homosexual erotica fiction called Gay Abaddon. Hoist very much by my own petard. Yes, the books are all pretty readily available. Very good to have the big two bookshops on side. That's mainly down to our distributors who are great. Books are starting to make more noise in the US too. |
Joel (Joel) Username: Joel
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 217.37.199.45
| Posted on Tuesday, October 14, 2008 - 01:08 pm: | |
That joke is copyright me, RCMB 2007. But you're welcome to use it, and thereby share the shame. |
Joel (Joel) Username: Joel
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 217.37.199.45
| Posted on Tuesday, October 14, 2008 - 01:08 pm: | |
I meant Huw's joke, not Ian's. |
Joel (Joel) Username: Joel
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 217.37.199.45
| Posted on Tuesday, October 14, 2008 - 01:11 pm: | |
Well done, Zed. If the Abaddon list is pulp, we should remember that the likes of Lovecraft, Howard, Hammett, Chandler, Bradbury and Leiber were all pulp writers. When pulp fiction is written with grace and discipline and passion and energy, there's nothing to touch it. |
Gary Fry (Gary_fry)
Username: Gary_fry
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 82.3.65.135
| Posted on Tuesday, October 14, 2008 - 01:12 pm: | |
>>>Books are starting to make more noise in the US too. Do they speak volumes? |
Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 213.219.8.243
| Posted on Tuesday, October 14, 2008 - 01:35 pm: | |
My favourite thing about the Abaddon books: they are pocket paperback format. I loathe these big, clumsy B-format paperbacks the small press uses. The pocket paperback is a thing of wonder, a thing of beauty. :-) Joel - God, yes, literate pulp fiction can't be beaten. |
Huw (Huw) Username: Huw
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 61.216.34.107
| Posted on Tuesday, October 14, 2008 - 04:25 pm: | |
Joel, I was thinking of you when I posted that, so perhaps I was subconsciously channeling you. In any case, I hereby bow before your superior punning prowess. ;-) |
Tony (Tony) Username: Tony
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.157.114.136
| Posted on Tuesday, October 14, 2008 - 10:43 pm: | |
Is B Format those big chunky things? I HATE those guys. |
Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.96.242.126
| Posted on Tuesday, October 14, 2008 - 11:01 pm: | |
Those are the ones, Tony - where the hell are you meant to read them? Certainly not on the bus/train. They're far too cumbersome. The campaign for the return of the pocket paperback original starts here! |
Tony (Tony) Username: Tony
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.157.114.136
| Posted on Tuesday, October 14, 2008 - 11:57 pm: | |
They've got to be greener for a start. And they just fit the hands - do publishers have big hands now or something? |
Grant (Grant) Username: Grant
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 67.176.207.225
| Posted on Wednesday, October 15, 2008 - 02:45 am: | |
Congrats.Look forward to reading it. |
Richard_gavin (Richard_gavin) Username: Richard_gavin
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 69.157.26.56
| Posted on Thursday, October 16, 2008 - 07:54 pm: | |
I'm a bit late in reading this thread. Congratulations, Gary! Beware, all, the McMahon Machine cannot be stopped! |
Mick Curtis (Mick)
Username: Mick
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.159.158.168
| Posted on Thursday, October 16, 2008 - 09:01 pm: | |
Beware, all, the McMahon Machine cannot be stopped! No, but it can be slowed down considerably by giving it a baseball bat and scattering a few dozen Chavs in front of it. |
Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.96.242.126
| Posted on Thursday, October 16, 2008 - 09:36 pm: | |
Ha! :-) Thanks again, chaps. I'm really enjoying writing this - it's actually the most fun I've had with anything I've written. |
Gcw (Gcw) Username: Gcw
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 217.43.119.113
| Posted on Thursday, October 16, 2008 - 09:37 pm: | |
tee hee! - Well done Zed, don't get it in print too bloody quick though, I have loadsa books to read! gcw |