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     Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 213.219.8.243 |
Follow the link to see the beautiful cover art for my forthcoming double-novella collection DIFFERENT SKINS: http://www.screamingdreams.com/index1.html | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 213.219.8.243 |
or simply look at it here:  | ||
| Grant (Grant) Username: Grant Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 67.176.207.225 |
Lovely cover.Who did it? | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 213.219.8.243 |
Vincent Chong. He's an amazing artist. | ||
| Allybird (Allybird) Username: Allybird Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 79.70.42.102 |
Absolutely love it. | ||
| Huw (Huw) Username: Huw Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 61.216.37.163 |
That's your best cover yet, Gary - congratulations! I love the ghostly/alien look of the woman's face. | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 213.219.8.243 |
Thanks, Huw - just wait till you read the stories. This is my most ambitious project to date. :-) | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.24.122.40 |
Different Skins is brilliant. I've read it, so nurr nurr nurr. In The Skin is arguably Zed's finest tale, and certainly his darkest. | ||
| Griff (Griff) Username: Griff Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.93.21.74 |
Superb cover, Zed. :-) | ||
| Karim Ghahwagi (Karim) Username: Karim Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 83.92.216.182 |
I love the visual of that, and a set of novellas is a great way to put a book together. The way the head is shot with the big eyes really makes her lean out of the picture. And her expression is a little hard to read. Striking image. :-) I am actually enjoying novella length fiction much more these days than short stories and novels. | ||
| Mark_lynch (Mark_lynch) Username: Mark_lynch Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 212.74.96.200 |
Hmm. A bit COMMUNIONish . . . | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.147.51.96 |
I thought that. Communion really moved me as a book, even if it was all a fib it had a sort of spiritual truth to it. | ||
| Griff (Griff) Username: Griff Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.93.21.74 |
Who is she? She looks familiar! | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.96.249.146 |
She looks like Adriana - at least that was my initial thought. God's signature is reflected in her black eyes... something crucial to the first novella. Brief synopsis for both novellas: Even the Dead Die The Afterlife is now… During his usual morning tube ride through London, office worker Mike Angelo catches sight of the man who raped his sister – a man who has been dead for years. Then he meets Sheena, a ghostly tattoo artist, who introduces him to a world he never even knew existed: a bustling underworld of phantoms, where nothing, not even death, can be taken for granted. This is just the beginning of a journey into the darkest corners of the capital in search of his sister’s ghost. And along the way, Mike will meet the illegal ghostgirls, rub shoulders with spectral hoodlums, encounter the mythical Desolation Angels, and learn of The Big Black – the place where even the dead go to die. In the Skin You know when you've been on a long trip and upon your return you experience the disorientating feeling that your loved ones look slightly different? Nothing that you can put your finger on: they just look changed. Altered. The effect doesn't last long, just an hour or two; then things return to normal and you forget all about it as you get on with your life. Well, what if that feeling didn't go away? And what if you found strange markings carved into the door frame of your house, the skinned and beakless body of a bird on your doorstep, and your young son began to act in a way that made you think he'd been taken over? What if you thought someone else was in your son's skin, controlling him, wearing him like a suit? And what if you thought he was trying to kill you? | ||
| Adriana (Adriana) Username: Adriana Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 99.230.239.233 |
Brrrrrrrrr. | ||
| Adriana (Adriana) Username: Adriana Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 99.230.239.233 |
Emily must be so proud of you. Fucking awesome. Congrats, comrade. | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.96.249.146 |
Thanks, petal. :-) Emily simply fears me. :-o | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.96.249.146 |
Btw, the idea for "In the Skin" came to me when I returned from Toronto. :-) | ||
| Karim Ghahwagi (Karim) Username: Karim Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 83.93.30.31 |
This sounds excellent Zed- really looking forward to reading it! (I'm going to go broke with the cool books coming out) ;-) | ||
| Mark_lynch (Mark_lynch) Username: Mark_lynch Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 212.74.96.200 |
>>She looks like Adriana - at least that was my initial thought. God's signature is reflected in her black eyes... And I just thought she'd left the price tag on her contacts . . . | ||
| Adriana (Adriana) Username: Adriana Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 99.230.239.233 |
Yeah, whenever I get back from being away, I see things just a little differently... I often feel like cats are replaced with dopplegangers... | ||
| Adriana (Adriana) Username: Adriana Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 99.230.239.233 |
But maybe it's ME that's different. Not them. That might be a fun story - one where nothing seems as it should, only to realise that it's because you're not you... | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.96.240.106 |
"Different Skins" is now back from the printers. The book isn't available for another week or so, but here are a few photographs of the first copy off the press: http://www.garymcmahon.com/ It's a beautiful thing...  | ||
| Gcw (Gcw) Username: Gcw Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.151.122.166 |
Lovely for sure! This on sale at Fcon Zed? gcw | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.96.240.106 |
Yes indeedy, the official launch is at FCon - my Abaddon book is also being launched there, as is the latest edition of Best New Horror (Saturday at 3pm; a free glass of wine with each copy bought, and I'll even sign yours with a kiss!). I can't bloody wait!  | ||
| Gcw (Gcw) Username: Gcw Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.151.122.166 |
Gary, is it the kiss for for GCW that you cant wait for??...or maybe another reason...like your book launch  Soozy | ||
| Alansjf (Alansjf) Username: Alansjf Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 93.96.45.148 |
For unsociable bastards such as myself who won't be attending FCon, when & where can we get our grubby little paws on this? I've just checked the Screaming Dreams site, but there's no (pre-)ordering info available ... | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 213.219.8.243 |
The Screaming Dreams site will be updated to include ordering details soon (maybe before FCon; maybe after), but if you drop Steve Upham an email I'm sure he'll sort you out immediately. | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 213.219.8.243 |
Link: http://www.screamingdreams.com/contact.html | ||
| Weber_gregston (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 194.176.105.47 |
And another plug  |