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Des (Des)
Username: Des

Registered: 09-2010
Posted From: 86.151.109.99
Posted on Tuesday, July 24, 2012 - 01:43 pm:   

Just to say that THE LAST BALCONY (title invented on RCMB) is at last published (1 August officially) and already is on Amazon. :-)

Meanwhile, good enough to eat?
ghnz
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Carolinec (Carolinec)
Username: Carolinec

Registered: 06-2009
Posted From: 92.232.199.196
Posted on Tuesday, July 24, 2012 - 02:28 pm:   

Woo-hoo! That's great news, Des.
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Ramsey Campbell (Ramsey)
Username: Ramsey

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 92.8.17.173
Posted on Tuesday, July 24, 2012 - 02:35 pm:   

Hurrah!
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Mick Curtis (Mick)
Username: Mick

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 86.178.159.240
Posted on Tuesday, July 24, 2012 - 03:02 pm:   

Good news, Des - well done.
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Des (Des)
Username: Des

Registered: 09-2010
Posted From: 86.151.109.99
Posted on Tuesday, July 24, 2012 - 03:08 pm:   

Thanks, all. I'll post an image of the book here - complete with Tony's artwork - as soon as I receive my copy in the next few days hopefully.
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Des (Des)
Username: Des

Registered: 09-2010
Posted From: 86.151.109.99
Posted on Wednesday, July 25, 2012 - 08:20 pm:   

lbn

Tony's image has now appeared on the Amazon link: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Last-Balcony-Stories-Novellas/dp/0956274978/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1342717530&sr=1-1
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Des (Des)
Username: Des

Registered: 09-2010
Posted From: 86.151.109.99
Posted on Wednesday, July 25, 2012 - 09:33 pm:   

By moving the mouse over Tony's image here: http://www.inkermenpress.co.uk/index.php?page=shop.product_details&flypage=flypa ge.tpl&product_id=30&category_id=1&option=com_virtuemart&Itemid=4
you can actually peer in through the window!
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Mark_lynch (Mark_lynch)
Username: Mark_lynch

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 92.40.254.231
Posted on Wednesday, July 25, 2012 - 10:22 pm:   

Nice one, Des.

(Can I be controversial and say I prefered that interior room image Tony first proposed as a cover? Sorrrrry.)
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Des (Des)
Username: Des

Registered: 09-2010
Posted From: 86.151.109.99
Posted on Wednesday, July 25, 2012 - 11:30 pm:   

I can't remember that one, Mark.
I think the one above is iconic...
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Des (Des)
Username: Des

Registered: 09-2010
Posted From: 86.151.109.99
Posted on Thursday, July 26, 2012 - 12:08 am:   

Thanks, btw, Mark. I hope you like Tony's Blue Apocryphan Red Indian model in the margins of my own website for this book:
http://expenscusil.wordpress.com/
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Tony (Tony)
Username: Tony

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 86.158.157.153
Posted on Thursday, July 26, 2012 - 11:18 am:   

my picture
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Tony (Tony)
Username: Tony

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 86.158.157.153
Posted on Thursday, July 26, 2012 - 11:22 am:   

God - that's vast!
Er, help?
Anyway, it was the one 'Damper' Mark preferred.
I liked it, too. was taken in a Nottingham pub/hotel, a place that turned up on telly recently with some link to some murder or something.
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Des (Des)
Username: Des

Registered: 09-2010
Posted From: 86.151.109.99
Posted on Thursday, July 26, 2012 - 11:46 am:   

Yes, I now remember that Tony. Brilliant, but perhaps too Horror design Sui Generis?
The more I see your model tower version the more it creeps intto the soul.
Or is that just me?
Anyway, the book is what it is. Haven't seen it yet but the publisher is over the moon with its design etc.
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Tony (Tony)
Username: Tony

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 86.158.157.153
Posted on Thursday, July 26, 2012 - 11:48 am:   

Yes, I like the final product too. But I do think both suit the book. Just different aspects.
And I DO like the two mysteries of the final cover; what is inside, and what is beneath?
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Tony (Tony)
Username: Tony

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 86.158.157.153
Posted on Thursday, July 26, 2012 - 11:49 am:   

One of the doors has fell off that tower now, and the guttering. Poor thing.
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Joel (Joel)
Username: Joel

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 217.37.199.45
Posted on Thursday, July 26, 2012 - 01:42 pm:   

This looks great, Des.
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Mark_lynch (Mark_lynch)
Username: Mark_lynch

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 92.40.254.105
Posted on Thursday, July 26, 2012 - 08:43 pm:   

That's the pic, Des; the one Tony posted. Felt more subtle and traditionally 'classic' than the tower, though the tower's fine too.

Yes, the sculpture of the Native American is a work of art, all right. I remember following its progress and being well impressed.
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Des (Des)
Username: Des

Registered: 09-2010
Posted From: 86.151.109.99
Posted on Monday, July 30, 2012 - 02:37 pm:   

The book has arrived.
Very excited!
lb23
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Tony (Tony)
Username: Tony

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 86.158.156.152
Posted on Tuesday, July 31, 2012 - 01:52 pm:   

Oh - I thought he used the sunset Indian. Never mind - still looks good.
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Tony (Tony)
Username: Tony

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 217.42.55.97
Posted on Thursday, August 02, 2012 - 02:34 pm:   

My copies just reached me today and they're absolutely gorgeous! The best cover I've done I think - subtle, but just right. And I know in this day and ages of thumbnails and whatever, but in reality it looks more special than here. It has real 'flavour'.
Thanks for this chance, Des.
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Des (Des)
Username: Des

Registered: 09-2010
Posted From: 86.140.213.21
Posted on Wednesday, August 22, 2012 - 05:44 pm:   

I’m irreversibly grateful for Rhys Hughes
purchasing the book and real-time reviewing it –
but also I’m suffering broken sleep at
balustrade’s edge….

His evolving review here:
http://mantoucan.blogspot.co.uk/2012/08/the-last-balcony-real-time-review.html

yu
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Des (Des)
Username: Des

Registered: 09-2010
Posted From: 86.140.213.21
Posted on Thursday, September 13, 2012 - 06:16 pm:   

Riverside balconies in Hull
http://www.hullvalley.blogspot.co.uk/2012/09/riverside-balconies.html
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Tony (Tony)
Username: Tony

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 217.42.48.249
Posted on Thursday, September 13, 2012 - 06:23 pm:   

Golly - I used to live there. A strange, fascinating place. I have some super 8 film of waves breaking against the banks of the Humber. I loved every moment.

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