| Author | Message | ||
     Giancarlo (Giancarlo) Username: Giancarlo Registered: 11-2008 Posted From: 85.116.228.3 |
I have BRITISH INVASION on order from CD. Has anybody received the book yet? I suppose it's a great read! | ||
| Alansjf (Alansjf) Username: Alansjf Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 94.194.134.45 |
It is a great read. One or two ok stories, but a whole bunch of great ones: the Ramsey Campbell, Conrad Williams, Joel Lane, Gary Fry, Nicholas Royle, Pete Crowther, Mark Morris and Adam L. G. Nevill stories are all excellent. | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 82.20.31.211 |
Hey, thanks, Alan! | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 82.20.31.211 |
Mine just arrived. Looks grand. Can't wait to read it. | ||
| Mark_lynch (Mark_lynch) Username: Mark_lynch Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 212.74.96.200 |
Congrats to all involved! | ||
| Allybird (Allybird) Username: Allybird Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 79.70.123.126 |
You finally got it Gary! Added congrats to all! | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 82.20.31.211 |
I did. Nice book. When I think how, as a teenager, I'd be buying this kind of thing, and now I'm in it - pretty cool. | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 82.20.31.211 |
Ramsey's tale is a good un - pungent imagery in a literal sense. Mark Morris's is superb - when he's on song, he's peerless in his ability to conjure powerful dread from humdrum events. Wasn't so sure about the Royle - a tad oblique for my tastes. Finch's was rather ordinary. | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 82.20.31.211 |
Ashamed to say I didn't get on with the Williams, either. It must be me. The Richards is top notch, however. Beautifully written. Pinborough's is okay. Ashley's confused me. | ||
| Joel (Joel) Username: Joel Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 91.110.158.85 |
Gary, I think you'll find the Nicholas Royle story is a masterwork. Read it again. I didn't really get it until the second time. | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 82.20.31.211 |
OK, boss. | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 82.20.31.211 |
Just read your tale, Joel. I enjoyed it a lot. As calmly understated and as smoulderingly pissed off as usual. Some blackly comic lines (Jensen's lifetime ambition...) and an acerbic conclusion. I'm not sure about the wisdom of having placed it directly after the Richards's tale, which has a similar theme, but maybe it works. You both come at this from different angles. Two interesting cameos, too...  | ||
| Joel (Joel) Username: Joel Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 217.37.199.45 |
Tony Richards is the writer I want to be when (if) I grow up. Just read the story by 'Anonymous'. If you could see my face you would confirm how not bothered it looks. | ||
| Joel (Joel) Username: Joel Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 217.37.199.45 |
Thanks, by the way. Sorry, my head's not screwed on today. And remembering the state of mind I was in when some part of my brain wrote 'Beth's Law' doesn't help... | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 82.20.31.211 |
If your face still not bothered that your head's not screwed on, especially in that state of mind? | ||
| Joel (Joel) Username: Joel Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 217.37.199.45 |
My face is not bothered. Full stop. | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 82.20.31.211 |
I'll have to read it and figure out why . . . | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 82.20.31.211 |
Pete Crowther's 'Leaves' was pretty good. Very Bradburyesque, but Crowther pulls off a grisly and effective ending. | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 82.20.31.211 |
The Lockley/Lewis is a solid tale. Nothing truly great here and it takes a while to get rolling, but the second half is entertaining and the ending effective. | ||
| Joel (Joel) Username: Joel Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 91.110.175.236 |
Tony Richards' story is wonderful. | ||
| Steve Bacon (Stevebacon) Username: Stevebacon Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 90.209.220.47 |
I can't wait to get my copy of this. I ordered it the day it was announced (and recently paid $38 to have it shipped to the UK!!!), but I've seen nothing of it yet. I realise the books you have may be cont copies, but I've heard of other UK readers who have received theirs. Please don't discuss any more until I get mine.  | ||
| Alansjf (Alansjf) Username: Alansjf Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 94.194.134.45 |
Steve, I also had it on pre-order since forever, and my copy arrived (in the UK) about a fortnight ago. Might be worth chasing it up with CD ... | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 82.20.31.211 |
>>>Tony Richards' story is wonderful. Isn't it just. Beautifully observed. | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 82.20.31.211 |
Steve, I'd definitely chase it. Took a while for mine to arrive. At that price for postage, they should have a tracking number. | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 82.20.31.211 |
Just read British Horror Weekend. Very amusing. If Guy Adams didn't write it, I'll eat my hat. | ||
| Steve Bacon (Stevebacon) Username: Stevebacon Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 90.209.220.47 |
Coincidentally, my copy of BI arrived in the post today... I'll give it a look later. | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 82.20.31.211 |
Good news. | ||
| Allybird (Allybird) Username: Allybird Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 79.70.90.136 |
£38 dollars just for the postage Steve? | ||
| Steve Bacon (Stevebacon) Username: Stevebacon Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 90.209.220.47 |
No, Ally, $38. But even without the poor exchange rate $38 seems steep to me. I've purchased from CD quite a lot and they always appear to stack the shipping costs. Horror mall seem realistic in their shipping fees - I should've used them. | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 82.20.31.211 |
Goodness, the book's only $40, isn't it?! | ||
| Steve Bacon (Stevebacon) Username: Stevebacon Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 90.209.220.47 |
Yep. Beggars belief, doesn't it? I bought Douglas Clegg's The Machinery of Night a few years ago - which is a mammoth book - and paid nowhere near that much shipping. | ||
| Allybird (Allybird) Username: Allybird Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 79.70.90.136 |
Sorry Steve stuck the wrong sign in there. £26.20 for postage then. Just isn't right. | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.96.241.143 |
At the risk of being contentious, that's a rip-off. It costs me £7 to post a hardback book to the US, so why are they charging £26.20 to post one in the other direction? | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 82.20.31.211 |
Nothing contentious about that. I do dislike this practice of making more profit from postage in addition to that of the product. If that's the case. Steve, how much was on the customs label? | ||
| Allybird (Allybird) Username: Allybird Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 79.70.90.136 |
It is terrible. When I was sending my book to America for my publisher (Steve in hospital etc) the package was around £5.50. I thought that high so absorbed a pound of it into book costs and I think that Gary does the same. | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 82.20.31.211 |
More, actually. When folk pay via PayPal, I lose their commission, too. But that's how it has to be. | ||
| Steve Bacon (Stevebacon) Username: Stevebacon Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 90.209.220.47 |
I've paid $70 before for one of their 'grab-bags'. Admittedly, that might contain 6 or 7 novels though... Gary, sadly, I didn't notice the customs label price. | ||
| Simon Strantzas (Nomis) Username: Nomis Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 99.225.104.255 |
Two things: 1) I agree: I think CD stacks the price of their shipping. When I've bought direct, it's always cost me more than from other US-based publishers. 2) It's impossible to compare shipping prices from one country to another. For example, it cost me more money to ship from Canada to the USA than it cost from the USA to Canada. We don't have a book- or paper-rate, so whenever anyone buys from me I try and let them know what to expect upfront, and give them the link to the Canada Post website where they can plug the values in themselves to see I'm not trying to rip anyone off. When you make comparisons, it has to be from other sellers in that same country. I wonder what CD would do if someone produced a quote from the USPS website that showed CD's quoted price was exorbitant... probably nothing. Steve's right; just go to Horror Mall or something similar. | ||
| Allybird (Allybird) Username: Allybird Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 79.70.90.136 |
Yes Gary same with Screaming Dreams for PayPal. I suppose sending a grab bag in bulk would be cheaper postage. | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 82.20.31.211 |
Just checked the box I received: $34.44. That's for two copies. | ||
| Steve Bacon (Stevebacon) Username: Stevebacon Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 90.209.220.47 |
This may be me being naive, but I normally try to buy direct from the publishers, rather than going through another outlet. I've always bought my GFP books from Gray Friar Press, rather than the discounted prices on Amazon; the same with Ash-Tree Press or Pendragon or whatever. Isn't it better for the publishers that way? But I may rethink buying direct from CD again. And I doubt whether CD are so impoverished that my buying direct means much, financially. | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 82.20.31.211 |
>>>Isn't it better for the publishers that way? Good God, yes! But that doesn't alter the fact that a publisher should play fair with the postage. | ||
| Allybird (Allybird) Username: Allybird Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 79.70.90.136 |
To echo that yes - I always try to do that too Steve - very important for the small press to survive but I'd ask for a re-calculation of postage and refund in this case. | ||
| Steve Bacon (Stevebacon) Username: Stevebacon Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 90.209.220.47 |
I got a refund of $10 today from CD for their 'error' in overcharging me for the shipping. Better than nothing, I suppose. Thanks for the suggestion, guys. | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 82.20.31.211 |
Fair play to them. | ||
| Allybird (Allybird) Username: Allybird Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 79.70.60.62 |
Cool - great to hear that Steve. |