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     Weber_gregston (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 194.176.105.47 |
I went to a Mo Hayder signing yesterday. She's a fairly good, extremely nasty crime writer. Her books tend to be drenched with blood and scenes of quite vicious torture. I don't know what I expected really, but when the writer of this nastiness turned out to be a cheerful petite little blond, bubbly woman with ringlets, dressed in pink, I was rather surprised. I knew she wasn't going to creep in wearing a bloodsoaked apron, fresh from her latest research but... She was the complete antithesis of her books which are grim and bleak at best. | ||
| Joel (Joel) Username: Joel Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 217.37.199.45 |
No surprise.  People assume everyone who attends horror conventions is ugly, saturnine, antisocial and bitter. Hold on. They're right. | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 82.20.31.211 |
I met Ruth Rendell about ten years ago and was surprised at this slightly posh and batty old lady with a sweet lisp. I'd just read A SIGHT FOR SORE EYES - every bit the equal of Ramsey's crime stuff. | ||
| Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.159.87.217 |
I've read all of Hayder's stuff (apart from the latest) and her picture is on most of the books, but she looks quite unlike I would have imagined, although there's no reason she should like like anything in particular. | ||
| Weber_gregston (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 194.176.105.47 |
She looks a lot more serious on the book photos (which aren't on my paperback copies) than she does in the flesh. And she was wearing a pink headband. People who write that sort of detail shouldn't be wearing cheerful pink headbands... | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 82.20.31.211 |
>>>People assume everyone who attends horror conventions is ugly, saturnine, antisocial and bitter. Except for Pete Crowther, of course. But then again, as Neil Gaiman says, he has got a cellar full of corpses. | ||
| Mark_lynch (Mark_lynch) Username: Mark_lynch Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 212.74.96.200 |
I've got a Mo Hayder book somewhere. not read it yet. PIG ISLAND. A friend told me it was rubbish. | ||
| Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.159.87.217 |
Mark; it's not bad, but I suggest you try Tokyo (aka The Devil of Nanking), which I got in my freebie bag at Toronto; it was one of the best books I read that year. | ||
| Simon Bestwick (Simon_b) Username: Simon_b Registered: 10-2008 Posted From: 86.24.165.182 |
Tokyo is excellent. Birdman and The Treatment are good too- particularly the latter. Blood-chilling. Pig Island's not bad, though. Flawed, but has some good qualities. I'd forgotten about the signing till I saw it in the local paper. Was meaning to go to that. Damn. | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.96.241.143 |
The missus thought Birdman was excellent, but I'm yet to read Hayder. | ||
| Steve Bacon (Stevebacon) Username: Stevebacon Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 90.211.103.83 |
I enjoyed Birdman. I have Pig Island (because the synopsis sounded good) but have yet to read it. | ||
| Tom_alaerts (Tom_alaerts) Username: Tom_alaerts Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.244.133.214 |
"The Nurse", an evil character in her novel Tokyo is one of the scariest creeps I've ever read about. Quite unforgettable... | ||
| Simon Bestwick (Simon_b) Username: Simon_b Registered: 10-2008 Posted From: 86.24.165.182 |
Jesus! The Nurse! I'd nearly forgotten about her. No sleep for me tonight now... | ||
| Stu (Stu) Username: Stu Registered: 04-2008 Posted From: 86.29.109.252 |
Tokyo's buried somewhere in my TBR pile. I'll have to dig it out at some point. | ||
| Frank (Frank) Username: Frank Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 79.187.206.46 |
I remember when I went to a book signing by the landlord in a bookshop called Chapter One (sadly gone now), and spent 30 minutes flicking through magazines because I was terrified of speaking to him. Within seconds I was at ease and shooting nonsensical questions about his work. After ten minutes he pulled up a chair for me and asked me to sit with him and chat. Christ, at 18 you can imagine the impact. I actually levitated and flew home on a current of euphoria. Two years ago when I went to his Xmas bash he was the same ebullient, entertaining and gracious host he was when I first spoke to him. My mum idolises him and she hasn't even read his books. She says for a man of his accomplishment and standing to welcome someone so openly shows how little we presume of other people. | ||
| Karim Ghahwagi (Karim) Username: Karim Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 80.167.124.163 |
Yes I still have to read Tokyo- Birdman was great! I loved that author picture of her in Birdman. | ||
| Weber_gregston (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 194.176.105.47 |
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| Weber_gregston (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 194.176.105.47 |
That's Mo Hayder. does she look like she could out-gross Shaun Hutson? | ||
| Karim Ghahwagi (Karim) Username: Karim Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 80.167.124.163 |
Excellent pic Weber | ||
| Weber_gregston (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 194.176.105.47 |
I didn't take it. I wish I had. I borrowed it from a fan's myspace page |