| Author | Message | ||
     Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.96.249.146 |
I've got a copy of THIEVING FEAR and you haven't. ;-) | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.24.122.40 |
Bastard. | ||
| Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.159.156.247 |
I'd be jealous but I still haven't read GRIN OF THE DARK, bought from Pete Crowther a year ago in Toronto. Unusual for me, as I usually devour Ramsey's stuff on purchase. | ||
| Griff (Griff) Username: Griff Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 172.188.133.146 |
How come the first two posts are so close together, how does Fry do it? I've noticed his quick fingers before. | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.24.122.40 |
I am the Master. | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.24.122.40 |
How's your foot, Griffyboy? | ||
| Griff (Griff) Username: Griff Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.93.21.100 |
You are GcW and I claim my five pounds.  | ||
| Lincoln_brown (Lincoln_brown) Username: Lincoln_brown Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 124.179.229.175 |
Is it up to PS's usual high standard? | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.96.249.146 |
Licoln - yes, it's a lovely book with a great Vincent Chong cover. I started reading it last night and so far it's excellent. | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.24.122.40 |
Bastard. | ||
| Allybird (Allybird) Username: Allybird Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 79.70.41.187 |
I wanted to buy it too but I'd promised myself the first four copies of Black Static first and funds are lacking. I'll catch up with it eventually. Had a great time with Zed and John, although after much Guinness I meant to say that I wanted Never Visit Venice by Robert Aickman to have been in David Sutton's Phantoms of Venice and I said The Black Gondolier, by mistake, which of course was set in Venice, California - Mind you after all the Guinness I drank it could have been set on Mars. Talked bollocks I did - but I was the happiest I've been for 6 months. | ||
| Albie (Albie) Username: Albie Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.195.244.67 |
I'm going to thieve your Thieving Fear and cause you fear. | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.147.50.90 |
Should it really feel like you guys are all just making these names up, these authors and small publishers? I have absolutely no knowledge whatsoever about any of them. I'm not into it really, am ?  | ||
| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 75.4.241.214 |
I'm with you Tony - often these names are mysterious lists from some compendium of the Devils in Hell, as far as I know.  | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.147.50.90 |
Ally - there are canals on Mars. Maybe someone should just do a book on canal spookiness. | ||
| John_l_probert (John_l_probert) Username: John_l_probert Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 194.176.105.47 |
Well I wasn't even there even though Ally says she had a great time with me and Zed  | ||
| Joel (Joel) Username: Joel Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.159.65.204 |
Tony, I was considering an anthology of weird canal stories (working title FAR CANAL) before Dave put together the excellent PHANTOMS OF VENICE. | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.147.50.90 |
I've had so many places inspire me on holiday (hostelling, primarily) that I wonder if an anthology of such things might not be worth doing? A mix of old and new might be lovely. | ||
| Allybird (Allybird) Username: Allybird Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 79.70.41.187 |
Hey Joel, a character in one of my stories, Eric the Swedish student, gets impaled on something in a canal. I think that we are all going canal mad Tony. John Travis - John, would you have come up if you hadn't been working? | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.24.122.40 |
Joel, I got it. :<) Just ordered THIEVING FEAR! | ||
| Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.159.156.247 |
Me an' all! | ||
| Ramsey Campbell (Ramsey) Username: Ramsey Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.93.21.100 |
Is anyone on here seriously saying that they haven't heard of Aickman or PS? | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.147.50.90 |
PS and Aickman of course, but whoever wrote Thieving Fear no, or some of the small press mentioned on other threads. | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.147.50.90 |
PS and Aickman of course, but whoever wrote Thieving Fear no, or some of the small press mentioned on other threads. Shit. You wrote Thieving Fear, didn't you.  | ||
| Mark_lynch (Mark_lynch) Username: Mark_lynch Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 88.110.27.213 |
Ahh. A new Ramsey book. Actually, it's suddenly hit me that the authors I most admire usually only produce a book every two or three years. Ramsey's the delighful exception. I'll be sniffing out a copy of GRIN OF THE DARk, paperback version from a shop(!) this week! | ||
| Mark_lynch (Mark_lynch) Username: Mark_lynch Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 88.110.27.213 |
By the way, Tony, those pictures I texted you of Veta Sackville-West's writing room at Sissinghurst were about halfway up the tower. You weren't allowed in the roon, which had a barred gate door, so I reached through with my phone cam and got those exquisite shots. Could you imagine a more romantic place to write? | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 129.11.76.215 |
Delph Hill estate, Wyke, Bradford. | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 213.219.8.243 |
:-) | ||
| Ramsey Campbell (Ramsey) Username: Ramsey Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.93.21.100 |
Bargain-hunters should note that Waterstones have Grin of the Dark on a 3 for 2 deal. | ||
| Griff (Griff) Username: Griff Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.93.21.100 |
I'm onto it! I'll buy two and give one as a gift. But does this offer affect your royalties, Ramsey!? | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.96.249.146 |
Griff - the publisher pays to have titles on deals like this. As far as I know, the author's royalties aren't affected. Which means, of course, you should buy 3 copies of Grin of the Dark! :-) | ||
| Griff (Griff) Username: Griff Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.93.21.100 |
I want signed photos of Ramsey for 3! | ||
| Mark_lynch (Mark_lynch) Username: Mark_lynch Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 88.111.13.46 |
>>the author's royalties aren't affected Oh, you'd be surprised. These days, with publishers really calling the shots, authors are increasingly squeezed. Supermarket discount: royalty cut. WH Smith discount: royalty cut. Dunno if it's the same on three-for-two, but I wouldn't be surprised if it is. Still, one thing I do know: Ramsey will get more if you buy his book than if you don't! | ||
| Joel (Joel) Username: Joel Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.149.129.211 |
"Hey Joel, a character in one of my stories, Eric the Swedish student, gets impaled on something in a canal." Ally, one of my characters gets impaled on something on a canal towpath. Sadly, it's not what he expects to get impaled on. | ||
| Joel (Joel) Username: Joel Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.149.129.211 |
The new Virgin paperback horror imprint is, as far as I'm aware, the first dedicated mass-market literary horror imprint featuring new fiction in the UK since Robinson Books started in the 1980s. That's a lot of qualifiers, but it matters that the books are affordable paperbacks, very widely distributed, and are by living writers. Because that's what quality horror publishing used to mean. Buying THE GRIN OF THE DARK and THE UNBLEMISHED in Waterstone's last week reminded me of the way I used to buy stuff. The way stuff used to be published. When it was assumed that new supernatural horror titles had thousands of potential readers rather than hundreds. Let's hear it for Virgin Books. And as a bonus, if the books do well enough maybe they'll give up inflicting the Train Service From Hell on the public. Or maybe the trains are a marketing exercise for the books. That would explain a lot of things. | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 129.11.76.216 |
Their Internet service is rubbish, too. | ||
| Joel (Joel) Username: Joel Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.149.129.211 |
In fact, Ally, I recall at one point planning to write an erotic novel based around the Birmingham canal network. Working title, THE BRIDGE OF SIGHS. | ||
| Griff (Griff) Username: Griff Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.93.21.100 |
Nice post re the trains, Joel! | ||
| Joel (Joel) Username: Joel Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.149.129.211 |
Surely not as rubbish as Orange though, Gary. It can't be. Nothing can. Apart from Dario Argento on a bad day. | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 129.11.76.215 |
Dunno. Never used Orange. It didn't a peal. | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 129.11.76.215 |
When you call someone on an Orange network, do you hear the pips? | ||
| Griff (Griff) Username: Griff Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.93.21.100 |
Why did the orange stop working? It ran out of juice. | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 129.11.76.230 |
Very pithy. | ||
| Griff (Griff) Username: Griff Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.93.21.100 |
Don't get fruity with me, leisure suit boy. | ||
| Weber_gregston (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 212.121.214.11 |
I saw the PS imprint of Dandelion Wine the other day. What a beautiful looking book - one of my favourite Bradbury's as well. I really want a copy but there're 8 separate birthdays/wedding anniversaries etc in the next 7 weeks or so so I can't bloody afford anything for the next two months. | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.147.50.90 |
Weird - I was thinking about this book today. The bit where the woman in the room hears a cough. It was mentioned in a Poppy Z Brite story, and I wondered why her character liked it so, then realised he probably wanted to be the man doing the coughing. | ||
| Mark_lynch (Mark_lynch) Username: Mark_lynch Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 88.110.161.180 |
GRIN OF THE DARk was conspicuously absent in waterstones today. There was a space inthe three-for-two section, so maybe it'd sold out . . . Here's hoping. | ||
| Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.159.156.247 |
...and my copy of THIEVING FEAR has arrived! Bit embarassing though, as I've still to read my year-old copy of GRIN OF THE DARK, and I've never been a novel behind with Ramsey's stuff before. I may be expelled from the board! | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.24.122.40 |
Got mine this morning: hurrah! | ||
| Huw (Huw) Username: Huw Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 61.216.32.157 |
Where can it be bought? I can't find any for sale. | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.96.249.146 |
Huw - you're mentioned in the acknowledgments, matey. Lucky sod. :-) | ||
| Huw (Huw) Username: Huw Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 61.216.32.157 |
Huh?! This is all very mysterious! | ||
| Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.159.156.247 |
Try here, Huw:- http://store.pspublishing.co.uk/cgi-bin/sh000001.pl?REFPAGE=http%3a%2f%2fstore%2 epspublishing%2eco%2euk%2f&WD=thieving%20fear&PN=forthcoming_titles%2ehtml%23a31 1#a311 Two versions of the book available. | ||
| Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.159.156.247 |
Huw - you're mentioned in the acknowledgments, matey. Lucky sod. :-) He is indeed, although it's a little naughty of Ramsey to acknowledge Huw as being the chap who supplied the ganja Ramsey smoked whilst writing the book. :-) | ||
| Huw (Huw) Username: Huw Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 218.168.183.11 |
Ganja? Now I'm completely mystified. I've ordered a copy from PS. Is it actually available now - it just says "early 2008" on the site - or did you chaps get advance copies somehow? | ||
| Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.159.156.247 |
It's available now, Huw - I ordered it via the website a few days ago and it arrived today. The ganja thing was a joke, btw, but you do get a mention! | ||
| Huw (Huw) Username: Huw Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 218.168.183.11 |
Wow - I hope mine arrives soon! | ||
| Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.159.156.247 |
...it's a bloody long way for me to come to get you to sign my copy though... | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.96.249.146 |
It says something like a special thank you to Huw Lines for thr cry..explain, please! |