| Author | Message | ||
     Allybird (Allybird) Username: Allybird Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 80.47.27.75 |
My new collection called WINE AND RANK POISON will be published by DARK REGIONS PRESS and should be available at Fantasycon 2010. The introduction will be by Joe R. Lansdale and the artwork by Daniele Serra.  The editors will be Norm Rubenstein and Joe Morey Delux /lettered Limited/ numbered hardback Tradeback  | ||
| Des (Des) Username: Des Registered: 06-2008 Posted From: 81.155.107.64 |
bravo! Ally, so pleased. Well deserved. des | ||
| Carolinec (Carolinec) Username: Carolinec Registered: 06-2009 Posted From: 82.38.75.85 |
Nice one, Ally - you've been busy! | ||
| Frank (Frank) Username: Frank Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 188.147.81.233 |
Ally - Way to go, darling. Can't wait to read it. Just like Bull Running For Girls, fantastic title. (Shame I can't add it to my Xmas stash my mum has stockpiled with BRFG and Different Skins). Again, many hearty congratulations. Splendid stuff.  | ||
| Steve Bacon (Stevebacon) Username: Stevebacon Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 90.210.209.184 |
Great news, Ally. Eagerly anticipating it. Congratulations. | ||
| Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.176.178.93 |
Good news Ally! Well done. | ||
| Joel (Joel) Username: Joel Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 91.110.193.36 |
Well done, Ally! Great cover image, too. | ||
| Karim Ghahwagi (Karim) Username: Karim Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 80.198.99.246 |
Congrats Ally! A beautiful cover! | ||
| Ian Alexander Martin (Iam) Username: Iam Registered: 10-2009 Posted From: 64.180.64.74 |
HOORAY! I still want to know how to order the "Allyson tucks you in and reads you a bed-time story" edition… | ||
| John Llewellyn Probert (John_l_probert) Username: John_l_probert Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 213.253.174.81 |
Well done Ally - that's a lovely cover! | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 129.11.77.198 |
Nice one, Ally. | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 213.219.8.243 |
Aye, nice one, Ally. Good cover, too - I like that artist. | ||
| Stephen Walsh (Stephenw) Username: Stephenw Registered: 03-2009 Posted From: 194.32.31.1 |
Great news, Ally! Very impressive artwork too. | ||
| Allybird (Allybird) Username: Allybird Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 80.47.27.75 |
Thanks to all for the congrats! I'll have a word with the publisher - Ian :>) Here is Dani's site. http://www.multigrade.it/ | ||
| Mark West (Mark_west) Username: Mark_west Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 217.39.177.173 |
Great news, Ally | ||
| Alexicon (Alexicon) Username: Alexicon Registered: 10-2009 Posted From: 88.106.115.75 |
Ally: just seen this. Tremendous! I had a feeling something was in the offing. | ||
| Allybird (Allybird) Username: Allybird Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 80.47.27.75 |
Thanks Mark and Alex! Alex - I'm going to watch BUBBA HO-TEP tonight to celebrate! | ||
| Mark_lynch (Mark_lynch) Username: Mark_lynch Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 212.74.96.200 |
Ah, very good, Ally. | ||
| Gcw (Gcw) Username: Gcw Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.155.105.158 |
Great stuff Ally - Well done ! gcw | ||
| Allybird (Allybird) Username: Allybird Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 80.47.27.75 |
Thanks Mark and Gary - the cover just needs the graphics and title to be done by the artist, too. Very important for the overall look of the book. | ||
| Carolinec (Carolinec) Username: Carolinec Registered: 06-2009 Posted From: 82.38.75.85 |
I meant to say, it is a lovely cover. I've just taken a look at her site - what an artist! Superb stuff! Thanks for that link, Ally. | ||
| Allybird (Allybird) Username: Allybird Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 80.47.27.75 |
Her is a he - but he is very talented. I wondered about the name Daniele too, Caroline :>) Agreed 'superb artist.' | ||
| Rosswarren (Rosswarren) Username: Rosswarren Registered: 11-2009 Posted From: 86.160.83.116 |
Been lurking but this great news has bought me into the open! Congratulations!! Great cover art too, seen him post some of his stuff on Shocklines and have always been impressed. | ||
| Allybird (Allybird) Username: Allybird Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 80.47.27.75 |
Come to WHC Brighton - Caroline, and we will prove to Ian Alexander Martin that we are two different people :>) | ||
| Carolinec (Carolinec) Username: Carolinec Registered: 06-2009 Posted From: 82.38.75.85 |
Daniele = a he? Hmmm, that's confusing. Still, he's a brilliant artist. I'm already booked for WHC, Ally, so I hope to be there. If so, we can sort Ian out between us then.  Hi and welcome, Ross. | ||
| Allybird (Allybird) Username: Allybird Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 80.47.27.75 |
Hi Ross! Thank you and welcome to the board. | ||
| Huw (Huw) Username: Huw Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 218.168.177.189 |
Well done, Ally! Wish I could go to Brighton next year. I bet a lot of people on the board will be there. | ||
| Allybird (Allybird) Username: Allybird Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 80.47.27.75 |
Thanks Huw! There will certainly be quite a few of us there. There aren't many places left now, too - so if you can get there... | ||
| Des (Des) Username: Des Registered: 06-2008 Posted From: 81.155.107.64 |
It'll be a delight to socialise in real-time! Old friendships renewed or repaired, new friendships created, some old enemies comfirmed.... | ||
| Mark_lynch (Mark_lynch) Username: Mark_lynch Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 217.171.129.74 |
Small, simple sans serif typeface, I hope, Ally. That cover art should do all the speaking, without clutter. | ||
| Allybird (Allybird) Username: Allybird Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 80.47.27.75 |
It's getting complicated - Mark...in discussions with publisher and artist about title etc. But I hear you. | ||
| Ian Alexander Martin (Iam) Username: Iam Registered: 10-2009 Posted From: 64.180.64.74 |
I'm all a-quiver now… | ||
| Carolinec (Carolinec) Username: Carolinec Registered: 06-2009 Posted From: 82.38.75.85 |
>>I'm all a-quiver now…<< You will be by the time we've finished with you in Brighton!  | ||
| Ian Alexander Martin (Iam) Username: Iam Registered: 10-2009 Posted From: 64.180.64.74 |
Quick, Nurse: the screens! | ||
| Steve Bacon (Stevebacon) Username: Stevebacon Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 90.210.209.184 |
Strewth!! It's like WWII all over again. These chaps from the other side of the pond coming over, stealing our women. | ||
| Thomasb (Thomasb) Username: Thomasb Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 69.236.163.225 |
Wow! Congratulations, Ally! It looks great. I won't be in Brighton (unless a million bucks American shows up in my pockets), so where can I get my copy? | ||
| Allybird (Allybird) Username: Allybird Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 80.47.27.75 |
Ha! That made me giggle - Steve! Thanks Thomas! Brighton is a bit of a trek for you. I'll let everyone know when it is available but Dark Regions will sort it all out and give me an actual release date in the New Year - looking good for September. | ||
| Ian Alexander Martin (Iam) Username: Iam Registered: 10-2009 Posted From: 64.180.64.74 |
Mr. Bacon: it may be much like WWII again, but may I point out that, being a loyal citizen of Her Majesty's Dominion of Canada, you will find that I shall be arriving a good deal of time before the Americans show-up to start stealing your women. And the distance from me to Brighton is about the same distance as Seattle to Brighton, or even Dallas to Brighton. [swishes off with something in his step which we can't quite define] | ||
| Allybird (Allybird) Username: Allybird Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 79.73.248.35 |
Everything is moving on well with WINE AND RANK POISON. The introduction in now in from Joe Lansdale, very first review...in some ways. To echo what he says about bravery-you have to also be when you ask someone like this author to talk about your work, thankfully it came out well...:>). '...She reminds me of a few writers, and it’s my guess that it’s coincidence, because the reminding is not due to style. But, she shares a way of thinking with such inventive writers as Philip Jose Farmer and Avram Davidson. Both could take simple ideas and turn them into unique stories that defied classification. They were brave… It takes a certain knack partly learned, partly inborn, to write these kind of stories, these brave ventures into the dark lands where creeks of blood flow and bodies hang from trees. I’m speaking metaphorically, of course. Not about the content of Allyson’s, or anyone else’s stories. But it’s an attitude that can’t be faked, can’t be borrowed. It can only be stimulated by hard work. So let me repeat: as a writer, Ms. Bird is her own thing. She has a kind of nuthouse sanity, if you will; she believes in her own writerly psychosis. She is a writer of organized chaos. Her work is Halloween candy with razor blades in it. Fairy Tales with the flesh and blood and bones and viscera in them. Her skill is sneaky and exciting, and everything a reader could want from a good story. “The Twelfth Chair” and “Atalanta” will show you right off what I mean… I envy you the reading of this book. And I am honored to introduce it. But enough of that. The important thing is this: read the stories, and be impressed.' Joe R. Lansdale. | ||
| Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.182.229.104 |
Phwoar! Well done, Ally - and ta for the email, btw... | ||
| Allybird (Allybird) Username: Allybird Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 79.73.248.35 |
Thanks Mick! Dark Regions are sending a box of about 50 books over from America and Steve Upham has kindly said that they can go on his table so it is all looking good. I'll put one on one side for you :>) | ||
| Joel (Joel) Username: Joel Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 217.37.199.45 |
This is looking very nice indeed. | ||
| Joel (Joel) Username: Joel Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 217.37.199.45 |
(In a dark and brooding sort of way, of course, not a tea and biccies kind of way.) | ||
| Allybird (Allybird) Username: Allybird Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 79.73.248.35 |
Thanks Joel :>) | ||
| Chris_morris (Chris_morris) Username: Chris_morris Registered: 04-2008 Posted From: 12.165.240.116 |
Congrats, Ally. It never hurts to have someone like Joe R on your side ... | ||
| Allybird (Allybird) Username: Allybird Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 79.73.248.35 |
I know, Chris...it is rather wonderful :>) Thank you! | ||
| Allybird (Allybird) Username: Allybird Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 88.104.135.73 |
Haven't mentioned this since April. I must be slipping... I've been so busy with the anthology that I've been neglecting WARP. Anyway...Dani made me a new entrance site to my place which matches the collection :>). Thank you Dani! http://www.birdsnest.me.uk/ Wine and Rank Poison will have the tradeback launch in England slightly before the American....at Fantasycon in September. Dark Regions are very kindly shipping over 50 books and Steve of Screaming Dreams has also kindly said that we can place them on his table. Probably £10. The all singing dancing versions...26 Deluxe Lettered signed by myself, Joe R. Lansdale and Daniele Serra will be out later...(the signing sheets are probably somwhere over the Bay of Naples right now)as will the 200 signed and numbered hardcovers (Joe and I). I've been a pain...asked for Dani for the cover, special shipping to Fantasycon which will cost them a fortune, and they have done everything they can to make this special for me. Their promotional drive kicks in just after Fantasycon and involves a film trailer...of course I've suggested a few things for that...centaurs/mermaids/scenes in the Ukraine/Colchis.... If anyone wants me to put a tradeback copy on one side for them...please let me know here or email me behind the scenes. Or if you want to know details of the hardback etc...my email is on the bio page at the bottom of the above site. Fingers crossed | ||
| Frank (Frank) Username: Frank Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 85.222.86.21 |
Sorry, Ally, missed this. Congrats, and hope all goes swimmingly well at Fantasycon. I'm sure it will. x | ||
| Allybird (Allybird) Username: Allybird Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 88.104.135.73 |
Thank you, Frank! Dark Regions Press have been working on a promo video in the last few weeks which will be up soon, too.x | ||
| Frank (Frank) Username: Frank Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 85.222.86.21 |
Oooh, I like Dark Regions Press. I'll keep an eye out. | ||
| Allybird (Allybird) Username: Allybird Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 88.104.135.73 |
A few months ago my American publishers, Dark Regions Press, kindly commissioned a trailer for my short story collection, Wine and Rank Poison. It has been made just in time for Fantasycon. The book will be available from the Screaming Dreams table in the dealers' room. I've put it on my website in the news section. www.birdsnest.me.uk | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.96.253.77 |
Cool. Ally, what's the music on the trailer? - it's a very creepy tune. | ||
| Allybird (Allybird) Username: Allybird Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 88.104.135.73 |
It is quite haunting...reminds me of Debussy and Chopin. I've just emailed the company that made it to find out. | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.29.115.123 |
nice one | ||
| Kate (Kathleen) Username: Kathleen Registered: 09-2009 Posted From: 81.152.74.159 |
Oh yes, that is lovely! | ||
| Allybird (Allybird) Username: Allybird Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 88.104.135.73 |
Thank you! :>). | ||
| Rosswarren (Rosswarren) Username: Rosswarren Registered: 11-2009 Posted From: 86.171.175.49 |
This came in the post Saturday :-) | ||
| Allybird (Allybird) Username: Allybird Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 88.104.135.73 |
You got the first one from the publisher :>). | ||
| Steve Bacon (Stevebacon) Username: Stevebacon Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 90.211.103.120 |
Mine got here, too, Ally. Thanks very much. | ||
| Allybird (Allybird) Username: Allybird Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 88.104.135.73 |
Good! I'm way ahead of my American publishers... they are wonderful but it will be a month or two before they publish their very special editions..... Do I work very closely with my publishers as author and editor? Yes. I have the reputation for doing that and it works well. I would be a fool not to..... What is not to like... | ||
| Allybird (Allybird) Username: Allybird Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 88.104.135.73 |
And to expand on that point further my publishers Screaming Dreams and Gray Friar Press wil put copies of WARP for Dark Regions on their tables at Fanatsycon and when I go to WHC Texas for Dark Regions Press in April I will take NEVER AGAIN to America and ask if they will do the same. The only way the small press will survive is by helping each other and thankfully they do. | ||
| Allybird (Allybird) Username: Allybird Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 88.104.135.73 |
Sorry, ...no edit button. | ||
| Allybird (Allybird) Username: Allybird Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 88.104.135.73 |
Thank you to all who bought copies of WARP. And To Steve and Gary for putting them on their dealers' tables. It is always hard having an American publisher and getting copies out into the world over here. Very much appreciated. | ||
| Mark_samuels (Mark_samuels) Username: Mark_samuels Registered: 04-2010 Posted From: 109.157.124.210 |
bumpety bump! And why not?  Mark S. | ||
| Stevie Walsh (Stephenw) Username: Stephenw Registered: 03-2009 Posted From: 82.17.252.126 |
Ally, looks good - that music wouldn't be Piano Magic, by any chance? | ||
| Mark_samuels (Mark_samuels) Username: Mark_samuels Registered: 04-2010 Posted From: 109.157.124.210 |
See? It works! Mark S. | ||
| Allybird (Allybird) Username: Allybird Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 88.104.135.73 |
Thank you Stevie! I'm still not sure about the music. | ||
| Mark_samuels (Mark_samuels) Username: Mark_samuels Registered: 04-2010 Posted From: 109.157.176.96 |
bump Mark S. | ||
| Frank (Frank) Username: Frank Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 85.222.86.21 |
Mark - are you drunk, mate? | ||
| Mark_samuels (Mark_samuels) Username: Mark_samuels Registered: 04-2010 Posted From: 109.157.176.96 |
I will be, around 7pm. I'll be on "off-my-face book". Mark S. | ||
| Allybird (Allybird) Username: Allybird Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 88.111.138.146 |
I've still got some of the tradebacks of WINE AND RANK POISON introduced by Joe R. Lansdale that Dark Regions sent over for Fantasycon...if anyone wants to buy one please say here or email me (my email address is on my bio page on my website) £10. www.birdsnest.me.uk Dark Regions will be launching WARP soon and they start with the expensive leatherbounds etc... | ||
| Allybird (Allybird) Username: Allybird Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 88.104.129.3 |
Dark Regions Press have launched Wine and Rank Poison. I'm over the moon and very happy! http://www.darkregions.com/products/Wine-and-Rank-Poison-by-Allyson-Bird.html | ||
| Thomasb (Thomasb) Username: Thomasb Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 69.236.166.130 |
Congratulations, Ally. Will it make it across the Pond? | ||
| Allybird (Allybird) Username: Allybird Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 88.104.129.3 |
Thank you Thomas! Yes. Dark Regions is an American Press...it comes out in hardback and also leatherbound lettered first then paperback later. | ||
| Frank (Frank) Username: Frank Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 85.222.86.21 |
Congrats, Ally. Here's to its success. | ||
| Allybird (Allybird) Username: Allybird Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 88.104.129.3 |
Thank you Frank. I appreciate the good wishes! | ||
| Allybird (Allybird) Username: Allybird Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 88.111.132.33 |
Alan Kelly contacted me a while back after reading my first collection and now has a Q and A about 'Wine and Rank Poison' in For Book's Sake...the hardback is in stock as of yesterday with Dark Regions, and the paperback will follow... http://forbookssake.net/2010/10/26/interview-alan-kelly-talks-to-allyson-bird/ | ||
| Joel (Joel) Username: Joel Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 91.110.162.66 |
Nice interview, Ally. I'm still reading WARP and finding it as rich, complex and offbeat as the interview suggests. Like an exotic buffet where each dish has to be digested before you can taste the next one. | ||
| Frank (Frank) Username: Frank Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 85.222.86.21 |
Great interview, Ally. | ||
| Allybird (Allybird) Username: Allybird Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 88.111.132.33 |
Thank you Joel and Frank! | ||
| Allybird (Allybird) Username: Allybird Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 88.111.132.33 |
Jonathan Maberry has finished reading WARP, and has very kindly made this comment: "The stories in Allyson Bird's WINE AND RANK POISON draw us into a world of dark magic, infinite possibility and abiding terror; and she does it with a style reminiscent of Shirley Jackson and Robert Bloch. Highly recommended.” NY Times bestseller Jonathan Maberry, author of ROT & RUIN and THE DRAGON FACTORY. I've linked to Jonathan's blog on my website. | ||
| Matthew Fryer (Matthew_fryer) Username: Matthew_fryer Registered: 08-2009 Posted From: 90.195.182.42 |
Nice interview, Ally. Looking forward to the paperback release! | ||
| Allybird (Allybird) Username: Allybird Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 88.111.132.33 |
Thanks Matt! I think the paperback will be out before Christmas...well I hope so. | ||
| Mbfg (Mbfg) Username: Mbfg Registered: 09-2010 Posted From: 212.219.63.204 |
I'll review it on http://exaggeratedpress.weebly.com/ when the paperback comes out. Cheers Terry | ||
| Allybird (Allybird) Username: Allybird Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 88.111.132.33 |
Thanks Terry! I'll email you. I have a paperback copy, here. | ||
| Frank (Frank) Username: Frank Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 85.222.86.21 |
Great stuff. I'm certain we'll be hearing good things about this. Congrats, Ally. | ||
| Allybird (Allybird) Username: Allybird Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 88.111.132.33 |
Thanks Frank! Indeed good things are starting to happen. Norman Partridge read the book. "Allyson Bird's WINE AND RANK POISON is a potent brew indeed. It's a choice bottle aged with old gods and ghosts in a cellar long forgotten, and it's chilled by the expert hand of a writer who understands horror, and magic, and the dark tunnels that wait between. Watch out for this one. Savor it... and drain it dry at your own risk." 'Norman Partridge has published pair of critically acclaimed suspense novels featuring ex-boxer Jack Baddalach for Berkley Prime Crime (Saguaro Riptide and The Ten-Ounce Siesta), comics for Mojo and DC, and a series novel (The Crow: Wicked Prayer) which was adapted for the screen. His award-winning collections include Mr. Fox and Other Feral Tales and The Man with the Barbed-Wire Fists. Partridge’s novel, Dark Harvest, was chosen by Publishers Weekly as one of the 100 Best Books of 2006.' | ||
| Frank (Frank) Username: Frank Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 85.222.86.21 |
That's a great review, Ally. Especially from somebody Stephen King reckons is the bees knees. Way to go. | ||
| Allybird (Allybird) Username: Allybird Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 88.111.132.33 |
Thank you, Frank. Much appreciated. | ||
| Joel (Joel) Username: Joel Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 91.110.157.121 |
These are enviable blurbs, Ally, and should help with your US reputation in particular. (Don't thank me for saying that – it's all getting a bit Jane Austen.) | ||
| Allybird (Allybird) Username: Allybird Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 88.111.132.33 |
Ha! Okay ...didn't realise until I scrolled up. | ||
| Allybird (Allybird) Username: Allybird Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 88.111.139.215 |
Good review in from Peter Mark May. "If you haven’t read any Allyson Bird yet, catch her now, before she gets too big and boast to your friends that you were there at the start. Because Ally deserves a wider audience, in fact a fucking huge fat publishing contract on both sides of the Atlantic if you ask me. She writes like no one else, clever and intriguing, and does not just waft words around to look big and clever, every sentence has purpose and drive. Atalanta is my personal favourite in this collection, only because I’m a sucker for Jason and the Argonauts and Greek myths. Ally writes not fantasy nor horror, she write good, so check her out." http://www.thenovelblog.com/ | ||
| Frank (Frank) Username: Frank Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 85.222.86.21 |
Great stuff, Ally. Congrats. Keep 'em coming. | ||
| Allybird (Allybird) Username: Allybird Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 88.111.137.29 |
Here is a new review, from Joel Lane. "Wine and Rank Poison shows Allyson Bird continuing to develop as a writer of dark fantasy and supernatural horror. The stories shift between realism, mythology, noir, the erotic and the weird. They are rooted in human feeling – passion, grief, jealousy and fear – but reach back to mythic archetypes and folk beliefs in order to clothe the violent emotions in strange flesh. In ‘The Legacy’, the ingrained violence of a culture triggers a brief and bleak apocalypse. In ‘For You, Faustine’, the mutual desire of mermaids and humans takes a deadly twist. Bird’s writing is idiosyncratic, offbeat and troubling, a personal take on the complex legacy of pulp fiction." The paperback is out today,from Dark Regions Press... http://www.darkregions.com/products/Wine-and-Rank-Poison-by-Allyson-Bird.html | ||
| Allybird (Allybird) Username: Allybird Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 88.104.139.60 |
Laird Barron has mentioned WARP... http://imago1.livejournal.com/80098.html | ||
| Allybird (Allybird) Username: Allybird Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 88.104.137.29 |
Good to hear which stories hit the mark for Slade Grayson and which didn't in WARP. http://www.bookgasm.com/reviews/horror/charnel-wine-wine-and-rank-poison-a-host- of-shadows/ | ||
| Allybird (Allybird) Username: Allybird Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 88.104.137.29 |
I'm concentrating on the positive...the authors I admire most are Ramsey Campbell, Lisa Tuttle, Joe Lansdale and Robert Aickman so to get a mention amongst fellow writers from Lisa Tuttle in this interview means a lot to me. "I've been very impressed by short stories by Allyson Bird, Nina Allan, Barbara Roden, Catherynne M. Valente and others whose names are now escaping..." http://littlemisszombie.blogspot.com/2011/02/interview-with-lisa-tuttle.html | ||
| Allybird (Allybird) Username: Allybird Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 88.104.137.29 |
It's my birthday and I'm really happy to say I've got a positive review, of Wine and Rank Poison, from one of our leading genre reviewers, Pete Tennant, of Black Static... 'Ilf and Petrov are referenced in second story ‘The Twelfth Chair’ (there seem to be links planted within several of these stories to other narratives within the book) and was an altogether more substantial outing. A man wanders the streets of Odessa in search of his estranged mail order bride, but as events become clearer, almost in direct opposition to the way in which Odessa is lost in sea fog, a picture of an abusive personality slowly emerges, seen in subtle comments about how thin he likes his women to be and his use of ‘glamour’ images. The end result is a creepy and atmospheric variation on spectral revenge reaching out from beyond the grave, with a feminist subtext that ground events in our present day.' http://ttapress.com/ | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.166.117.210 |
Happy birthday, Ally! | ||
| Frank (Frank) Username: Frank Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 85.222.86.21 |
Happy birthday, Ally. And congratulations on the review. Excellent stuff. | ||
| Joel (Joel) Username: Joel Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 217.37.199.45 |
Happy birthday, Ally! | ||
| Skip (Wolfnoma) Username: Wolfnoma Registered: 07-2010 Posted From: 216.54.20.98 |
Happy Birthday, Ally, don't party too much. Ah, what am I saying, it's your birthday. LIVE IT UP! | ||
| Weber (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 194.176.105.56 |
Happy birfday miss B | ||
| Carolinec (Carolinec) Username: Carolinec Registered: 06-2009 Posted From: 92.232.199.129 |
Many happy returns, Ally! | ||
| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 99.126.164.88 |
Happy Birthday Ally - and crap, thanks for reminding me, today's my dad's birthday! Totally woulda slipped my mind....  | ||
| Allybird (Allybird) Username: Allybird Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 88.104.137.65 |
Thank you for the birthday wishes! Here is a new interview from Melissa Helwig. http://littlemisszombie.blogspot.com/2011/02/interview-with-allyson-bird.html | ||
| Frank (Frank) Username: Frank Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 85.222.86.21 |
Enjoyed the interview, Ally. | ||
| Simon Bestwick (Simon_b) Username: Simon_b Registered: 10-2008 Posted From: 194.75.171.106 |
Happy birthday, Ally! | ||
| Allybird (Allybird) Username: Allybird Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 202.73.198.32 |
Writers wait and hope. Hope for something as good as this :>). http://www.thedeepening.com/world-of-books/2011/06/06/wine-and-rank-poison-revea ls-the-rare-talent-of-allyson-bird/ |