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     Weber_gregston (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 194.176.105.56 |
I've just joined the ranks of the published writer on this board!!!!!!!!!!! Ethereal Gazette issue 10 features a short story what I writed!!!! Even though they have somehow spelt my name completely wrong on the contents page. I'll have to wait till I get hold of a copy to see if the mistake has been repeated on the story itself. | ||
| Weber_gregston (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 194.176.105.56 |
http://www.lulu.com/product/paperback/the-ethereal-gazette-issue-10----eternal-d amnation-edition/6455293?productTrackingContext=browse_search_preview_detail | ||
| Weber_gregston (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 194.176.105.56 |
Mr Fry - can you stick an s after the word writer on the first post in this thread? | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 213.219.8.243 |
You go, girlfriend! | ||
| Stu (Stu) Username: Stu Registered: 04-2008 Posted From: 86.29.177.110 |
Congrats, Weber. | ||
| Mark_lynch (Mark_lynch) Username: Mark_lynch Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 217.171.129.71 |
Well done, Webber! Lemme guess, they've given you a kicking Kuh instead of a curly Cuh. | ||
| Simon Bestwick (Simon_b) Username: Simon_b Registered: 10-2008 Posted From: 86.24.167.138 |
Nice one Marc! | ||
| Weber_gregston (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 194.176.105.56 |
They've put a Z instead of the L!!!!! How do you manage that? It's not my handwriting, I've only dealt with him through email. | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 213.219.8.243 |
Well, the editor of that 'zine seems an...interesting character, to say the least. | ||
| Simon Bestwick (Simon_b) Username: Simon_b Registered: 10-2008 Posted From: 86.24.167.138 |
Bell-end, I think, is the word you're looking for, Zed. 'Anything that celebrate the spirit of Sodom of Gomorrah will be rejected.' What a bigoted fucking tool. Sorry, Marc. Congrats again on the acceptance, but I had to get that off my chest. | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 213.219.8.243 |
Do a search for him on Shocklines...like I said: interesting. | ||
| Weber_gregston (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 194.176.105.56 |
If I was to say that the only way I knew he'd accepted it was I emailed him to find out the status and he told me it had already been printed... This was followed by a paypal payment- so at least I've been paid for it. If I hadn't emailed him I'm not sure if he would have got in touch with me about it. | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 213.219.8.243 |
Welcome to the wonderful world of the small press... | ||
| Allybird (Allybird) Username: Allybird Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 80.47.13.37 |
Well done Weber! | ||
| Frank (Frank) Username: Frank Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 178.182.4.8 |
Well done, mate.  | ||
| Jonathan (Jonathan) Username: Jonathan Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 91.143.178.131 |
Good grief, looks like we're spilling our filthy literary yoghurt everywhere! Well done Weber, hope to see more from you soon. | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 129.11.76.229 |
Well done, Marc. I hope it wins the World Fantasy Award for best story written in crayon. | ||
| Weber_gregston (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 194.176.105.56 |
I'm not allowed anything as pointy as a crayon. I won't tell you what I had to use, but the manuscript didn't smell too bad after a few weeks. | ||
| Huw (Huw) Username: Huw Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 61.216.51.127 |
Well done, Weber! | ||
| Stephen Walsh (Stephenw) Username: Stephenw Registered: 03-2009 Posted From: 82.17.252.126 |
I took one look at the title of this thread and thought... he's at it again. Well done, Weber! | ||
| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 75.4.252.255 |
Congratulations, but... published in the United States, I see... a foreigner taking one of our jobs again!... Er - what are those decidedly strange tags to the right?... | ||
| Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.179.37.211 |
Good news Weber - well done. | ||
| Hubert (Hubert) Username: Hubert Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 78.22.229.205 |
Keep it up, Weber! | ||
| Weber_gregston (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 194.176.105.56 |
I'm off the booze for lent at the moment so I can't even have a drink to celebrate. Roll on Easter Sunday... that bottle of Talisker ain't going to last long | ||
| Stephen Walsh (Stephenw) Username: Stephenw Registered: 03-2009 Posted From: 82.17.252.126 |
If you'd been Irish you could have had a wee sup yesterday, Weber. That's why I'm off work the rest of the week...  Incidentally, fair play to you - my Dad does it every lent and I have myself a few times over the years (as a test of will power rather than for any religious reasons). The boredom in the last weeks is a killer isn't it. | ||
| Chris_morris (Chris_morris) Username: Chris_morris Registered: 04-2008 Posted From: 12.165.240.116 |
Nice one, Weber! | ||
| Jonathan (Jonathan) Username: Jonathan Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 91.143.178.131 |
Yeah, I'm sans booze for lent too. The real test is going to be World Horror Con next week, where I shall be surrounded by a boozy lot. I shall be the one weeping in the corner. | ||
| Carolinec (Carolinec) Username: Carolinec Registered: 06-2009 Posted From: 82.38.75.85 |
Well done, Weber. Perhaps I have second sight but I reckon we'll see your name in print again shortly too (hopefully spelt correctly, if the editor of that publication can get it right!)  | ||
| Matthew Fryer (Matthew_fryer) Username: Matthew_fryer Registered: 08-2009 Posted From: 90.202.180.203 |
Congrats on the sale! Careful though mate. A google search reveals a history of mental illness, vitriolic homophobia and death threats. | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.27.30.20 |
Yeah, but Weber is over all that now. He only kills animals these days. | ||
| Steve Bacon (Stevebacon) Username: Stevebacon Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 90.210.209.136 |
Congrats, Weber. | ||
| Matthew Fryer (Matthew_fryer) Username: Matthew_fryer Registered: 08-2009 Posted From: 90.202.180.203 |
Just realised my earlier post sounded much more ominous than it was meant to, sorry Weber. It's keyboard-hero hot air, but I just wanted to make you aware. Enjoy! | ||
| Frank (Frank) Username: Frank Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 188.147.97.78 |
Matthew - Weber knows, I'm sure he appreciates your conern. Good job, mate. Better to be safe, et al. (: | ||
| Weber_gregston (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 194.176.105.56 |
"Yeah, but Weber is over all that now. He only kills animals these days."  Only on alternate weekends. I also barbecue small pieces of the woman I have chained in my basement when I get bored. | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.143.128.220 |
I have to say, the title of this thread must look bloody awful to newcomers. | ||
| Weber_gregston (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 194.176.105.56 |
We're all newcomers after our first wank... Sorry, had to use that line. We all know what the title of the thread means around here anyway. taht's all that matters. | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.155.203.110 |
Just a thought. Hey - that Eels guy book is good btw. | ||
| Weber_gregston (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 194.176.105.56 |
Received my copy of Ethereal Gazette issue 10 yesterday (which I had to pay for!). While some of the other stories are very godd, there's one which contains lines like these "Almost instantaneously, Ethel froze. She stared at her mirror image of Tanya, unaware on what to do. Immediately, she gestured a signal to Curtis, who came to her immediate rescue." "Opposite to him, faced his fiance, all decked out as Cinderella." "A crusty, old man stood before her. His ugly face hidden behind a dark hood." The whole story is filled with this type of thing. He starts sentences with "As" but at the point where you'd expect the comma for the second half of the sentence, he puts in a full stop - and the next sentence is not always even related to the subject of the first. In an 8 page story he uses "Immediately", "Instantaneously", "In a flash", "In that instant" or words to that effect about 70 times. It makes Dan Brown look like a master of the craft. Hopefully it is the only one that's written quite as badly and it just serves the purpose of making every other story look like a masterpiece in comparison. | ||
| Weber_gregston (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 194.176.105.56 |
Also - a character name changes from Ricardo to Richardo. The date on a portait changes from 1947 to 1847. There are wedding photographers patrolling a wedding reception in 1847 -apparently monks with vintage cameras - this is despite the fact that the first camera that could be used in this type of situation (ie where the shot could be taken in a matter of seconds and not minutes) was invented in 1851. And there are trees in England that have been around for a millenium. On top of all this, it has the most cliched and rubbish storyline I've read in a long time. A hollywood actor who's just left his wife for an actress goes on holiday with new girlfriend to a remote village in England. A stange old man knocks on the front door (the man mentioned in my previous post) and warns them of dread events to come. They go for a walk and meet a man who is apparently the cousin of one of their friends. he invites them to a fancy dress ball at his mansion house- which they suddenly notice even though it wasn't there before. A coach and horses appears to pick them up and takes them to the ball where everything appears to be in 1847 (after the initial confusion of dates on the portrait is resolved). It transpires to be a wedding reception of Ethel and Curtis (Curtis was a popular English name in the aristocracy in 1847?) who look and are dressed exactly like our American couple. In conversation, the americans admit that he's divorced and sleeping with the girl he's with now. They are promptly arrested and driven away, thrown into a jail cell but somehow end up outside where they run into their chauffer from earlier, whose name has now changed. He gives them a lift back to their holiday cottage where their friends have now arrived. they explain what's just happened to them and are told that the mansion burnt down in 1847. They then find the gravestones of curtis and Ethel. The End. All this excitement is written in the style sampled above. there's one sentence if I could be bothered to find it, had 5 commas that shouldn't have been there. On the other hand, the story Pebble Toss and Dare by Bradley Michael Zerbe was excellent - very creepy and original. so there is some good company for my story at least. | ||
| Huw (Huw) Username: Huw Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 220.138.161.34 |
This is typical of the kind of crap getting published (even in some of the fairly decent small presses) by people who have no discernible feeling for language, yet have decided that because they can put one word in front of another, they are writers. | ||
| Frank (Frank) Username: Frank Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 188.147.141.253 |
That storyline would have been rejected in 1847. | ||
| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 75.4.252.114 |
Couldn't the author have, at least, put a zombie-hand, thrusting up from the ground, grabbing someone's leg, at the end? (5 commas!) | ||
| Weber_gregston (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 194.176.105.56 |
I'd just like to point out that in my story, a minor character called Craig, who is in no way related to our Craig, honest guv, meeets a grisly off-screen death. | ||
| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 75.4.252.114 |
Of course that couldn't be me, Weber - you said "minor character." | ||
| Frank (Frank) Username: Frank Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 188.147.153.50 |
I wrote a story in which the central protagonist, also, funnily enough, called Craig, is chased by a man in a rabbit-suit across a fog enshrouded town (replete with giant Lovercraftian monsters), at the end of which he realizes his template theory has become flesh, and finally skewers him with it's own warped self-defeating logic (sorry, dude, it isn't really pick on Craig day)  | ||
| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 75.5.8.134 |
Frank, so far, that story sounds better than both DONNIE DARKO and THE MIST put together..... | ||
| Frank (Frank) Username: Frank Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 188.146.88.46 |
You wanna have a shot at writing the screenplay? I'll sell it to you for a bag of groceries, forty Benson and Hedges and a pack of spicy Nik Naks. You seen 'The Box' yet?  | ||
| Weber_gregston (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 194.176.105.56 |
Just found out, the guy wot published my story - in a coincidental link to another discussion - has a website dedicated to him called Exposethetard.blogspot | ||
| Frank (Frank) Username: Frank Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 188.147.40.178 |
Told ya. | ||
| Matthew Fryer (Matthew_fryer) Username: Matthew_fryer Registered: 08-2009 Posted From: 90.202.180.203 |
And also http://therustynail.wordpress.com/ He's quite a legend. Just not for the reasons he'd like to think. | ||
| Frank (Frank) Username: Frank Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 188.147.13.39 |
Is it me or has the internet is doubling as some kind of portal into a dimension populated by out and out psychotics? | ||
| Chris_morris (Chris_morris) Username: Chris_morris Registered: 04-2008 Posted From: 12.165.240.116 |
What do you mean "doubling"? | ||
| Frank (Frank) Username: Frank Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 188.147.238.82 |
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| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 75.4.254.249 |
I'm not sure where to put this, not sure it's worth its own thread - but this site, which I've mentioned before here somewhere (?- I thought I did) - they're accepting stories until Sunday (normally this is a closed/invite-only story site) - Hollywood-related site, etc. Fwiw.... http://popcornfiction.com/ | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.143.133.88 |
Woah - they sound like tough nuts in those sub guidelines. It shows in that opening tale, though. Those guys iron their socks - or at least the ones they wear more than once, before 'discarding'. |