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     Michael_kelly (Michael_kelly) Username: Michael_kelly Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 174.93.52.170 |
Just wanted to drop a quick line and say how impressed I am with Nicholas Royle's Nightjar Press offerings. He's published four chapbooks by Tom Fletcher, Michael Marshall Smith, Alison Moore, and Joel Lane (which is a brilliant social meditation on how we lose and find ourselves in our remembrances of things past). Nick should be applauded for helping keep the short story vibrant and alive. These are all well worth your time. Of course, you probably already knew that. http://nightjarpress.wordpress.com/ | ||
| Steve Bacon (Stevebacon) Username: Stevebacon Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 90.210.209.136 |
I've got them all, but not yet read Joel's or Alison Moore's. They're a nice piece of product. | ||
| Gcw (Gcw) Username: Gcw Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.153.237.52 |
Joels' chapbook was the only thing I asked Mick Curtis to pick up for me in Brighton as i couldn't attend. I'm looking forward to reading it! gcw | ||
| Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.176.102.176 |
What? Oh bloody hell! | ||
| Gcw (Gcw) Username: Gcw Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.153.237.52 |
(You ask him to do one...simple...thing...) gcw  | ||
| Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.176.102.176 |
Erm - I've got two copies... I'll just scribble any old thing in one of them. You'll never know... | ||
| Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.176.102.176 |
See - perfect!  | ||
| Gcw (Gcw) Username: Gcw Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.153.237.52 |
Amazingly convincing! (Whats an 18R Dude>???) gcw | ||
| Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.176.102.176 |
That'll be "l8r" not "18r"! As in 'later, dood'... You're just not darn wiv de kids... | ||
| Gcw (Gcw) Username: Gcw Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.153.237.52 |
oh. I'm not very hip am I? gcw...  | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.96.240.106 |
Your hip replacement is very hip. | ||
| Mark_lynch (Mark_lynch) Username: Mark_lynch Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 217.171.129.73 |
And a cluster of nightjars sang some songs out of tune, while a mantle of bright light shone... Not heard of this venture by Mr Royle, but yes, good for him, putting his money where his mouth is. | ||
| Gcw (Gcw) Username: Gcw Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.153.237.52 |
"Your hip replacement is very hip." Don't laugh - I keep getting a pain there! gcw | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.29.110.205 |
My right knee is on its way out. | ||
| Gcw (Gcw) Username: Gcw Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.153.237.52 |
Lets face it -We're all getting old & buggered. So to speak. gcw | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.29.110.205 |
Maybe in Norfolk . . . | ||
| Gcw (Gcw) Username: Gcw Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.153.237.52 |
It's all happening here man I tell yer... gcw | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.29.110.205 |
Do you have tractors races on cliff edges, like a kind of rustic version of those speedster shunts in Rebel Without A Cause? | ||
| Gcw (Gcw) Username: Gcw Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.153.237.52 |
..And they say the North is humourless.....gcw... | ||
| Steve Bacon (Stevebacon) Username: Stevebacon Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 90.210.209.136 |
I thought Norfolk was less Rebel Without A Cause, and more Giant (Haystacks). I'm Northern, too. Sorry. | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 129.11.77.198 |
It's certainly East of Eden. Quite a long way east actually. | ||
| Gcw (Gcw) Username: Gcw Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.153.237.52 |
Ironically, I am a total towny, I know nothing about tilling the land...Or whippet buggery either.. UNLIKE YOU LOT!! - gcw....  | ||
| Joel (Joel) Username: Joel Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 217.37.199.45 |
It has come to my attention that rather too many copies of my Nightjar Press chapbook are still available. While this is the natural order of things, I feel duty bound to encourage a few more of you to invest in it. I'm sure the other Nightjar Press chapbooks are selling out very fast, so I wouldn't risk missing out on those while also helping to get my sales figures closer to the 100 mark. It also gives me an excuse to direct you to the following nice blog review: http://nigelpbird.blogspot.com/2010/04/black-country-by-joel-lane.html?spref=tw (Though posting links to your own reviews is, to quote the Nightingales once more, 'the born and bred qualifier for whoredom'. But what can you do?) | ||
| Gcw (Gcw) Username: Gcw Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.153.237.52 |
Thanks for the signed copy Joel, which Mick kindly sorted for me. I can I be tedious & repetive & say I loved it? Yours is the only new book I have bought thus far this year, and it ain't because its a cheap one... gcw | ||
| Joel (Joel) Username: Joel Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 91.110.245.247 |
Thanks, GCW. I was wondering when Mick would own up to having not forgotten... | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.96.240.106 |
BLACK COUNTRY is yet another absolute corker of a tale from Joel: sad, creepy and poetic. I can't recommend this highly enough, along with Tom Fletcher's THE SAFE CHILDREN (another Nighjar chapbook, and the best short story I read last year). | ||
| Simon Bestwick (Simon_b) Username: Simon_b Registered: 10-2008 Posted From: 86.24.165.4 |
Hear hear, Gary. Those two are my favourites so far, although the Alison Moore story is excellent too. I love Joel's 'weird procedural' stories and this is a stunner- although the one he read out at WHC is better still. Can't wait to see that one in print too. | ||
| Gcw (Gcw) Username: Gcw Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.153.237.52 |
Do you notice how Joel seems to slip a 'wry smile' moment into even his most melancholy tales? The little scamp! I've cracked & ordered 'From Blue To Black' & 'The Blue Mask' for holiday reads, sorry Joel, second hand copies for budget reasons. A blue theme...Will we be seeing 'Midnight Blue' some time? gcw | ||
| Joel (Joel) Username: Joel Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 91.110.189.50 |
GCW, I've yet to find a publisher for it. Long story. I'll keep you posted. | ||
| Gcw (Gcw) Username: Gcw Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.153.237.52 |
Thats a criminal shame Joel, I hope it finds a publisher soon. Just out of curiosity....How much does it cost to self publish? say a hundred books? gcw | ||
| Joel (Joel) Username: Joel Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 91.110.153.132 |
I think you could break even quite easily. But it's not what you pay up front, it's what it costs you in terms of reputation and self-respect. | ||
| Gcw (Gcw) Username: Gcw Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.153.237.52 |
Do you think so Joel? I'm not a writer so I don't understand how the publishing industry 'thinks'...Thats a shame if the case. I would have thought if a writer self published, and did well, then, a previously reticent publisher may get off the fence & take note. gcw | ||
| Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.182.229.104 |
I think writers who self-publish are held in low esteem, a lot of the time. | ||
| Gcw (Gcw) Username: Gcw Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.153.237.52 |
Interesting...Suppose Stephen King went 'Indie' and self published? Cut out the middle man, and make even more bucks I would think. (From Blue To Black arrived today Joel!) gcw | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.31.165.34 |
Yet it's cool and mandatory for musician to V-sign the producing companies and go solo. Go figure. | ||
| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 75.4.233.93 |
I agree with GCW here - perhaps once one is a Joel or Ramsey it might (?) be a demerit, but for the starters, the scramblers, the risers, at this point and time...? With places to publish shrinking fast, and all the other attendant publishing woes and ills? (and new possibilities - the eBook thingy is a whole new world)... Hell, a writer simply MUST try any and all avenues to readership.... | ||
| Gcw (Gcw) Username: Gcw Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.153.237.52 |
I don't see how being a Joel, Ramsey or anyone would make it a demerit. If to publish your own work, and promote it to success is seen as a shameful thing in the publishing world then, heck, maybe the publishing world needs to change! I know of several writers here who have unpublished books...What a shame, such talent isn't out there for us plebs to enjoy! gcw | ||
| Gcw (Gcw) Username: Gcw Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.153.237.52 |
"Yet it's cool and mandatory for musician to V-sign the producing companies and go solo. Go figure." Yes, thats true Gary, and yet the polar opposite was true not so very long ago, to be on an 'indie' after say, being on a major label was seen as a shameful loss of commercial success, and to make your own music, and distribute it (as I do) was totally unthinkable. gcw |