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     John_l_probert (John_l_probert) Username: John_l_probert Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 90.208.48.113 |
At last! What you've all been waiting for! Blatant advance publicity for my next book! Coming soon from those delightful people at Ash-Tree Press:  The filmmakers who unleash a curse from an ancient abbey… The teenager who murders the sister he never had… The care home whose attic harbours a monstrous secret… A schoolbook of poetry that means death for its readers… The witch’s familiar unleashed by church organ music… Welcome to the sinister, scary and sometimes outrageous world of John Llewellyn Probert. A place filled with troubled schoolchildren, overbearing theatre producers, brilliant surgeons and nervous billionaires. Where a walk in the country can lead to a mansion filled with beautiful women, or a trap from which you can never escape. Where a picture on the wall of a primary school classroom can come to life with appalling consequences, and a rugby match can be the scene for a burned witch’s revenge. Meet the parents who think they know what is best for their son - until he returns from the grave to show them otherwise. Learn about the girl who found solace in a burial chamber near Prague, and discover the real reason why West End musicals succeed or fail. Ash-Tree Press is proud to present award-winning author John Llewellyn Probert’s ‘Coffin Nails’ - eighteen tales designed to make you gasp with horror and shudder with delight with a volume so gripping that as you read it you may well fail to notice the twisted, taloned creature that escaped when you opened the cover creeping up behind you to do its dreadful work. Once you’ve satisfied yourself that there’s nothing there please feel free to read the rest of the book, but remember- we never said it was visible. www.ash-tree.bc.ca/ashtreecurrent.html I am promised details will be available on the ATP website soon | ||
| Laird Barron (Laird) Username: Laird Registered: 05-2008 Posted From: 71.212.78.124 |
Excellent, John!! There's much to love. Hack filmmakers! Who doesn't hate teenagers? We're all headed to the care home. You know what happens there! Poetry is death! Burn the witch! Seriously, though, congratulations. It sounds great -- Ash Tree is really doing fine work. | ||
| Huw (Huw) Username: Huw Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 61.216.34.135 |
Congratulations! You must be really chuffed about this. I will definitely be buying at least one copy. ;-) | ||
| Lincoln_brown (Lincoln_brown) Username: Lincoln_brown Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 58.164.116.216 |
Well done, John. Love the cover! | ||
| Allybird (Allybird) Username: Allybird Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 79.78.72.96 |
Congratulations John! That is one to add to my list! I really enjoyed The Faculty of Terror. | ||
| Hubert (Hubert) Username: Hubert Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 78.22.226.245 |
Great! | ||
| Laird Barron (Laird) Username: Laird Registered: 05-2008 Posted From: 71.212.78.124 |
Word has been duly spread here: http://imago1.livejournal.com/ | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.96.249.146 |
At last! I can't wait, lord P. | ||
| Allybird (Allybird) Username: Allybird Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 79.78.72.96 |
Hey Laird - You mention John, Simon and Gary. I have a book being launched at the British Fantasy Society in September too :>) | ||
| Laird Barron (Laird) Username: Laird Registered: 05-2008 Posted From: 71.212.78.124 |
Terrific! Post a link here and I'll take care of it. ;) | ||
| Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.163.48.60 |
Excellent, John - can't wait! | ||
| Allybird (Allybird) Username: Allybird Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 79.78.72.96 |
Thanks Laird! I don't want to taint John's thread - so I'll send the details to your contact email address on your web site :>) | ||
| Griff (Griff) Username: Griff Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.93.21.100 |
Llongyfarchiadau, JPL! | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.96.249.146 |
Laird - many thanks for the mention on your blog. Much appreciated, my friend. I've just finished reading The Imago Sequence, so will return the favour soon with a brief review. I'm sure the one man and his underfed dog who read my blog will be delighted. :-) | ||
| John_l_probert (John_l_probert) Username: John_l_probert Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 90.208.48.113 |
Thanks all! The page may go up on the Ash-Tree Press website first, but otherwise the ToC will be on my all-new website which should be ready to launch soon. | ||
| Mark_lynch (Mark_lynch) Username: Mark_lynch Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 212.74.96.200 |
Looks excellent, Lord P. Can't help feeling the title's for a pack of ciggies, though! Let's hope no one tries to light it up! | ||
| Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.159.143.179 |
Llongyfarchiadau, JPL! You wash your mouth out! | ||
| John_l_probert (John_l_probert) Username: John_l_probert Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 90.208.48.113 |
Mark - I'm toying with the title of the next one -how about Silk Cuts? | ||
| Matt_cowan (Matt_cowan) Username: Matt_cowan Registered: 04-2008 Posted From: 68.249.106.58 |
Congratualtions! It sounds like a great collection of stories! | ||
| Karim Ghahwagi (Karim) Username: Karim Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 85.82.192.98 |
Some good teasers for stories there. Congrats! | ||
| John_l_probert (John_l_probert) Username: John_l_probert Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 90.203.130.2 |
Thanks chaps! OK - here's the official link to the Coffin Nails page on the Ash-Tree site. It includes the ToC: http://www.ash-tree.bc.ca/atp138coffinnails.htm | ||
| Griff (Griff) Username: Griff Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 92.9.241.108 |
*Eyeballs Mick_campwinedrinker_Curtis* | ||
| Joel (Joel) Username: Joel Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.156.110.243 |
What's a camp wine? Rose? (I can't do an acute accent in this format.) Or is it "Oh Mavis, have you nicked me platforms again?" | ||
| Joel (Joel) Username: Joel Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.156.110.243 |
This looks great, John. A stylish cover and a blurb promising serious fun. Though from the cover, perhaps you should have called it A WARNING TO THE CURIOS? | ||
| Hubert (Hubert) Username: Hubert Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 78.22.226.245 |
How about A VIEW FROM A DUNHILL? | ||
| John_l_probert (John_l_probert) Username: John_l_probert Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 213.253.174.81 |
From Ash-Tray Press???? | ||
| Hubert (Hubert) Username: Hubert Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 78.22.226.245 |
You've nailed it. | ||
| Mark_lynch (Mark_lynch) Username: Mark_lynch Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 212.74.96.200 |
>>Mark - I'm toying with the title of the next one -how about Silk Cuts? I like that. And it can come with a health warning! | ||
| Michael_kelly (Michael_kelly) Username: Michael_kelly Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 207.188.67.131 |
Congratulations, Lord Probert! | ||
| Albie (Albie) Username: Albie Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.195.236.131 |
What is the hand reaching for? Is it Ferrero Rocher? That corpse is really spoiling. | ||
| Huw (Huw) Username: Huw Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 61.216.32.121 |
Ha! I had the same thought, Albie. | ||
| John_l_probert (John_l_probert) Username: John_l_probert Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 90.203.130.36 |
It IS reaching for chocolates. And yes the person in question does get...spoilt | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.96.249.146 |
Ah, yes. One of my favourite Probert tales. :-) | ||
| John_l_probert (John_l_probert) Username: John_l_probert Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 90.203.130.36 |
Why thank you, my friend | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.145.131.242 |
I am currently too jealous about this sort of thing to offer any form of congrats to anyone. You can have some when I see HB.  | ||
| Albie (Albie) Username: Albie Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.195.236.131 |
The Embassy. What a scary term. "Take him to...The Embassy." | ||
| Griff (Griff) Username: Griff Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.93.21.100 |
Wotcha up to, Rob? | ||
| Albie (Albie) Username: Albie Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.195.236.131 |
Painting faux Bacon esque pics via Viz comic. Fakeon. Not sleeping for hours. Getting only a few hours but still refreshed. Sitting in the dark. Playing with my delusions to see if they sponsor fiction. Wondering if I'll ever be entertained again. Wondering if I switch my torch on I'll see a muddy child in the corner of the room. Put on my navy blue slacks and went out. Packet of Space crisps. All air. Posted off two job applications. No chance and I know it. They know it. John Prescott knows it. Keeping away from writing because it is like forcing someone else to write for me. He'll write in own good mystical time, sir. | ||
| Griff (Griff) Username: Griff Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 92.20.210.232 |
What jobs did you apply for? Eerily as thinking about writing about Viz earlier! | ||
| Albie (Albie) Username: Albie Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.195.244.67 |
Receptionist. BWAHAHAHAH! Like anyone would hire me! I hate my life. | ||
| Griff (Griff) Username: Griff Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 92.20.210.232 |
Hmmm. If you don't mind me asking how does your illness interfere with your ability to work? How about jobs where people skills aren't important? - Hospital porter, then once your in, lab work. You've got the intelligence. Perhaps you've lost your self-confidence? | ||
| Albie (Albie) Username: Albie Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.195.244.67 |
Self confidence? I never even understood what people meant by that. I was brought up by the TV. I'm not human. I don't need self confidence. I don't really want anything. I pass the time. I'll die and that will be the cure. | ||
| Albie (Albie) Username: Albie Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.195.244.67 |
You can't pin me down with words. I don't believe in myself. There's no puzzle, no solution. I don't aspire. I don't live and love and find answers. That's people bullshit. That's what daddy made you into. My dad was BBC1. My mum was ITV. My God is confusion and the unconnectedness of a program schedule. I'm not a man. I'm not a son or a friend. I'm an eye and an ear. My emotions have no more depths to them than any soap actor's emotions. TV is my work. I watch TV. My soul is an image wired to magic from another fake dimension. | ||
| Albie (Albie) Username: Albie Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.195.244.67 |
 Unless I'm joking. Hard to tell. | ||
| Albie (Albie) Username: Albie Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.195.244.67 |
I don't have an illness. I'm just not a person. | ||
| Griff (Griff) Username: Griff Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 92.20.210.232 |
Hmmm So you wouldn't want a few more bob in your pocket then? | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.24.122.40 |
Be good to get a bigger telly, I suppose. There's your motivation, Albie. ;<) | ||
| Albie (Albie) Username: Albie Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.195.236.131 |
I am the bigger telly. Sniff my back for valves. Who could relax to enjoy the cash if you knew you had to be around people for eight hours most days a week? I need to feel that there are no people. Grabbing a few hours every night wouldn't work. I'd just end up killing some noisy neighbour, seeing as I have no wife or children to kill. | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.24.122.40 |
There are no people here. Just disembodied words. Souls without flesh. | ||
| Albie (Albie) Username: Albie Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.195.236.131 |
This is the best way of being. Isn't this how God would be? | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.24.122.40 |
But who'd moderate His board? | ||
| Albie (Albie) Username: Albie Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.195.244.67 |
Himself. But then he would only really be talking to himself...and have very little left to say. But then his raiments look fine on us chimps. That's why this is the centre of life. People who are in the middle of the quest, adopting the mediums that allow all to feel able to interact. | ||
| Albie (Albie) Username: Albie Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.195.244.67 |
King Monkey with his Wishing Staff. | ||
| Huw (Huw) Username: Huw Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 218.168.194.227 |
Just received my copy of COFFIN NAILS, and it is a lovely book indeed! Well done, John. | ||
| Huw (Huw) Username: Huw Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 61.216.35.17 |
P.S. Where can I get a box of 'Nefarious Assortment'? They would make a suitable present for a couple of people I know... ;-) | ||
| John Llewellyn Probert (John_l_probert) Username: John_l_probert Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 90.199.0.86 |
Thanks Huw! Hope you enjoy it. The chocolates are handmade to order by a friend of mine, so if you fancy a box of Lust just email me with your comments when you've finished the book & I'll get her to start firming things up | ||
| Matthew_fell (Matthew_fell) Username: Matthew_fell Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 216.232.189.45 |
. . . if you fancy a box of Lust just email me with your comments when you've finished the book & I'll get her to start firming things up . . . Hey, Lord P., did you actually intend that 'firming up' thingie to sound the way it's ended up sounding. God, I hope the protagonist of that story never ended up giving a blow-job. Heaven knows what the outcome would have been . . . . Christopher | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.96.242.126 |
Ah, one of my very favourite JLP stories! | ||
| John Llewellyn Probert (John_l_probert) Username: John_l_probert Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 90.203.130.153 |
I was giving a lecture on Monday evening and as everyone was filing in there was a bit of time to spare so I gave a small plug for Coffin Nails as the computer I had hooked up to the projector was connected to the internet. Halfway through the lecture an email from a friend of mine pops up in the corner of the screen saying 'I have just read Nefarious Assortment and I am NEVER eating chocolates again!' They want me to come back to talk about the book now :-> |