| Author | Message | ||
     Simon Bestwick (Simon_b) Username: Simon_b Registered: 10-2008 Posted From: 86.24.209.217 |
Finished the first draft about ten minutes ago! Feel drained, teary, bereft and triumphant. None of which will last long once the rewrites start. Now I'm ordering pizza.  | ||
| Jamie Rosen (Jamie) Username: Jamie Registered: 11-2008 Posted From: 99.241.220.139 |
Huzzah! Sadly, the pizza-induced indigestion will probably last, judging by my personal experience with draft-finishing meals.  | ||
| Frank (Frank) Username: Frank Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 85.222.86.21 |
Congrats, Simon. | ||
| Allybird (Allybird) Username: Allybird Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 210.185.13.86 |
Congratulations, Simon! | ||
| Joel (Joel) Username: Joel Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 2.24.29.70 |
Good work, Simon! Everything you've told me about this project sounds ambitious and serious. I think it will mark a step-change in your reputation. | ||
| Ramsey Campbell (Ramsey) Username: Ramsey Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 92.5.66.13 |
Hurrah! | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.96.253.77 |
Cool. Now stop patting yourself on the back and cut out 100,000 words.  | ||
| Jonathan (Jonathan) Username: Jonathan Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 91.143.178.131 |
Bloody hell. That man is a writing tornado! Very much looking forward to it sir. | ||
| Simon Bestwick (Simon_b) Username: Simon_b Registered: 10-2008 Posted From: 86.24.209.217 |
Um... just re-read the MS and its seems to consist of the words 'we buy any car dot com' written over and over and over again for about 500 manuscript pages... Oops. | ||
| Simon Bestwick (Simon_b) Username: Simon_b Registered: 10-2008 Posted From: 86.24.209.217 |
Just kidding. Thanks, guys! | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.27.30.64 |
Well done, Simone. You must redraft while wearing a tutu. | ||
| Weber (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 194.176.105.37 |
Did you know that in The Shining (Kubrik's version) when we see the manuscript consisting solely of "All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy", it genuinely was 5 or 600 pages of the same liine typed over and over. Some film makers would have had about 20 and just stuck a blank ream of A4 under it. And this was in the days before it was possible to just print it out en masse easily. They were genuinely hand typed pages. | ||
| Simon Bestwick (Simon_b) Username: Simon_b Registered: 10-2008 Posted From: 86.24.209.217 |
Ah, but I bet he wasn't wearing a tutu when he typed it. Some projects just require tutul dedication on the part of the artist. (I'll get me coat.) | ||
| Weber (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 194.176.105.47 |
I hope it's a long coat. The sight of you in a Tutu would probably scare people more than anything in your books | ||
| Simon Bestwick (Simon_b) Username: Simon_b Registered: 10-2008 Posted From: 86.24.209.217 |
It could be worse. At least I'm not a Chris De Burgh fan... | ||
| Mark West (Mark_west) Username: Mark_west Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.154.42.5 |
And here's a teaser trailer for "The Faceless"... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=82a9EjD1vc4 | ||
| Stevie Walsh (Stephenw) Username: Stephenw Registered: 03-2009 Posted From: 194.32.31.1 |
It could be worse. At least I'm not a Chris De Burgh fan... That would be a fate worse than anything you chaps could possibly dream up <shudder> | ||
| Simon Bestwick (Simon_b) Username: Simon_b Registered: 10-2008 Posted From: 86.24.166.73 |
And it's finished at last. Final length: 100,476 words. It's gone off to Solaris and I'm off to Wales for a week. Result! | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 82.26.114.108 |
Took your fucking time about it.  | ||
| Weber (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.144.33.11 |
he had to find a tutu to fit him. The redraft only took a day. | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 82.26.114.108 |
Ah, right. Understood. | ||
| Simon Bestwick (Simon_b) Username: Simon_b Registered: 10-2008 Posted From: 86.129.134.198 |
Absolutely. Most tutu suppliers don't cater to chaps of my dimensions. (Stevie... I'm now planning a new horror story: we've had the Woman In Black... now meet the Lady In Red.) | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 82.26.114.108 |
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| Skip (Wolfnoma) Username: Wolfnoma Registered: 07-2010 Posted From: 216.54.20.98 |
-And it's finished at last. Final length: 100,476 words. It's gone off to Solaris and I'm off to Wales for a week. Result!- That's a whole lot of words! CONGRATS! | ||
| Simon Bestwick (Simon_b) Username: Simon_b Registered: 10-2008 Posted From: 86.24.166.73 |
Following on the heels of Mark's teaser trailer, the new book trailer for The Faceless, by Anna Taborska: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFYetGJfw-o Tis really rather good. | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.25.0.77 |
That's quietly accumulative, mate. | ||
| Simon Bestwick (Simon_b) Username: Simon_b Registered: 10-2008 Posted From: 86.24.166.73 |
My author copies just arrived today. They are gorgeous, beautiful, fandabidozi and rather nice. Mr Oliver is a mensch and a very cool dude to boot. I am rather happy. I believe that pretty much covers it. | ||
| Joel (Joel) Username: Joel Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 2.24.14.74 |
Even in its current excited state?  Great news Simon. Getting your author copies of a new book is a high like no other. And it's legal – currently. | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.96.253.77 |
But how will you read them on your new Kindle? (Ducks for cover) | ||
| Rosswarren (Rosswarren) Username: Rosswarren Registered: 11-2009 Posted From: 81.158.3.239 |
I have a review copy :-) | ||
| Simon Bestwick (Simon_b) Username: Simon_b Registered: 10-2008 Posted From: 86.24.166.73 |
First advance review of The Faceless is up... it's a really good one. Feel quite stunned and dizzy, in the best possible way. Many quoteable quotes, but 'The Faceless is an excellent horror novel,' pretty much sums things up. Off now to potter vaguely around the house with a rather big stupid grin on my face... http://www.graemesfantasybookreview.com/2012/01/faceless-simon-bestwick-solaris. html | ||
| Rosswarren (Rosswarren) Username: Rosswarren Registered: 11-2009 Posted From: 217.39.68.85 |
Reading this for review and actually had to put it down last night as I was it was giving me the creeps. Partly down to a lack of heating due to boiler malfunction but still the last novel to actually effect me enough to make me put it down was Heart Shaped Box by Joe Hill. ( The old guy with the scratched out eyes in a rocking chair, if you happen to have read it) | ||
| Simon Bestwick (Simon_b) Username: Simon_b Registered: 10-2008 Posted From: 86.24.166.73 |
The Faceless has now been released in the UK. It came out in the US on the 31st. I have celebrated with a very large Chinese takeaway. I will now try to shut up about it. That is all. | ||
| Rosswarren (Rosswarren) Username: Rosswarren Registered: 11-2009 Posted From: 81.157.139.177 |
My review is now up at This Is Horror http://www.thisishorror.co.uk/read-horror/book-reviews/the-faceless-by-simon-bes twick/ | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.29.124.77 |
Nice one, Ross. You're a trooper and your reviews are appreciated. | ||
| Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.180.123.7 |
Finally got around to ordering The Faceless. Very much looking forward to reading it. | ||
| Simon Bestwick (Simon_b) Username: Simon_b Registered: 10-2008 Posted From: 213.106.77.123 |
Earlier this year, I read an extract from The Faceless at the Manchester Book Fair. For anyone who wants to be horrified by the author rather than the contents, here's a video of it... https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=H_HfUvCZYuQ | ||
| Weber (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.129.61.16 |
The Faceless is number 2 on my TBR pile after Adam Nevill's Last Days. Only 100 pages left of Under the Dome so hopefully I'll be starting on that by the weekend. |