| Author | Message | ||
     Joel (Joel) Username: Joel Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 217.37.199.45 |
West Midlands poetry publisher are moving into fiction publishing with this crime fiction booklet, the first in their Hotwire series: http://www.ninearchespress.com/donotpassgo.html This is a 44-page stapled booklet with five short stories – total length 10,000 words. Four of the stories have been published already (in Birmingham Noir, Bullet, Crimewave and Fusing Horizons). Copies will be available via the Nine Arches Press website from mid-June. If you'd like a personally inscribed copy, drop me a line. No need to include your address: we know where you live. | ||
| Simon Bestwick (Simon_b) Username: Simon_b Registered: 10-2008 Posted From: 86.24.209.217 |
Just (belatedly) spotted this... I'll be having this one. Which stories are they, Joel? And... why's it called Do Not Pass Go? | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.96.253.77 |
Ooh, yes - I missed this first time round, too. Joel, I'll email you regarding getting a signed copy! | ||
| Joel (Joel) Username: Joel Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 2.24.10.197 |
Simon, the stories are: 'This Night Last Woman' 'No More the Blues' 'The Black Dog' 'Blue Mirror' (first published as 'Vocal, Bass') 'Rituals' Why the title? Because I won't collect £200. | ||
| Allybird (Allybird) Username: Allybird Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 49.227.85.92 |
Yes, please! | ||
| Karim Ghahwagi (Karim) Username: Karim Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 193.89.189.24 |
I'd love a signed copy of this. Joel, I don't have your email, will the publisher forward my mail to you if I contact them? | ||
| Joel (Joel) Username: Joel Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 2.24.37.154 |
Thanks, Karim. Yes, please contact the e-mail address 'mail at ninearchespress.com' and they will forward it. | ||
| Joel (Joel) Username: Joel Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 2.24.30.41 |
A launch event for the booklet is now planned. See http://www.ninearchespress.com/events.html for details. I'll be reading together with acclaimed Birmingham short story writer Alan Beard. Please note this is not a 'launch party' in the hedonistic sense of genre fandom events: there will be no alcohol or food at the venue (though some of us will go on to the pub afterwards). It is, however, a free event and all are welcome. Rumours that my uncle Bill will in attendance should not be credited. Remember, though, that if you attend the launch you will not have seen me and I will not have seen you.  | ||
| Simon Bestwick (Simon_b) Username: Simon_b Registered: 10-2008 Posted From: 86.24.209.217 |
Anybody from oop North planning on going? I'm going to try and make it. | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.96.253.77 |
I'd love to, but there's no chance - I have loads on in June and July, and can't afford to take the day off work anyway.  I hope it goes brilliantly, Joel. | ||
| Joel (Joel) Username: Joel Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 2.24.39.94 |
SPAM ALERT This booklet is now available from the Nine Arches Press website. It's a 44-page booklet printed on some of the best paper you'll ever handle, with a card cover the shade of human blood (that design meeting was interesting). Also to note that I'll be posting out some copies to a few people tomorrow, apologies for the delay. END OF SPAM | ||
| Protodroid (Protodroid) Username: Protodroid Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 109.79.229.19 |
I do feel sorry for the Hormel Foods Corporation. These days, how do you market actual Spam? | ||
| Joel (Joel) Username: Joel Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 2.24.29.124 |
And how do you promote the real thing, Spam with a capital S, when generic versions of spam are proliferating in every low-price supermarket and grocery store chain? Mind you, it wouldn't be the first time that a shoddy generic product cobbled together from multiple sources was hailed as a unique and classic brand and an influence on the next generation. | ||
| Des (Des) Username: Des Registered: 09-2010 Posted From: 86.153.232.251 |
'Do Not Pass Go' arrived today. Delightfully a quality booklet publication of the old school small press. | ||
| Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.183.79.202 |
I've just ordered this and emailed the publisher regarding getting it signed - cheers Joel... | ||
| Gcw (Gcw) Username: Gcw Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.155.173.71 |
Got it a couple of days ago - The Paper is ideed of the highest quality, as I am sure the stories will be too! gcw | ||
| Stephen Theaker (Stephen_theaker) Username: Stephen_theaker Registered: 12-2009 Posted From: 92.232.184.206 |
Nine Arches sent me a copy this week - it's a very handsome little book. Their poetry chapbooks are very attractive too. | ||
| Karim Ghahwagi (Karim) Username: Karim Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 193.89.189.24 |
Mine arrived yesterday.It is indeed a cool chap with the black endpapers. Thank you for signing it Joel. | ||
| Matthew Fryer (Matthew_fryer) Username: Matthew_fryer Registered: 08-2009 Posted From: 90.195.182.194 |
Great book. I reviewed it here: http://matthewfryer.com/2011/07/22/do-not-pass-go-by-joel-lane/ | ||
| Joel (Joel) Username: Joel Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 2.24.37.253 |
Thanks, Matthew – the attention to production quality in the review is particularly appreciated, as 9AP deserve more attention as a publisher (though they publish a lot more poetry than prose – very good poetry I may add). By the way, did the 'twist' in 'Blue Mirror' work for you? Some readers have found it elusive (the story first appeared in Gary Fry's excellent magazine Fusing Horizons as 'Vocal, Bass'). In theory the ending makes it all clear... | ||
| Matthew Fryer (Matthew_fryer) Username: Matthew_fryer Registered: 08-2009 Posted From: 90.195.182.194 |
I confess there was a brief double take and a glance back before it fell into place. But it worked very well. | ||
| Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.184.137.136 |
Mine arrived today - cheers for signing it, Joel. The book looks lovely... | ||
| Kate (Kathleen) Username: Kathleen Registered: 09-2009 Posted From: 81.158.78.71 |
Just ordered it, Joel! We'll bring our copy along to Fcon for an inscription.  | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.96.253.77 |
Joel - I'm posting this here because I'm off work sick and can't access my only email account that seems to get on with yours. My copy of this arrived today. Thank you, thank you, thank you...and the inscription made me smile. I read it in the bath this afternoon, and absoltely loved it. 10/10. Utterly brilliant - even the couple of stories I'd read before seemed fresh and brand new. And "Rituals" is quite simply stunning. Buy this. Buy it now. Not only is the fiction outstanding on every level, but the chapbook itself is gorgeous. | ||
| Joel (Joel) Username: Joel Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 2.24.13.143 |
Thanks Zed – and get well soon! Hopefully when you're OK the pamphlet will still seem all right. | ||
| Des (Des) Username: Des Registered: 09-2010 Posted From: 81.153.251.119 |
started a rtr of dnpg | ||
| Steve Bacon (Stevebacon) Username: Stevebacon Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 90.204.111.205 |
I read this in one sitting the other night. What a fantastic collection of tales. Brilliantly unpretentious, superbly written, gorgeously produced. I'd recommend this wholeheartedly. |