| Author | Message | ||
     Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.96.253.77 |
Apparently this box arrived at Solaris HQ earlier today:  | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.96.253.77 |
I stupidly thought this would get easier with each passing mass market book, but I'm just as nervous/excited/twitchy as I was with my first one. Wish me luck.  | ||
| Paul_finch (Paul_finch) Username: Paul_finch Registered: 11-2009 Posted From: 92.5.63.48 |
Can't wait to read it. | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.96.253.77 |
Thanks, Paul. It isn't out until early July, but there'll be a box of advance copies for sale in the Deansgate Waterstones, Manchester this Saturday...you'll know them by the stench of my fear. | ||
| Frank (Frank) Username: Frank Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 85.222.86.21 |
Excellent stuff, mate. Look forward to it. Got ye little chapbook today. Threw Prof's in the bin as ordered (you know via that personal message you left for me on FB) ! | ||
| Frank (Frank) Username: Frank Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 85.222.86.21 |
Prof - got yer little chapbook today. Threw Zed's in the bin as ordered (you know via that personal message you left for me on FB)! | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.96.253.77 |
You giddy old goat. | ||
| Frank (Frank) Username: Frank Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 85.222.86.21 |
Is the polite way of putting it (: | ||
| Steve Bacon (Stevebacon) Username: Stevebacon Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 90.209.108.218 |
Good luck, Gary. Can't wait to read it. | ||
| Matthew Fryer (Matthew_fryer) Username: Matthew_fryer Registered: 08-2009 Posted From: 90.195.182.194 |
Me too. It'll be fine. But best of luck anyway. | ||
| Joel (Joel) Username: Joel Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 2.24.19.127 |
Good luck with this, Zed. It's a splendid cover. | ||
| Huw (Huw) Username: Huw Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 220.138.164.146 |
Good job, Zed. I agree with Joel - terrific cover! | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.96.253.77 |
Thanks, chaps. This story's been in my head since I was about fifteen, and only now did I feel capable of writing it. Also, it's the first of a three-book series, so I'm anxious as fuck that it's well received.  | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.27.2.245 |
Good luck. I see Frank's turned into our very own Lelend Gaunt. | ||
| Paul_finch (Paul_finch) Username: Paul_finch Registered: 11-2009 Posted From: 92.5.63.48 |
Hoping to pop into Waterstone's on Saturday, Gary. | ||
| Simon Bestwick (Simon_b) Username: Simon_b Registered: 10-2008 Posted From: 86.24.209.217 |
Looking forward to snagging a copy. I have no doubt it'll be great. | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.132.93.209 |
Zed - that looks like the cover of Attack the Block! Well done. Sad it's still scary, though. | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.132.93.209 |
In fact that looks like the flats I lived in on Scotchy road... | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.166.117.210 |
Tony - the novel's set in Northumberland. Hadrian's Wall even appears in it...and the Lambton Worm gets a mention.  | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.132.93.209 |
It was a creepy block. Last time I saw the self same building it was in Wire in the Blood, a bloke shooting people from the window that was exactly like our old front room. Well weird seeing that. | ||
| Kate (Kathleen) Username: Kathleen Registered: 09-2009 Posted From: 86.142.242.169 |
Can't wait, Gary! | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.132.93.209 |
Oh, those were heady days, my dad shooting people. Only three channels back then, you understand. | ||
| Allybird (Allybird) Username: Allybird Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 49.227.26.61 |
Congrats, Zed! | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.166.117.210 |
Here's the full cover, including sexy cover blurb, for anyone interested:  | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.166.117.210 |
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| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.166.117.210 |
Sigh...I wish we could preview photos prior to uploading. | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 129.11.77.198 |
It's bigger than your telly! | ||
| Mbfg (Mbfg) Username: Mbfg Registered: 09-2010 Posted From: 92.4.198.198 |
I will be buying my copy as soon as it is available, and it looks great. Enjoy your nerves and fear, it's the adrenalin moments that make our achievements special to us. I kowo it's a little different but when I perform on those old blues rock jam nites I'm always in a loose-bladder, can't-keep-still state of terror, until they call my name and then it suddenly disapears and away I go (and so do the audience, usually to the bar or another pub), it as the same when I used to tread the amatuer boards, but I've come to love the nerves, without them the whole thing feels flat and anti-climactic. It also shows an absence of arrogance. I am confident, having read so much of your work, that this will be another great book. Good luck with it. Cheers Terry | ||
| Hubert (Hubert) Username: Hubert Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 178.116.58.66 |
Super cover. Good luck with the thing, Zed! | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 217.156.210.82 |
For the two or three of you who are even remotely interested, here's another cracking review of The Concrete Grove: http://www.blackabyss.co.uk/2011/06/the-concrete-grove-by-gary-mcmahon/ I believe the book will be in the shops July 7th. | ||
| Chris_morris (Chris_morris) Username: Chris_morris Registered: 04-2008 Posted From: 71.228.39.43 |
Damn, Gary. Looks amazing. Well done! | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 217.156.210.82 |
Thanks, man. It's a story that's very important to me. | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 217.156.210.82 |
Another cracking advance review can be found here: http://www.graemesfantasybookreview.com/2011/06/concrete-grove-gary-mcmahon-sola ris.html | ||
| Rosswarren (Rosswarren) Username: Rosswarren Registered: 11-2009 Posted From: 135.196.120.43 |
Finished this today and have to say it's a cracking read. Probably the best thing Gary has written to date, yep even better than PLDT. The Grove itself could almost be said to be the main character of the novel and is inhabited by all manner of ghastly and ghoulish people. You will be left relieved that you don't live there! |