| Author | Message | ||
     Des (Des) Username: Des Registered: 09-2010 Posted From: 86.151.109.99 |
Just to say that THE LAST BALCONY (title invented on RCMB) is at last published (1 August officially) and already is on Amazon.  Meanwhile, good enough to eat?  | ||
| Carolinec (Carolinec) Username: Carolinec Registered: 06-2009 Posted From: 92.232.199.196 |
Woo-hoo! That's great news, Des. | ||
| Ramsey Campbell (Ramsey) Username: Ramsey Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 92.8.17.173 |
Hurrah! | ||
| Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.178.159.240 |
Good news, Des - well done. | ||
| Des (Des) Username: Des Registered: 09-2010 Posted From: 86.151.109.99 |
Thanks, all. I'll post an image of the book here - complete with Tony's artwork - as soon as I receive my copy in the next few days hopefully. | ||
| Des (Des) Username: Des Registered: 09-2010 Posted From: 86.151.109.99 |
 Tony's image has now appeared on the Amazon link: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Last-Balcony-Stories-Novellas/dp/0956274978/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1342717530&sr=1-1 | ||
| Des (Des) Username: Des Registered: 09-2010 Posted From: 86.151.109.99 |
By moving the mouse over Tony's image here: http://www.inkermenpress.co.uk/index.php?page=shop.product_details&flypage=flypa ge.tpl&product_id=30&category_id=1&option=com_virtuemart&Itemid=4 you can actually peer in through the window! | ||
| Mark_lynch (Mark_lynch) Username: Mark_lynch Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 92.40.254.231 |
Nice one, Des. (Can I be controversial and say I prefered that interior room image Tony first proposed as a cover? Sorrrrry.) | ||
| Des (Des) Username: Des Registered: 09-2010 Posted From: 86.151.109.99 |
I can't remember that one, Mark. I think the one above is iconic... | ||
| Des (Des) Username: Des Registered: 09-2010 Posted From: 86.151.109.99 |
Thanks, btw, Mark. I hope you like Tony's Blue Apocryphan Red Indian model in the margins of my own website for this book: http://expenscusil.wordpress.com/ | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.158.157.153 |
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| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.158.157.153 |
God - that's vast! Er, help? Anyway, it was the one 'Damper' Mark preferred. I liked it, too. was taken in a Nottingham pub/hotel, a place that turned up on telly recently with some link to some murder or something. | ||
| Des (Des) Username: Des Registered: 09-2010 Posted From: 86.151.109.99 |
Yes, I now remember that Tony. Brilliant, but perhaps too Horror design Sui Generis? The more I see your model tower version the more it creeps intto the soul. Or is that just me? Anyway, the book is what it is. Haven't seen it yet but the publisher is over the moon with its design etc. | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.158.157.153 |
Yes, I like the final product too. But I do think both suit the book. Just different aspects. And I DO like the two mysteries of the final cover; what is inside, and what is beneath? | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.158.157.153 |
One of the doors has fell off that tower now, and the guttering. Poor thing. | ||
| Joel (Joel) Username: Joel Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 217.37.199.45 |
This looks great, Des. | ||
| Mark_lynch (Mark_lynch) Username: Mark_lynch Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 92.40.254.105 |
That's the pic, Des; the one Tony posted. Felt more subtle and traditionally 'classic' than the tower, though the tower's fine too. Yes, the sculpture of the Native American is a work of art, all right. I remember following its progress and being well impressed. | ||
| Des (Des) Username: Des Registered: 09-2010 Posted From: 86.151.109.99 |
The book has arrived. Very excited!  | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.158.156.152 |
Oh - I thought he used the sunset Indian. Never mind - still looks good. | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 217.42.55.97 |
My copies just reached me today and they're absolutely gorgeous! The best cover I've done I think - subtle, but just right. And I know in this day and ages of thumbnails and whatever, but in reality it looks more special than here. It has real 'flavour'. Thanks for this chance, Des. | ||
| Des (Des) Username: Des Registered: 09-2010 Posted From: 86.140.213.21 |
I’m irreversibly grateful for Rhys Hughes purchasing the book and real-time reviewing it – but also I’m suffering broken sleep at balustrade’s edge…. His evolving review here: http://mantoucan.blogspot.co.uk/2012/08/the-last-balcony-real-time-review.html  | ||
| Des (Des) Username: Des Registered: 09-2010 Posted From: 86.140.213.21 |
Riverside balconies in Hull http://www.hullvalley.blogspot.co.uk/2012/09/riverside-balconies.html | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 217.42.48.249 |
Golly - I used to live there. A strange, fascinating place. I have some super 8 film of waves breaking against the banks of the Humber. I loved every moment. |