| Author | Message | ||
     Martin Roberts (Martin_roberts) Username: Martin_roberts Registered: 06-2008 Posted From: 86.5.239.91 |
It's only about a month before FantasyCon 2008 is upon us, so I've decided to start a series of posts that relate to FantasyCon, both past and present. If anyone who plans to attend wants to send a few words to me via the address below, feel free to do so. Its up to you if you choose to promote a book that you are launching, or the reasons why you plan to attend, or you may choose to share a past experience... I've started the ball rolling with a nod back to the screening of John Skipp's trailer for Jake's Wake at 2006's 'ShortFilm Showcase' and combined it with the press release for the forthcoming paperback of the novel version Skipp co-wrote with Cody Goodfellow. http://lordfroggysdungeon.blogspot.com/ | ||
| Allybird (Allybird) Username: Allybird Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 79.70.97.82 |
Thank you so much Martin! Also the banner looks great on Shocklines - thanks to you and I'll sort the others soon :>) | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 213.219.8.243 |
Be nice to see any attendees at the launch of "How to Make Monsters": http://www.morriganbooks.com/?p=140 | ||
| John Llewellyn Probert (John_l_probert) Username: John_l_probert Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 213.253.174.81 |
And of course at my reading on Saturday at 2-30pm which will promise to be somewhat...animated. | ||
| Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.154.242.64 |
We'll be there! | ||
| Ramsey Campbell (Ramsey) Username: Ramsey Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.93.21.74 |
Me, I'm reading late Saturday night. | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 213.219.8.243 |
I seem to be reading at the same time as Lord probert... :-o | ||
| Allybird (Allybird) Username: Allybird Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 79.70.4.183 |
Is there a list anywhere that says who is reading when? I know when Ramsey is reading. Gary and John too. Is Simon reading? | ||
| Martin Roberts (Martin_roberts) Username: Martin_roberts Registered: 06-2008 Posted From: 86.5.239.91 |
Ally - there are a few main slots for reading as posted on the site, however we have extra rooms that have been set aside for this purpose, which are bookable through Paul and/or Marie. I hope that helps. See you all soon! | ||
| John Llewellyn Probert (John_l_probert) Username: John_l_probert Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 90.203.130.161 |
And they got my time wrong! Sadly Zed & I will not be fighting it out on stage. He's at 2-30pm and I'm at 6-30 - in between the Best New Horror launch & the banquet. | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.96.242.126 |
No, mine's at 2pm. | ||
| Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.154.242.64 |
Me, I'm reading late Saturday night. Looks like that's friday, Ramsey, if my rheumy eyes aren't playing me up... | ||
| Ramsey Campbell (Ramsey) Username: Ramsey Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.93.21.74 |
No, my senile brain is doing it to me. You're right, Mick. | ||
| Allybird (Allybird) Username: Allybird Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 79.70.51.190 |
Thanks Martin! | ||
| Allybird (Allybird) Username: Allybird Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 79.78.16.47 |
I'm reading at 10.30 a.m. Saturday without a hangover this year :>) | ||
| Adriana (Adriana) Username: Adriana Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 99.230.239.233 |
I wish I could be there. I can't even let myself read this thread as I miss you guys too much.  | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 82.3.65.135 |
I won't be there, either. Just as well, since I've just started with an horrendous cold. Feel rubbish. | ||
| Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.154.242.64 |
I know that cold - I had it last week, and now Debs is just finishing one too. S'everywhere at the moment... | ||
| Joel (Joel) Username: Joel Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 91.110.217.212 |
Sorry to hear that, both. Get well soon, Professor. Didn't Merleau-Ponty comment on the phenomenology of respiratory infections: "Aaaachoo! Merde alors. Gyugh! Baise mon derriere! Rien de plus! Aaaaaa..." | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 82.3.65.135 |
Too many French cigarettes for him, Joel... | ||
| Frank (Frank) Username: Frank Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 79.187.206.46 |
Gary M/Simon - Geez, seeing your names on the Mammoth Book..., up there alongside Ramsey and Fowler, shit boys, brings a tear to the eye(s). That's fantastic lads, really is. | ||
| Albie (Albie) Username: Albie Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 87.102.117.231 |
I can remember when they couldn't write horror stories because they found it too scary. They would cower behind cushions, pushing a key at a time, hoping they didn't catch too much of the story in one go. | ||
| Albie (Albie) Username: Albie Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 87.102.117.231 |
Zed would ask me to spell "evisceration" for him in weekly increments. He was that frightened of seeing the word whole. | ||
| Frank (Frank) Username: Frank Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 79.187.206.46 |
They don't actually write any of their stories at all. Zed's stories are the work of a local Sunderland parish priest with a penchance for Newcastle Brown and welly throwing...used to be welly tossing...but you know...and Simon's work is actually the mental construct of a burgeoning serial killer given vent via the pen of a little old lady who masquerades as Lolly Pop Lady. Charlatans, both of them. Zed couldn't have written those stories because Zippy of bungalow gives him nightmares. And as for Simon, he can't write...I mean literally...he's got no hands...just two huge opposable thumbs for god knows what! | ||
| Albie (Albie) Username: Albie Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 87.102.117.231 |
Even Ramsey himself would email me to ask what colour blood REALLY was. If you've ever read his early short story "What's that yellow patch on my wife's duvet?" then you'll thank me for correcting him. | ||
| Frank (Frank) Username: Frank Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 79.187.206.46 |
Zippy of bungalow....I meant Rainbow. No, I haven't been before anybody asks. | ||
| Albie (Albie) Username: Albie Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 87.102.117.231 |
Zed is so scared of horror that he refuses to ever die in case he sees a ghost. I've seen the laboratory he keeps above a tanning boutique. I'm not so sure having the body of a goose would suit him. | ||
| Albie (Albie) Username: Albie Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 87.102.117.231 |
Sir Zippy of Bungalow. HAHAH. Did they live in a bungalow? Simon was so scared of horror that he could only ever write with a sparkly crayon while at children's parties, to keep from getting jittery. | ||
| Adriana (Adriana) Username: Adriana Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 99.230.239.233 |
Did Simon allow any photos? | ||
| Albie (Albie) Username: Albie Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 87.102.117.231 |
The whole photographic principle unnerves him. As a child his parents would draw on pieces of paper and pretend they were photographs. For years he thought he saw too much. | ||
| Adriana (Adriana) Username: Adriana Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 99.230.239.233 |
I could spend a week thinking about that one. | ||
| Adriana (Adriana) Username: Adriana Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 99.230.239.233 |
Seriously. I know it's just a throw away for you, Albie. But there's a world of story there... | ||
| Albie (Albie) Username: Albie Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 87.102.117.231 |
Hahha. I love to waste myself. It is the only sure fire way to annoy the muse. | ||
| Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.159.152.134 |
Did Simon allow any photos? Yes, but with the usual caveat. | ||
| Gcw (Gcw) Username: Gcw Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 217.43.119.113 |
I have several pictures of Simon & Fran! You just need to schmooze him right...  gcw | ||
| Allybird (Allybird) Username: Allybird Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 79.70.46.30 |
I didn't see any resistance to him having his photo taken...just what did you do Gary? He usually resists. Great to meet you for the first time! | ||
| Gcw (Gcw) Username: Gcw Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 217.43.119.113 |
Same here Ally! I dunno why he crumbled so easily - perhaps my beard scared him? gcw | ||
| Adriana (Adriana) Username: Adriana Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 99.230.239.233 |
Do you have a beard now, GCW? For that matter, does Simon? (He did for a bit, but I never got to see it.) | ||
| Joel (Joel) Username: Joel Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 91.108.49.162 |
GCW has the kind of radical just-beyond-stubble you associate with Che Guevara or Chaz Brenchley. Simon is not only clean-shaven, but looks like he hasn't started shaving yet. He had trouble getting served at the bar, and even once he'd produced ID the barman asked him if he was intending to buy alcohol for Fran. | ||
| Adriana (Adriana) Username: Adriana Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 99.230.239.233 |
hee hee Yeah, normally he's very baby-faced. Which is why I was so eager to see the full-on horror writer beard he had going for a bit. Alas. | ||
| Gcw (Gcw) Username: Gcw Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 217.43.119.113 |
..I am sad to say my Harold Shipman serial killer beard has been removed. (Soozy hates it!) Ah well, I can always grow another only takes me a a couple of days! gcw | ||
| Gcw (Gcw) Username: Gcw Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 217.43.119.113 |
PS Joel, I have been reading The Lost District in my lunch breaks at work. It is quite simply brilliant, and I so glad Mick Curtis nudged me into buying it. Best, gcw | ||
| Albie (Albie) Username: Albie Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 77.86.114.169 |
Mick would have mutilated you if you hadn't. He would have just placed his hands softly on your face and removed them...to reveal shocking mutilations. Your eye over here, and that. | ||
| Gcw (Gcw) Username: Gcw Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 217.43.119.113 |
Albie, I don't doubt it for a moment. The Hands!!The Hands!! gcw | ||
| Albie (Albie) Username: Albie Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 77.86.114.169 |
Look at what he did to this bloke for simply neglecting to renew his subscription to THE DARK SIDE. http://www.apo.gatech.edu/umoc/historic%20ugly%20man.jpg | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 82.3.65.135 |
That's Margaret Thatcher without her makeup, isn't it? | ||
| Albie (Albie) Username: Albie Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 77.86.114.169 |
I know that you made that joke out of fear of Mick The Mutilator. He's in the room with you right now, isn't he? Smiling, waggling his fingers and mutilating the very air itself. What does mutilated air look like? Smell like? Is he breathing it in for his own pleasure? | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 82.3.65.135 |
Oh God, His head's corona-ed by a cloud of locusts...! Argh, the Tall Man's stooping my way with...bsh...sig...htw... | ||
| Albie (Albie) Username: Albie Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 77.86.114.169 |
QUICK! BUY MORE HORROR BOOKS! AMAZON IS ONLY A SWEATY FINGERED CLICK AWAY! | ||
| Joel (Joel) Username: Joel Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 217.37.199.45 |
Thanks, GCW. There are a couple of office-based horror stories in there that I hope you'll enjoy... |