| Author | Message | ||
     Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 82.3.65.135 |
After a bit of a writing slump, I've just heard that PS Publishing will publish my first novel The House of Canted Steps. Thought I'd share the news with you guys first. I'm delighted. It's due out in 2010. It's a haunted house story. | ||
| John Llewellyn Probert (John_l_probert) Username: John_l_probert Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 213.253.174.81 |
Very well done mate! Wish I could have a 'slump' like that! | ||
| Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.163.48.186 |
Good news Gary - well done! | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 213.219.8.243 |
Huzzah! | ||
| Jonathan (Jonathan) Username: Jonathan Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 91.143.178.131 |
Fantastic news. Well done that man. | ||
| Hubert (Hubert) Username: Hubert Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 78.22.238.203 |
Another brick in the wall of your eternity! | ||
| Ramsey Campbell (Ramsey) Username: Ramsey Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.93.21.74 |
Hurrah for you and PS! | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.129.151.199 |
Well done, Gary. Also Mark tells me to say well done too - he's away in Geurnsey. He also says to say 'the lead character swung it', if that means anything. | ||
| Albie (Albie) Username: Albie Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 77.86.114.169 |
HUH! A "slump". I dream about GETTING to the level of a "slump." I think someone left the plug out on my inspiration...sink. | ||
| Lincoln_brown (Lincoln_brown) Username: Lincoln_brown Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 58.165.11.223 |
Well done GF! Another one to add to the 'must buy' list. | ||
| Huw (Huw) Username: Huw Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 218.168.176.239 |
Great news, Gary - congratulations! | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 82.3.65.135 |
Thanks, all! You're all too splendid. Tony, tell Mark that I'm glad his monicker isn't Monica, or else it would all have been silly. | ||
| Simon Strantzas (Nomis) Username: Nomis Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 38.113.181.169 |
Best! | ||
| Adriana (Adriana) Username: Adriana Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 99.230.239.233 |
Fanbloodytastic!!!! | ||
| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 75.5.15.100 |
Gary - I've already downloaded it illegally, and will congratulate you (depending) as soon as I finish reading it/passing it on....  | ||
| Alansjf (Alansjf) Username: Alansjf Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 93.97.93.216 |
Congratulations, Gary. That's a great title for a haunted house novel. | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 82.3.65.135 |
Thanks again, all. Craig, feel free to pass it on to Hollywood! | ||
| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 75.5.15.100 |
Yeah, get in line, Gary!  Speaking of, though... and don't bother if you feel it ruins it, but... what's the logline?... | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 82.3.65.135 |
What's a logline? Sounds like an emergency call number for when you have diarrhoea. | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 82.3.65.135 |
Here's the pitch blurb, if that's what you mean: When Mark Cookson values a house and then puts it on the market with his estate agency, he slowly begins to suspect that the place is actually haunted. Mark's ex-wife has a new lover and is now pregnant with a second child. They and Mark's seven-year-old son are seeking a bigger property, and see this house on the agency's website. It is perfect for them. After they all move in, Mark must confront some of his own familial demons in order to save his son from the terrible ghostly ones that still linger in... ...The House of Canted Steps. | ||
| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 75.5.15.100 |
Sounds like a classic, fun ghost story Gary! Hollywood would ask you to shorten that down to one sentence, though.... Oh yeah, and you have to do this-movie-meets-that-movie. What's the two movie comparison? | ||
| Joel (Joel) Username: Joel Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 217.37.199.45 |
Well done, Gary! | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 82.3.65.135 |
Craig, no problem: One sentence: Where's Scooby-doo when you need him, the ginger floppy-eared pussy? Two movie: It's Four Wedding and a Funeral meets Apolcalypse Now. That clearer? | ||
| Gcw (Gcw) Username: Gcw Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 217.43.119.113 |
Well-bloody-done Gary! I was thinking at FCon you had been quiet on the publishing front.... The blurb makes this sound a little more commercial (...Sorry, there isn't a good way to describe what I'm...trying to describe!) than your short stories. Will this be in a similar vein or a departure? PS. 2010 is good for me....I have a mountain of books to get through! gcw | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 82.3.65.135 |
It's very much like my short stories, GCW. But, er, longer, of course. If you've read 'The Familial' from Sanity and Other Delusions, you know what to expect: queasy psychology and ghosts from behind the eyes. | ||
| Gcw (Gcw) Username: Gcw Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 217.43.119.113 |
Yes, I read 'Sanity...' Gary, one of my favourite recent books. gcw | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 82.3.65.135 |
You flatter me, sir. | ||
| Allybird (Allybird) Username: Allybird Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 218.103.135.129 |
Just popping in - Congrats from Hong Kong Gary! | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 129.11.77.197 |
Thanks, Ally! Have a plateful of insects for me! | ||
| Michael_kelly (Michael_kelly) Username: Michael_kelly Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 99.243.50.232 |
Congratulations, Gary! | ||
| Allybird (Allybird) Username: Allybird Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 203.218.232.36 |
I've been bitten to buggery! No deep fried chocolate locusts for me and had to walk down the creepiest pathway near the jungle last night besides the gravestones. It was called Snake Path and I didn't have a torch :>( | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 82.3.65.135 |
Still safer than Bradford, though. | ||
| Hubert (Hubert) Username: Hubert Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 78.22.229.34 |
Wish I were there. No, not Bradford. | ||
| Mark_lynch (Mark_lynch) Username: Mark_lynch Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 88.110.221.72 |
Very good news, Gary. Michelle and I were well chuffed when Tony sent us the news. "Mark's" an estate agent, though . . .?! ugh . . . | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 82.3.65.135 |
He's the exception that proves the rule, mate. |