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     Allybird (Allybird) Username: Allybird Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 203.218.232.36 |
“Long Live The Queens! ¡V BULL RUNNING FOR GIRLS by Allyson Bird and CHEMICAL GARDENS by Gina Ranalli Review by Norm Rubenstein.” http://www.horrorworld.org/reviews.htm | ||
| Allybird (Allybird) Username: Allybird Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 203.218.232.36 |
Should have put the link up for HORRORWORLD too :>) http://www.horrorworld.org/reviews.htm | ||
| Lincoln_brown (Lincoln_brown) Username: Lincoln_brown Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 58.165.11.223 |
Great stuff, Ally! Looking forward to receiving my copy. | ||
| Allybird (Allybird) Username: Allybird Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 203.218.232.36 |
Wow - Lincoln you will have ordered whilst I'm in Hong Kong. I'll try to get someone to send it to you tomorrow or it will be Tuesday if that is okay? | ||
| Lincoln_brown (Lincoln_brown) Username: Lincoln_brown Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 58.165.11.223 |
No rush, Ally. Let me know if the postage is enough to cover shipping to Aus. If not, I'll send the extra via Paypal asap. | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.96.242.126 |
Nice review, Ally. Keep up the good work! | ||
| Allybird (Allybird) Username: Allybird Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 218.102.216.44 |
Gary F- can't seem to do it this end. Please can you amend my initial post to end at review by Norman Rubenstein - so that if anyone wants to read it they can use the Horrorworld link :>) | ||
| Allybird (Allybird) Username: Allybird Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 218.102.216.44 |
Thanks Zed - much appreciated. | ||
| Simon Strantzas (Nomis) Username: Nomis Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 99.225.111.224 |
Feeling the HorrorWorld copyright hammer, eh?  | ||
| Allybird (Allybird) Username: Allybird Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 218.103.128.143 |
That would be a yes then :>) | ||
| Huw (Huw) Username: Huw Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 218.168.190.219 |
Good for you, Ally! How's Hong Kong? I'm glad you've been spared any typhoons so far! | ||
| Allybird (Allybird) Username: Allybird Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 203.218.138.140 |
Hi Huw - no sign of any typhoons and thankfully not too humid. Getting a plane home to England tonight. Looking forward to autumn - I'm of the northernland ilk and prefer snow and ice :>) | ||
| Allybird (Allybird) Username: Allybird Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 79.70.74.195 |
Thanks Gary F! Finally home but very jet lagged. I'm sitting at my desk and I feel like I'm rocking on a boat. Going for ten minutes of zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz's. | ||
| Allybird (Allybird) Username: Allybird Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 79.70.89.218 |
Second print run of Bull Running for Girls delivered yesterday. Just 10 copies left of the first print run of 200 for anyone who wants one. Thanks to all who have bought. Lincoln - I posted your copy yesterday - thank you! | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 213.219.8.243 |
You've done well selling that many Ally, particularly in the current climate - respect to you. | ||
| Allybird (Allybird) Username: Allybird Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 79.70.89.218 |
Thanks Zed! Quite a lot of time still spent in looking for wider audiences but I think that it is time now to start the novel I haven't had time for. And yes, people are reluctant to buy books at the moment with this financial crisis going on. | ||
| Joel (Joel) Username: Joel Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 217.37.199.45 |
Though some of us are eagerly buying books because (a) we have no prospect of going on holiday or buying an iPod any time soon and (b) the way things are looking, there will be no bookshops by Christmas and no more books at all this time next year. | ||
| Joel (Joel) Username: Joel Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 217.37.199.45 |
Well done on the sales front, Ally. Many writers have suffered because their publisher lacks an effective sales function. Sales is work like anything else: if people don't do it, it doesn't happen. What's more, I've seen you in action and your sales approach is hardly the hard sell: it's just patient, dedicated and quietly confident. | ||
| Allybird (Allybird) Username: Allybird Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 79.70.75.24 |
'your sales approach is hardly the hard sell: it's just patient, dedicated and quietly confident.' I'm happy you said that Joel. I wondered if anyone would notice my approach to it all :>) Sadly - The marketplace will be even tougher through the winter. Books are a comfort but when there will be a choice beween bills to be paid... | ||
| Allybird (Allybird) Username: Allybird Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 79.70.75.24 |
Mind you just read this http://www.thebookseller.com/news/68700-credit-crunch-affects-trade-title-choice s.html | ||
| Frank (Frank) Username: Frank Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 79.187.206.46 |
Ally - Congrats on the book again. Sorry, I didn't post earlier but I was too busy talking nonsense. PS: If you weren't already happily married, would marry me? Say yes, that way I can steal your ideas while you're asleep.  | ||
| Allybird (Allybird) Username: Allybird Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 79.70.22.156 |
Yes Frank and thank you. | ||
| Allybird (Allybird) Username: Allybird Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 79.70.97.102 |
A big thank you for the emails sent to me after this review came out. | ||
| Frank (Frank) Username: Frank Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 79.187.206.46 |
Ally - My plane ticket is booked. On my way you lovely specimen of utter loveliness. | ||
| Allybird (Allybird) Username: Allybird Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 79.70.29.243 |
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| Michael_kelly (Michael_kelly) Username: Michael_kelly Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 207.188.88.188 |
Ally, The book arrived last week, while I was away in New York. It looks great. Thanks for the wonderful inscription. | ||
| Allybird (Allybird) Username: Allybird Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 79.70.113.239 |
Great - Mike! What did you get up to in New York? | ||
| Michael_kelly (Michael_kelly) Username: Michael_kelly Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 207.188.88.188 |
Ally, Lots of great stuff, really. Sightseeing, eating, Broadway plays. Unfortunately, I caught a terrible cold. | ||
| Simon Strantzas (Nomis) Username: Nomis Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 99.225.111.224 |
You got an inscription? All I got was a "Fcon 08"  | ||
| Michael_kelly (Michael_kelly) Username: Michael_kelly Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 207.188.88.188 |
Well, I'm not planning on selling my copy on eBay. ;-) | ||
| Allybird (Allybird) Username: Allybird Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 79.70.113.239 |
O bugger - how did that happen then? I blame the Guinness. I think I was being reserved and cautious around you :>) | ||
| Simon Strantzas (Nomis) Username: Nomis Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 38.113.181.169 |
You mean "reserved and callous" don't you? No worries. As Mike suggests, it sells better on eBay this way | ||
| Allybird (Allybird) Username: Allybird Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 79.70.113.239 |
Buggery offery  | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 82.3.65.135 |
Ally, your book was in the Whitby Gazette last week! Gary McMahon was described a "cult author". The proof-reader has been sacked. | ||
| Allybird (Allybird) Username: Allybird Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 79.70.48.196 |
 Did it have the cover in it? I'll have to get them to send a copy of the newspaper - if they have any left I'll go and see if it is online. | ||
| Allybird (Allybird) Username: Allybird Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 79.70.48.196 |
The online version has a few mistakes in it. Should be caul bearer not pall bearer and Simon should be listed as horror writer. Few other typos too but hey, goodish coverage for horror writers.. http://www.whitbygazette.co.uk/news/A-terrifying-selection-.4645152.jp | ||
| Allybird (Allybird) Username: Allybird Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 79.70.124.44 |
I'm pleased about another review for the collection. This time from Lee Harris, editor of HUB. Another Ramsey board member in here too. http://www.hub-mag.co.uk/ | ||
| Joel (Joel) Username: Joel Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 217.37.199.45 |
Didn't know you were putting your house on the market, Zed. | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 213.219.8.243 |
I was until the market crashed, Joel. I'm afraid we're stuck where we are for the foreseeable future... never mind. At least I still have a job, unlike a lot of other people in my industry. | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 213.219.8.243 |
I've actualy just seen the link...I can't believe I responded seriously to your remarks, Joel.  That story was inspired by reading the inane estate-agent drivel on countless agency websites... | ||
| John Llewellyn Probert (John_l_probert) Username: John_l_probert Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 194.176.105.47 |
Ally, your book was in the Whitby Gazette last week! Gary McMahon was described a "cult author". The proof-reader has been sacked. For some reason I constantly find that funny | ||
| Allybird (Allybird) Username: Allybird Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 79.70.124.44 |
What is even funnier is that Gary Fry won a copy of my book in the competition :>) or so he said. | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.96.242.126 |
One of Mr. Fry's funnier moments, methinks. the bugger.  |