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January 30, 2011
An archive shot - fame in New York for Roger Sinclair
A blast from the archives. This recently discovered snap was taken by Walt Saxby, on a working visit to New York in the early 70s and shows Roger Sinclair's first major foray into the foreign film market.
January 13, 2011
Very chuffed!
"The Lost Film Novella" has been picking up some very good comments from my pre-readers, which is very re-assuring. Last week, in the midst of a conversation about something else, Gary McMahon offered to read it and I sent him over a copy. He read the first six chapters that day, emailing me and saying how good it was. Today, he finished it. And sent me a lovely message (calling it the best work
January 10, 2011
The Lost Film, more writing and some sleazy reading
"The Lost Film Novella" is picking up some excellent feedback from my pre-readers, much better than I could have hoped for, which I'm really pleased about. Especially since there were a couple of times where I thought "nah, this is stupid" - I'm so glad I carried on! I've yet to read back through it, though I'm looking forward to doing so.And coincidentally enough, I've found another Roger
January 4, 2011
More Lost Film stuff
More of my pre-readers have come back on "The Lost Film Novella" and, in general, the response has been heart-warmingly good. I'm thrilled and itching to get back into it for the third draft, but I want to get all the readers reports back first.In the meantime, here's another poster from a Roger Sinclair film. This dates back to 1974 and was, I assume, an attempt by him and Sorrell Eve to cash in
December 29, 2010
My Top Reads Of 2010
As 2010 draws to a close, it's time for the third annual "Mark West's Top Reads Of The Year". It's been a bumper year, has 2010, with a total of 47 books read (30 fiction, 10 non-fiction and 7 'comics') along with 12 Three Investigator titles and there haven't been too many stinkers either.My Top 20 Fiction titles of 20101. All That Mullarkey, by Sue Moorcroft2. The End - CFF (published 2011) -
December 24, 2010
Happy Christmas!
For everyone who pops along here, thanks for your support and I'd like to wish you and yours a very Happy Christmas and best wishes for 2011!
December 22, 2010
"Curse Of The Witch"
This is the movie poster from one of Roger Sinclair's earlier films, made well before he destroyed his career and several lives with 'Terrafly', his magnum opus(from The Lost Film novella)
December 20, 2010
The Lost Film Novella - early reports in and they're looking good!
I started to give out my pre-reader copies of "The Lost Film" novella on Friday, with the last couple going on Saturday. I didn't expect to see anything back much before Christmas and was quite happy with that - it's not far off being a short novel, I know that people are busy now, I couldn't see it happening.Andrew Murray, my Antipodean chum, came back on Sunday evening saying it was very good.
A recommendation...
Just a quick heads up, to those of you out there looking for something dark and supernatural to get your teeth into. I've been lucky enough to get an early read of the debut story/chapbook from Spectral Press - "What They Hear In The Dark", by Gary McMahon.I'm still reeling. Not just from the story, because that is truly a thing of genius, but because I got an early copy to give me an idea of
December 17, 2010
The Lost Film Novella
Yes, it's done! The 2nd draft is now complete, at 47,219 words (yes, it went a little long on my proposed target of 35,000 - I hope Steve Bacon isn't too annoyed with me!) and I've already sent out a couple of pre-reader copies. I'll leave it to sit for a while (I was 47 days on the 1st draft and 10 on the second, so I can't see the wood for the trees now) and then read it to Alison and collate
