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Live Event with Stuart Ayris - 18th of October 2012 at 7.30pm
Don't forget to note this in your diaries everyone!
7.30 spot on... Hi everyone ! Stu are you around?
Yep - managed to tear myself away from The Hairy Bikers Mum Knows Best programme!
Stuart wrote: "Yep - managed to tear myself away from The Hairy Bikers Mum Knows Best programme!"I guess they can pass for mums if they shave the beard...
Hi Pete and welcome !
Evening, Just saw this and thought I'd pop over. I read this blokes poetry the other night. Deeeep stuff. I loved it. This morning I got my normal stalkerish email from amazon filled with his books.
Right, Pete's new, and in case anyone else is new: please try and avoid spoilers, or use the spoiler html cold if you do need to spoil. Also, don't forget to refresh like mad so you get to see the new posts, and don't forget to turn to the next page every 50 posts :)
Yeah I'm good mate. Cheers for reading the poems!
I can't watch them too, It makes me think of finding chest hair in my food and I get that feeling in my teeth like I've just chewed cotton wool.
Maybe we'll wait a couple more minutes for those who are finishing their pudding :)What's Ian up to, Stu, not seen him around lately... but then I've not been around much :/
Not seen him either! We only seem to meet up a couple of times a year - I know he's working on the sequal to Abide With Me though so I guess that keeps him busy!
Ian's wife is called Katy - that's weird!
Stuart wrote: "Ian's wife is called Katy - that's weird!"I can promise i'm not Ian's wife! (:
No worries mate, I need to get round to finishing the others. Poems are nice quick reads for me, even they take ages too, but at least I get to the end of them. Maybe instead of an audio book you coud ring me up and read TTF down the phone to me at 1am for an hour every night? :)
hey all - my internet is dodgy so i am in and out - but for now - i'm here :)
1am? - I can't even understand myself at 1am!
would so love to stay & participate, especially after reading Stuart's blogpost, but sadly am going out to meet another GR author for a drink. Have a good one folks
Welcome Kath, thanks for popping in Marc, have a nice evening !Right, I think I'm going to start the questions... The first one is going to be rather general, but I need to know because I'm trying to understand...
How did you write The Bird that Nobody Sees. I mean did you have the story all sorted before writing or did you just let it happen. I believe you're one of the writers that write it as you go along, but if I'm not wrong, how much of the story did you have when you started writing it?
Maybe everybody's in the skype chat at the mo
Which is your favourite piece of work?(: What do you usually recommend to people to start with?
Lorraine - now that's a tricky one! The original idea was to have alternate chapters - a man intent on murder who despised his life and a man who loved his life. As the book went on, the first man would gradually come to love his life and the other despise it to the point where the latter murdered the former. When I began to write it though I realised it had to be about a midget and his mates. Much of the novel is based on fact. The four main characters (other than Rod and his wife) are based very closely on my four best mates and many of the things that happen in the novel happened in real life. It is very much a tribute to good people!
Pete / Everybody, you're all welcome to ask questions, just fire them away :)
Katy - my favourite is The Bird That Nobody Sees basically because it contains more humour than Tollesbury Time Forever - although I do love Tollesbury Time and tend to recommend that purely because it is the first in the trilogy.
Ok, I'll ask. What was your expectation for the first years sales of all your books? You started this year, right?
Stu, please, can you hit the "reply" button when replying, it's just that it'll be easier for me to keep track of what you've replied to in case a question slips through the net :)So is that all you had when you started writing? The midget and his mates and the whole loving/despising life and murder?
Pete - Tollesbury Time Forever came out on January 4th 2012 and my hope was to sell 100 - ever! I also hoped to give up drinking and gambling so 1 out of 3 is not at all bad!
Stuart I find the concept of 'Frugality' intriguing!Did this develop as you wrote TTF or beforehand?
I'm here too! Hi Stu, hi Lorraine!
What made you decide to write and publish your first book? (:
Lorraine - Lover of Jellybeans wrote: "Stu, please, can you hit the "reply" button when replying, it's just that it'll be easier for me to keep track of what you've replied to in case a question slips through the net :)So is that all ..."
Will do Lorraine! Yes. I wanted it to be about friendship and hope. I had the final scene in my head from the beginning (around the tree, police, Jerusalem etc) and also the idea about the washing machine with no door so it was just a case of filling in the gaps!
Can you summarise the concept of Frugality? I'm still having trouble grasping the meaning of it. But then I've been lazy and not even looked it up in the dictionary ! :P
Thanks Stu for the reply thing :)Hi Rosemary and everybody else who's just arrived :)
Philip (sarah) wrote: "Stuart I find the concept of 'Frugality' intriguing!Did this develop as you wrote TTF or beforehand?"
Hi Sarah! It very much developed as I wrote the book. The original concept was to have a man drowning himself in the marshes and entering some kind of Lilliputian land where he would learn the basics of existence. I told my wife of the idea and she said it was rubbish so I ended up writing Tollesbury Time Forever! I really can't recall where the FRUGALITY stuff came from. I have to confess that I was going through a difficult drinking stage throughout the writing of the book - bearing in mind I had no idea anyone would ever read it.
I'm firing Mago's questions as well (gently, don't worry!) as he's got half a dozen, and time is of the essence :) First one: Do you believe in Angels?
Katy wrote: "What made you decide to write and publish your first book? (:"My first book was A Cleansing of Souls. I started writing it when I was 22 and unemployed. It was very much a means of self-preservation. I was in a difficult relationship and had distanced myself from my family. I guess it was a way of trying to work out how I had gone from fun-loving teenager to a miserable young man!
Lorraine - Lover of Jellybeans wrote: "I'm firing Mago's questions as well (gently, don't worry!) as he's got half a dozen, and time is of the essence :) First one: Do you believe in Angels?"
I firmly believe that we are all heaven and therefore we are all angels. Absolutely.
So once again, we will all be able to ask plenty of questions about Stu as a writer, and Stu as a reader. And about the Frugality series, A Cleansing of Souls, and about what his hugs are like.
Now, people, we have been set a challenge by Stuart himself. We need to come up with more questions than whoever questioned him about the NHS the other day (and apparently she asked A LOT of questions), and we need to come up with the question that he can’t answer. So it’s not too early to start thinking about a strategy and how we’re going to achieve that !
If you want to be in for a lovely evening with us, come along on the night. Looking forward to seeing you there !
This thread is going to be closed until just before the event. Don't forget to bookmark the link so you can find it easily !