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Jim Webster, (In On a Chance! )
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Will
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Oct 30, 2012 12:10PM
Or a circus turn, tap dancing on quicksand.
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Would that be the quickstep?
Good lord no, I start from the situation, I'm male, therefore obviously the one at fault.A very liberating experience, as because everything you do might be potentially wrong, you can potentially do anything :-)
Did that make you more likely, or less likely, to buy IBD?
I confess to not being terribly into the whole 'zombie genre'.Cinematically it has a role. It's no longer politically correct to gun down 'Native Americans' and the era of 'Beyond Mombasa' is long behind us.
So the Zombie film seems to have evolved to fill the niche.Improvements in CGI and make-up have probably helped.
The books on the other hand? I wonder if they have grown out of the films, a genre exists and people now write for it?
But as I've never been bothered about the films, I 'don't know the rules' of the genre to judge the books by.
It isn't that I'm knocking the books or the genre, any more than I'd knock fantasy, sci fi, romance or whatever.
It's just my habit of over analysing things, sorry
I saw a book recently described as Zombie Romance. I felt a bit ill.
Have you looked at 'Pride & Prejudice & Zombies', yet?Most bizarre.
Will wrote: "Have you looked at 'Pride & Prejudice & Zombies', yet?Most bizarre."
I have a mate who is heavily into film who loves his Zombie movies, especially some Japanese ones where school girls with chainsaws take on Zombies. (I think at this point it is traditional to say 'don't ask') He did mention the Pride and Prejudice with Zombies but I've never actually picked the book up.
Ironically I just searched on Amazon for Swords for a Dead Lady and got Pride and Prejudice with Zombies as one of the options!
I've been told one of the exam boards was planning to set Pride and prejudice and zombies as a GCSE text. maybe that's why they have been disbanded...
Disbanding is too good for them!It took me years to get this ignorant, the kids of today thing they can become ignorant overnight just because some teacher signs a bit of paper
Just to mention that I've finally sorted the whole blog thing out. (After a fashion) and have finally got a 'Goodreads Blog'Haven't a clue whether it'll be worth reading or not
http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/...
Hmmm... has potential.
Now you just have to keep telling us more - something like what your books are actually about. Where you live, what you get up to - see, if I buy a book I want the author's very soul. Hahaha!
Gingerlily (or Cyberlily..) wrote: "Hmmm... has potential."so does a rock in low orbit :-(
Well I hope you aren't going to crash and burn!
Ignite wrote: "Now you just have to keep telling us more - something like what your books are actually about. Where you live, what you get up to - see, if I buy a book I want the author's very soul. Hahaha!"If you told to expect much from an author's soul,you were probably cheated. They're sad poor things, wan and shrivelled, a result of too much soul searching, over exposed during the long hours slaving by the harsh light of a computer screen, and probably still with glue marks left by the pawn tickets
Gingerlily (or Cyberlily..) wrote: "Well I hope you aren't going to crash and burn!"Sic transit gloria mundi
|Well if you insist that Gloria travels in the Transit on mondays, of course she will be sick!
Ignite wrote: "See! You could've put that!"your wish is my command
Gingerlily (or Cyberlily..) wrote: "|Well if you insist that Gloria travels in the Transit on mondays, of course she will be sick!"or alternatively sick transits are gloriously mundane
Just to say that if you go to your Author Central page on Amazon, and look at sales, they now have graphs which show your sales rank (and it's changes).OK they might have had this for years but I've just discovered it :-)
Jim wrote: "Ignite wrote: "Now you just have to keep telling us more - something like what your books are actually about. Where you live, what you get up to - see, if I buy a book I want the author's very sou..."You've been looking at my souls again, I see....
Will wrote: "Jim wrote: "Ignite wrote: "Now you just have to keep telling us more - something like what your books are actually about. Where you live, what you get up to - see, if I buy a book I want the autho..."Someone once told me that they were called upon to bare their soul, and what followed (because of their nervousness) was what she described as a sort of 'dance of the seven veils'.
Except that, as she put it, by the time she'd got to the fourth veil the audience had lost interest and left.
Fame, fortune, and all the zombies you can eat. I've been 'interviewed' by Adam Sifre on http://ivebeendeader.blogspot.co.uk/Rush across and read it before good taste wins out and the whole thing is replaced by a picture of kittens
Patti (Migrating Coconut) wrote: "OoooooooKittens!"
I've done it now, no one will read it because they're waiting for the kittens!
Nope.I'm trapped in fur bundles now.
Patti (Migrating Coconut) wrote: "Nope.I'm trapped in fur bundles now."
Kittens!
That's it, I've giving up writing and I've just going to produce books of cute kitten pictures!
Haha! Only just got around to reading this. Well done, that Jim!
Ignite wrote: "Haha! Only just got around to reading this. Well done, that Jim!"I must say I do like the way Adam worked around what I'd sent him. Stopped it getting too smug and pompous :-)
An interesting articlehttp://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/...
"half of [self-published] writers earning less than $500 a year"
Will wrote: "Bet it's more than half really"$500 a year is aspirational!
Actually I was suprised by the proportion who were actually making reasonable money
Amazon link http://www.amazon.co.uk/Dead-Man-Ridi...You need a bit of blurb on the Goodreads link Jim.
And tags on Amazon. An author's work is never done.
And blog about it and update my author page on two different Amazons.Writing the book is the easy bit!
Well the third one's with the editor :-)I suspect it'll need a lot of work when it gets back through :-(
Still, like the others who have commented elsewhere, I'm genuinely grateful for the support you give us. A bacon buttie awaits at any time
Ignite wrote: "How many will there be?"bacon butties or books?
For the Queen of the Indies, the supply of Bacon butties with without limit
Books in the series, you daftt wazzock!Hmmm. Yummm.
The third and fourth are about the same place, but are not about Benor (who is after all a married man with small child to delight in and wandering off isn't going to be on his agenda for a while)'Flames of the City' is with the Editor, I hope it'll be out for Easter. In the other two books reference is made to the Oiphallarian campaign, and 'Flames of the City' is about this campaign. There are characters readers will recognise, we follow some of the episodes of the life of Kloft. It also features blood thirsty nomads, shamans, Gods of sorts and the advantages of plumbing
The fourth book, which doesn't really have a title, follows a young Urlan who is just finding his way in the world, and sets out to solve a family puzzle. That is at the 'sitting for three or four months being forgotten' stage before I go back to it, work on it and send it to the Editor.
I'm also working on a sci fi story at the moment as well (whilst the other book is being forgotten :-)
Hmmm. Will they work as stand-alone books? The problem with a series is that they often deter anyone who hasn't read the first. I have, of course. I don't deter that easily!
'The Flames of the City' and the fourth one will work as stand-alone books, they share the background, and some of the characters appear (because in a real world, some real people do appear in many disparate stories) but you don't need to have read Swords for a Dead Ladyor Dead man riding Eastat all. Indeed you don't even need to have heard of the two earlier books.(Actually 'Flames of the City' takes place earlier than the first two, and the fourth book happens at about the same time, starting even before 'Flames of the City'.)
I tried to write Dead Man Riding East so you didn't need the first book, althrough I think it is better to read the two in the order they were published.
Sounds good. It's nice having some common background though - the place, the setting, the wars and campaigns.
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