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Post by weirdmonger on Jan 5, 2013 13:25:17 GMT
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Post by Calenture on Jan 6, 2013 14:44:36 GMT
Thanks for this post, Des. I always wondered why people didn't use this place more for promoting their own books when that's what it was put here for. I think The Last Balcony came out just as I disappeared a couple of years back. I remember Inkermen Press, and the book just coming out was a novel? Oh, I see now that one's 'stories and a novella.'
What's Nemonymous Night?
Love those bright and breezy covers by the way!
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Post by weirdmonger on Jan 6, 2013 14:52:24 GMT
What's Nemonymous Night? Love those bright and breezy covers by the way! It is my first and only novel at the age of 63 in 2011 - as published by the award-winning Chomu Press.  |
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Post by Calenture on Jan 6, 2013 18:47:45 GMT
What's Nemonymous Night? Love those bright and breezy covers by the way! It is my first and only novel at the age of 63 in 2011 - as published by the award-winning Chomu Press. I found the one I remembered from a couple of years back: I should probably know whose blog/review I've just linked. But to be honest, with a different site in every tab, I've sorta lost track... if I ever knew who the 'Grim Blogger' was in the first place. |
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Post by weirdmonger on Jan 6, 2013 19:08:24 GMT
I found the one I remembered from a couple of years back: I should probably know whose blog/review I've just linked. But to be honest, with a different site in every tab, I've sorta lost track... if I ever knew who the 'Grim Blogger' was in the first place. Better linking to the above Grim Blogger review of 'Weirdtongue' than this one: theakersquarterly.blogspot.co.uk/2011/04/weirdtongue-by-df-lewis-reviewed.html?m=1  |
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Post by Calenture on Jan 6, 2013 21:06:03 GMT
Can't win 'em all, Des. I quite like the idea of characters being beyond an author's control. Just think how hesitant we'd be about creating insane razor-wielding maniacs. What would we do, write about Health and Safety Inspectors? |
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Post by weirdmonger on Jan 11, 2013 8:43:46 GMT
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Post by Calenture on Jan 11, 2013 9:58:30 GMT
I think if I'd felt as negatively about a book as that reviewer, I'd just have passed on it. Reviewers have a responsibility as Peter Tennant pointed out at TTA Press - Some thoughts on the recent disturbance (posted January 1st 2012). I think 'responsibility' includes recognizing a writer's integrity, and acknowledging that maybe a book could be of interest to others even if not himself - and possibly handing the book to a reviewer more in tune with the writer's aims. |
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Post by weirdmonger on Jan 11, 2013 11:20:03 GMT
I think if I'd felt as negatively about a book as that reviewer, I'd just have passed on it. Reviewers have a responsibility as Peter Tennant pointed out at TTA Press - Some thoughts on the recent disturbance (posted January 1st 2012). I think 'responsibility' includes recognizing a writer's integrity, and acknowledging that maybe a book could be of interest to others even if not himself - and possibly handing the book to a reviewer more in tune with the writer's aims. Thanks, Rog. Agreed. BTW, I only brought the subject up as you had kindly posted - out of the blue - the picture of the Weirdtongue book together with one of its 'good' reviews that I then counter-balanced by means of the 'bad' one (with a smiley). des |
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Post by Calenture on Jan 11, 2013 11:33:52 GMT
Des, you realise I'm going to have to look at that book eventually, just to satisfy my own curiosity, don't you? I've got all these gangster books waiting to be read. Why can't you write gangster books?  |
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Post by weirdmonger on Jan 11, 2013 17:15:42 GMT
Des, you realise I'm going to have to look at that book eventually, just to satisfy my own curiosity, don't you? Rog, I have no doubt - and I have said this in public before - that the reviewer in question hated Weirdtongue. I respect that. You may hate it, too. But what I was originally touching upon was that the review was unacceptably mocking and tendentious. Every author has the the right to contend such a review. It was that right I was trying to stand up for in a climate where authors are told not to contend ANY review whatsoever. |
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Post by Craig Herbertson on Jan 11, 2013 18:31:55 GMT
Des, you realise I'm going to have to look at that book eventually, just to satisfy my own curiosity, don't you? Rog, I have no doubt - and I have said this in public before - that the reviewer in question hated Weirdtongue. I respect that. You may hate it, too. But what I was originally touching upon was that the review was unacceptably mocking and tendentious. Every author has the the right to contend such a review. It was that right I was trying to stand up for in a climate where authors are told not to contend ANY review whatsoever. It's one of the key questions of relativism or absolutism - the worth of some art. I'm just down to what i like. if I like its good.... |
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Post by Calenture on Jan 11, 2013 22:03:54 GMT
Des, you realise I'm going to have to look at that book eventually, just to satisfy my own curiosity, don't you? Rog, I have no doubt - and I have said this in public before - that the reviewer in question hated Weirdtongue. I respect that. You may hate it, too. But what I was originally touching upon was that the review was unacceptably mocking and tendentious. Every author has the the right to contend such a review. It was that right I was trying to stand up for in a climate where authors are told not to contend ANY review whatsoever. Drat, I was hoping to goad you into writing a gangster story! Quite seriously, I thought that a gangster story written in your own unique and usually eccentric style would have been a real treat! I would never suggest that you wrote something in a style other than your own. At their best, I find your stories are like literary mazes with a prize at their centre. Sometimes I don't 'get' them and that can be frustrating, but I know they're going to be worth investigating. Seriously, this is the first I've seen of this business. I did get the impression that the reviewer seemed to think he'd been handed a book that could be used to build his own reputation rather than the author's. I definitely think you were right to take a stand against that. If it was me, I hope I'd do the same. |
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Post by weirdmonger on Jan 11, 2013 22:16:31 GMT
Thanks for your words about my stuff, Rog. Expect some fiction about gangsters in due course. Regarding the other stuff, it is probably best forgotten, but it has been therapeutic for me to review the whole situation briefly in my own mind after a gap in time. Meanwhile, good luck with the re-launch of the Workshop. |
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Post by adehodges on Jan 13, 2013 16:30:19 GMT
Looks jolly lovely, sir!  |
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