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Post by odalisque on Nov 23, 2008 23:08:09 GMT
Hello. I've just registered. I think I'm going to be in the next issue of Filthy Creations.
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Post by franklinmarsh on Nov 25, 2008 15:23:03 GMT
What ho Ladies & Gents
A big thanks to Rog for all his help , advice and kindness in prior times. I'd like to think of myself as an irreverent larker who dabbles with jotting down daft stories every now and then. Thanks to the help and encouragement of some very kind and helpful people at Britishhorrorfilms.co.uk/board and the Vault Of Evil, I've had stuff appear in The Second BHF Book Of Horror Stories, Filthy Creations, The Black Book Of Horror and The Third Black Book Of Horror for which I am infinitely grateful. I'm a fan of pulp fiction, horror films and a lot of other dubious stuff.
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Post by corpsecandle on Nov 26, 2008 12:55:24 GMT
I think I know Frankilin..... ....I swear like from a previous life or a soul exchange...or something
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Post by Jaqhama on Jan 16, 2009 6:56:17 GMT
G'day all
I missed all the angst posted back in Nov in the Vault. (I was away on another biking adventure. I've got a life see.) Plain to see that some don't. Getting their knickers in a knot about new members posting up stuff about their own interests and writing. FFS don't read it then!
The only way the pulp genre will continue in the future is by new and younger writers writing and having their own work published. There's no logical argument against that. (Yet the very people who bemoan that the pulp genres are dead...don't want anything to do with new pulp genres writers...no logic there at all.)
Most publishers want NEW authors, not people dead and buried or with one foot in the grave.
Most publishers also find it easier to publish new authors instead of going through the rigmarole of locating copyright holders and re-publsihing novels written a couple of decades ago. The moaners just ain't going to see all the NEL/Sphere/Hamlyn books re-printed and that's all there is to it. Get over it! Give the newcomers a chance!
The pulp genre will live because new writers write it and new readers read it. Second hand bookshops are full of novels written in the past. So plenty of variety for everyone. Why a few would take offence at new, younger folk, talking about their own modern pulp interests and writings I have no idea. (Well I do. A lot of people turn into real whingers as the they age. Don't know why. But I see it all the time. I constantly look in the mirror to make sure it isn't happening to me.)
Everything changes, universal law. Nothing remains static. A lot of people just can't deal with that.
Long live old time pulp and long live new writings and publishings in pulp. And lets get this right also...only small press publishers are printing pulp these days...so don't go looking down on anyone who isn't a major publishing house, or a writer for a major publishing house.
You can have the best of both worlds.
As for self-promotion...Geeza H. Christos...all that was needed was a shameless self-promotion section. It's not rocket science, many forums have them. No one forces anyone to read a SSP thread.
Just out of interest...how many of the whingers have written and been paid for and had published their own pulp genre writings? I'm guessing that list is a very short one.
Right...I'm here. Had my say. If you agree with me...good. If you don't...go tell someone who gives a toss.
Cheers: Jaq.
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Post by carolinec on Jan 16, 2009 12:18:28 GMT
Hi Jaq - and welcome. Yep, you missed out on something there! But what's done is done; we don't want to rake any of that up again. We're working together, but separately, if you see what I mean. Many of us (myself included) are active on both boards - no problems there. Personally, I still feel it would be better if we were all still on the one board - it's a bit of a nuisance for a lazy so-and-so like me having to check two instead of one! - but, these things happen, can't be helped! Anyway, where ever you feel most at home, you do your thing Jaq! PS: Is that motorbiking or push-biking? Which ever it is, I'm quite envious!
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Post by carolinec on Jan 16, 2009 12:19:49 GMT
.. and I've just realised I haven't said "hello" to anyone else who's posted here - but I feel I know you all already anyway!
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Post by Jaqhama on Jan 16, 2009 14:27:20 GMT
Hi Jaq - and welcome. Yep, you missed out on something there! But what's done is done; we don't want to rake any of that up again. We're working together, but separately, if you see what I mean. Many of us (myself included) are active on both boards - no problems there. Personally, I still feel it would be better if we were all still on the one board - it's a bit of a nuisance for a lazy so-and-so like me having to check two instead of one! - but, these things happen, can't be helped! Anyway, where ever you feel most at home, you do your thing Jaq! PS: Is that motorbiking or push-biking? Which ever it is, I'm quite envious! Yeah. Storm in a teacup. Your question: We motorbike and mountain bicycle. We normally bicycle around the area where we live, because there's a wide variety of urban and off road terrain to choose from. I ride a motorcycle daily, have done for almost 25 years plus. Don't have a car. Linda joins me on my off road explorations. We're doing more and more off road adventure biking stuff, because we so like discovering new places. (Ewan and Charley, eat ya hearts out!) This is the ride report, complete with many photos, of our most recent adventure ride. The Snowy Mountains areas that most tourists never see. www.advrider.com/forums/showthread.php?t=409024Enjoy. Cheers: Jaq.
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Post by carolinec on Jan 16, 2009 19:38:29 GMT
Sounds and looks amazing, Jaq!
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Post by Jaqhama on Jan 17, 2009 9:41:38 GMT
" Sounds and looks amazing, Jaq!"Beats sitting at home in front of the telly.
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Post by che2000 on Jan 17, 2009 17:28:33 GMT
Hi Y'all
Jaq let me know about this site so I thought I'd introduce myself.
My name is James Lecky (Jim for short) and I am a writer based in Derry, N. Ireland (mostly SF and fantasy but with occassional forays into horror/ dark fantasy).
I'm a lifelong fan of horror movies and literature, with a particular fondness for the old British pulsters (I grew up reading the Pan Book of Horror and it has left an indelible mark upon me) and always get a delicious shudder whenever I see NEL paperbacks in second-hand bookstores. I also have an unhealthy obsession with Hammer and Amicus films (much to the distress of my wife) to the extent where I rate 'The Beast Must Die' as one of the greatest pieces of cinema ever(!).
It's nice to be here.
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Post by Jaqhama on Jan 17, 2009 17:53:07 GMT
I told him they let any demented, pulp loving, maniac in here...so of course he rushed right over.
(Actually the note I sent said: 'Get ya arse over here!" ) Subtle, me.
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Post by che2000 on Jan 17, 2009 18:13:30 GMT
It might not have been subtle, Jaq, but it worked!
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Post by Craig Herbertson on Jan 18, 2009 9:33:11 GMT
always get a delicious shudder whenever I see NEL paperbacks in second-hand bookstores
I think you're definitely in the team then James. Welcome.
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Post by carolinec on Jan 18, 2009 11:21:43 GMT
... and the unhealthy obsession with Hammer and Amicus films sounds great to me - I have one of those too! Welcome, Jim.
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Post by benedictjjones on Jan 19, 2009 16:56:58 GMT
"to the extent where I rate 'The Beast Must Die' as one of the greatest pieces of cinema ever(!)."
BUT IT IS!!!
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