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Today's Twitteration
- 01:43 Still in bed. Need a better name for it though. Plague pit? Lazaretto? I think I'll stick with lazaretto. Sounds suitably archaic. #
- 01:51 @chickgonebad Nah. Can't call it that unless I have the power armour and spells to back it up. #
- 01:51 @chickgonebad Anyway, I look more like the Mad Thinker than Doctor Doom. Spitting image of him. No joke, sadly. #
- 01:57 @chickgonebad Nah, it';s a cold bordering on man flu. When in doubt, keep it simple. The Lazaretto will do. #
- 01:58 I need someone to toll a bell and call "Unclean! Unclean!" to any passers-by. Any out-of-work muezzins out there? #
- 02:00 @chickgonebad "Ewww, cooties!" isn't a bad call, if somewhat weedy. Robust, decisive, declamation is called for. #
I just received this email, but the author is far more interesting than the email itself.
I am currently putting together a book that will be a tribute to Forry Ackerman, entitled Cinemassacres: A Tribute To Forrest J. Ackerman, located here http://bearmanormedia.bizland.com/i
If you might be interested, let me know, and I will get back to you ASAP after the holidays.
Best Wishes for a happy holiday,
Iron Dave
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http://fictionprodigies.webs.com
http://ligaturemarks.webs.com
http://nvhmag1.webs.com
On Line {Contact hours} Monday to Friday - 8am to 2pm Saturday - 9am to 2pm
Sunday- Email me at your own risk. LOL!
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Well the name rang some chimes, but I could not remember why. So I googled him and then I remembered a comment from Lewis at the Rusty Nail.
I also checked out the websites he listed in his email.
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I am currently putting together a book that will be a tribute to Forry Ackerman, entitled Cinemassacres: A Tribute To Forrest J. Ackerman, located here http://bearmanormedia.bizland.com/i
If you might be interested, let me know, and I will get back to you ASAP after the holidays.
Best Wishes for a happy holiday,
Iron Dave
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Iron Dave
http://fictionprodigies.webs.com
http://ligaturemarks.webs.com
http://nvhmag1.webs.com
On Line {Contact hours} Monday to Friday - 8am to 2pm Saturday - 9am to 2pm
Sunday- Email me at your own risk. LOL!
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CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This e-mail message, including any attachments, is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the original message. Thank you. Your e-mail address is not shared and is kept confidential.
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Well the name rang some chimes, but I could not remember why. So I googled him and then I remembered a comment from Lewis at the Rusty Nail.
I also checked out the websites he listed in his email.
authorsden
Today's Twitteration
- 21:06 I've noticed a distinct absence of child chimney sweeps this year. Have standards fallen that low? #
- 16:14 My seasonal dose of the lurgi has taken hold. Hooray for wretchedness. #
- 16:44 Stage 1. Languish. Stage 2. Brutal self-assessment. Stage 3. Fixing shit. TBC. There's a lot of shit to fix. #
Several years ago, I read a book by an author I will not name. I usually refer to him as Bonehead the Barbarian. I was working for Jane Letty at the time and he was a new client.
He had written a book that featured an aged warrior who had a big legend attached to him. It was not until summer of 07 that I discovered where he had borrowed the idea from. What I did know at the time was that Bonehead's character was not convincing and that he had difficulty with his characterization and clarity. He's sold a lot of books to the small press, but nothing to the majors.
Bonehead had a habit of saying that all fantasy from the majors was "pussified" and that irked me big time. At one point he said in reference to a very influential female editor, "I'd rather be published by the small press than have one of my books come out with a sanitary napkin as a slipcover."
In 06, I had the first book in my lycan series come out and one of the central characters was Todd Sinclair, the protag's grandfather. He was an aged warrior, still a terror to his enemies, with a huge legend left from his youth. Separated by the disastrous conclusion to a great war, Todd spent ten years searching for Cahira before he finally found and married her.
In summer of 07, Steven Beeho read the novel and started pushing me to read David Gemmel, telling me that Todd was a lot like Druss. I kept telling him that I had read Gemmell. But when I went to my book shelf and pulled the book off, I was wrong. It was David Eddings I had read, not David Gemmell. So, I obligingly bought several of Gemmell's novels and chewed into them.
I loved Gemmell and I could see the similarities, even if Todd managed to have a far better life than Druss. After all, Todd managed to raise five children with his beloved Cahira and was the patriarch of a large extended family. Druss never got that lucky.
I'm glad that I created Todd before discovering Druss, because I imagined Todd myself and see the similarities as examples of certain archetypes.
However, I also realized that Bonehead had borrowed Druss for his character and made a mess of it. It may well be that you can't write old people until you become one. Or maybe you just need that kind of large extended family of diverse ages such as I grew up around.
Todd was, in many ways, drawn from a composite of members of my family. So he had a grounding in my own observations and experiences. I think that many writers who try to copy Druss don't have that to draw upon. The majority of people today do not grow up in that kind of huge family. They really have no idea what they are like. Even more to the point, very few of the middle class, safe and sound, over protected people trying to write today have known anything like the world war II generation I knew so well from childhood.
He had written a book that featured an aged warrior who had a big legend attached to him. It was not until summer of 07 that I discovered where he had borrowed the idea from. What I did know at the time was that Bonehead's character was not convincing and that he had difficulty with his characterization and clarity. He's sold a lot of books to the small press, but nothing to the majors.
Bonehead had a habit of saying that all fantasy from the majors was "pussified" and that irked me big time. At one point he said in reference to a very influential female editor, "I'd rather be published by the small press than have one of my books come out with a sanitary napkin as a slipcover."
In 06, I had the first book in my lycan series come out and one of the central characters was Todd Sinclair, the protag's grandfather. He was an aged warrior, still a terror to his enemies, with a huge legend left from his youth. Separated by the disastrous conclusion to a great war, Todd spent ten years searching for Cahira before he finally found and married her.
In summer of 07, Steven Beeho read the novel and started pushing me to read David Gemmel, telling me that Todd was a lot like Druss. I kept telling him that I had read Gemmell. But when I went to my book shelf and pulled the book off, I was wrong. It was David Eddings I had read, not David Gemmell. So, I obligingly bought several of Gemmell's novels and chewed into them.
I loved Gemmell and I could see the similarities, even if Todd managed to have a far better life than Druss. After all, Todd managed to raise five children with his beloved Cahira and was the patriarch of a large extended family. Druss never got that lucky.
I'm glad that I created Todd before discovering Druss, because I imagined Todd myself and see the similarities as examples of certain archetypes.
However, I also realized that Bonehead had borrowed Druss for his character and made a mess of it. It may well be that you can't write old people until you become one. Or maybe you just need that kind of large extended family of diverse ages such as I grew up around.
Todd was, in many ways, drawn from a composite of members of my family. So he had a grounding in my own observations and experiences. I think that many writers who try to copy Druss don't have that to draw upon. The majority of people today do not grow up in that kind of huge family. They really have no idea what they are like. Even more to the point, very few of the middle class, safe and sound, over protected people trying to write today have known anything like the world war II generation I knew so well from childhood.
Today's Twitteration
- 00:29 Short answer: tired enough not to tweet for 16 days. Must remedy that. On the plus side, coding skills are improving. #
- 00:33 Hmm. Wonder if the snow will make any difference to tomorrow. Usually a 40-mile commute into Suffolk. #
- 11:10 Got just past Bury St. Edmunds, then turned back. Roads ahead were not good. Doubt many people got in today. #