| Special Carnies offer! |
[Jun. 29th, 2009|12:26 pm] |
As astute readers would realise, I'm basically acting as my own distributor now for my horror thriller published by Hachette Livre in 2006, Carnies. I've been selling them off for AU$10 local and AU$15 international, including postage, which to me seemed pretty reasonable. Sales have been trickling in for the local copies, but I've yet to have a single order from overseas. So, to encourage my little book to make its way outside of this big brown land of ours, I've decided to drop the price and make it the same as local.
Yep, that's right. AU$10, posted anywhere in the world. How cheap is that? Buy now, before I come to my senses! [1]
Carnies
signed to buyer
postage paid Australia
AU$10.00
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Carnies
signed to buyer
postage paid international
SPECIAL AU$10.00
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[1] Not much chance of that, mind you... |
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| Review and not-rejection! |
[Jun. 25th, 2009|08:58 am] |
Firstly, ![[info]](http://s.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png) mondyboy reviews the current batch of Twelfth Planet Press publications HERE, including New Ceres Nights, which gets glowing coverage, and scores me a mention:
Martin Livings pulls no punches with "Blessed Are the Dead That the Rain Falls Upon", which is easily the most violent and grim story in the collection - which was no problem for me because I like violent and grim and Martin writes it very well
Aww... but I thought it wasn't actually that violent and grim! In fact, I found it strangely touching. Boy, if he could have read my original ending, before girliejones and editormum put me in my place... ;)
Plus I just found out that I haven't been rejected yet for Festive Fear. Not an acceptance per se, mind you, but still, better than a poke in the eye with a sharp stick, or a rejection, for that matter. More news as it comes to hand.
Oh, and BUY MY BOOK ONLINE NOW! Sorry, I'm contractually [1] obligated to add this to the end of every post I make from now on. :)
[1] well, it's an informal contract with my distributor... who is also me... |
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| ...and stay down! |
[Jun. 24th, 2009|09:22 am] |
Right, I think I've beaten my story for Festive Fear into some kind of submission. It's gone from a mess, to a horrific mess (hint to self - don't try making a story into a quasi-prose poem just to be clever!), and then back into a slightly more coherent mess. I think I'll send it off today, get it out of my hairhead, and maybe move onto more important things.
Like...
Uh...
Ah well. *shrugs* :) |
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| Thank you... |
[Jun. 18th, 2009|09:43 am] |
(stolen wholesale from azhure...)
Thank you.
If there is one person or more on your friends list who makes your world a better place just because they exist and who you would not have met (in real life or not) without the internet, then post this same sentence in your journal.
Also, like everyone else, I have a couple of Dreamwidth codes. If you want one, comment with your email address. Comments are screened. |
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| It's out! |
[Jun. 17th, 2009|05:18 pm] |
The story, that is. I've finally extracted it, not without a modicum of blood. It's one that bothers me a bit, and was bloody hard to write, and I'm not even sure if it works after all that. I'm going to go home now and sleep on it, if i can sleep, but if anyone would like a copy of the extremely rough first draft to take a squiz at and let me know what they think, I'd be more than happy to send a copy their way. It's short, only 1300 words or so, so not exactly a hard read in that regard. Just comment here with an email address, and I'll send it off. |
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| Holy crap, I lost a day somewhere... |
[Jun. 3rd, 2009|09:33 pm] |
My apologies for holding my Tuesday's Ten Minute Tale on a Wednesday. I genuinely thought today was Tuesday. How freaky is that???
I need to sleep... for about a month... |
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| Tuesday's Ten Minute Tale - the setup! |
[Jun. 3rd, 2009|08:39 am] |
Here we go yet again... the first three people to post with a word, phrase, topic, theme, name, or whatever, dictate the direction of the story. I'll endeavour to incorporate all three suggestions, and write it within ten minutes of receiving the third post, work allowing. Then I'll post the result. |
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| Grants Pass now available for pre-order... and a competition! |
[Jun. 1st, 2009|11:29 am] |
(manually cross-posting from http://martinlivings.dreamwidth.org/, it seems something's gone wrong with the automatic cross-post system... sigh...)
The exciting Grants Pass post-apocalyptic anthology is now available for pre-order. This one's looking like a beauty, and got a fantastic review on Oz Horrorscope HERE. So I can't recommend it highly enough, with stories by such luminaries as Jay Lake, Cherie Priest and Ed Greenwood.
To help promote it, and to spread the word as widely as possible, ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) jennifer_brozek is running a little competition, just to sweeten the deal. Jennifer sez:
Like all good authors and editors, I want to get the word out for my upcoming anthology GRANTS PASS. As such, I am having a contest to help this. If you spread the word about the GRANTS PASS anthology and its pre-order link between the dates of May 29, 2009 and June 6, 2009 and then link your post to THIS contest journal entry (http://jennifer-brozek.livejournal.com/50584.html), your name will be tossed into the hat for a prize. This prize includes stuff from Grants Pass city, a letter from Kayley Allard and other neat stuff. Please note that if you win this prize you will need to email me your postal address.
The GRANTS PASS anthology is available for pre-order from Morrigan Books at http://www.morriganbooks.com/?page_id=172
So go ahead! Pre-order it today, before the Swine Flu kills us all! |
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| Two invites available for Dreamwidth! |
[May. 26th, 2009|09:53 am] |
Hey all,
For those of you who haven't come over to Dreamwidth yet (from whence I'm crossposting this), I have two invite codes up for grabs. First two people to ask for one (include your email address!) will receive an invite.
I dunno about the whole Dreamwidth thing. I don't like only having six user icons instead of fifteen, that was a painful cull, I can tell you. But I guess we'll see. For the time being, I'll be using both. |
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| First Grants Pass review! |
[May. 25th, 2009|06:08 pm] |
Oz Horrorscope are ahead of the curve, as usual, as chuckmck1 reviews Grants Pass, which should be out any moment now (EDIT - August 2009... that's quite a preview review!)...
http://ozhorrorscope.blogspot.com/2009/05/book-review-grants-pass.html
Overall a glowing review, with special mentions of azhure, jaylake and, er, some other schmuck from Perth...
Nice work, amandapillar and Jennifer! A passionate project, finally come to fruition, and it appears it's gonna be appreciated! |
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| What's the weather in Perth like today? |
[May. 21st, 2009|04:04 pm] |
 See left for accurate representation. It's lovely. No, really, I've been missing the rain. Must be related to my London homesickness.
Speaking of sickness, I'm currently having fun with a bout of gastro/food poisoning/whatever. Back at work today, probably an ill-advised (pardon the pun) move, but yesterday was truly horrible. I should most likely be in bed.
Oh, and it's day 21 of MaNoWaMo, and I haven't started on it yet. I think May's a write-off (again, pardon the pun!). |
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| Test post from Dreamwidth |
[May. 18th, 2009|09:11 am] |
This is just a quick test post to see if Dreamwidth is working, and also if crossposting works. My account name at Dreamwidth is martinlivings. I have no idea what it's for, mind you, but hey, I'm sure I'll work it out eventually. It looks an awful lot like LJ. :) |
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