Post by markmorris on Aug 21, 2009 8:33:41 GMT
Hi all
Just thought I'd let you all know that I haven't dropped off the radar. I'm still writing as much as - if not more than - ever & still making a living as a writer.
Just to modify the list above:
Most of the 'non-fiction stuff' to which you refer isn't me. It's another Mark Morris. There may even be 3 of us. One, I think, writes history books & the other writes true crime. In fact, the one who writes true crime & I shared a publisher for a while & twice I received his royalty cheques! (I sent them back, of course)
Separate Skins was never published. It was a short story collection due out from a small press publisher called Tanjen, who sadly went belly up before publication. It's still listed on some sites, but not a single copy was ever published.
The Dogs is a long short story published by Barrington Stoke, who produce books for 'reluctant readers'. As such, the language is very simple & basic. A longer, more detailed version of The Dogs will possibly be upcoming in my new short story collection from PS Publishing next year, Long Shadows, Nightmare Light.
I've just had a new book published by Barrington Stoke, incidentally. It's Stumps, a simplified version of my novella of the same name which appeared in the above-mentioned Fourbodings, edited by Pete Crowther & containing novellas from myself, Tim Lebbon, Simon Clark & Terry Lamsley.
The Lonely Places is simply the US title for Fiddleback. It has a different, expanded ending to the UK book -- requested by the US publisher, not instigated by me -- but ostensibly it's the same book.
As for what I'm up to now, check out my website. www.markmorriswriter.com
Publishing's changed a lot since I started out, and now you can't really get by just by writing a horror novel & a couple of short stories a year -- hence the Doctor Who, Torchwood & Hellboy stuff I've done (which I really enjoy doing & am very proud of, I might add). The bottom basically fell out of the horror market about 10 years ago, and the genre is only just starting to claw its way back into bookshops again after years of diminishing horror sections containing nothing but King, Koontz, Herbert & Rice.
OK, that's about it. Sorry if this is all a bit rambly. Just rushing around before heading off on holiday.
Cheers
Mark
Just thought I'd let you all know that I haven't dropped off the radar. I'm still writing as much as - if not more than - ever & still making a living as a writer.
Just to modify the list above:
Most of the 'non-fiction stuff' to which you refer isn't me. It's another Mark Morris. There may even be 3 of us. One, I think, writes history books & the other writes true crime. In fact, the one who writes true crime & I shared a publisher for a while & twice I received his royalty cheques! (I sent them back, of course)
Separate Skins was never published. It was a short story collection due out from a small press publisher called Tanjen, who sadly went belly up before publication. It's still listed on some sites, but not a single copy was ever published.
The Dogs is a long short story published by Barrington Stoke, who produce books for 'reluctant readers'. As such, the language is very simple & basic. A longer, more detailed version of The Dogs will possibly be upcoming in my new short story collection from PS Publishing next year, Long Shadows, Nightmare Light.
I've just had a new book published by Barrington Stoke, incidentally. It's Stumps, a simplified version of my novella of the same name which appeared in the above-mentioned Fourbodings, edited by Pete Crowther & containing novellas from myself, Tim Lebbon, Simon Clark & Terry Lamsley.
The Lonely Places is simply the US title for Fiddleback. It has a different, expanded ending to the UK book -- requested by the US publisher, not instigated by me -- but ostensibly it's the same book.
As for what I'm up to now, check out my website. www.markmorriswriter.com
Publishing's changed a lot since I started out, and now you can't really get by just by writing a horror novel & a couple of short stories a year -- hence the Doctor Who, Torchwood & Hellboy stuff I've done (which I really enjoy doing & am very proud of, I might add). The bottom basically fell out of the horror market about 10 years ago, and the genre is only just starting to claw its way back into bookshops again after years of diminishing horror sections containing nothing but King, Koontz, Herbert & Rice.
OK, that's about it. Sorry if this is all a bit rambly. Just rushing around before heading off on holiday.
Cheers
Mark