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Post by dreamfable on May 19, 2010 5:35:03 GMT
Ramsey Campbell will be here in Nashville, USA, June 4-5 to attend a convention, HyperiCon. Although I have numerous books and a few questions, I wonder what any British Horror Novels Board readers would ask if they were here, or would want asked by proxy if I have the chance? Seriously. Thanks. Carter, in Nashville
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Post by Dreadlocksmile on May 19, 2010 12:30:45 GMT
A question for Ramsey Cambell...how about "why doesn your current publisher not push your work much in the UK anymore?". Let's be honest, when was the last time you saw an advert (online, in a publication or in a book shop) for a new R.C. novel?
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Post by dreamfable on May 20, 2010 5:31:44 GMT
DreadlockSmile, I'll mix this in with a somewhat larger question about horror publishing, promotion (lack of), print runs (lack of!), the break-down of indie distribution, and what it is doing to him and others. He appears in the U.S. via TOR, usually, yet as much as TOR advertises in Locus and genre zines (limited as that reach may be), I also don't recall a Campbell title even as part of a group ad. It has to hurt.
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Post by steppedonwolf on May 20, 2010 9:48:11 GMT
So many British horror writers have had to turn to the American market to find a publisher - even the big selling and highly respected ones.
Let's hope the tide is turning. I'm sure WHC in Brighton (the first time it's ever been held in Britain) has marked a change in British Horror's fortunes.
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Post by dreamfable on May 26, 2010 6:01:06 GMT
Steppedonwolf, I believe UK's great anthologist Stephen Jones has reported in one of his annual Best New Horror's that in Britain, with one-fifth the population of the U.S., the total number of books published in some recent years exceeds the total U.S. output, at close to a quarter million (counting, I suppose, self-published and on-demand, the books no one sees, but I'm not sure). One-fifth the population, but a literate population no doubt that likely may be equal to or greater than that of the Facebook-addled U.S. Library use is flat here, hours are slashed by broken city budgets, and bookstore sales are flat at best in most places, since 2008 if not before.
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Post by steppedonwolf on May 28, 2010 8:19:54 GMT
Steppedonwolf, I believe UK's great anthologist Stephen Jones has reported in one of his annual Best New Horror's that in Britain, with one-fifth the population of the U.S., the total number of books published in some recent years exceeds the total U.S. output, at close to a quarter million (counting, I suppose, self-published and on-demand, the books no one sees, but I'm not sure). One-fifth the population, but a literate population no doubt that likely may be equal to or greater than that of the Facebook-addled U.S. Library use is flat here, hours are slashed by broken city budgets, and bookstore sales are flat at best in most places, since 2008 if not before. Thanks for that, Dreamfable. I have a friend in Canada who reports a similar grim scenario with bookstores. It's been in the last few years that Brit horror writers could only get published overseas, mainly with Leisure, but I wasn't aware of what last year's figures were. British horror is slowly making a comeback, it would seem. Adam Nevill's Apartment 16 has been published by Pan MacMillan, the first time I can remember a (relatively new) Brit horror writer being taken on by a major UK publisher.
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Post by darrelljoyce on Nov 21, 2011 22:42:39 GMT
Back after a while in the wilderness...and suddenly glad I've been offline for a while (there are one or two things I'd like to ask Mr Campbell....like, how does one person get to be LIFE president of 'you know what' ? Amongst other things). Don't rate him as a writer, FWIW.
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