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Post by Jim on Jun 27, 2009 5:14:43 GMT
How long did it take you to publish your first book, after you started trying?
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Post by Jim on Jun 27, 2009 5:18:11 GMT
If You Could Be Any Book Character Who Would You Be...?
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Post by Jim on Jun 27, 2009 15:50:44 GMT
Amazon reviews good or bad? I get the feeling that many of them are not exactly honest if you get what I mean.
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Post by garryc on Jun 28, 2009 5:26:29 GMT
EDITORS:
Very nice if you can afford one or have a friend who has the spare time to do it for you. Sadly within the small press either is hard to come by so many of us make do.
Its hard trying to edit your own work, but at times, needs must.
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Post by garryc on Jun 28, 2009 5:32:10 GMT
TIME SCALE:
Heaven's Falling 1 and 2 took about ten months to write and then about a year later the first one was out.
Once you have the finished manuscript though it should take no more than three months to get it printed and out there.
CHARACTER:
Never gave it any thought. I like being me :-)
AMAZON:
Like IMDB the reviews are a touchy subject. You can find shining reviews and you know they are from the author or his friends and then bad reviews from other authors etc...
The honest reviews are then hard to judge in amongst all the biased crap.
I tend not to read Amazon reviews.
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Post by ian on Jun 28, 2009 18:54:22 GMT
How did you set up the Shaun Hutson interview?
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Post by garryc on Jun 29, 2009 17:07:53 GMT
It started by sending a letter to his publisher and then took time to build up a postal correspondence.
Shaun is quite private and all letters/emails usually go via a third party. It has taken five years to finally have direct email contact.
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Post by Jim on Jun 29, 2009 17:12:29 GMT
Who would you like to direct a film adaptation of one of your novels, if money was no object?
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Post by garryc on Jun 30, 2009 8:54:56 GMT
If it was Heaven's Falling then it would have to be Peter Jackson.
On the other hand I'd like to give directing a go at some point.
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Post by Jim on Jul 2, 2009 7:00:01 GMT
Should an author write for himself or the fans? You hear so many stores of fans outrage when an author refuses to write another story based on one of there characters or set in one of their worlds.
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Post by garryc on Jul 3, 2009 8:23:32 GMT
You really gotta try and strike a happy medium... writing stuff for yourself and the fans.
I get emails every week asking for a third part to the Heaven's Falling series. I've started it, but its hard... I feel as if I've taken those characters far enough... theres not much more I can do with them.
We'll see.
If start something and find myself not enjoying I usually stop. If I don't like it I doubt my fans will.
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Post by ian on Jul 3, 2009 9:06:23 GMT
Do you recall how your interest in writing originated?
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Post by Jim on Jul 3, 2009 19:20:19 GMT
Watching the news about the search for the last victim of the Moors Murders I was wondering, how far should horror distance itself from real events? Would you for instance set a story based around the Saddleworth Moor area?
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Post by garryc on Jul 4, 2009 10:20:30 GMT
INTEREST:
I've played with writing since I was about 10 when I wrote the RADIOACTIVE CREAM CAKE. Didn't look at it seriously until my early thirties.
REAL EVENTS
I would have no hesitation about setting a story or a novel on a real setting of a sensitive nature. These are the events that inspire the morbid in us... for good or bad it is what we do.
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