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| Posted By : SJHigbee - 3/10/2008 10:39 AM | Stumbled across the site by chance and really enjoy the threads...
I live on the south coast of England and have been seriously writing sci fi novels for longer than I care to think. (Actually, I've sort of lost count of EXACTLY how long as I've only started adding the date at the end of the last three...) Although I belong to a writing class, I'm the only sci-fi writer there - and the raised eyebrows and head-shaking that goes on over some of my placenames and characters does get a tad tedious, sometimes.
So finding you folk has made my decade - or the last couple of days, anyhow...
It's been a solid relief to find similarly peculiar people. In a nice way, I mean. Not THAT sort of peculiar- But, you know, the OTHER sort of peculiar. Well... maybe not even peculiar. Maybe the word I'm reaching for is weird. In a good way, of course.
Anyway... hi.
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| Posted By : RHFay - 3/10/2008 10:53 AM | Who you callin' peculiar?
Wait, I'm a freak, I guess that does make me peculiar.
Actually, weird is more suting anyway.
Oh, by the way, welcome to SFReader!
"I'm going to do what the warriors of old did. I'm going to recite poetry!"
Richard H. Fay - Azure Lion Productions
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| Posted By : H.P. Lovesauce - 3/10/2008 11:07 AM | Greetings! We are pleased to accept Englishbeings among our ranks.
I know how you feel in your local group, mate. Many of us have tried to interact with the humans in regional writers' groups and have been stifled by their provincialism. |
| Posted By : Anaconda - 3/10/2008 12:01 PM | |
Welcome, SJ, from a fellow British citizen.
Alec Anaconda, author of “Slaves of Janice”, “After Janice” and “Toxic Retribution”. |
| Posted By : MichaelEhart - 3/10/2008 2:18 PM | Welcome!
Buy my book!
The Servant of the Manthycore from DEP
Illustrated by Rachel Marks, with an introduction by Michael Moorcock
Read me in 2008!
"Without Napier" Every Day Fiction, TBA
"Night of Shadows, Night of Knives" Magic and Mechanica, Ricasso Press, Spring 2008
"To Destroy All Flesh" Return of the Sword, Flashing Swords Press, Spring 2008
"Only His Name" Every Day Fiction, TBA
Still in print!
"The Stars by Law Forbidden" Unparalleled Journeys II, Journey Books, 2007
"Six Zombies Doing That Mick Jagger Strut" Damned in Dixie, Tenoka Press, 2007
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| Posted By : C.L. - 3/10/2008 6:28 PM | Hi!
Icon and Art by Selina Fenech www.selinafenech.com |
| Posted By : Bill Ward - 3/10/2008 6:56 PM | Hey SJ, welcome aboard. Next time those stiffs in your writing class roll their eyes, remind them that they are living in a scifi world, and that the lit crowd of fifty years ago wouldn't have taken anything about today's world seriously, either.
billwardwriter.com |
| Posted By : crystalwizard - 3/11/2008 12:34 AM | Welcome :) I went through the same sort of experience with an online writing group I was in. They all wrote literary fiction, I write sci-fi/fantasy and genre. They were on the other side of a vast chasm and we just couldn't bridge the gap.
you'll like here.
We're glad you found us.
Never meddle in the affairs of a wizard unless you are soggy and hard to light!
Managing Editor of Flashing Swords
Visit my art gallery on art wanted
All my books in print |
| Posted By : G.L. Douglas - 3/11/2008 11:13 AM | Hi, SJ, welcome to our shore. It's great to have another peculiar person aboard 
However, Let me warn you about RHFay (he's the weird one). When I first got here I snerted in front of him and he kinda took it personal! heeee 
Please visit my website: http://www.alpharising.net |
| Posted By : Thirdy Lopez - 3/11/2008 11:55 PM | Welcome, SJ. Don't mind the banshees, and don't feed the werewolves.
Aurelio Rico Lopez III aka "Thirdy" has had fiction featured in COLD FLESH (Hellbound Books), THE BLACKEST DEATH I, II, and III (Black Death Books), SPORTY SPEC: GAMES OF THE FANTASTIC (Raven Electrick Ink), STAR-SPANGLED ZOMBIE (Maniac Press), RAW MEAT (Sideshow Press), SHADOW BOX (Brimstone Press), TRIP THE LIGHT HORRIFIC (RAGE machine Books), DEAD MEN (AND WOMEN) WALKING (Bards and Sages), and THE BOOK OF SHADOWS VOL. I (Brimstone Press). His poems have appeared in Mythic Delirium, Star*Line, Dark Animus, Goblin Fruit, Scifaikuest, Electric Velocipede, Sybil's Garage, The Horror Express, Down In the Cellar, and elsewhere. |
| Posted By : SJHigbee - 3/12/2008 8:47 AM | Thank you, one and all, for your kind words of welcome. I really appreciate them.
Feeling a tad guilty about whining about my writing group. They're a nice bunch of people, actually. And now I always produce copies for everyone as I'm reading aloud, they mostly keep up. It's just nice not to have to make the effort to explain every phrase the likes of us would take for granted - like holo, for instance...
By the way, GL - what were you doing snerting in public??? I make it a rule only to snert behind closed doors in the presence of a very CLOSE friend. No wonder you caused offence. Maybe you need to refer back to the trusty handbook: MANNERS AND CUSTOMS OF OUR ALIEN FRIENDS.
www.sjhigbee.com |
| Posted By : Gustavo - 3/12/2008 10:28 AM | Hey SJ, great to have you here. How was the storm? Hope everyone's OK. I flew out of London just hours before it hit!
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| Posted By : Dean - 3/13/2008 10:17 PM | Well, SJ ; looks like youll fit in with this bunch rather nicely. I havent written much and im not published,but i read..a LOT! The best authors I know write from experiance. Oh boy have i got experiance! US Navy Seabee,civillian construction jobs,cook,marksman,swordsman,judo brown belt just to nan
me a few. |
| Posted By : Nicholas - 3/14/2008 6:13 PM | Welcome, SJ!
You need to start the Inklings back up!
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| Posted By : RHFay - 3/14/2008 8:35 PM |
G.L. Douglas said...
However, Let me warn you about RHFay (he's the weird one). When I first got here I snerted in front of him and he kinda took it personal! heeee
Yeah, watch out for me! I'm hopelessly emotional, and proud to be weird!  
(Better being a Snert than being a Smurf -  - there's something really wrong with Smurfs.)
"I'm going to do what the warriors of old did. I'm going to recite poetry!"
Richard H. Fay - Azure Lion Productions
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| Posted By : Steven the Git - 3/19/2008 7:56 PM | Hello from the West Country of England. Love the avatar.
“Hello, I am William Burton, Head of Recruitment and Integration for the Agency for Peaceful Regulation and Definitive Cooperation of Extraordinary Existence.”
spinetinglers.co.uk Bakemono will not stop! |
| Posted By : SJHigbee - 3/30/2008 12:01 PM | Hi everyone,
I can't get over the warmth of the welcome. I'm really enjoying the site. And thank you, Steven the Git, for your kind words on the avatar... Hope your part of the world isn't too soggy. I keep looking up at the sky for that yellow ball that used to hang there, but there's only clouds, more clouds and rain...
www.sjhigbee.com |
| Posted By : crystalwizard - 3/30/2008 5:21 PM | SJ, have you had a chance to put your publication credits into the published authors thread yet? If you haven't found it, go to the On Writing forum here, and you'll find it stickied at the top. Read the first post in the thread, the please add yourself.
Never meddle in the affairs of a wizard unless you are soggy and hard to light!
Managing Editor of Flashing Swords
Visit my art gallery on art wanted
All my books in print |
| Posted By : SJHigbee - 3/31/2008 7:12 AM | Hi CW,
Thanks for the info - but sadly, apart from a series of commissioned articles for a magazine on educational issues five years ago, I've had nada... zip... NOTHING published...
My problem is that I write sci fi novels - and nothing but novels. I'm full of admiration for you guys that manage to straddle both the novelist's and short story writer's craft - but I get an idea, want to layer it - and then there's this cool sub-plot. Next thing I know, I'm two chapters and 6000 words into another damn novel... It looks like there's vibrant market for short stories - I just wish my talents and inclination went that way.
I'm currently waiting on DAW, who have shifted one of my m/s across from the slush pile into the "Promising m/s pile." Since then I've written a trilogy and am currently re-writing my next book.
Only a handful of agents in the UK will even consider science fiction submissions and half of them have closed their lists - and only small press publishers will take work direct from the writer. I've sent a m/s off to a couple of them - and heard absolutely nothing. Even after chasing them up. So am reluctant to continue down that route...
Sorry... this appears to have turned into a long whine... Didn't mean it to! However, it can be a lonely dispiriting business. And then I tripped over this site! I've found it really enjoyable reading the threads - and occasionally taking part. I've just submitted a couple of reviews on books I've recently read that hadn't been covered by previous reviewers that I thought were outstanding. Maybe I can contribute towards the site as a reviewer...
www.sjhigbee.com |
| Posted By : Steven the Git - 3/31/2008 4:32 PM | Dunno about you, SJ, but that yellow orb turned up today, very nice!
As for the novels, I know exactly what you mean. I spent a long time scribbling away on novels and even short stuff was 11,000 or 17,000 words. But managed to get the hang of shorts in the end, simply by writing them a lot.
Reviews are very handy though.
“Hello, I am William Burton, Head of Recruitment and Integration for the Agency for Peaceful Regulation and Definitive Cooperation of Extraordinary Existence.”
spinetinglers.co.uk Bakemono will not stop! |
| Posted By : SJHigbee - 3/31/2008 4:38 PM | SJHigbee,
So shop for an agent on this side of the pond.
Mike
Absolutely, Erasmus... Thank you for the suggestion. As soon as I've gotten my rewrite sorted, I aim to do just that!
Yeah, Steven the Git - it was scary, though - all that yellow stuff!
www.sjhigbee.com |
| Posted By : Camille Alexa - 4/3/2008 10:40 PM | I understand about the raised eyebrows. My dad's still hoping I'll suddenly start writing 'real' fiction (instead of the weird stuff).
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