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| Posted By : Stranger - 4/23/2008 12:07 PM | Greetings Earthlings,
It is I, B. C. Bell, who was lucky enough to win second place in the recent writing competition. I've never actually introduced myself and thought I would. I've been here a while but remain a bit of a voyeur because when I read about all the work everybody else is doing I start feeling guilty and ask myself, "What am I doing here? I should be writing..."
I'm relatively well read in everything from pulps to SF to crime fiction and one or two classics that sneaked in there. (And in truth, I think the word "snuck" is just fine but I figured w/ so many people around I'd leave that one up for debate.) My favorite three authors are probably Harlan Ellison, Raymond Chandler, and Jim Thompson (in no particular order). I also enjoy most of the old cyberpunk guys and others too numerous to mention (but Neal Asher comes to mind). I have to admit though, there's a lot of Fantasy I don't know about--some I've read and enjoyed some that was just a little too... Well let's just say I'm not a huge fan of unicorns, although I can recall reading one story with them in it that was OK. So let's just say I prefer the Robert Silverberg of Dying Inside to a lot of his later stuff... Anyway, I'm rambling. Thanks for having me. |
| Posted By : Jared Evers - 4/23/2008 1:14 PM | Hey, don't feel guilty for reading. That's the other half of a writer's job. 
Good to meet you! |
| Posted By : MichaelEhart - 4/23/2008 1:27 PM | Welcome!
Click here to 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, April 9
"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, March 30
"An Exorcism Straight, Hold the Elvis" They Are Not What They Seem, Janrae Frank, ed., TBA
"The First Trial of Jermaish the King" Flashing Swords #10, May 2008
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 : crystalwizard - 4/23/2008 2:22 PM | Stranger said...
Greetings Earthlings,
It is I, B. C. Bell, who was lucky enough to win second place in the recent writing competition.
welcome to the forum :)
you might want to edit your post and give it a subject line.
Stranger said...
I've never actually introduced myself and thought I would. I've been here a while but remain a bit of a voyeur because when I read about all the work everybody else is doing I start feeling guilty and ask myself, "What am I doing here? I should be writing..."
You're here recharging, getting ideas, taking a break and being a writer. Nothing wrong with that.
Stranger said...
I'm relatively well read in everything from pulps to SF to crime fiction and one or two classics that sneaked in there. (And in truth, I think the word "snuck" is just fine but I figured w/ so many people around I'd leave that one up for debate.) My favorite three authors are probably Harlan Ellison, Raymond Chandler, and Jim Thompson (in no particular order). I also enjoy most of the old cyberpunk guys and others too numerous to mention (but Neal Asher comes to mind). I have to admit though, there's a lot of Fantasy I don't know about--some I've read and enjoyed some that was just a little too... Well let's just say I'm not a huge fan of unicorns, although I can recall reading one story with them in it that was OK. So let's just say I prefer the Robert Silverberg of Dying Inside to a lot of his later stuff... Anyway, I'm rambling. Thanks for having me.
Hmmm I don't see any mention of Sword and Sorcery in your musings there. I make the suggestion that you wander over to this link:
flashingswords.sfreader.com
pick up a copy of Return of the Sword and a copy of the current issue of the magazine, and expand your fantasy reading horizons a bit :) |
| Posted By : C.L. - 4/23/2008 3:24 PM | Hi!
Icon and Art by Selina Fenech www.selinafenech.com |
| Posted By : RHFay - 4/23/2008 3:48 PM | Hello, Stranger!
Things seem to be getting stranger and stranger around here.
(Okay, I know, bad joke.)
"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 - 4/24/2008 9:05 AM | Mysterious!
Welcome, Mr. Bell. You are not, as they say, "Canadian," by chance, are you? |
| Posted By : Steven the Git - 4/24/2008 12:31 PM | wow, joined almost two years ago!
Well I would say welcome but you're much older than me. But hello all the same.
“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 : southernweirdo - 4/25/2008 11:49 PM | | Welcome!
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| Posted By : Stranger - 4/29/2008 11:19 AM | Thanks for the response. First off I didn't get back too quickly because I'm not always online. Free internet would be great, but I don't have it--which leaves the library, work, or the occasional stray wireless hack--which I would never, never, never do ("Honey, are the neighbors home yet?"). I do plan on reading Flashing Swords, but I'm also poorer than most, which I won't even go into because, well, I just saw a news story that said "Millionaires Not Feeling as Wealthy." Poor Bastards... The last S&S I read was an old Fritz Leiber and while I wasn't too into it, I have to admit I've read a great deal of Robert E. Howard. Weird thing, I think I like his boxing stories the best, Pigeons from Hell scared the crap out of me as a kid, and I particularly enjoyed The Man From Bear Creek collection. So, yeah, I'm terminally weird. I've also read Moorcock, and Edgar Rice Burroughs and I suppose a lot of it depends on my mood. I know there's new stuff I've missed, but please don't feel like you need to convert me. I simply like what I like.
Take Lovecraft for example. I love the stuff. But I'm not sure I could come up w/ a decent Cthullu Mythos tale. Some of it I love, the way it sounds, but sometimes it puts me to sleep. Maybe it's a characterization thing. Did you ever notice none of Lovecraft's characters had jobs? Students, hanging around in tombs. Or at the North Pole. Or ins some weird New England Town w/ an Old England sounding name.
No, I'm not Canadian, but I spent a wild week around Toronto one time. Oh, and my wife says, "eh," a lot. "Know what I mean, eh?" So I suppose that doesn't help, but I guess if we're ever overseas no one will think we're "The Ugly American."
Mike--Erazmus, I've spoken briefly w/ you before. You are ever the Ambassador. In the "tell us more" category, I would like to be the not-so-poor author. I finished an 85,000 word book (I know, short by some standards) and am workshopping it, but have already started to look for an agent. I've just been rejected by the Cats Curious Press anthology for a Faery Tale story that they liked, but another writer had to express another character's viewpoint and etc. I've got a story out at Horror Garage, a noir out at Murdaland, and another out at Horror Literature Quarterly. Other rejections too numerous to mention, but all bitterly felt, and I will have my revenge [Shakes fist in air, plots to take over the world].
Thanks for the invite, and the welcome. See ya over at the Writer's pages.
B.C. |
| Posted By : Camille Alexa - 5/1/2008 7:48 PM | I'm also an intermittent poster. See?
Hello.
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