Quote: SlagA @ March 16 2010, 9:33 AM GMTYay! My book's been doing relatively well on its trial run on Kindle so the publisher is moving it to paperback and getting it out to bookshops in the US and UK. It once crept on to the first page of Amazon's best-selling techno-thrillers... for just a few hours.
Well done!!! What's the name?
Quote: chipolata @ March 16 2010, 10:12 AM GMTDitto.
You're like Patrick Swayze in Ghost, unable to express your emotions until you've passed into the hereafter. It's sad, really.
Chip's just checked his PM's and discovered that he's actually recieved 149 since joining in 2006. A lot of those are from young slightly dim men going "Phwoar! I really fancy you! Do you really look like you do in your avatar?"
Quote: SlagA @ March 16 2010, 9:33 AM GMTYay! My book's been doing relatively well on its trial run on Kindle so the publisher is moving it to paperback and getting it out to bookshops in the US and UK. It once crept on to the first page of Amazon's best-selling techno-thrillers... for just a few hours.
Congratulations Mr Slag Sir!
What is kindle? Is that ebook thing?
Quote: chipolata @ March 16 2010, 10:16 AM GMTChip's just checked his PM's and discovered that he's actually recieved 149 since joining in 2006. A lot of those are from young slightly dim men going "Phwoar! I really fancy you! Do you really look like you do in your avatar?"
Yeah. Sorry about that!
Quote: chipolata @ March 16 2010, 10:16 AM GMTChip's just checked his PM's and discovered that he's actually recieved 149 since joining in 2006. A lot of those are from young slightly dim men going "Phwoar! I really fancy you! Do you really look like you do in your avatar?"
I've got 14. The last from Rhys Thomas. Giving me gip.
Quote: SlagA @ March 16 2010, 9:33 AM GMTYay! My book's been doing relatively well on its trial run on Kindle so the publisher is moving it to paperback and getting it out to bookshops in the US and UK. It once crept on to the first page of Amazon's best-selling techno-thrillers... for just a few hours.
Nice one, Slag!
Quote: chipolata @ March 16 2010, 10:16 AM GMTChip's just checked his PM's and discovered that he's actually recieved 149 since joining in 2006. A lot of those are from young slightly dim men going "Phwoar! I really fancy you! Do you really look like you do in your avatar?"
I've got 2019, mainly from Chip saying "Phwoar! I really fancy you! Do you really look like you do in your avatar?"
Quote: EllieJP @ March 16 2010, 10:28 AM GMTI've got 2019, mainly from Chip saying "Phwoar! I really fancy you! Do you really look like you do in your avatar?"
Sometimes you can be rather amusing, Miss JP! But only sometimes! 
Quote: chipolata @ March 16 2010, 10:29 AM GMT
Sometimes you can be rather amusing, Miss JP! But only sometimes!
"The difference between Ellie Peters and Ellie Price is that Ellie Peters wouldn't know the time of day if you stuck a cuckoo clock up her arse and set the chimes for twelve!" JD (paraphrased slightly)
Quote: Steve Sunshine @ March 16 2010, 10:12 AM GMTwhat's the book called?
Cheers all, the link is actually in my sig below. But I was kinda too embarrassed to physically tie it in with me in a more direct way.
Once the book is out properly, I'll be less ashamed... I hope.
It's called Big Bang and it's about a dysfunctional group of celebrities, cut off from their PR departments and gag writers, trying to survive in a nuclear bunker. Unable to contact the outside world, they're never sure if if the bomb dropped or whether the computer mainframe is playing mind games with them. When they finally begin to accept their lot and adjust to bunker life, their version of reality is fundamentally challenged.
There's an underlying metaphor and mild exploration of Schrodinger's Cat but you don't need to know about Schrodinger (or his cat) to get the story. It's also been converted into a sitcom and screenplay.
Quote: SlagA @ March 16 2010, 11:03 AM GMTCheers all, the link is actually in my sig below. But I was kinda too embarrassed to physically tie it in with me in a more direct way.
I wish certain OTHER members could display such modesty. Mentioning no names. 
Quote: EllieJP @ March 16 2010, 10:59 AM GMT
Actually I hope I got the right surname in the book and not the other way round????' 
Quote: chipolata @ March 16 2010, 11:05 AM GMTI wish certain OTHER members could display such modesty. Mentioning no names.
You leave James Cotter alone!
Sounds like an ace premise SlaggA - good luck with it all.
My sister was out walking on Sunday and came across this huge sculpture in the middle of nowhere and said it was pretty creepy. I found a couple of pictures of it online. It seems it's called the Nuba Embrace.
Quote: SlagA @ March 16 2010, 11:03 AM GMTIt's called Big Bang and it's about a dysfunctional group of celebrities, cut off from their PR departments and gag writers, trying to survive in a nuclear bunker. Unable to contact the outside world, they're never sure if if the bomb dropped or whether the computer mainframe is playing mind games with them. When they finally begin to accept their lot and adjust to bunker life, their version of reality is fundamentally challenged.
Have you read Harlan Ellison's For I Have No Mouth Yet I Must Scream?
