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<p><a href="http://www.abaddonbooks.com">Abaddon Books.com</a></p>David Moorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00886477189793178895noreply@blogger.comBlogger410125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6631187390726822859.post-10900407767658867242015-03-18T15:57:00.000+00:002015-03-18T15:58:06.488+00:00We've moved<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01695987225829285054noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6631187390726822859.post-75318243357121785692014-12-31T08:15:00.000+00:002014-12-31T08:15:06.279+00:00My Year In ReviewHey yo,<br />
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So I'm visiting my old home town in Adelaide (and yes, I will be <a href="http://abaddonbooks.blogspot.co.uk/2014/11/my-favourite-library.html" target="_blank">visiting the old library while I'm here</a>), and I've been sitting in old bars and cafes I used to frequent, and walking down old streets I've not trod for decades, and I'm feeling reflective.<br />
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But nice as it's been to think back on old years and reconnect a bit with my past, it's given me fresh pause to think about the here and now, and - of course - to think about the year, on this its last day. And since, dammit, this blog is my fucking soapbox, I'm going to do it right here.<br />
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I almost hesitate to call 2014 a year of change for me, because 2013 was so much more so; but if anything, change keeps happening for me. I'm not the person I was twelve months ago, and my life, while cosmetically similar, isn't the same life. Let's call it 'continuous change' and just say I'm living in interesting times.<br />
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There have been loads of highs, especially for me (and, of course, Abaddon), and a few lows, largely for the world in general. There's been a lot to rejoice in, and a lot to learn from. So, since this is the internet, let's do this list-style:<br />
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<b>My Job</b><br />
I hit five years in the industry and with Rebellion late this year, and it's been a ride. More than anything, I'm grateful that part of my job is being able to say "yes" to writers. I've been running Abaddon for a little over a year as well, and this was the year that many of my babies - the commissions that were wholly my call, from conception to contract - hit the shelves. It's been incredible seeing Sarah's <i>Uprising,</i> and Adrian, Malcolm and Colin's <i>Journal of the Plague Year,</i> and <i>Two Hundred and Twenty-One Baker Streets,</i> among others, turn up in the flesh (as it were), and I'm proud of what we've done.<br />
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To say nothing of the social whirlwind that is publishing, flying to World Fantasy Con and gettin' down at LonCon and FantasyCon and the like. It's always a blast spending time with the brilliant, bizarre people of the genre world.<br />
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<b>My Writers</b><br />
Which brings me to the people who write for me. Between approaching people I already knew, giving the nod to submissions and simply trawling for talent at conventions, commissioning puts you in touch with an exraordinary mix of people. I've met, worked with and now Facebook-stalk some brilliant men and women this past twelve months, and my life is richer for them.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Pictured: An argument for better security at mental health institutions.</td></tr>
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<b>My Writing!</b><br />
And of course, if you didn't already know it, I'm a writer myself, with a handful of short fiction credits to my name, and this was the year I was selected for my first <i>Year's Best </i>anthology, for my mummy-romance short, "Old Souls," from Jurassic's <a href="http://www.jurassic-london.com/the-book-of-the-dead.html" target="_blank"><i>Book of the Dead</i></a> (which you should totes read). <a href="http://ticonderogapublications.com/index.php/years-best-australian-fantasy-and-horror/volume-4-2013/363-year-s-best-for-2013-contents-announced" target="_blank"><i>The Year's Best Australian Fantasy and Horror 2013</i></a>, edited by Liz Grzyb and Talie Helene, is out now.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Pictured: The moment a bit more wee than I should admit to came out.</td></tr>
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<b>Spaaaace!</b><br />
It's been a big year for space, it seems, between the ESA landing a probe on a comet half a billion kilometres away, India launching their space programme with a 100% successful remote mission, and the first stages of a seemingly solid commitment by NASA to land a human being on Mars already underway.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Pictured: Spaaaaaaaaaaaaace.</td></tr>
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I'm... not going to go into the shirt. Suffice it to say I was one of those who felt it was out of line, but that complaint was delivered, it was acknolwedged, and amends were made in a few hours, and the only people still going on about it even a day later were GamerGaters trying to be relevant.<br />
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<b>GamerGate</b><br />
...which brings us to one of the real downers of the year. If you don't already know who and what GamerGate are, you're genuinely better off at this point not knowing, and at any rate a lot of people have done it better than I probably would already, so Google it if you'd like. The tl;dr is it's not been a proud time to be white, male, middle-class, a nerd, a fan of games or on the internet the past few months.<br />
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It has had its plus points, including <a href="http://actuallyethics.tumblr.com/" target="_blank">this Tumblr feed</a> and the entry onto the world stage of such brilliant, inspirational women as Anita Sarkeesian, Zoe Quinn and Brianna Wu, but the best thing it's achieved so far is gradually dying away (although it seems it's not quite dead yet).<br />
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<b>Ferguson</b><br />
While I'm on a down note... Look, I'm not American and I'm not in America, so I appreciate this is an outside perspective and I don't fully understand the situation, but...<br />
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Honestly? It's <i>really easy </i>not to kill unarmed people. I do it all day. I could come round and show you how. In the meantime, while I'm sure there's context and it's all very complex, it just seems like something could be happening differently, and like the people with the ability to make that happen aren't really listening to the people asking for it. A lot of people are hurting, and a lot of people are angry, and the people with <i>more </i>power and <i>more </i>culpability are shouting at everyone else about how not enough people are empathising with them, and not trying real hard to empathise with anyone else. Not sure what the deal is, but I'm praying for you guys to sort yourselves out.<br />
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<b>Marriage Rights</b><br />
Alright, screw that negative shit. Honestly, if you told me five years ago that <i>David fucking Cameron </i>was going to usher in equal marriage rights in the UK, I'd have called you a goddamned liar to your face, and it turns out I'd have been a fool to do so. Already I have several friends who have jumped on the privilege, and I'm so happy to be living in a time when they can make that choice. Not least because, if this can change, what else can we do in our lifetimes?<br />
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<b>Progress</b><br />
Because... okay, yeah, I'm a big old feminist, in a time when that word is so contentious <i>Time </i>magazine apparently thought it was cool to call for it to be expunged from the English language, and I'm sometimes called a "Facebook feminist" or a "social justice warrior" (which to be honest sounds a lot more badass than the people saying this probably mean it to). But I've seen a hundred tiny steps forward this year, not least two people (that I can bring to mind) telling me directly that they've changed their outlook on gender in part because I'd helped them understand the world in a different way. It feels like the progressive side is under a huge attack, from the homophobes and the misogynists and the transphobes and the racists and those who demonise the poor - and all the rest - but I honestly believe that's just because we got them scared.<br />
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So keep up the good fight, guys. You're not the heroes they deserve etc.<br />
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<b>This</b><br />
A thousand, thousand times this.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Pictured: The whole future.</td></tr>
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This little creature right here is the most amazing thing in the world. A year ago she couldn't crawl; now she runs, climbs, sprints and speaks. She teaches me so much about her, and about myself, every day, that I can barely keep up. And she terrifies me; because I want to give her the world she deserves.<br />
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Have a fun evening, and a very happy New Year. Here's to 2015 being even more amazing.<br />
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DavidDavid Moorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00886477189793178895noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6631187390726822859.post-66826394065514870052014-12-18T15:21:00.002+00:002014-12-19T10:39:46.537+00:00Write for Abaddon Books! Redux<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">So, next year, Abaddon Books
will have existed as an entity for ten years (the first book came out around a
year later, in 2006, but we started being book people in 2005).</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Ten years! <i>Ten years.</i> TEN
YEARS! A lot can happen in ten years. Like me: I freaked out at the senior
prom, joined the Army, went into business for myself and became a professional
killer.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Wait, no; that’s the plot of the John Cusack vehicle <i>Grosse Point
Blank</i>. I get confused sometimes.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Okay, so: I’ve been with
Rebellion Publishing for a hair over five years, and it’s the best game in
town. Big enough to swim at the deep end, small enough to do we want. Abaddon
Books is a home for risk-taking, innovation and irreverence, and we’re
immeasurably proud to have brought some of the best, brightest and most
challenging new names onto the market.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">And here we are doing it again!
Our last subs month was a blast; the talent, passion and dedication shining
through every page blew me away. The only drawback, in fact, was having to say
‘no’ to so many people who frankly deserved a shot, because <i>so damned many
of you were so good</i>. And I’m pretty sure this is going to be even bigger.
So go ahead and do it! Bleed and sweat on your keyboard and make my job twice
as hard as last time. <i>It’s all I want.</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">[turns on Netflix to look for <i>Grosse Point Blank</i>]</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Man, that was a great movie.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">So we’re looking for two things! Firstly, I would love to see
a submission for a new 30,000-word novella set in one of our existing worlds,
particularly <i>The Afterblight Chronicles</i>, <i>Tomes of the Dead</i>, <i>Weird
Space</i> or <i>Gods & Monsters</i>. Pick up some our existing characters –
I would love to see a “what happened next” for <i>The Culled</i>’s nameless
hero and <i>Kill or Cure</i>’s Jasmine! – or bring a new character into the mix
of any of our worlds.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Secondly, and more importantly,
I’m looking for a new world! Find something we haven’t done. Hard SF, maybe, or
a monster we haven’t done (werewolves? faeries?). Maybe something I haven’t
thought of at all and therefore can’t give an example of! Again, I want a
30,000-word novella, which will kick start a new series in 2015. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">You’ve got until mid-February.
The doors open (metaphorically) at midnight on January 14<sup>th</sup>, 2015,
and close at midnight on February 15<sup>th</sup>, 2015. Send us a 150-word
“elevator pitch,” a 1000-word chapter-by-chapter breakdown, and a 2000-word
sample, to <a href="mailto:submissions@rebellion.co.uk">submissions@rebellion.co.uk</a>,
by the deadline, and expect to hear from me... some point. When I get around to
it. It can take a while (okay: you can start chasing me on the 1<sup>st</sup>
March).</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">What are you still doing here? <i>Do it.</i></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><i>EXTREMELY IMPORTANT ADDENDUM! </i></b>Abaddon is a Work For Hire imprint. That means that we buy your work off you outright, rather than the licensing-with-royalties deal you're probably more aware of. The money's a bit better up front, but you lose control once we buy it. <i>This may not be for all people. </i>If you want to understand more about the Work For Hire model, feel free to get in touch and ask some questions.<i><br /></i></span></span></div>
David Moorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00886477189793178895noreply@blogger.com24tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6631187390726822859.post-41515701075258121972014-11-28T10:00:00.000+00:002014-11-28T10:15:26.900+00:005 Years a Nerd: The memoires of a Mr David Thomas Moore <div class="MsoNormal">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I was one of the lucky ones.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">A bachelor’s degree in English is not notoriously a career
qualification (there’s a <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CK6ksA0QyE4">whole
song devoted to the fact</a>). There’s academia, of course, or teaching (my
initial plan, which didn’t survive uni); and English degrees serve as
jumping-off points for unrelated careers, like law or politics. But actual jobs
in word-wrangling are like hen’s teeth. It’s basically just journalism or publishing,
and those are traditionally fields where a huge number of candidates battle
fiercely for a small number of jobs on miserable salaries.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">So, naturally, nine years after leaving university, with a
modestly successful career in events and technology in the banking sector
(because of course), I decided to pack it all in and become an editor. That
should be easy, right?</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">But I got lucky. I got into Rebellion Publishing just as it
took over the Solaris imprint from Black Library, beating down more than a
hundred and forty other candidates for the junior editorial role, based almost
entirely on my winning personality and on a powerful hypnosis gun developed by
the CIA for interrogating super-criminals.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">And I've never looked back. Five years – and, at a very
rough guess, nine million words – later, I'm the commissioning editor for a
punky, edgy midlist imprint I’m hugely proud to be steering and representing,
I've learned skills I never imagined I’d need, and I’ve become part of a huge
community of wonderful, neurotic, spirited, diverse and brilliant people.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">That said, here are five things I've learned in five years
being a professional word-nerd:<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>We really are the bad
guys.<o:p></o:p></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I wasn’t really prepared for this – possibly because, while
I've always written, in a hobbyish sort of way, I’d never really tried to make
a living from it – but some people out there really <i>hate us.</i> I went to a writers’ con a few years back (the excellent
alt.fiction, in Derby), and in some of the panels, the vitriol from the audience – and questions
like “So how long do you think it’ll
take ebooks to kill publishing?”</span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> – </span></span>got slightly alarming. The sheer volume and
intensity of the Hachette/Amazon thing may have seemed startling, but really it just
tapped into something that’s been there for years.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">It’s understandable, if you've been knocked back enough
times, and I totally appreciate that I’m in the hugely privileged position of
pulling down a monthly salary instead of scraping by on advances and royalties,
but it was... eye-opening.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Writers can be some
of the best – and worst – people to work with.<o:p></o:p></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Long before I became a professional editor, I was a sort of <i>de facto</i> one. I was everyone’s one guy
you send things to to make sure they’re spelled right. Bosses would ask me to
read emails, friends would send me their CVs. And I got to learn that most
people don’t want editing, aside from a very light spelling and grammar check.
They want to be told that their writing’s fine by someone who should know.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">At their worst, that habit carries over into a writer’s
professional writing career. I've had writers fight me over every change,
demand extra passes, cling desperately to <a href="http://grammar.about.com/od/rhetoricstyle/a/murderquiller.htm">their
darlings</a>, profess to having been driven to tears (or drink), and demand to
be assigned a different editor (or to be assigned to me from another editor).
You listen patiently, you try and show your reasoning, you negotiate, and –
ultimately – you let them have their way, because it’s their name on the cover. Editing is a collaboration.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">But the vast – <i>vast</i>
– majority of authors are a delight. They <i>want</i>
to be edited; they want their work to be the best it can, and the closer and
more brutal an edit I give them, the happier they are. I’ve had veterans of
upwards of forty books singing my praises for excoriating their work, and new writers thanking me for
helping them learn their craft. It’s absolutely bloody wonderful, and as long
as it’s the majority I’m happy I’m doing it right.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>This can be a pretty
cynical industry.<o:p></o:p></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">(Some my personal experience; some related to me by friends and peers.)</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">“Can we have an exploding spaceship on it? People buy books
with exploding spaceships on them.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">“The readers won’t get this from the title. Can you put a
vampire on the cover?”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">“Is this more like Terry Pratchett or Joe Abercrombie? For
the tagline.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">“Make the covers look like George Martin books. Make it
easier for them.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">“Add another male character. We need to appeal to the core
male market.”</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">’Nuff said.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Nobody knows what’s
coming up.<o:p></o:p></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">“Zombies are over.”</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">“No, steampunk's over.”</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">“Vampires are
over, mummies are next.”</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">“Post-apoc’s over, it’s child spies now.”</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">“Space
opera’s over, it’s transhumanism next year.”</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">“Epic fantasy’s still in, but it
needs to be by a person of colour.”</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">“No, epic fantasy’s over, it’s grimdark
now.”</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">“No, grimdark’s dead, it’s political fantasy.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>You guys are the
best.<o:p></o:p></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Alright, gushy moment. But having spent a decade having to
have a nerdy, flamboyant private persona and a (somewhat) more serious work persona, it’s been such a relief coming here.
Publishers, writers, agents and community folk are bright, creative, intensely
neurotic, interested in science and technology, <i>hugely</i> politically and socially aware, progressive, diverse,
welcoming, relaxed, and engaged in an extraordinary mix of hobbies: my
Facebook feed, at present, includes articles on historical martial arts,
crochet patterns, cupcake recipes, Fermi’s Paradox, punctuation and grammar,
bunnies, medieval manuscripts, politics, copyright law and mathematics. Every day’s an education.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">A really <i>odd</i>
education.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Cheers,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">David</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">p.s.: The <i>Munsters </i>pics was Lydia’s idea. No, I don’t know either.</span></span><br />
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<i><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">All images from </span></span></i><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The Munsters </span></span><i><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">TV show and are <span style="line-height: 115%;">©1964-1966 CBS.</span></span></span></i><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Hey all,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">So as you may or may not have heard, the City of Liverpool recently decided <span style="line-height: 115%;">–</span> against a backdrop of library closures and protest campaigns across the country <span style="line-height: 115%;">–</span> to close 11 of their 18 libraries; a decision, happily, <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/nov/11/liverpool-library-closure-plans-carol-ann-duffy-caitlin-moran" target="_blank">that was reversed in response to a protest and a <!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<![endif]--><span style="line-height: 115%;">”</span> to libraries</a> by more than 500 authors, illustrators, musicians and actors. It<span style="line-height: 115%;">’</span>s a lovely story and a testament to the power of positive, collective action. And it<span style="line-height: 115%;">’</span>s a really big deal.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">In response, Book Week Scotland and the <i>Guardian </i><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2014/nov/14/love-letters-to-libraries-share-your-tribute-to-your-favourite" target="_blank">are running a </a><span style="line-height: 115%;"><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2014/nov/14/love-letters-to-libraries-share-your-tribute-to-your-favourite" target="_blank">“Love Letters to Libraries” event</a>, in which readers are invited to share their memories of their favourite libraries. And so I decided that I</span><span style="line-height: 115%;"><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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</xml><![endif]--><span style="line-height: 115%;">’</span>d jump on the blog and share my own.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Goodwood is a busy little suburb near the centre of Adelaide, South Australia. It</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Goodwood Library isn</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">What it <i>is</i>, however, is less than a hundred yards from Goodwood Primary School, where your author spent his formative years. It had close ties to the school, ran afterschool groups and, with a large playroom full of beanbags and climbing blocks, was generally very welcoming of kids.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">We were a single-parent household, for most of my childhood; my mother worked long days, and my brother and sister and I took ourselves to and from school every day. The Library was a haven, at the end of the day, or at weekends when I wanted to get out of the house. Looking back, an extraordinary number of my memories of that time involved the library: reading, playing with friends, bothering the staff. I made friends there; I encountered the divine Miss Bette Midler</span><span style="line-height: 115%;"><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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</xml><![endif]--><span style="line-height: 115%;">’</span>s stand-up routine in the record room; I played video games for the first time (I even won a competition one of the librarians ran, one Sunday); I even had my first slightly confused lesson about sex there, (shamefully) stealing a copy of <i>The Joy of Sex</i> to read (<span style="line-height: 115%;">“</span>look at<span style="line-height: 115%;">”</span>) out of sight.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">And more than anything, I read. I<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">’</span>d go and read all day, then take home as many books as they let me borrow at the end of the day, so that I could keep reading until I came back.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Ultimately, my love of books (and my career in publishing) originated in my parents, both of whom kept houses full of books and both of whom I remember reading to me in my infancy. But it was nourished and nurtured by Goodwood Library, and while I have stood in many libraries since leaving Goodwood behind </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">AB: SO WHAT’S ‘JUDGE ANDERSON: HEARTBREAKER’ ABOUT?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">AW: Like the Dredd: Year Zero books, this is set during the character’s first year after graduation. So at this point Anderson is still fresh out of the Academy of Law and getting to grips with life on the streets. You don’t need to know anything at all about Anderson’s history from the comics or even the movie. You can just dive right in and meet her for the first time.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Anyway, about the story: Anderson is on the trail of a telepathic killer who has been selecting victims via ‘Meet Market’, Mega-City One’s premier dating agency – a sort of cross between eHarmony and eBay. Anderson has to go undercover and bring the murderer to justice before the citizens attending the upcoming Valentine’s Parade find themselves smitten with something even deadlier than love.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">AW: Anderson’s one of my favourite 2000 AD characters. She’s just awesome. In those early stories she’s so full of life, such a perfect foil for Dredd. I just really, really wanted to write her. But also, prose is perfect for getting inside a character’s head and I think the effectiveness of Dredd’s character lies, for the most part, in you not being allowed inside.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">With this story, I know a lot of readers will be coming to it from having watched Anderson in the 2012 Dredd movie, so I wanted to apply that grimy procedural feel to the world of the comics in which this is set. But I also wanted to make Anderson more sure of herself than she was in the movie and show what she’s made of right from the beginning. This may be her first year on the street, but she’s no pushover. I really wanted to emphasise her strength, smarts and determination as someone who’s survived 15 gruelling years of life-or-death Judicial training. Despite her ‘rookie’ status, she doesn’t need to prove herself to anybody. She’s a Judge!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I’m fascinated by the idea of what it might be like to be psychic. Make that character a cop and you can really go to town. This is a woman who can literally hear what people are thinking. How does that work exactly? What does it feel like? How would that affect you as a person and your view of everyone around you? When I was pitching ideas, I found this article I’d read about online dating and got imagining about how you could take that to an extreme in the crazy world of Mega-City One. Straight away that suggested all these cool conflicts and ideas about how people relate to each other. A psychic like Anderson was perfect for that setting. I’m not sure I could imagine Dredd going undercover at dating agency!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">AB: DREDD IS A NOTORIOUSLY TOUGH CHARACTER TO WRITE. WHAT WERE THE CHALLENGES OF WRITING ANDERSON? HOW DO THEY DIFFER?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">AW: Dredd needs more contrast, I think. You have to have these contrasting supporting characters or else place Dredd in situations that bring out just how much of a badass he is. Let’s face it, all Judges are hard-as-nails law-machines, dedicated to nailing perps, so Dredd stories have to dramatise just how dedicated and ruthless Dredd is compared to everyone else in the Department. Anderson is more human, more volatile and unpredictable, and as soon as I started writing her I realised that I had to come up with a very specific way in which she perceives the world.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The fact that she’s psychic also makes her a nightmare to deal with when it comes to plotting. This is another way in which magic and the supernatural can poison a story if you’re not careful. Scenes often rely on characters withholding information from each other, so Anderson has the potential to kill a scene stone-dead the minute she walks into it. If Anderson was the detective in, say, Chinatown or Silence Of The Lambs, the movie would be over within ten minutes. And this story had to be a whodunit, which presented so many difficulties when it came to breaking down the story. I can see now why so many of Anderson’s adventures in the comics tend to be action-adventure or psychedelic supernatural stuff where her psi-talents have less opportunity to directly impact the story.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">AB: THE SCENES WHERE YOU’RE DESCRIBING HER READING PEOPLE’S MINDS, RETRIEVING THEIR MEMORIES AND SO ON, WORK REALLY WELL. HOW DID YOU COME UP WITH THEM? WAS THERE A LOT OF RESEARCH INVOLVED IN THE BOOK OVERALL?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">AW: Loads. I read a lot on neurology and dug out of lot of New Scientist articles about how the brain works, how memories work and wotnot. Of course, there’s a lot of poetic license, and I used it really as a starting point. The thing is you have to articulate all this stuff. When you have Anderson reading people’s minds or engaging in psychic duals in the comics you can have all that wonderful Boo Cook-style phantasmagoria. You know, brain-waves radiating off her, weird images bursting from her head, all that stuff. But how do you express that in prose? Unless you can describe exactly what she’s going through, a psychic dual ends up more like a staring contest! Plus, there’s different kinds of psychic in the Dreddworld – telepaths who can hear thoughts, empaths who can feel feelings, and so on – so different psychics perceive things in different ways.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I was also reading a lot of non-fiction about police tactics and procedure, including David Simon’s Homicide, which is just amazing, beautifully written and full of detail. Reading this stuff I was thinking about how a psychic would read that room or conduct that field interview.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I think real world details have become increasingly important in Dredd. It’s a series that’s become steadily rationalised over the years, which has probably got a lot to do with the aging readership. But it’s a very tricky balance trying to bring a sort of adult rationality to something that was dreamed up for the amusement of little boys in the ‘70s. I think ‘realistic’ and ‘believable’ are two different things, but, for me, you can make a story both if you just see the world through the character’s eyes, which is an even more interesting proposition with a character like Anderson as she’s seeing the world through everyone else’s eyes too.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">AB: THE FIGHT SCENES IN THIS REALLY STOOD OUT. I’M NOT SURE WE’VE EVER SEEN ANDERSON GET QUITE SO HANDS ON IN THE COMICS…</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">AW: Again, I wanted to bring in the grittiness of the movie. In the comics, I guess all these sort of kickboxing moves look pretty cool, but I wanted the fights in my story to be more real-world. All this came about just by thinking through who she was, thinking through the way cops and marines fight. It’s all elbows and chokeholds and it’s over in seconds. Plus, I’d just seen the Gina Curano movie Haywire and loved it. But you can’t put that sort of technical fighting in 2000 AD as it eats up too many panels. So again, prose proved ideal. My best friend does MMA. He’s also a massive geek. I showed him a picture of Olivia Thirlby and asked him if a woman of that build and height take out a room full of guys if she knew what she was doing. ‘Absolutely,’ he said and spent the rest of the evening showing me exactly how. I tried to get as much ferocity in there as I could without it getting too technical. It’s also less about how she looks and more about what she can do.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">AB: TO SUM UP, WHAT’S YOUR TAKE ON ANDERSON?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">AW: I see Anderson as someone who – despite the Academy’s efforts to drill all these things out of her – is cheeky, hip and full of wisecracks and often struggles to keep her thoughts to herself. She can also be laid back to point of being cocky. She’s changed an awful lot since she first appeared in 2000 AD, but I’ve always seen her as someone who believes the city is worth fighting for and not just out of a robotic sense of duty like Dredd, but genuine compassion. She’s a brilliant character and I think she’s a terrific entry-point into the world of Judge Dredd.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Mega-City One, 2100 AD. Psi-Judge Cassandra Anderson’s first year on the streets as a full-Eagle Judge.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>After a string of apparently random, deadly assaults by customers at Meet Market – Mega-City One’s biggest, trashiest dating agency – Anderson is convinced a telepathic killer is to blame. Putting her career on the line, the newly-trained Psi-Judge goes undercover to bring the murderer to justice.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>She'll have to act fast. Mega-City One's annual huge, riotous Valentine’s Day Parade is fast approaching, and the killer has a particularly grand gesture </i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i style="font-weight: bold;">Heartbreaker </i>is out now on the kindle (<a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Heartbreaker-Judge-Anderson-Rookie-Book-ebook" target="_blank">UK</a> | <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Heartbreaker-Judge-Anderson-Rookie-Book-ebook/" target="_blank">US</a>) and via our <a href="http://www.rebellionstore.com/products/heartbreaker" target="_blank">DRM-free eBook store</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">About the author: </span><b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Alec Worley</b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> was a projectionist and a film critic before completing his Future Shock apprenticeship for 2000 AD and creating two original series: werewolf apocalypse saga <i>Age Of The Wolf </i>(with Jon Davis-Hunt) and 'spookpunk' adventure comedy <i>Dandridge </i>(with Warren Pleece). He's also written J<i>udge Dredd, Robo-Hunter, Tharg's 3rillers </i>and <i>Tales From The Black Museum.</i></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01695987225829285054noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6631187390726822859.post-10678773178644466572014-11-03T11:00:00.000+00:002014-11-11T14:28:46.293+00:00Exclusive excerpt: Gods and Monsters: Mythbreaker by Stephen Blackmoore (NSFW)<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Before you continue please head the warning tag - this post is</span><b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> really not safe for work</b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">. Also, if you are at work you probably should get back to it before you get yourself fired. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">GODS & MONSTERS: MYTHBREAKER</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">by Stephen Blackmoore</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">CHAPTER 1</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">AFTER YEARS of doing everything
from smoking crushed-up Quaaludes in a Skid Row homeless camp to
snorting cocaine with Miami “businessmen,” Fitz has come to one
inescapable conclusion.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Getting
high is a huge pain in the ass.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You’d
think it wouldn’t be that hard. Doesn’t matter if it’s pot,
opium, ecstasy or Viagra; it all works the same way. You take a
thing, and put it in your body. It goes up your nose, or down your
mouth, in a vein, up your butt. Simple, right? But no.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">People,
man. Fucking people. Got to make everything complicated. Pipes,
domes, vaporizers, spoons, butane torches, screens, papers, irons,
ash catchers, straws, grinders, nails, syringes, chillums, hookahs,
clips, masks.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Not
that that’s ever stopped him, of course. Whether he’s popping
prescription anti-psychotics or doing opium out of a glass pipe, it’s
all worth it. To keep the voices out of his head.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“Gimme
a hit,” Marty says. He leans into him on the bed, wraps his leg
around Fitz’s own. They fucked the sheets off the mattress an hour
ago, their clothes scattered across the floor.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Or
is it Matty? Marvin? Fitz can’t remember. That’s fine. He’ll be
gone by morning, and he’ll never see him again. Dark brown hair,
thin to the point of ribs showing, eyes a shade of green that makes
Fitz think of the ocean. He’ll remember those eyes, even if he
never remembers his name.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Fitz
passes him the pipe, runs the lighter underneath until the dab of
opium dissolves into a little dark pool. Marvin sucks down the vapor,
holding it in for a moment and then blowing it out through his
nostrils.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“Oh,
I like that,” Matty-Maybe-Marvin says.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Last
week there was a girl. Patty? Pamela? He did a lot of coke with her.
And the week before was a couple of Mormon missionaries who weren’t
quite as devout as their nice white shirts and straight black ties
would suggest.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“It’s
good, isn’t it?” Fitz takes the pipe from him, packs another dot
of opium into it and lights up. He sucks in the vapor and his mind
goes still.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If
it didn’t, there wouldn’t be much point. He’s not in it for the
high. He’s in it for the way it shuts his brain up. All the
backchatter and noise. Like being in a crowded bar. And the sights.
Images that crowd out his own vision, sometimes; make it hard to tell
what’s real and what isn’t.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A
mix of anti-psychotics and benzos does the trick most of the time,
shuts things up enough where he can function. But sometimes it gets
too much. Everything’s too loud, too bright, too everything. And
that’s when he goes out, gets himself a nice little brown ball of
pure joy and a twink like Matty here and spends the weekend in a
hotel room getting fucked up and sucked off.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“I’ve
never tried it before,” Marty says. Dammit, maybe it’s Michael?
“It’s... different. What’s the craziest stuff you’ve ever
tried?”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“Toads,”
Fitz says, his voice hazy like smoke.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“Toads?”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“<i>Bufo
alvarius</i>,” he says.
“Colorado river toad. They secrete a toxin on their backs that’s
like doing acid. It’ll really fuck you up.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“So,
like, you suck the toad?”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“No.
God, no. Eew. They taste nasty,” Fitz says, remembering when he’d
heard about the toads and tried exactly that. “You squeeze it. And
when it starts to secrete the toxin you slap it against a windshield
and smear it all over. You get this gross, goopy gel. And then you
let it dry in the sun and scrape it off and smoke it.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Marty
shudders. “That’s disgusting. Seriously?”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Fitz
shrugs. “No idea, really. I just smoked the shit.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“But
what about the stuff we just did? You got any more? I want another
hit.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“Pace
yourself. This shit ain’t for amateurs. And it costs more than you
do.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“Fuck
you,” Matthew says, less admonishment than suggestion. “I’m
plenty expensive.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“My
point exactly.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He
trails a long fingernail from Fitz’s neck to his cock, his fingers
wrapping lightly around the shaft. “What’ll it take to get
another hit?”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“That’s
a good start.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“How
about I smoke <i>your</i>
toad?”</span></div>
<div align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-indent: 0.3cm;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“Is
that what we’re calling it now?”</span></div>
<div align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-indent: 0.3cm;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He
kisses his way down Fitz’s chest and stomach until he’s taken him
in his mouth. Fitz rides the high of the opium, the feeling of lips
around his cock. Drifts away on the sensation.</span></div>
<div align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-indent: 0.3cm;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Then
the visions slam into him like a truck through a convenience store
window. They punch through the opium haze, sear into his brain.</span></div>
<div align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-indent: 0.3cm;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Panic
and howling winds. Angels and demons fucking in mid-air, tearing into
each other with swords of fire. A raven-haired woman in green pulls
the still-beating heart out of a man’s chest and holds it high,
before tearing dripping chunks from it with razor teeth. Bulls and
bears battle in a pit of money while high above them the sky fills
with clouds of numbers in an unending stream of data that watches and
waits and passes judgment. The images tear through him, fill him like
an empty basin, crack and burst through the sides.</span></div>
<div align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-indent: 0.3cm;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And
through it all is the high, keening wail of someone screaming like
they’re on fire, like their skin is being flayed from their bones,
their eyes being put out with nails.</span></div>
<div align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-indent: 0.3cm;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It
isn’t until the police break down the door that he realizes it’s
him.</span></div>
<div align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div>
<div align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div>
<div align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hospitals.
Full
of sick people. The old,
the frail, the dying. The constant stink of disease and antiseptic,
of rot and bodily fluids seeping out of holes that should never leak.
They die in their beds, bleed all over them. Shit in them, too. Beds
just like the one Fitz is currently lying in and handcuffed to. He’s
wearing nothing but a badly fit gown that’s cut too high and leaves
his ass exposed. His head hurts, and when he reaches up to touch it
he feels a bandaged lump on his forehead.</span></div>
<div align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-indent: 0.3cm;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But
there is good news, as good news goes. He overheard a cop and a
doctor outside his room talking. Fitz isn’t being locked up on a
5150, an involuntary psych hold. It’s happened a few times and he’s
narrowly avoided doctors admitting him for a longer stay so they can
turn him into a case study. He’s not schizophrenic, they say. He’s
too lucid, they say. He has hallucinations, but not delusions. He’s
not bipolar, not depressed, not manic. They don’t know what he is,
though they all agree ‘crazier than a shithouse rat’ is a pretty
good description.</span></div>
<div align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-indent: 0.3cm;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If
only that was a listing in the DSM-V.</span></div>
<div align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-indent: 0.3cm;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But
of course, there’s bad news, too. He’s probably going to do some
time for the drug charge. He’s got a record, and judges don’t
like records. He got picked up for heroin a while back and avoided an
eighteen-month stint in the state penal system by going to rehab.
He’s probably not going to get that again.</span></div>
<div align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-indent: 0.3cm;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Even
with a good lawyer, he’s probably going to do a stint in County.</span></div>
<div align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-indent: 0.3cm;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This
is a problem. A very big problem.</span></div>
<div align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-indent: 0.3cm;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“Louie
Fitzsimmons?” the doctor says as he comes in through the door. He’s
young, like Doogie Howser young. Asian, with wide, dark eyes. Is this
what happens when you get older? You see people in their twenties and
they look like they should still be at their mother’s tit?</span></div>
<div align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-indent: 0.3cm;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“Far
as I know.” He’s having a hard time remembering everything he saw
when he freaked out in the hotel room. Mostly he remembers blood.</span></div>
<div align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-indent: 0.3cm;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The
doctor chuckles. “You’re doing better than you were. Can you tell
me what you were on? The young man you were with didn’t say.”</span></div>
<div align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-indent: 0.3cm;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“Benadryl.
Maybe some Advil. You know. I had a headache. And I got allergies.
Must have had a bad reaction.”</span></div>
<div align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-indent: 0.3cm;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“Right,”
the doctor says. “And this Advil it was, uh, smoked, was it?”</span></div>
<div align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-indent: 0.3cm;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“Don’t
know what you’re talkin’ about, doc.”</span></div>
<div align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-indent: 0.3cm;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“Uh
huh. I hope those allergies clear up, Mister Fitzsimmons. I don’t
think you’re going to be getting any Benadryl for a while.”</span></div>
<div align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-indent: 0.3cm;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“How
about some Advil?”</span></div>
<div align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-indent: 0.3cm;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“Sorry,”
the doctor says. “We only do Tylenol here.” He closes his chart,
heads to the door. Stops when a six-foot-plus wall of muscle steps in
his way. He looks up at the giant woman standing there.</span></div>
<div align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-indent: 0.3cm;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“I
don’t think you’re supposed to be in here,” the doctor says,
his voice suddenly very small.</span></div>
<div align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-indent: 0.3cm;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Samantha
Kellerman looms. At six-foot-five, with eyes like carved jade and a
shock of bright red hair, Sam can’t help but loom. It’s built
into her DNA. She is not fat, she is big-boned. This only explains
her girth because those bones are wrapped in two-hundred-and-twenty
pounds of densely packed muscle built doing MMA before she lost a
bout in a bad way. She is big-boned surrounded by big-meat.</span></div>
<div align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-indent: 0.3cm;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“Cops
said I could,” she says, pointing over her shoulder with a thumb.</span></div>
<div align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-indent: 0.3cm;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“Oh,”
is all the doctor can seem to get out. “Okay, then.” He edges
past Sam and scuttles away down the hall.</span></div>
<div align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-indent: 0.3cm;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“What’s
eatin’ him?” Sam says. She slings a backpack off her shoulder and
onto the hospital bed.</span></div>
<div align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-indent: 0.3cm;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“I
think you scared him.”</span></div>
<div align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-indent: 0.3cm;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“Don’t
know why. I’m just a big ol’ teddy bear. You doin’ all right?”</span></div>
<div align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-indent: 0.3cm;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Fitz
holds up his left arm as far as the cuff securing him to the hospital
bed will let him. “Been better. How’d you get in here, anyway?”</span></div>
<div align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-indent: 0.3cm;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“Couple
of the cops are Blake’s customers. They gave me a few minutes.”</span></div>
<div align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-indent: 0.3cm;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“He
got any prosecutors in his pocket?”</span></div>
<div align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-indent: 0.3cm;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sam
shrugs. It’s like watching a mountain shrug. Fitz half expects to
see boulders tumble to the floor. “Used to. But these days? Dunno.”</span></div>
<div align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-indent: 0.3cm;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“I
gotta get out of here, man,” Fitz says. “I am not going to do
well in prison.”</span></div>
<div align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-indent: 0.3cm;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“Jail.
The prisons are all full up. And you know you won’t do a full
stretch. Blake’ll take care of you, man. He always does. They gotta
get you squared away here and then book you. Then they’ll probably
move you to County for a few days before they get you in front of a
judge.”</span></div>
<div align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-indent: 0.3cm;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Any
other time that would be a relief. Fitz and Sam have known each
other, and worked together, for almost twenty years. Fitz to cook
books and hide money, and Sam to break legs and hide bodies. All in
the service of Blake Kaplan, a record producer who moved into selling
drugs when his boy bands didn’t quite get there. Wasn’t much of a
stretch; he was supplying his kids with enough coke to frost the
Alps, so moving into a wider distribution was a natural progression.</span></div>
<div align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-indent: 0.3cm;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">No
matter what happened, Blake always took care of his boys. Then, as
now, whether it’s getting someone out of jail, fixing a parking
ticket, scoring some Zoloft and Haldol for Fitz to take the edge off,
Blake’s always come through.</span></div>
<div align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-indent: 0.3cm;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But
as soon as Blake figures out a couple of things Fitz has done, that’s
all going to stop, and Fitz needs to get out of here before it does.</span></div>
<div align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-indent: 0.3cm;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“Yeah,”
Fitz says.</span></div>
<div align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-indent: 0.3cm;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“Oh,
come on. Why so glum? You’ve done time before.”</span></div>
<div align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-indent: 0.3cm;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“I
got a suspended sentence and rehab,” Fitz says. “I was in for a
weekend.”</span></div>
<div align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-indent: 0.3cm;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“And
that’s what this is. Three days max and Blake’ll post bail.”
Sam pulls up a chair. “So what happened? You have another one of
those episodes?”</span></div>
<div align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-indent: 0.3cm;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Those
episodes.</i> Explaining
to Sam that when they hit it’s like having his mind turned inside
out and poured down the drain is like trying to teach a dog orbital
mechanics. Sam’s good as murderous thugs go, but anything outside
of MMA, craft beer and the best places in Los Angeles to hide a body
never seems to fully register with her.</span></div>
<div align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-indent: 0.3cm;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“This
one was pretty bad.”</span></div>
<div align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-indent: 0.3cm;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“Huh.
Well, Blake wanted me to tell you he’s got you covered. He has all
the updated passwords, right? He’ll take over the books while
you’re out of commission.”</span></div>
<div align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-indent: 0.3cm;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“He
can’t do that,” Fitz says a little too quickly, trying to hold
his panic down.</span></div>
<div align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-indent: 0.3cm;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“How
come?”</span></div>
<div align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-indent: 0.3cm;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“I
need to clean a few things up. The numbers are off. I think I
transposed some digits. They won’t add up.”</span></div>
<div align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-indent: 0.3cm;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“I
don’t know what any of that means,” Sam says. “But Blake’ll
figure it out.” She gets up, pats Fitz’s hand. It feels like
she’s slamming a Christmas ham across Fitz’s knuckles. “We’ll
get you taken care of. I know you don’t want nobody to help you
with these episodes, but if they’re getting this bad, you need to
see somebody. Like, for real this time. Not that dealer in Koreatown
you keep talking to.”</span></div>
<div align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-indent: 0.3cm;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“But—”</span></div>
<div align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-indent: 0.3cm;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“I
mean it. Like a real doctor. But right now, don’t worry about it.
Oh, before I go.” She unzips the backpack, pulls out a shirt,
pants, socks, shoes and a jacket. “They said they brought you in
naked. So I hit your place and grabbed you some stuff. I wasn’t
gonna touch your underwear. Figure if you’re going to lock-up you
should at least have something to wear besides a hospital gown for
the ride over. There’s nothing else in there. I had to promise the
guys outside I wasn’t sneaking anything in and I don’t want them
gettin’ into trouble.”</span></div>
<div align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-indent: 0.3cm;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“You’re
the most honest crook I know.”</span></div>
<div align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-indent: 0.3cm;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“Thanks.
So take care and don’t worry. We got your back.”</span></div>
<div align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-indent: 0.3cm;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Fitz
waits until Sam disappears through the door before he really starts
to lose his shit. Blake’s going to look at the books. And when he
does he’s going to figure out that things aren’t adding up. It
won’t take him long to see it.</span></div>
<div align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-indent: 0.3cm;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">After
all, it’s hard to hide fifteen million dollars.</span></div>
<div align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-indent: 0.3cm;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Not
that Fitz hasn’t tried. He’s been skimming from Blake for almost
ten years now. He doesn’t want to be an accountant the rest of his
life, after all. He’d like to retire sooner rather than later. So
he’s taken a little bit here, little bit there. Funneled it all
into an offshore account in the Caymans and covered his tracks.</span></div>
<div align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-indent: 0.3cm;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But
in the last few months he’s gotten more aggressive about it, and
just a week ago he grabbed nine million out of some of Blake’s own
offshore accounts and he hasn’t figured out how to hide it all yet.
When Blake goes looking, he’s going to find it.</span></div>
<div align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-indent: 0.3cm;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And
the next time Fitz sees Sam, she’s not going to be bringing him a
change of clothes.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Abaddon Books</i> is delighted to announce the summer 2015 publication of <i>New York Times</i> Bestseller Una McCormack and critically acclaimed author Eric Brown’s first collaboration.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">McCormack and Brown are set to publish <i>The Baba Yaga</i>, a space-opera novel set in <i>Abaddon Books</i>’ <i>Weird Space</i> series, for summer 2015. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In the on-going <i>Weird Space</i> series it has been only a few years since humanity made peace with the fierce Vetch, drawing the lines between their vast, interstellar territories, and relations are still tense. But are the warlike aliens our greatest threat? The Weird – monstrous, bizarre entities from outside reality – are breaking into our universe, and the Expansion, the oppressive government of the human diaspora, will stop at nothing to protect itself…</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Now in McCormack and Brown’s <i>The Baba Yaga</i> the growing threat of the Weird has driven the Expansion to paranoia and oppression. Mandatory testing for infection is introduced, and the colony Braun’s World – following reports of a new portal opening – is purged from orbit, at an unimaginable cost in lives.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Delia Walker, a senior analyst in the Expansions’s intelligence bureau, protests the new policies and is drummed out. Desperate for a sign of hope, she charters the decrepit freighter the Baba Yaga and heads into Satan’s Reach, following rumours of a world where humans and the Weird live peacefully side by side.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hunted by the Bureau, Walker, her pilot Yershov, and Failt – a Vetch child stowaway, fleeing slavery – will uncover secrets about both the Weird and the Expansion; secrets that could prevent the seemingly inevitable war...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>“Take a dash of Blake's 7, a hint of Serenity, stir in some classic science-fiction mystery adventure and then give it a good shake with a steady hand”</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>– </i>Starburst Magazine on The Devil’s Nebula</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">When we asked Brown – creator of the world of <i>Weird Space </i>and author of the first novels in the series – who he’d most like to pass the baton on to, McCormack was top of the list. <i>The Baba Yaga</i> will be the third title in the series, and marks the end of one era and the start of another, with McCormack at the helm.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Una McCormack</b> is a New York Times bestselling author of novels based on Star Trek and Doctor Who. Her audio plays based on Doctor Who and Blake's 7 have been produced by Big Finish, and her short fiction has been anthologised by Farah Mendlesohn, Ian Whates, and Gardner Dozois. She has a doctorate in sociology and teaches creative writing at Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge. She lives in Cambridge with her partner, Matthew, and their daughter, Verity.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>“An eerie, sorrowful story”</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Eric Brown</b> is the award-winning author of a huge number of SF novels, such as Helix, Engineman, Necropath, and The Kings of Eternity, as well as many children’s books, radio plays, articles and reviews.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>“Brown’s novel is serious fun, a modern SF spin on Rudyard Kipling and H Rider Haggard, with a resourceful heroine, enough derring-do to keep the pages turning, and some sincere points about imperialism.”</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">UK: July 16th 2015 * 978 1 78108 363 5 * £7.99</span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01695987225829285054noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6631187390726822859.post-48775874203676635052014-10-27T16:01:00.003+00:002014-10-28T10:01:57.807+00:00Pumpkin Reveal!<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Hi All, </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">So every year the Moore household carves several pumpkins, and as I've <a href="http://abaddonbooks.blogspot.co.uk/2010/10/zombie-pumpkin.html" target="_blank">blogged</a> <a href="http://abaddonbooks.blogspot.co.uk/2010/10/pumpkin-update.html" target="_blank">before</a>, I sometimes like to ask our readership for their thoughts and preferences as to suitably horrific or interesting designs. This year, I poked the Facebook and Twitter accounts asking for thoughts, and two came out that I was up for: Pumpkinstein's Monster, and Judge Pumpkin.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Of course, Judge Pumpkin has never taken off his gourd. Only the hint of a flicker shows the true candle underneath.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Pumpkinstein's Monster is quite sad. His existence is one of angst and suffering. He deserves your empathy...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Many thanks for your suggestions! I'll be sure and poke you next year...</span>David Moorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00886477189793178895noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6631187390726822859.post-7809786444579031112014-10-23T10:58:00.001+01:002014-10-23T10:58:19.321+01:00Publication review round up: Two Hundred Twenty-One Baker Streets<div>
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Holmes about… Holmes is like the Doctor – geeky, dangerous,
supremely intelligent.” – SFX Magazine</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"No one can deny the cleverness of this collection and as a casual fan, it has inspired me to read the original Doyle novels. 9/10" - <a href="http://www.thecultden.com/2014/07/book-review-two-hundred-and-twenty-one.html" target="_blank">The Cult Den</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"It’s the sheer quality of this storytelling ability—by this handful of authors—that makes T<i>wo Hundred and Twenty-One Baker Streets</i> a cut-above the rest" - <a href="http://www.spec-fiction.ca/two-hundred-twenty-one-baker-streets-review/#comments" target="_blank">Spec Fiction Hub</a> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Two Hundred and Twenty-One Baker Streetsis a worthy addition to the ever-expanding universe of Arthur Conan Doyle’s creation." - <a href="http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2014/09/fresh-meat-two-hundred-and-twenty-one-baker-streets-an-anthology-of-holmesian-tales-across-time-and-space-edited-by-david-thomas-moore-sherlock-watson-victoria-janssen?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+criminalelementpartial+(CE%3A+Front+Page+Partial)" target="_blank">Criminal Element</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Precise and neat yet immensely engaging, it’s a great example of the craft of short story telling" - <a href="https://thebookbeard.wordpress.com/2014/08/09/review-two-hundred-an-twenty-one-baker-streets/" target="_blank">The Book Beard</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"This anthology is for any Sherlock Holmes fan; there’s something here for everyone, and the writing is just that damn good." - <a href="http://ventureadlaxre.wordpress.com/2014/09/28/review-221baker-streets-edited-by-david-thomas-moore/" target="_blank">Ventureadlaxre</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"<i>Two Hundred And Twenty-One Baker Streets </i>has a story for everyone. It’s full of brilliantly written tales that any fan of Sherlock can appreciate." - <a href="http://www.readingbifrost.com/?p=416" target="_blank">Readingbifrost</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Excellent book written from a new angle. A really great book that keeps you wanting to read on until the end. The modern day setting gives the book a more realistic storyline that will be popular with readers of all ages in contrast to the usual Victorian London background." - Catherine Bryce, netgalley</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"With such a wide array of stories about Holmes in this anthology there truly is something for everyone. If you’re a fan of Sherlock Holmes then I highly recommend that you check out this anthology ASAP." - <a href="http://bibliognome1.blogspot.co.uk/2014/08/review-two-hundred-and-twenty-one-baker.html" target="_blank">Bibliognome</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Great addition to my Holmes collection!" - Lauren Koller, netgalley</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"LOVED this book. As a fan of Sherlock Holmes, I enjoyed seeing him and Dr. Watson in alternate scenarios... Recommended for all lovers of Holmes & Watson!" - Kelli Kohrherr, netgalley librarian</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"The quality of the writing is universally excellent" - <a href="http://teatalksbooks.tumblr.com/post/94062242438/two-hundred-and-twenty-one-baker-streets-oct-7-2014" target="_blank">Tea, Talks, Books</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"A good selection of stories... I definitely recommend it to Sherlock Holmes fans." - <a href="http://takeawalkonthewriteside.blogspot.it/2014/08/review-two-hundred-and-twenty-one-baker.html" target="_blank">Take a walk on the writeside</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"All-in-all a fine idea, well edited and presented." - <a href="http://zworstblog.blogspot.co.uk/" target="_blank">something interesting this way comes</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Most of the stores I was sad to see end so quickly. I have read all of the original Holmes stores written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and I found these to be complimentary of those original works. 4/5" - <a href="http://johnpurvis.wordpress.com/blog/" target="_blank">John Purvis</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"With such diversity, there will certainly be something here for everyone. And so, whether you are a traditionalist or more experimental when it comes to the Holmes canon, you should definitely give this anthology a try." - <a href="http://www.nickijmarkus.com/" target="_blank">Nicki J Marcus</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Highly recommended to all Sherlock fans, looking for something different." - Mark Coulter, netgalley</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"What a great collection of short stories. The diversity of characters and settings is fantastic. This is a great resource for studies of reversioning. It's also very entertaining." - Trish Lunt, netgalley educator</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"If you like all (or most) things Sherlock, then you'll want to read this book." - <a href="http://secondbookshelf.blogspot.co.uk/2014/09/review-two-hundred-and-twenty-one-baker.html" target="_blank">Second Bookshelf on the Right</a></span><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01695987225829285054noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6631187390726822859.post-66927197804352266042014-10-17T10:00:00.000+01:002014-10-17T10:00:04.490+01:00Guest Post: James Lovegrove on super heroes and Sherlock Homes<i><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hi, Lydia.</span></i><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Here you are. The first two paragraphs are optional (by which I mean, not for publication). Obviously.</span></i><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Best,</span></i><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">David Thomas Moore is quite clearly the greatest man who has ever lived and will ever live, a colossus who bestrides the world of publishing and every other world, showering those around him, those lucky enough to know him, with his genius. His talent for just about everything exceeds that of the foremost experts in any field. He also has a beard.</span></i><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But enough about David Thomas Moore. Here’s a blog piece about my tale for 221 Baker Streets.</span></i><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">[ED: Err not sure this was meant to be included Gittins - have you been at <a href="http://abaddonbooks.blogspot.co.uk/2014/10/guest-post-guy-adams-presents-adventure.html" target="_blank">Guy Adams' drink cabinet again?</a>]</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I'm a fan of superheroes. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Always have been. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I was into superheroes long before it was fashionable,</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">long before Marvel movies were raking in billions at the box office and everyone knew who Green Arrow was thanks to the hit TV show. Since the early 1970s I've eagerly followed the exploits of comic book costumed folk with super powers. I've stuck with them through the lean years, when even the people responsible for writing and drawing stories about them seemed to lose faith and be overwhelmed with a sense of futility and despair, and will continue to stick with them despite the fact they’re now ubiquitous and big business.</span><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJuMYZhC6Gh6q0lusQzygPcjR6Cx5ZVIq4VRIAkz9J63Y5FMQnw-ZM8sLr0p4GaDosPGvA_YsA-VUIvcRhbra19HHTLyCNpdESpZGzONZ1Ps-e01fnnffqRRNLwCnBzZlqXPha6BrCodQ/s1600/150298_700b.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJuMYZhC6Gh6q0lusQzygPcjR6Cx5ZVIq4VRIAkz9J63Y5FMQnw-ZM8sLr0p4GaDosPGvA_YsA-VUIvcRhbra19HHTLyCNpdESpZGzONZ1Ps-e01fnnffqRRNLwCnBzZlqXPha6BrCodQ/s1600/150298_700b.jpg" height="400" width="195" /></span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I've also always been a massive Sherlock Holmes fan. My father read me the Conan Doyle stories when I was little, and the character and his world have stuck with me ever since. Holmes is, I would argue, a superhero himself, a prototype of the caped adventurer who rights wrongs and fights for justice with a loyal sidekick forever accompanying him. Holmes’s super power is his brain, his amazing ability to analyse, deduce and ratiocinate, his unerring eye for the small, telling detail which leads him to unlock mysteries and collar crooks. Like many a superhero he is flawed, sometimes insufferable, his main Achilles heel being his boredom-driven manic depressive episodes and his penchant for pharmaceutical stimulants – but you can still be sure that, come what may, he is staunchly, resolutely on the side of the angels and will never succumb to his dark side.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">When I was asked by David Moore to contribute to an anthology of short stories featuring Sherlock Holmes in various different settings and configurations, my immediate thought was to write something which involved super powers. From there it was a short hop to imagining a world where everyone had a power of some sort, a preternatural attribute which they could utilise to varying degrees. There could be people who were extraordinarily strong, people who could fly, people who could swim underwater… The setting would be the Victorian era, exactly as we know it, with this one major twist.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And then I thought, what if Sherlock Holmes was someone who lacked any such power? What if he was a rare anomaly, born vanilla, without the abilities which everyone else took for granted? How would that change him? Would it alter what he does? Would he still be the world’s first and only consulting detective?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Of course he damn well would!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And so I wrote “The Innocent Icarus”. It isn't my first Holmes outing, not by a long shot. I have written two novels featuring the character (<i>The Stuff Of Nightmares</i> and <i>Gods Of War</i>) with a third (The Thinking Engine) due out in 2015. I have also penned a short story, “The Fallen Financier”, which appeared in George Mann's <i>Encounters Of Sherlock Holmes</i> anthology, and I am starting work next year on a trilogy which pits Holmes against creatures from H.P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“The Innocent Icarus” is, though, I think the sheerest fun I've had with a Holmes tale. It’s a fusion of classic detective yarn and superhero fantasy, and thus reconciles my two earliest and most enduring literary passions in a single, unified whole. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You could say it’s a story I've been waiting all my life to write.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>James Lovegrove</b> (jameslovegrove.com) was born on Christmas Eve 1965 and is the author of more than 40 books. His novels include <i>The Hope, Days, Untied Kingdom, Provender Gleed, the New York Timesbestselling Pantheonseries</i>—so far A<i>ge Of Ra, The Age Of Zeus, The Age Of Odin, Age Of Aztec, Age Of Voodoo and Age Of Shiva</i>, plus a collection of three novellas, <i>Age Of Godpunk</i>—and <i>Redlaw </i>and<i> Redlaw: Red Eye</i>, the first two volumes in a trilogy about a policeman charged with protecting humans from vampires and vice versa. He has produced two Sherlock Holmes novels, <i>The Stuff Of Nightmares</i> and <i>Gods Of War.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">James has been shortlisted for numerous awards, including the Arthur C. Clarke Award, the John W. Campbell Memorial Award, the Bram Stoker Award, the British Fantasy Society Award and the Manchester Book Award. His short story ‘Carry The Moon In My Pocket’ won the 2011 Seiun Award in Japan for Best Translated Short Story.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">James’s work has been translated into twelve languages. His journalism has appeared in periodicals as diverse as Literary Review, Interzone and BBC MindGames, and he is a regular reviewer of fiction for the Financial Times and contributes features and reviews about comic books to the magazine Comic Heroes.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He lives with his wife, two sons and cat in Eastbourne, a town famously genteel and favoured by the elderly, but in spite of that he isn't planning to retire just yet.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">What can I say about
David Moore, that giant among men? He knows his way around a pub and a book
launch, for certain. So much so that, after a launch sometime in the distant
past at Forbidden Planet he, after a few pints, thought it would be big and
clever to ask me to write a story “anywhere in time or space except Victorian
London” about Holmes and Watson. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I’m a fan, and I was all
excited and rushed home and told my partner, and then waited.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And waited.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And waited. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Mostly during the
waiting I thought “I really shouldn’t have told anyone. David probably thought
I was James Smythe - the other tall writer, but the one with talent and craft.
It was surely not happening. He must’ve been drunk. Other sightings of Moore at
London literary events showed no evidence of the anthology or his kind offer. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Until months and months
time later when I got an email inquiring as to whether I’d any idea where and
when. Publishing: It does not move at any sort of speed, not even that of
molasses.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I had, indeed, thought
about my setting for Holmes and Watson and I thought I’d look at something
medieval, in the Inquisition, and see if I could get up an earlier, more
rational Holmes, but I’d been listening to some old punk bands - New York Dolls
and Patti Smith and the Talking Heads - and so I said “Maybe 70s New York, the
birth of punk” as well.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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whatever I’d do but said he was more keen on the 70s punk thing.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As happens when you dig
into the early days of punk, you keep bumping into Lou Reed, John Cale, and Mo
Tucker. They’re everywhere, and they lead you back to the Factory. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Factory is this
critical time and place in American history. Whether you’re a fan of Warhol’s
or not, this coming together of culture, of exploration and change that’s very,
very different in New York compared to San Francisco and the Summer of Love or
much of what’s thought of as the 60s - the American war in Viet Nam, race
riots, and the first wave of feminism. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I tried to imagine who
these characters would be - despite the action in the story, I don’t tend to be
someone who builds relationships between the two - but in this particular time
and place, with the experimentation and the drugs going around, I thought that
it actually made serious sense.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Valerie Solanas is
famous, of course for two things: the S.C.U.M. Manifesto and for shooting Andy
Warhol. The manifesto is brilliant and witty and incisive - absolutely worth a
read - as is Solanas’ play <i>Up your ass </i>that
Andy refused to produce. The shooting is blamed on madness, but I thought that
there had to be more to it, and thus, a mystery was born. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As we know, there’s only
one person for a mystery: That’s Sherlock bloody Holmes. Erudite. Educated.
Here part of the American upper classes that sound - almost - English. Having
dropped out of his life and spending it in search of something different,
something meaningful, something diverting.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The moral of this story,
if there is one, is to make sure you spend as much time drinking pints with
David Moore, that giant of men. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Glen Mehn</b> (glen.mehn.net) was born and raised in New Orleans, and has since lived in San rancisco, North Carolina, Oxford, Uganda, Zambia, and now lives in London. He’s previously been published by Random House Struik and Jurassic London, and is currently working on his first hopefully publishable novel. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">When not writing, Glen designs innovation programmes that use technology for social good for the Social Innovation Camp and is head of programme at Bethnal Green Ventures. Glen holds a BA in English Literature and Sociology from the University of New Orleans and an MBA from the niversity of Oxford.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Glen has been a bookseller, line cook, lighting and set designer, house painter, IT director, carbon finance consultant, soldier, dishwasher, and innovation programme designer. One day, he might be a writer. He lives in Brixton, which is where you live if you move from New Orleans to London. He moved country five times in two years once, and happy to stick around for a while.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Glen Mehn is the author of <i>Half There/All There</i> in the <i>Two Hundred and Twenty-One Baker Streets </i>anthology, out now from Abaddon Books!</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I was encouraged to go to my first WorldCon
this past year (September 2013) by prolific author L.E. Modesitt, Jr. We had a
long discussion about the pros and cons of going, and Lee certainly made the
pros sound far more exceptional than the cons.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So, because I’m a girl who’s definitely
able to follow instructions (you know, when I wanna), and because Lee gave me
quite a long list of benefits I could expect to reap by dint of attending and participating
on panels and such, I headed off to San Antonio for what was a really wonderful
convention experience.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It was the last day, and so far, everything
Lee had said would happen had so happened, other than one thing: I hadn’t run
into an editor and had them invite me into an anthology. Oh sure, Lee hadn’t
said that this was a given, but he’d made the point that many times one only
got invited into an anthology if one was right in front of an editor pulling
said anthology together.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I was in the middle of the dealer room,
chatting with Ellen Datlow, Carrie Vaughn, David Lee Summers, and a variety of
attendees, when two tall men with British accents came up and started to talk
to Ellen. As often happens when there are a lot of people around all talking to
each other in a fluid group, people move off in and out of smaller groups,
still there but talking amongst themselves. This happened here, leaving one of
the Brits and me standing near each other and yet alone.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So, I introduced myself. “Hi, I’m Gini
Koch, I’m an author.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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David Moore,” he replied pleasantly. “I’m an editor.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“WELL, I’m working on an anthology of
Sherlock Holmes stories.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">At this moment I began to geek out like
David was One Direction and I was a preteen girl. “Oh my GOD, I am a GIGANTIC
Holmes fan!”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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pleasant until now, got incredibly animated. “Me, too! Which Holmes do you
like?” <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“All of them! I used to swear I was a
purist, that I only wanted ‘real’ Holmes, but now I realize it was a lie – I
love any and every Holmes there is.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“ME TOO! My anthology is going to put
Holmes and Watson any time, anywhere, and in any way.” <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">At this point, David and I were both
geeking out at the same level, having our own private Holmesian convention –
albeit a convention of two, but two really PASSIONATE attendees – while
everyone else was still enjoying WorldCon. However, as excited as we were, I’m
sure we weren’t jumping up and down. Okay, not much jumping. Okay, we probably
were, but I don’t believe there’s photographic proof, so it didn’t happen.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We were sharing our thoughts on every
Holmes we could think of. “Sherlock”, “Elementary”, the Robert Downey, Jr.
steampunk versions? Check. Jeremy Brett as possibly the best screen Holmes
ever? Check. The awesomeness of Lucy Liu as a female Watson? Yep. Older Holmes
movies? Naturally. Obscure Holmes movies only David and I had ever heard of?
Double check.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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BE IN THIS ANTHOLOGY!” And David was saying, “YOU’RE IN!”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I gave him my card and then spent the next
week terrified that I’d somehow given him someone else’s card. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But I had not. And the rest is history. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Or rather, the rest is my story, “All the
Single Ladies”, with a Holmes and Watson I’m really proud of. David was a joy
to work with, the book is chockfull of great stories from wonderful authors,
the cover art is beyond beautiful, and I’m still excited every time I think
about the whole experience.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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whatever L.E. Modesitt, Jr. tells you to do – apparently he’s never wrong. And
the other moral? One can never, ever, have enough Holmes.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Gini Koch</b> writes the fast, fresh and funny
Alien/Katherine “Kitty” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Katt series for DAW Books, the Necropolis Enforcement
Files series, and the Martian Alliance Chronicles series for Musa Publishing.
Alien in the House, Book 7 in her long-running Alien series, won the RT Book
Reviews Reviewer’s Choice Award as the Best Futuristic Romance of 2013. Alien
Collective, Book 9, released in May, and Universal Alien is coming this
December. </span></div>
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the most of multiple personality disorder by writing under a variety of other
pen names as well, including Anita Ensal, Jemma Chase, A.E. Stanton, and J.C.
Koch. Currently, Gini has stories featured in the Unidentified Funny Objects 3,
Clockwork Universe: Steampunk vs. Aliens, and Two Hundred and
Twenty-One Baker Streets anthologies, and, writing as J.C. Koch, in Kaiju
Rising: Age of Monsters, The Madness of Cthulhu, Vol. 1, and A Darke
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considered trying until David gave me the opportunity. I found it to be a more
difficult type of writing than I had previously experienced. (Though everything
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knitting thing, and thought how fascinating it would be if someone had human
skin rather than yarn. I actually didn’t focus on the mystery so much as the
attempt to show the bond between the characters. Some people like this
approach, some don’t. I always found that personally I cared less about the
puzzle at hand and more about how the characters interact. Now, after having
lived with those guys a little while, it seems like it might be fun to try again
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head tipped downwards and her breasts fought to stay tucked into her burgundy
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Lansdale</b> is the author of numerous short stories as well as editor to
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2013. A full time singer/songwriter, she has also just completed her first
novel. She is the daughter of acclaimed author, Joe R. Lansdale.</span></span></span></div>
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David Moorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00886477189793178895noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6631187390726822859.post-55776140715815053382014-10-13T10:00:00.000+01:002014-10-13T10:00:07.642+01:00Guest Post: Guy Adams presents 'The Adventure of the Wrong-Headed Blog'<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span lang="EN-US">Originally aired 11th October 1962 on the BBC Light Programme.</span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span lang="EN-US">Available on the double-CD box set <i>A Little More Sherlock and John </i>(BBC Music, 1997).</span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US">ANNOUNCER: This is the BBC Light Programme.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US">GRAMS: [</span><span lang="EN-US">‘</span><span lang="EN-US">HOLMES
AND WATSON OPENING 1</span><span lang="EN-US">’
</span><span lang="EN-US">by Willy Scott]</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US">ANNOUNCER: We present Sherlock Holmes and John
Watson with Gordon Lestrade, Martha Hudson and Billy Page in</span><span lang="EN-US">…</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US">GRAMS: [</span><span lang="EN-US">‘</span><span lang="EN-US">HOLMES
AND WATSON OPENING 2</span><span lang="EN-US">’
</span><span lang="EN-US">by Willy Scott]</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US">HOLMES: The Adventure of the Wrong-Headed Blog.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US">EFFECTS: Establishing sounds. Baker Street
buzzing with life, news boys holler, cart wheels clatter. We fade into the
contemplative world of 221b, a grandfather clock ticks, a match is struck, pipe
tobacco crackles.) </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US">HOLMES: What do I say about David Moore, this
giant among men?</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US">WATSON: (STRAINED) You tell him to sit in
another chair, the colonial colossus is crushing me to death.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US"><br /></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US">MOORE: Sorry, didn</span><span lang="EN-US">’</span><span lang="EN-US">t
see you there.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US"><br /></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US">(MOORE gets up. It sounds like the entire
contents of a butcher</span><span lang="EN-US">’</span><span lang="EN-US">s shop being moved three feet to the left where it is dumped on
another ungrateful armchair.)</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US"><br /></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US">HOLMES: There certainly is plenty of him. Where</span><span lang="EN-US">’</span><span lang="EN-US">s the</span><span lang="EN-US">…
</span><span lang="EN-US">what should we call him?</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US"><br /></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US">WATSON: Author?</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US">HOLMES: That</span><span lang="EN-US">’</span><span lang="EN-US">s
stretching things too far. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US"><br /></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US">WATSON: Writer?</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US"><br /></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US">HOLMES: No. No. We mustn</span><span lang="EN-US">’</span><span lang="EN-US">t
devalue words. That would compound his crime. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US"><br /></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US">WATSON: Hack?</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US"><br /></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US">HOLMES: Agreed, let us be gracious, he is, after
all, a guest.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US">ADAMS: (MUFFLED) I</span><span lang="EN-US">’</span><span lang="EN-US">m
having the will to live squeezed out of me by my editor.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US"><br /></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US">MOORE: Sorry, didn</span><span lang="EN-US">’</span><span lang="EN-US">t
see you there.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US"><br /></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US">ADAMS: It</span><span lang="EN-US">’</span><span lang="EN-US">s
fine, it wasn</span><span lang="EN-US">’</span><span lang="EN-US">t an entirely new experience.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US"><br /></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US">(MOORE moves to another chair, it explodes in a
huff of suicidal leather and oak.)</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US"><br /></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US">MOORE: I</span><span lang="EN-US">’</span><span lang="EN-US">m
not this massive in real life, why are you being so mean?</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US"><br /></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US">ADAMS: You suggested Holmes</span><span lang="EN-US">’ </span><span lang="EN-US">opening line, what else did you expect me to do? Pander to your ego?</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US"><br /></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US">MOORE: I think Lydia was just joking.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US">WATSON: (LIKE A STARVED DOG BEING SHOWN A MAP TO
AN ELEPHANT</span><span lang="EN-US">’</span><span lang="EN-US">S GRAVEYARD Lydia? There</span><span lang="EN-US">’</span><span lang="EN-US">s a woman here?</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US">(There is the rushed sound of suit brushing,
splashed cologne and plucked roses.)</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US"><br /></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US">HOLMES: Easy Watson, she</span><span lang="EN-US">’</span><span lang="EN-US">s
married. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US"><br /></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US">WATSON: Not for long!</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US"><br /></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US">HOLMES: She</span><span lang="EN-US">’</span><span lang="EN-US">s
the PR for the publisher. She</span><span lang="EN-US">’</span><span lang="EN-US">s the one who asked Adams to write this meandering nonsense.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US"><br /></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US">WATSON: (IMMEDIATELY DEFLATED, HIS COLOGNE
EVAPORATES) She works in publishing? (SIGHS) Never mind.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US"><br /></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US">HOLMES: Indeed, she</span><span lang="EN-US">’</span><span lang="EN-US">s
taken up residence in the drinks cabinet and is likely no longer capable of
coherent conversation.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US"><br /></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US">(EFFECTS: HOLMES opens the drinks cabinet, there
is the sound of raucous German Beer Hall dancing, he immediately slams the door
shut again.)</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US"><br /></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US">HOLMES: A sight beyond words. I will never be
able to enjoy walnuts again. Do pass me that padlock, WATSON, for all our
sakes.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US"><br /></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US">(EFFECTS: HOLMES chains up the drinks cabinet.)</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US"><br /></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US">HOLMES: So gentlemen, other than incarcerating
your inebriated staff, what can we do for you?</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US"><br /></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US">MOORE: We were hoping you</span><span lang="EN-US">’</span><span lang="EN-US">d help promote the new book I</span><span lang="EN-US">’</span><span lang="EN-US">ve
edited. It</span><span lang="EN-US">’</span><span lang="EN-US">s called Two Hundred and Twenty One Baker Streets and it</span><span lang="EN-US">’</span><span lang="EN-US">s an anthology of Holmesian tales across time and space. A selection
of stories offering an unusual take on the characters of Sherlock Holmes and
John Watson.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US"><br /></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US">WATSON: Two hundred and twenty one of them?</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US"><br /></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US">MOORE: Sorry?</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US"><br /></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US">WATSON: Two hundred and twenty one stories?</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US"><br /></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US">MOORE: Erm</span><span lang="EN-US">… </span><span lang="EN-US">no.
There</span><span lang="EN-US">’</span><span lang="EN-US">s fourteen actually. From people like Adrian</span><span lang="EN-US">…</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US"><br /></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US">WATSON: Then it should be called Fourteen Baker
Streets shouldn</span><span lang="EN-US">’</span><span lang="EN-US">t it?</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US"><br /></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US">MOORE: Ha! (OFFERS THE SORT OF LAUGHTER PEOPLE
EMPLOY WHEN THEY</span><span lang="EN-US">’</span><span lang="EN-US">RE BUSILY TRYING NOT TO PUNCH PEOPLE). That doesn</span><span lang="EN-US">’</span><span lang="EN-US">t sound quite as good.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US"><br /></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US">WATSON: But it would have been more accurate.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US"><br /></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US">MOORE: I don</span><span lang="EN-US">’</span><span lang="EN-US">t
think people would expect there to be that many stories.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US"><br /></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US">WATSON:
Unless they</span><span lang="EN-US">’</span><span lang="EN-US">d read the title.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US"><br /></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US">MOORE: Even then. As I say, we have writers like
Adrian</span><span lang="EN-US">…</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US"><br /></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US">WATSON: I suppose it would be bad for the wrist.
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US"><br /></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US">MOORE: I</span><span lang="EN-US">’</span><span lang="EN-US">m
sorry?</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US"><br /></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US">WATSON: A book containing two hundred and twenty
one stories. Nobody wants to publish a book that makes reader</span><span lang="EN-US">’</span><span lang="EN-US">s wrists ache.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US"><br /></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US">ADAMS: I don</span><span lang="EN-US">’</span><span lang="EN-US">t
know, I</span><span lang="EN-US">’</span><span lang="EN-US">ve enjoyed a few in my time</span><span lang="EN-US">…</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US"><br /></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US">HOLMES: I
fear we</span><span lang="EN-US">’</span><span lang="EN-US">re straying off the point a little.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US"><br /></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US">WATSON: I suppose you could do two hundred and
twenty one extremely short stories. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US"><br /></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US">MOORE: Much better to do fourteen really good,
satisfying stories, from people like Adrian</span><span lang="EN-US">…</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US"><br /></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US">WATSON: </span><span lang="EN-US">“</span><span lang="EN-US">Once
upon a time there was a small duck called Sherlock Holmes and he lived on the
river with his friend John Watson, an otter.</span><span lang="EN-US">”</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US"><br /></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US">MOORE: There are no otters in our book.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US"><br /></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US">WATSON: Don</span><span lang="EN-US">’</span><span lang="EN-US">t
blame me. </span><span lang="EN-US">“</span><span lang="EN-US">One day Holmes the duck found the body of a dead moor hen. </span><span lang="EN-US">“</span><span lang="EN-US">Curious!</span><span lang="EN-US">”
</span><span lang="EN-US">he quacked, </span><span lang="EN-US">“</span><span lang="EN-US">someone</span><span lang="EN-US">’</span><span lang="EN-US">s killed this moor hen.</span><span lang="EN-US">”</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US"><br /></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US">MOORE: Yeah, that</span><span lang="EN-US">’</span><span lang="EN-US">s
not really the sort of thing</span><span lang="EN-US">…</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US"><br /></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US">WATSON: </span><span lang="EN-US">“</span><span lang="EN-US">It
was me Holmes!</span><span lang="EN-US">”
</span><span lang="EN-US">cried John Watson the naughty otter, </span><span lang="EN-US">“</span><span lang="EN-US">I stabbed him with this sharpened reed.</span><span lang="EN-US">”</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US"><br /></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US">MOORE: Not much of a mystery is it?</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US"><br /></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US">WATSON: Shows what you know. It</span><span lang="EN-US">’</span><span lang="EN-US">s brilliant and intriguing. WHY did the otter kill the moor hen?</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US"><br /></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US">ADAMS: Because he really hated the pompous,
quacking git?</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US"><br /></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US">WATSON: Perhaps the otter and the duck could
plunge off a weir at the end.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US"><br /></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US">MOORE: Why would they do that?</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US"><br /></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US">WATSON: It</span><span lang="EN-US">’</span><span lang="EN-US">s
worked before. Drama. Self sacrifice. The noble duck sacrificing himself to rid
the world of this bastard of an otter.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US"><br /></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US">(EFFECTS: A loud crashing sound. MOORE has left
the room, taking most of a wall with him.)</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US"><br /></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US">HOLMES: If you</span><span lang="EN-US">’</span><span lang="EN-US">re
going to storm out, Mr Moore, might I ask that you stoop when you negotiate the
doors? </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US"><br /></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US">(EFFECTS: A distant crash followed by the sound
of screams and veering carriages as the behemoth MOORE attempts to navigate the
street outside. Eventually the chaos subsides.)</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US"><br /></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US">HOLMES: What are we going to do with the
sauced-up loon in our drinks cabinet? I was hoping he was going to take her
with him.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US">WATSON: More to the point, why is this entire
thing written like a particularly stupid radio programme?</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US"><br /></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US">ADAMS: That</span><span lang="EN-US">’</span><span lang="EN-US">s
my fault I</span><span lang="EN-US">’</span><span lang="EN-US">m afraid. In my story Holmes and Watson are actors, comedians who
play the characters we know from Doyle</span><span lang="EN-US">’</span><span lang="EN-US">s original stories as
part of a long-running radio comedy series.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US"><br /></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US">WATSON: Absurd.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US"><br /></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US">ADAMS: I know. It</span><span lang="EN-US">’</span><span lang="EN-US">s
actually a far more serious story than this old waffle would suggest but, you
know, guest blogs</span><span lang="EN-US">…
</span><span lang="EN-US">always hard to think of something to do.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US"><br /></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US">(EFFECTS: The rattle of a chain as ADAMS unlocks
the drinks cabinet.)</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US"><br /></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US">ADAMS: I</span><span lang="EN-US">’</span><span lang="EN-US">ll
be in here if anyone needs me. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US"><br /></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US">(EFFECTS: A burst of German Beer Hall music
stifled as ADAMS closes the door behind him.)</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US"><br /></span></span></span></div>
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has gone on far too long as it is.</span></span></span></div>
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about this naughty otter.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US"><br /></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US">WATSON: Well! He is the Napoleon of River Based
crime! He strikes fear into the hearts of badger and water boatman alike</span><span lang="EN-US">… </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US"><br /></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US">(EFFECTS: We fade out on their conversation,
moving outside to where the screaming continues as MOORE makes his slow way
back to his Oxford office, muttering to himself about the perils of working
with stupid authors.)</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US">MUSIC: [</span><span lang="EN-US">‘</span><span lang="EN-US">HOLMES
AND WATSON CLOSE</span><span lang="EN-US">’
</span><span lang="EN-US">by Willy Scott.]</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="line-height: 115%;">Guy Adams</span></b><span style="line-height: 115%;">
(<a href="http://www.guyadamsauthor.com/">guyadamsauthor.com</a>)</span> has written far too many books. In
recent years these have included: the <i>Heaven’s
Gate</i> Trilogy for Solaris; the <i>Deadbeat</i>
books for Titan and the <i>Clown Service</i>
series for Del Rey UK.
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">He
has, as yet, not written far too many comics but he’s working on it: he’s
written a number of strips for <i>2000 AD</i>
including a reinvention of Grant Morrison’s <i>Ulysses
Sweet: Maniac for Hire</i>, scripted <i>The
Engine</i> for Madefire and is the co-creator of <i>Goldtiger</i> with artist Jimmy Broxton.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">A
lifelong fan of Sherlock Holmes (once playing him, rather badly on stage) he
has written two original novels, <i>The
Breath of God</i> and <i>The Army of Dr
Moreau</i>, as well as a couple of non-fiction books.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US">When
the indomitable David Thomas Moore and his epic beard approached me to
participate in his Sherlock Holmes alt-anthology, I couldn’t say no.
(Seriously, the beard held me at gun point.) His instructions were posed as
questions: What would Holmes and Watson be in a different time and place? Would
they still solve mysteries? Would they even be friends?</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US">Truth
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Dr. John Watson. Be they the original Doyle works or the modern film
adaptations, the mysteries are not what keep me riveted, but the relationship
between the two lead characters. I’ve always loved the strange, inexplicable
friendship Holmes and Watson share. They are from disparate backgrounds and
Sherlock can be so maddening that sometimes the true mystery is not who done
it, but how do these two men not kill one another?<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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relationship is what I chose to focus on in my story, answering the question
originally posed by David Moore, “Would they even be friends?” <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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drew inspiration from many Sherlocks: the Doyle works, the Robert Downey Jr.
films, and the BBC series. While I do draw on canonical details and character
traits, I wanted to distance my work from Doyle’s. So, I chose to rename my
characters. In “A Scandal in Hobohemia” readers will meet newly minted
Pinkerton Agent Jim Walker, our Watson. A veteran of the Great War, Jim was an
army medic who served largely in France. His partner is Agent Adele Trenet, a
Pinkerton officer who happens to moonlight as a mole for Leland Haus, the head
of the Secret Service. While Agents Trenet and Walker are on a case for
Pinkerton, Mr. Haus has sent his spy to look in on his wayward little brother
Sanford. Both missions lead them to the Soggiorno Brothers Traveling Wonder
Show in the dusty Midwest of the United States. The circus and Ms. Trenet’s
cases are the backdrop of what I feel is the true story: the meeting of our
Sherlock and Watson.</span></span></div>
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revisit the Traveling Wonder Show in the future. While you enjoy <i>Two Hundred and Twenty-One Baker Streets</i>, I do hope you enjoy your time at the circus. </span><br />
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misspent adulthood pursuing a Music Education degree, <b>Jamie Wyman</b> (<a href="http://www.jamiewyman.com/">www.jamiewyman.com</a>) fostered several interests before
discovering that being an author means never having to get out of pajamas. She
has an unhealthy addiction to chai, a passion for circus history, and a
questionable hobby that involves putting a flaming torch into her mouth. When
she’s not traipsing about with her imaginary friends, she lives in Phoenix with
two hobbits and two cats. Jamie is proud to say she has a deeply disturbed
following at her blog.</span></span><br />
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debut novel <i>Wild Card</i> (Entangled
Edge, 2013) is available wherever ebooks are sold. You can also find her short
story “The Clever One” in the anthology <i>When
The Hero Comes Home 2 </i>(Dragon Moon Press, August 2013). Look for <i>Unveiled</i>, the follow-up to <i>Wild Card</i>, in November 2014.</span> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">She is the author of <i>A Scandal in Hobohemia</i> in the new <i>Two Hundred and Twenty-One Baker Streets anthology</i>, out now from Abaddon Books!</span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01695987225829285054noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6631187390726822859.post-78925797395103101742014-10-08T10:00:00.000+01:002014-10-09T08:38:37.931+01:00Guest Post: Joan De la Haye on the journey to 'The Rich Man's Hand'<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It all started one chilly morning while keeping Sarah Lotz
company outside the Metropole Hotel in Brighton, while she sucked some nicotine
into her lungs, during the World Fantasy Convention in 2013. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I was just an innocent bystander, watching others smoking
and trying to pretend that I wasn’t freezing my arse off. I hadn’t seen Sarah
in ages and wanted to catch up – she’s always a good laugh and probably one of
my favourite writerly types, so she’s worth enduring a little cold weather for
and at least I didn’t get frostbite. Bear in mind that I’m South African so
anything under 20°C is considered cold and the weather that weekend in Brighton
was well below that. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Somewhere along the line David Thomas Moore, the bearded,
crazy, genius, joined the conversation. Sarah said something about my writing
being twisted and that I was sick in the head. In any other circles that would
probably be considered an insult, but not in the horror writing world. Someone
saying that about you in the horror world is probably the greatest compliment a
writer can get. I duly blushed. David had a strange evil glint in his eyes as
he turned to me and asked if I’d be interested in writing a story for his
Sherlock Holmes anthology. I thought he’d lost his mind or had a few too many
pints at the bar. Who in their right mind would ask <i>me</i> to write a story about Holmes?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I think I may have had a few too many glasses of wine at the
bar and said yes. Because, hey, I love Sherlock! I did, however, add a disclaimer
and warned him that, as Sarah had pointed out, it was likely to be bit twisted.
He seemed pleased by that idea, which left me wondering just how twisted was I
allowed to be … I had a feeling he wouldn’t have a problem with my writing
something as twisted as I could possibly get. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">By the end of the convention I’d convinced myself that there
wasn’t a snowballs chance in hell that I would ever hear from Mr Moore again,
but a few months later there was an email in my inbox from David asking if I
was still interested. I almost shat myself. I was now actually going to have to
produce something that was worthy of Arthur Conan Doyle and Sherlock Holmes. I
knew there was no point in trying to reproduce the original stories and plus
that wasn’t what David wanted. I also realised that an editor wouldn’t ask a
horror writer for a story unless he wanted a horror story, so that’s what I set
out to do. I also wanted to have a bit of fun with it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Pretoria is my home town and Mamalodi, the township,
informal settlement, ghetto, or whatever you want to call it is only about a
ten minute drive from my front door. It’s the type of setting that most people
living in first world countries would find alien, but is common place anywhere
in Africa and other developing countries. I wanted to put Sherlock and Watson
outside of the readers comfort zone and away from the normal settings. Pretoria
and Mamalodi are also not the typical settings you find in most South African
novels. Most South African authors seem to set their books in Johannesburg or
Cape Town or in more exotic locations, but I prefer to set my stories in places
that I know well. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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informal settlements that they have in Johannesburg, but it has a character all
of its own and makes for an interesting backdrop for Holmes and Watson and a
muti murder. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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some time with Holmes and Watson and for working with David. It’s been one hell
of a fun rollercoaster ride. I can’t wait to see what else David and the
Abaddon team do next. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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(joandelahaye.com) writes horror and some very twisted thrillers. She
invariably wakes up in the middle of the night, because she’s
figured out yet another freaky way to mess with her already screwed
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novels, <span style="font-size: small;"><i>Shadows</i></span>
and <span style="font-size: small;"><i>Requiem
in E Sharp</i></span>,
as well as her novella, <span style="font-size: small;"><i>Oasis</i></span>,
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<i><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">New York, 1977</span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Following the events which I have chronicled in ‘The
Adventure of the Speckled Bandana,’ Holmes seemed to descend into depression,
as he often did after a case which tested the glittering heights of his
deductive prowess. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> One evening
when I called on him in Bleecker Street, I found him slumped in his armchair
with the telltale glassy-eyed expression which I had seen before. His violin
hung listlessly from one hand, and beside his chair was a plastic Baggie
half-filled with white powder.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> ‘Enough,’ I
said. ‘I will not allow you to wallow in his apartment, taking drugs. You are
coming out with me right now.’<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> ‘What’s the
point? Everything is so dull.’<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> ‘It’s New
York, man. The world is at our fingertips. A concert, a movie. Actually, yes—a
movie would be perfect. You need a more wholesome escape from your own mind.’<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> He
fluttered an indifferent hand. ‘Movies are for the simple-minded. I need a
case, Watson. And perhaps some more—’<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> I snatched
the bag of coke and flushed it down the toilet.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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hour and some harsh words later, we were sitting in the third row of The Strand
theatre, watching the opening credits scroll across the screen. Holmes looked
supremely bored, but I was quite excited. I’d seen <i>Star Wars</i> before and I was delighted to be seeing it again. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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attention was taken up by the thrilling events on the screen (and the
smart-mouthed charms of Carrie Fisher), but I did notice that Holmes was
gradually sitting upright, his keen eyes focused on the film. By the final
scene, he was positively on the edge of his seat, his hands clasped, his mouth
quirked into half a smile.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> ‘So you
enjoyed it,’ I said to him as we left the theatre into the neon Manhattan
night. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">‘Surprisingly so.’<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">‘Even though movies are for the
simple-minded, and science fiction is utterly implausible?’ I couldn’t resist
repeating his own words to him. ‘What did you like the best? The space battles,
the light sabres, the Death Star?’ <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">‘It gave ample scope for
observation and deduction. Of course it was obvious that C3PO was suffering
from backache, but less so that Grand Moff Tarkin was wearing too-tight shoes.
Or that two thirds of the cantina band had recently given up smoking.’<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">‘Holmes, I rather think you have
missed the point.’<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">‘I miss nothing. Surely even you
must have noticed that the Imperial Stormtroopers were nearly all left-handed,
due, no doubt, to the magazine on the modified Sterling L2A3 submachine guns
they used.’<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I threw up my hands. ‘But what of
the story?’<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">‘Stories are for children,
Watson. All the same, I thought the twist was moderately cleverly done.’<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">‘What twist? When Han Solo
returns, you mean?’<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">‘I mean the fact that Darth Vader
is both Luke Skywalker and Princess Leia’s father.’<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I stopped on the sidewalk,
flabbergasted. ‘Holmes…that’s not in the film.’<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">‘I think you will find that it
is.’ <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He lit a cigarette and drew the
smoke deep into his lungs, like a man who has found a new zest for life. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">‘Overall, this has been a most
invigorating evening. I think we should watch another film. What say you to <i>Smokey and the Bandit</i>?’<br /><span style="text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><br /></b></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><br />J.
E. Cohen</b></span></span><span style="text-indent: 36pt;">’s
(julie-cohen.com) life changed at age eleven, when she bought </span><span style="text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>The
Complete Sherlock Holmes</i></span></span><span style="text-indent: 36pt;">
because it was the biggest book in the shop. She joined the Baker
Street Irregulars at sixteen, and at age twenty-two moved to England
to study Arthur Conan Doyle’s involvement in the Cottingley fairy
photographs. Despite not being able to draw, she is an official
cartoonist for </span><span style="text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>The
Sherlock Holmes Journal, </i></span></span><span style="text-indent: 36pt;">with
her feature “Overrun By Oysters.” Under the name Julie Cohen she
writes novels which have sold nearly a million copies worldwide.
Tweet her @julie_cohen.<br /><br />She is the author of <i>The Adventures of the Speckled Bandana</i> in the new <i>Two Hundred and Twenty-One Baker Streets</i> anthology, out on Abaddon Books October 9th</span></span><br />
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brain when I travelled to <a href="http://www.aradale.com.au/aradale.html">Aradale
Asylum</a> in Ararat, Victoria. The story needed to be written and I was
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buildings is 150 years old, built to house those considered ‘insane’ in the
late 1880s. These days, of course, most of the inhabitants would be considered
‘us’. Strong-minded women, men with grand ideas, women who wore red, people
with epilepsy. All locked together in this imposing, disheartening and at times
frightening institution.</span><br />
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<span lang="EN-AU"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">On the second night we went ghost hunting
with <a href="https://www.facebook.com/australianparanormalsociety">The
Australian Paranormal Society</a> and <a href="http://www.allentiller.com.au/">Allen
Tiller</a>, who is in the program Haunting: Australia. They did an Aradale
episode.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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high security men’s ward. This was where they locked up the spree killers, the
blood-lusters, the cannibals, including one so desperate for human meat they
had to lock him in a cage out in the yard.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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atmosphere here than elsewhere, though it was cold and the air had a hint of...something.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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peppercorn tree. Our guide told us it was planted to cover the smell of the
morgue, so the stench didn’t waft over the buildings, into the wards, the
kitchens, the dining hall.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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looking over the “Married Staff Quarters” (considered by some to be the most
haunted building) and I began with the question: How can this peppercorn tree,
pink and pretty, help Sherlock? How might he engage with it? And the idea for
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Kaaron
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(kaaronwarren.wordpress.com) has lived in Melbourne, Sydney, Canberra
and Fiji. She’s sold many short stories, three novels (the
multi-award-winning <span style="font-size: small;"><i>Slights</i></span>,
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and <span style="font-size: small;"><i>Mistification</i></span>)
and four short story collections. <span style="font-size: small;"><i>Through
Splintered Walls</i></span>
won a Canberra Critic’s Circle Award for Fiction, an ACT Writers’
and Publisher’s Award, two Ditmar Awards, two Australian Shadows
Awards and a Shirley Jackson Award. Her story “Air, Water and the
Grove” won the Aurealis Award for Best SF Short Story and will
appear in Paula Guran’s <span style="font-size: small;"><i>Year’s
Best Dark Fantasy and Horror</i></span>.
Her latest collection is <span style="font-size: small;"><i>The
Gate Theory</i></span>.
Kaaron Tweets @KaaronWarren.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You may have noticed that we've been a bit quiet recently, for that we can only apologise and offer up the humble excuse that we were gearing up for this year's FantasyCon (because someone had to lead our far more sensible colleagues over at Solaris Books astray).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">To that end the last fortnight has consisted of a rigorous training routine that saw Team Abaddon arise at the crack of noon almost every day, to a packed schedule of vocal warm ups (we take our karaoke very seriously, thank you very much), pint carrying practise, disco stretches and panel wit-sharpening exercises.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There were rumours going around the office that <a href="https://twitter.com/abaddondave" target="_blank">Abaddon Dave</a> may also have done some "Editorial-ing" during this period too, but we're not convinced.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But anyway, as the saying goes a picture is worth a thousand poorly written words, and a shakily taken mobile phone picture is about on par, but far less tedious to glance over. So without further ado a brief snap shot of what went down:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">After a brilliant Saturday night disco hosted by <a href="https://twitter.com/Marc_Gascoigne" target="_blank">Marc Gascoigne</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/GuyAdamsAuthor" target="_blank">Guy Adams</a> (don't worry we're not cruel enough to subject you to photos of us throwing any kind of shapes on the dance floor) we hope you'll excuse us skipping over the morning's activities with just a brief shout out to the fantastic editorial panel, and getting to the main event of the day... </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A full list of winners can be found <a href="http://www.britishfantasysociety.org/british-fantasy-awards/british-fantasy-award-winners-2014/" target="_blank">here</a> and we would like to offer our congratulations to all the winners and short-listed nominees. It was an incredible line-up this year and there was some fierce competition on all sides. But, we do of course want to make a special shout out to our colleague <a href="https://twitter.com/JonOlivereditor" target="_blank">Jon Oliver</a> for his win in the <a href="http://solaris-editors-blog.blogspot.co.uk/2014/09/british-fantasy-award-win-for-solaris.html" target="_blank">Best Anthology Award 2014</a>!</span></div>
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Watson in the past few months? It all starts with the eccentricities of US
copyright law, in which a standard international “creator’s life plus seventy
years” term sits uneasily alongside a fixed “ninety-five years from
publication” term (this is due to what are sometimes known as the “Mickey Mouse
Laws,” as they were pushed pretty hard by Disney’s lobbyists). Arthur Conan
Doyle died in 1930; in the UK and most of the world, his work entered the
public domain in the year 2000. But in the US, with that fixed-term copyright,
not all the stories went at the same time. The Holmes stories were published
from 1887 to 1927, with the last ten stories appearing as a block in <i>The
Last Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes</i>, and for the last few years, while dozens
of stories and all four novels have been public domain, the Doyle estate has
held on to that last collection. It only really applies if you’re selling books
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Sherlock Holmes</i> in the States without permission, right? Not quite. The
Doyle estate has aggressively pursued every publisher, TV company and
film-maker trying to use the characters, threatening legal action if they don’t
pay a licence. And since the licence fees weren’t onerous, most people have
paid rather than fight (this happens in copyright disputes more often than you
think). Most people, that is, except Leslie Klinger, whose collection of new
Holmes stories, <i>In the Company of Sherlock Holmes</i>, is due out this
November. Klinger called shenanigans and went to court. The Doyle estate’s
argument? That Holmes and Watson are “round” characters, and unlike “flat”
characters, who are fully formed when they first appear in writing, the famous
detective and his friend didn’t become fully “round” until the last stories
were published. Ergo, anyone using the characters is drawing on those last few
stories and infringing copyright.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Doyle estate lost. They went to appeal, in the Seventh
Circuit Court (beats me what that actually is) in June, and lost <i>hard</i>.
Judge Richard Posner wonderfully called their argument “novel,” suggested their
appeal “bordered on the quixotic,” and said that as long as you don’t mention
anything from those stories (basically, Holmes’s feelings about dogs, his
experience playing rugby, and Watson’s second wife), you’re fine. Then Klinger
countersued for legal expenses, and Posner granted them this Monday, putting
the boot in a little deeper, accusing the estate of “extortion” and suggesting
they’d violated antitrust laws by instructing Amazon to pull sales of disputed
titles. There’s still the Supreme Court to go, but basically, Posner’s saying:
“You’ve lost, guys. Stay down.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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decision to go ahead with <i>Two Hundred and Twenty-One Baker Streets</i>
before this even happened. “Flat” or “round,” the characters in our collection
are pastiches, and we’re pretty sure the Doyle estate’s arguments would
struggle to apply to our versions of Holmes and Watson. More importantly,
though, we’re big believers in the act of creation and – although as publishers
we should be all about the IP control – we know that creation has a lot to do
with homage, reinvention and revision. Let a creator exploit his work for a
fair period, but then allow it to become part of the weave that other creators
draw upon. This is a great step forward, and our support goes out to Klinger
and his publishers for having the courage to balls it out.</span><br />
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<o:p></o:p>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01695987225829285054noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6631187390726822859.post-27053095558811989992014-08-12T18:14:00.001+01:002014-08-12T18:14:22.594+01:00Dan Abnett & Nik Vincent on creating speech<div class="Body">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There are lots of
reasons for creating speech patterns for characters. Sometimes it’s simply to
differentiate one from another. It might be to imbue someone with a particular
trait, say of annoyance or dizziness or of being an intellectual. Speech patterns
maketh the man or woman in some instances.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Inventing a
dialect for an entire community or race is something else, but can be key to
the reader’s understanding, or can, at the very least help it. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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invent dialects when more than one community appears in a novel, or, in SF or
Fantasy, more than one race: dwarves and orcs speak differently from one
another, as do humans from elves.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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one race inhabits a book, but in that instance it is too easy for the reader to
automatically read that race as human. Give it a dialect and the problem is
solved. Invest that dialect with nuance and describing the race is also a
problem solved. They describe themselves in the language they use.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There are any
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We begin by limiting
or expanding vocabulary, by choosing particular words, which might, for
example, be arcane and not in common use. We might make up words or use
compound words. We might also choose specific forms of words not usually used.
for example, we would usually refer to a
‘speaker’, but for the purposes of a particular dialect we might choose to use
‘sayer’ instead. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We might choose
never to abbreviate or use contractions for words like ‘not’ or ‘have’, so
‘wouldn’t’ becomes ‘would not’ and ‘could’ve’ becomes ‘could have’. We might go
further still and never use negatives of any sort.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We might decide
that a race has no words for things we take for granted so, for example, if
something cannot be literally touched there might be no word for it, so ‘air’,
‘sky’, ‘breath’, ‘steam’ etc might be out.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There’s a great
deal that can be achieved with tenses. Primitive races might use only two or
three tenses. There is a lost language where the speakers referred to the
future as being behind them and the past ahead of them. That would be an
interesting way to write a race, and, now that I think of it, something that
I’m not sure has ever been done in a novel. It’s an interesting philosophy,
too, and instantly tells the reader something about that race.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A primitive culture
in a novel might use only limited pronouns. They might never specify gender,
for example.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Having made those
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">That’s the real
trick, and that’s the difficulty, particularly when we’re narrowing the
vocabulary and the tenses. If we limit ourselves it becomes harder to say all
the things we want our characters to say, and it becomes tougher to
differentiate between one character and another.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In those
instances it’s useful if there’s a rhythm to the direct speech and forms of
repetition. It’s important that the reader catch a refrain, becomes familiar
with what is likely to come next. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Everything in
writing has to be transparent to the reader. Nothing must seem difficult to
understand on the page.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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is where a good editor can be a huge help, making sure that the language is
consistent, that nothing jars, that where tenses are limited there is no
deviation. That there is music in the language of speech, because that’s what
it is, after all... It is speech.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">People, in the
real World don’t speak in sentences. They don’t speak formally. They repeat
themselves and hesitate and make a lot of unnecessary sounds that have little
to do with words, and that’s not always possible in the written word. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Patterns and
rhythm and shared words and phrases <i>are</i>
possible, and those are the things that families and communities share. So,
those are the things we try to use when we’re building a dialect.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Then the language
that the races in the novel use must sit comfortably within the language of the
book itself. While the voices of the characters of the races must be distinct
there must be some echo of them in the text, some sense of their rhythm in the
rhythm of the prose and in the story as a whole, otherwise the novel ceases to
be about those characters.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It can be a bit
of a balancing act and there’s a fine line to tread. And sometimes it’s
possible to produce a book that is deceptively simple and linear from quite a
complex set of experimental rules.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We hope we’ve
achieved something a little like that with the Aux in the novel Fiefdom.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 17px;">Fiefdom is out now in the US in <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Fiefdom-Kingdom-Novel-Dan-Abnett/dp/1781082359" target="_blank">paperback</a> and <a href="http://w.amazon.com/Fiefdom-Kingdom-Book-Dan-Abnett-ebook/dp/B00LMGH53G" target="_blank">kindle</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 17px;">Pre-order for the UK in <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Fiefdom-Kingdom-Novel-Dan-Abnett/dp/1781082340/" target="_blank">paperback</a>, <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Fiefdom-Kingdom-Novel-Limited-Hardback/dp/1781082561" target="_blank">limited edition hardback</a> and <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Fiefdom-Kingdom-Book-Dan-Abnett-ebook/dp/B00LMGH53G" target="_blank">kindle</a></span></span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01695987225829285054noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6631187390726822859.post-60501410121628201062014-08-07T12:46:00.001+01:002014-08-07T13:24:40.506+01:00The absolute and final list of best ever reinvented Sherlock Holmeses <br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So, since <i>Two Hundred and Twenty-One Baker Streets</i> is
all about different takes on Sherlock Holmes, I’ve been asked for my favourite
reinvented Holmeses to entertain and slightly mystify you. They are as follows:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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okay, it’s steampunk, it’s stupid, it’s an action movie. Fuck it. Downey’s
portrayal perfectly balances Holmes’s disdain and his wildness alike, Jude
Law’s Watson captures the good doctor’s long-suffering devotion brilliantly,
their chemistry is just right, and the film hits a note – lightly comic,
serious when it needs to be – that makes it a ton of fun to watch. More than
anything, though, it’s the fight scenes: that wonderful device where Holmes
predicts the fight to come and plans out his moves. As a device on its own it’s
brilliant, and the way the second movie turns it on its head in the final
showdown at Reichenbach is brillianterer.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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comedy <i>They Might Be Giants</i>. To be fair, I may be biased by my slight
obsession with the nerdrock band of the same name. Scott plays Justin Playfair,
a former judge who somehow forms the delusion that he is the great detective,
and that Dr. Mildred Watson, the psychiatrist sent to certify him insane, is
the Dr. Watson of his adventures. It’s a wonderful little comedy, and I urge
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Holmes is a struggling actor hired by John Watson (the true genius) to be the
face of his detective business. Caine is wonderful by definition, and the
denouement in which he (without Watson’s help) battles his way through the
clues and works out how to rescue his genius partner <i>using his acting
experience</i> (and gets it right entirely by accident) is lovely. The bit
where you’re certain he’s about get skewered and he turns out to be a brilliant
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Pre-order it now: </span><a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Two-Hundred-Twenty-One-Baker-Streets/dp/1781082219" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" target="_blank">UK</a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> | </span><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Two-Hundred-Twenty-One-Baker-Streets/dp/1781082227" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" target="_blank">US</a></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Check out some of the nice things people have been saying and request a copy to review on <a href="https://www.netgalley.com/catalog/show/id/50649" target="_blank">netgalley</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Born in Australia, David Thomas Moore has lived and worked in the UK for the past twenty years, and has been writing for roleplaying magazines, fiction websites and short story anthologies for eight years. The Ultimate Secret is his first long work. He lives in Reading with his wife Tamsin and daughter Beatrix. You're glad you met him.</span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01695987225829285054noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6631187390726822859.post-71084910607119943832014-07-15T13:26:00.002+01:002014-07-15T13:27:09.027+01:00Nik Vincent on naming the Aux<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Dan had set quite a precedent when he named the Aux he wrote about in <i>Kingdom</i>. I loved Gene the Hackman.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He had a cast, but, in comics, casts are often small, and Gene was soon alone. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Writing a novel is an entirely different prospect, and with not only one Aux tribe, but several and with an ensemble cast, and with no pictures, so many more characters have to be named. It was a much taller order to come up with a convincing cast list.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Needless to say that cast list was my job.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Naming characters can be a lot of fun, and names are important for lots of reasons. I’ve named characters before, my own in my independent fiction and I’ve named characters in tie-in fiction, too. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Fiefdom </i>is set in a different time and on another continent, so while it was fine for me to name some of the characters after movie stars, I wanted to bring in other cultural reference, and, because Fiefdom is set in Europe I thought it might be nice to look at Art and Literature. It didn’t hurt that those are two areas in which I also have a pretty keen interest.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Of course, the names also had to have some significance of their own, and they all had to show some qualities related to the Aux as a race. Gene the Hackman was, quite literally, a Hack Man, after all.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Oberon and Evelyn War, father and daughter were named after Evelyn and Auberon Waugh, the writers, father and son. War was an obvious choice, the spelling of Oberon was changed to reflect the King of the Fairies and, of course, we wanted a key female character. For what it’s worth, Evelyn also means ‘life’.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">On the one hand, naming the leader of the Aux after the poet Ezra Pound was a simple choice, because the name conjures both the act of pounding the enemy to death and a dog pound. On the other hand it was a complex choice because the poet was a controversial literary figure. For those who are interested, a look at the poet’s biography explains it, for the rest the simple knowledge that Pound wrote a poem entitled In a Station of the Metro is probably enough.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">All of the Aux characters in the novel were named in this way, for artists, writers, characters in novels, films, tv shows and so on. They all bear some reference. Some will seem obscure. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Some readers will not have heard of Frank Brangwyn, (BrangWIN, because who wants to lose?) who produced over 80 WWI poster designs, despite never being an official war artist. Austin Spar (SPAR as in practice fighting) was named after Austin Osman Spare, another favourite artist, who was employed as a war artist during WWI and who remained in London throughout WWII after trying to enlist, but being deemed too old. His home was bombed and all his work destroyed as a result, but he continued, regardless, and by the end of the war he was living in a cellar with two chairs for a bed and a number of stray cats.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Of course, names have been altered to fit the purpose, so that brothers Peter and William Blade derive from Peter Blake and William Blake, for example, Damien Hurts from Damien Hirst and Dorothy Barker from Dorothy Parker.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Naming the female characters was tougher than the males. We all look forward to a time when women are the equals of men in the arts, or at least when they are equally represented. It was never clearer that this has never been the case than when I was looking up eighteenth and nineteenth century artists and writers. Some men’s names sounded sufficiently feminine to be borrowed for female characters, hence Singer Sergeant after John Singer Sargent and Somerset Mourn after Somerset Maugham. But I wish there had been more great women to draw upon. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I did enjoy using Becky Sharp. Long may she reign!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Fiefdom </i>is out now in the US in <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Fiefdom-Kingdom-Novel-Dan-Abnett/dp/1781082359/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1405426607&sr=1-1&keywords=fiefdom" target="_blank">print</a> and on the <a href="http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_ss_c_0_7?url=search-alias%3Ddigital-text&field-keywords=fiefdom&sprefix=fiefdom%2Caps%2C286" target="_blank">kindle</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Now thirty-five and burnt out, he's had enough. With access to the mob's money he plans to go out in a big way. Only he can't. A broken down car, a missed flight; it's bad enough being hunted by the mob, but now the <i>gods</i> - kicked out of the Heavens - need someone to tell their stories, and they aren't letting go.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Caught between two warring factions of gods and the mob Louie hatches a plan to get out, if it doesn't get him killed first.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Pre-order for the <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Gods-Monsters-Breaker-Stephen-Blackmoore/dp/1781082545/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1403195000&sr=8-1&keywords=9781781082546" target="_blank">UK </a>and <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Gods-Monsters-Mythbreaker-Stephen-Blackmoore/dp/1781082553/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1403194964&sr=8-1&keywords=9781781082553" target="_blank">US </a>today.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Available on the<a href="http://www.rebellionstore.com/" target="_blank"> Rebellion Store </a>from December 4th 2014.</span></div>
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