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Hinterland - SPOILERS

  
  

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Sax
14:14 / 11.08.04
I think you're right, Imp. Immanion being set up by Storm Constantine, there's a tendency towards... well, if not quite the Boris Valejo-type illustration that Fly pointed out, at least that type of fantasy thing.

I'm hoping for something a little more subtle, really, but we'll have to wait and see. They have said they'll consult, matsya, but the problem is I'm not really of a design bent so while I know what I like, I don't know how to achieve it.

However, I do like this type of illustration, which fits Hinterland perfectly in form and content:

this

and

this.

They're by a guy called Zev Robinson who I know nothing about but, if I could afford him, I'd probably get him to do something.
 
 
rizla mission
16:55 / 11.08.04
Yeah, a really fucking cool type aesthetic would definitely beat a ropey old fantasy one..

..but imagine if the hipster-acceptable coolness could be COMBINED with the basically applaudable concept of two beautiful, naked women, riding two enormous cats, against the backdrop of a ruined city, under a full moon..! How radical would that be?
 
 
Tamayyurt
18:20 / 11.08.04
Yeah, something like that would look great.
 
 
matsya
00:05 / 12.08.04
they're nice. I say get in touch with young zev anyway and see what can be nutted out. and with consulting on the cover, it's not so much you telling them how to do it, it's more you just making sure you're happy with the damn thing.

m.
 
 
Regrettable Juvenilia
08:30 / 12.08.04
Wait - I'm getting a vision - I can see it, I'm thinking - I'm thinking the women have fauxhawks. Yes.
 
 
deja_vroom
12:48 / 12.08.04
(Before I keep on readng the thread: Belated congratulations, Sax. This is good news indeed.)
 
 
Sax
13:04 / 12.08.04
Cheers, Jade.

And I'm going to indulge Flyboy his fantasies because I know he's going to buy a copy and plug it on his blog.
 
 
Sax
06:07 / 20.08.04
Immanion have now put me on their website, under the "authors" section. Gives me a nice warm glow. Look at me here.

They've also signed up another young buck, somebody Moorcock or something.
 
 
ONLY NICE THINGS
08:26 / 20.08.04
What, do they have a porn imprint as well?

Well done, Sax. And rizla, note that many of these authors have an East Midlands connection - go for it! Then you can get the cats. Make them green, with really long eyebrows.
 
 
Our Lady Has Left the Building
10:29 / 20.08.04
Bloody hell, Moorcock's beard looks like it could hide several weeping beards underneath it. If only I could organise some special beard-jousting competition between him and Moore.

But Sax, couldn't you have made an effort to look a bit goth? Everyone else did
 
 
ONLY NICE THINGS
10:49 / 20.08.04
Not everyone else... the women are all goths, the men are divided between "goth" and "going out with a goth, came straight from work, feels both underdressed and profoundly relieved"...

That's in no sense rude, by the way. I love what you've done with your... hair.
 
 
illmatic
12:46 / 20.08.04
So which one are you, Sax? Or should I call you .... Freda?


(Yes, I know perfectly well which one he is. I just like the idea of our beloved Sax having been a goth princess all this time).
 
 
Sax
13:10 / 20.08.04
Haus, you should know that I suffer from problem hair. And I was just getting to learn to love it as well. Ah well, 15 years of therapy undone.

Paging Doctor Ganesh.

*sob*
 
 
Saveloy
08:35 / 23.08.04
Christ, they'll publish any old rubbish these days! Which is why I'm so glad to see a quality writer making it to the shelves for a change. Well done, Sax!
 
 
FinderWolf
14:05 / 24.08.04
Fantastic!
 
 
Sax
06:28 / 27.09.04
News just in! Hinterland slated for April publication! Story and pictures at eleven!
 
 
Benny the Ball
07:32 / 27.09.04
Hey Sax, congratulations. How are things going with the book now?
 
 
Ariadne
10:23 / 27.09.04
have they offered you a huge advance for the next one?
 
 
Sax
10:49 / 27.09.04
Not yet, but then I'm keeping my powder dry and waiting for the bidding war.
 
 
matsya
05:17 / 02.10.04
April! wahey!

noice one

m.
 
 
Jack The Bodiless
10:57 / 02.10.04
Shit, I should visit this forum more often, completely missed this thread. Well done, you Saxy boy...
 
 
Sax
06:20 / 04.10.04
Hey, I got an ISBN number: 1904853196!
 
 
Sax
09:06 / 15.12.04
More whoring here, I'm afraid.

Immanion Press is having a Christmas sale with 30 per cent off all books at the moment, up until December 20.

Which means that, if you really, really wanted to, you could order Hinterland now at a knock-down rate and have a lovely surprise when the postman empties his sack into your letterbox in April.
 
 
Whisky Priestess
22:34 / 22.12.04
Good God, you know you've not been paying enough attention to Barbelith when ...

this thread can get to page 2 without me seeing it.

Excellent author photo Mr. S! Nice nod to Hoxton on the hair front - cool, but not too cool, savvy?

And I'm sorry, but I just HAVE to do this:

[Private Eye]

Dear Sir,

I recently came across a picture of renowned authoress Freda Warrington and was amazed at the resemblance to barrister, political spouse and friend of the New Age criminal element, Mrs. C Blair. I wonder if by any chance, etc?

W. Priestess (Miss)

[/Private Eye]


Cherie Blair


Freda Warrington
 
 
Sax
06:52 / 23.12.04
Nice nod to Hoxton on the hair front - cool, but not too cool, savvy?

I am woefully out of date, aren't I?
 
 
Not Here Still
14:56 / 24.12.04
Very beladted congratulations, Sax...

will be getting a copy as and when, of course. And plugging any way I know how.
 
 
captain piss
16:34 / 24.12.04
Hearty congrats

That guy Neil Robinson gelled very strongly with the mental image I have always had of Sax, for some reason. Then I started reading the bio and thought "haaang on a minute"
 
 
Sax
08:13 / 04.01.05
No, I'm the one with the bushy beard.
 
 
Sax
07:18 / 24.01.05
If anyone's interested, you can read the first chapter and a bit of the second chapter on the Immanion website by clicking here then clicking on the button marked "Look Inside".
 
 
Bear
08:15 / 24.01.05
Great stuff, reminded me of home

Will order on payday...
 
 
Bear
10:25 / 24.01.05
I liked the "Which me will I be today". I liked the feral children playing footie and I liked the strange feeling you get when you go into an unknown nightclub or pub especially if your heads not really where it should be...

The fridge part just reminded me of the Simpsons though..
 
 
Sax
11:10 / 24.01.05
Really? Did that happen on the Simpsons? Or just the general tone of the scene?

But thanks for being arsed to read it. It isn't quite the finished draft - there will be a couple of minute tickles before April.
 
 
Bear
11:13 / 24.01.05
Well it's not exactly the same Homer believes that when he closes the fridge door the bride and groom come to life so he keeps opening the door trying to catch them, thinking about it it's not really that similar at all in fact I think it was the freezer and not the fridge.
 
 
Bill Posters
17:40 / 07.02.05
ohmygod, only just seen this thread. Jolly well done Sax, that's two babies and one book in what seems like next to no time. And IIRC, Storm Constantine is a powerful Wicca, which makes the whole thing seem even more exciting/appropriate.
 
 
Alex's Grandma
19:43 / 07.02.05
It's very... powerful.

And it is very brave. and I did enjoy it, but does the 'paediatrician' have to reveal the true extent of his antics before the end of page 1 ? And in such graphic detail ? All those 'smiling, happy faces, frosted with snow as on Christmas morning, casually noticed, as if they were dolls heads, lined up in a row...' in your hero's freezer while he's trying to make breakfast... Brrr.
 
  

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