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Post by benedictjjones on Jan 18, 2017 15:30:00 GMT
Sounds excellent! And definitely seems to have given a "lineage" of sorts to Slaughter Beach :-)
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Post by benedictjjones on Jan 18, 2017 14:01:49 GMT
So no "literary" gems hiding amongst the fodder?
As I mentioned in another thread Herne The Hunter : Texas Massacre has now come onto my radar and sounds bloody excellent
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Post by benedictjjones on Jan 18, 2017 13:59:36 GMT
Not a name I'd encountered before but this really sounds good so will have to see what else he has penned
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Post by benedictjjones on Jan 18, 2017 13:58:15 GMT
yes, tip... Not read the Laurence James but having now seen the cover I want to very much! It does seem to mine a similar vein as well. Will have to go and try and find a detailed synopsis of it now!
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Post by benedictjjones on Jan 18, 2017 13:03:33 GMT
Ah, I was worried that might be the case and confirmed a lot of my thoughts on the few I have managed to get through.
Love the flying coyote story! Might have to shoe horn that into a story somewhere - "the little 'berg of Flying Coyote, founded by an Englishman naturally"
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Post by benedictjjones on Jan 18, 2017 11:28:56 GMT
sounds like I will have to hunt this one out!
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Post by benedictjjones on Jan 18, 2017 10:36:25 GMT
Cor, this sounds right up my street. Will have to try and find this.
Cheers Mr Marsh!
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Post by benedictjjones on Jan 18, 2017 10:31:04 GMT
Having been a long time fan of the old covers of Edge etc. I wondered what people make of the new Piccadilly Publishing covers that seem to carry on the genre?
The Gunsmith covers should probably go in the Phwoar! section but they are always entertaining!
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Post by benedictjjones on Jan 18, 2017 10:22:45 GMT
Hello, sorry if this has been raised before!
I'm a huge western fan (both films and books) and have even written a few of my own. A few years back I found the old "piccadilly cowboy" covers hugely inspirational BUT of the books themselves I wasn't that impressed. I felt that they were a bit "cardboard" in nature and their depiction of the old west (yes, I realise a lot of them were written through a "spaghetti lens" of a west that probably never existed).
My main question is - if you had to pick a handful of the old Brit westerns (say a maximum of five) to really showcase the subgenre in terms of writing, story, originality etc what would they be??
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Post by benedictjjones on Jan 17, 2017 16:49:18 GMT
I remember reading this when it came out. I thought it had a lot of potential but seemed to pull away at the last minute (which, as this by Hutson, surprised me)
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Post by benedictjjones on Jan 17, 2017 15:44:42 GMT
Been meaning to pick this up. Ran out of readies at FCon so had to leave this one then.
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Post by benedictjjones on Jan 17, 2017 15:20:31 GMT
My novella "Slaughter Beach" was published by Dark Minds Press last year (I thought I'd started a thread about it previously but I think the senility is finally getting me!) When glamour photographer William Marshall charters Don Curtis’ boat The Ariadne for a photo-shoot on a remote tropical island it’s an offer too good to turn down. Beautiful scenery, beautiful girls… what could possibly go wrong? The island hides a deadly secret though and soon Don, the photographers and models find themselves involved in a terrifying game of cat and mouse with a deadly adversary where death lies in wait behind every tree and boulder… Slaughter Beach – where paradise becomes a blood-drenched hell... I wrote this one as if it was 1983 and I'd be given a small budget for a straight to video release... If anyone has picked it up it' would be great to know what you thought :-) and if not it's available here; www.amazon.co.uk/Slaughter-Beach-Benedict-J-Jones/dp/1516969707/ref
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Post by benedictjjones on Dec 13, 2016 14:46:11 GMT
A pleasure to be in this - and I'd never have heard about it without the Vault!
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Post by benedictjjones on Dec 13, 2016 14:44:11 GMT
Thoroughly enjoyed this one and just spotted that the author has a new one out :-)
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Post by benedictjjones on Apr 19, 2016 15:29:00 GMT
cheers, Dem I've dropped him a line. Hope all is well with you, mate!
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