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Post by dem bones on Mar 15, 2010 17:33:03 GMT
So, a year on and the reservations many of us had regarding Ghostwriter pretty much seem to have been valid. Nothing significant is appearing, to my knowledge. The many promises made have apparently come to nothing. It's just a matter of when the whole thing crumbles now, I think, rather than if. Bet it's one of those occasions where you'd rather have been proved wrong. Not sure about "the whole thing crumbling" though, funky ... The chapbook runs for a total of 19 pages and is available from Ghostwriter Publications as well as their sister company The Penny Dreadful Company. www.thepennydreadfulcompany.comlooks like we've just missed out on the almost too good to be true ‘20 for £20’ offer.
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antmusic
Crab On The Rampage
I am not Mmmmmaaaaaad!
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Post by antmusic on Mar 16, 2010 21:36:07 GMT
Well.... crap.
So, Kevin/Jaqhama wrote Crabs Carnage AKA Crustacean Carnage and Guy N. Smith wasn't even fully aware of it. Sheesh.
William Meikle has written a series of chapbooks for GWP (also to be released as a novel someday) called Crustaceans and GWP has pictures of this chapbook set on their site listed as a March 15, 2010 release (yesterday).
All but one of their Guy N. Smith books are in the "Sale Shop" and there isn't really any mention of him on there anymore except for their Night of the Werewolf release later this month (maybe). GWP is pretty much sticking to chapbooks via their "Penny Dreadfuls." Their site is still really hard to navigate properly.
This is my second big disapointment this year (Full Moon Press closing was the first). I had a lot of hope for some cool Guy N. Smith releases... digital or otherwise. A chance to see his short stories that I've missed and read other books by him that are too expensive... It also sucks that I've missed out on Creature Feature.
With all of the negativity I've been reading, I really don't want to order from them because I don't really trust them. I want to read Meikle's Crab book /chapbooks, but I just can't order from GWP to do so. I also want Night of the Werewolf... hopefully, Black Hill Books will sell those directly. Please.
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Post by sadako on Jan 17, 2024 0:54:34 GMT
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Post by helrunar on Jan 17, 2024 1:40:22 GMT
Edit: So this was written by a ghost-writer, commissioned or arranged by Smith? Just glancing through this thread there appear to be layers of obfuscation I am unable to evaluate.
I wonder if that's the original MSS or a photocopy. I'm not a Guy N. Smith fan (I still haven't read any of his books, in part because they are usually very expensive over here), but it's sad if his personal archive is being dispersed through random internet sales. He was a culturally significant figure in his own right--I'd hope that a library would become the custodian of his papers.
Hel.
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Post by andydecker on Jan 17, 2024 9:10:41 GMT
Edit: So this was written by a ghost-writer, commissioned or arranged by Smith? Just glancing through this thread there appear to be layers of obfuscation I am unable to evaluate. I wonder if that's the original MSS or a photocopy. I'm not a Guy N. Smith fan (I still haven't read any of his books, in part because they are usually very expensive over here), but it's sad if his personal archive is being dispersed through random internet sales. He was a culturally significant figure in his own right--I'd hope that a library would become the custodian of his papers. Hel. The seller said that this was originally sold at one of Smith's home auctions for his fan club. Years before his death.
But this is a good question, Steve. What happens to your stuff after you died? I guess Stephen King will be donated to some college or other, which is a time-honoured tradition in the US. I was kind of impressed when I read the book about Barlow that he donated Lovecraft papers and they took it, even if he was at best an obscure writer. But what of the legion of mid-list writers? For every A. C. Clarke you have hundreds of guys and girls who published a handful of novels and then stopped for whatever reasons. I honestly don't know how this is handled here in Europe or the UK. Are universities and colleges willing to take material from commercial writers to preserve them? Could I look at the archive of, say, Laurance James or Terry Harknett somewhere?
As this thread got revived 14 years later - thanks sadako for your really interesting post -, whatever happened to GWP and all those projects?
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Post by sadako on Jan 17, 2024 10:50:49 GMT
Edit: So this was written by a ghost-writer, commissioned or arranged by Smith? Just glancing through this thread there appear to be layers of obfuscation I am unable to evaluate. I wonder if that's the original MSS or a photocopy. I'm not a Guy N. Smith fan (I still haven't read any of his books, in part because they are usually very expensive over here), but it's sad if his personal archive is being dispersed through random internet sales. He was a culturally significant figure in his own right--I'd hope that a library would become the custodian of his papers. Hel. The seller said that this was originally sold at one of Smith's home auctions for his fan club. Years before his death.
But this is a good question, Steve. What happens to your stuff after you died? I guess Stephen King will be donated to some college or other, which is a time-honoured tradition in the US. I was kind of impressed when I read the book about Barlow that he donated Lovecraft papers and they took it, even if he was at best an obscure writer. But what of the legion of mid-list writers? For every A. C. Clarke you have hundreds of guys and girls who published a handful of novels and then stopped for whatever reasons. I honestly don't know how this is handled here in Europe or the UK. Are universities and colleges willing to take material from commercial writers to preserve them? Could I look at the archive of, say, Laurance James or Terry Harknett somewhere?
As this thread got revived 14 years later - thanks sadako for your really interesting post -, whatever happened to GWP and all those projects?
Meikle’s Crustacean chapbook is available in one tome, I know that much. An author’s notes and manuscripts really need to be donated to a safe place, like a library, I guess, while they’re still alive. Looks like Smith was auctioning stuff off early - there are other notebooks and manuscripts on ebay at the moment, from different sellers. But Crustacean Carnage would be fascinating because of the controversy over authorship. But I’m not confident buying from brand new accounts.
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chrise
New Face In Hell
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Post by chrise on Feb 29, 2024 14:15:27 GMT
I can confirm that the Crustacean Carnage manuscript that went for sale on ebay is a genuine handwritten story by GNS himself.
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Post by sadako on Feb 29, 2024 14:17:06 GMT
I can confirm that the Crustacean Carnage manuscript that went for sale on ebay is a genuine handwritten story by GNS himself. Good to know! I’ll read it then!
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