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Post by jlbenet on Feb 10, 2013 19:47:59 GMT
 From the back cover: For more info, you can check out Belfire Press' website for my novel, Wolf Hunter, here: belfirepress.com/main/our-titles/wolf-hunter/It's available in both print and eBook on Amazon: www.amazon.co.uk/Wolf-Hunter-ebook/dp/B00AG5MVTC/If you'd prefer other eBook formats, you can pick them up at Smashwords: www.smashwords.com/books/view/260444
What they’re saying about Wolf Hunter:“Horror meets mad science as Benét’s shape-shifting nightmare plays out in frightening detail against the backdrop of Nazi Germany.” - Jason Jack Miller, author of Hellbender “I know of two writers that I believe have the potential of rising out of the horror ghetto and producing books that the wider reading public will want to read despite the horror … one of them is Jack Kincaid and the other one is Jean-Loup Benét. Their work has heart. Yes, technically it is horror … it transcends the material that the majority of horror authors are content to produce.” - Janrae Frank, World Fantasy Award-winning author of the Dark Brothers of the Light series “I enjoyed it! … It’s well-written and accomplished and entertaining (and it has Nazis!)… It reminded me of classic-era Robert R. McCammon, and you can’t go wrong with that.” - Brian Keene, Stoker Award-winning author of The Rising and Ghoul “… has an imaginative, interesting plot … you get off some good licks and scenes like the medicine wheel scene (in which the dialogue is quite good)…” - Jack Ketchum, Stoker Award-winning author of Off-Season and The Girl Next Door “Benét reminds us in sickening detail that war can turn even the most benign men into beasts, leaving nothing in their wake but blood and guts and death.” - Heidi Ruby Miller, co-editor of Many Genres, One Craft “Benet's novel puts at least three interesting twists into the werewolf genre. A promising reinvigoration of the genre. It's got Nazis, it's got kids behaving badly in college, it's got werewolves; what more could you want?? Oh, yeah, there's bloodshed and personal transformation. Quit reading the blurbs and just buy the book.” - Timons Esaias - Asimov's Readers Award Winner and Five Time Rhysling Award Nominee. |
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Post by Jojo Lapin X on Feb 10, 2013 20:01:15 GMT
Kitchens!
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Post by pulphack on Feb 11, 2013 7:51:04 GMT
Does anyone want to run a book on when the first joker writes a self-published horror novel about killer kitchens and signs up here without bothering to talk about anything else?
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Post by Craig Herbertson on Feb 11, 2013 14:20:17 GMT
Does anyone want to run a book on when the first joker writes a self-published horror novel about killer kitchens and signs up here without bothering to talk about anything else? I'm getting my pen out now but weighing up the more intriguing possibilities of Delhi Escort agencies |
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Post by jlbenet on Feb 14, 2013 18:41:40 GMT
Does anyone want to run a book on when the first joker writes a self-published horror novel about killer kitchens and signs up here without bothering to talk about anything else? Are you talking about actual killer kitchens (like in "House of Wacks" for the Simpson's "Treehouse of Horror XII") or just kitchens where killing takes place (like in the Debbie Harry framing story from Tales from the Darkside)? |
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Post by Jojo Lapin X on Feb 14, 2013 19:10:14 GMT
Are you talking about actual killer kitchens (like in "House of Wacks" for the Simpson's "Treehouse of Horror XII") or just kitchens where killing takes place (like in the Debbie Harry framing story from Tales from the Darkside)? No, it is an inside joke. At your expense. |
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Post by jlbenet on Feb 14, 2013 23:55:35 GMT
I assume it's a reference to the Manchester kitchens mentioned in the "Viagra vampires, mortgage racketeers, porn & Co." thread, implying that this is just drive-by, off-topic SPAMming. From that, I can infer that I'm not welcome here. I'll leave you folks to it then. Cheers.
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Post by jamesdoig on Feb 15, 2013 3:29:34 GMT
I'll leave you folks to it then. Cheers. Don't be offended by the cudgel-like banter - it's good preparation for the real critics  |
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Post by jlbenet on Feb 15, 2013 4:41:37 GMT
I wasn't offended by the nonsensical banter. There is a world of difference between being offended and realizing that a person (or group) is not interested in actual discussion on a topic. Real critics actually criticize something.
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Post by Craig Herbertson on Feb 15, 2013 9:06:38 GMT
I wasn't offended by the nonsensical banter. There is a world of difference between being offended and realizing that a person (or group) is not interested in actual discussion on a topic. Real critics actually criticize something. The cruel banter began when you advertised your new book twice with only the briefest of preambles. I don't know if you read the welcome notice on the board but if you had you would have seen these two points: - If you have lots of books, I'm pleased for you, you're like quite a number of people on here. Nobody's impressed. Frankly, no one cares. That's not what this has been about at all. - Vault is not a free advertising hoarding. Mention your book once by all means, and hopefully it will get a good response. Don't keep bumping it yourself. Putting a banner up of your book is also a no no. Essentially you entered a tearoom in a panzer tank |
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Post by Dr Strange on Feb 15, 2013 11:04:07 GMT
Tearoom??? It's more like the pub in An American Werewolf in London.
JLB - stick around, you'll probably enjoy it. But I don't think there are many people here who would consider themselves "critics" - I certainly don't buy or read books because I want to discuss or write about them, it's just that occasionally I will decide that my thoughts about something I've read are going to be inflicted on the other people who hang about here. Usually they are quite tolerant of this, sometimes they even take the time to respond. But it really isn't the place for self-promotion, except in its most subtle forms.
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Post by David A. Riley on Feb 15, 2013 12:25:36 GMT
Those were quite mild responses to those a few years ago that met a serial self-promoter on here. It's always best to study a site first to find out what its regulars like and dislike and it should have soon become obvious that self promotion is not something liked on here, especially if that's how someone sets out from the start. I've been a semi-regular here for a few years now and still worry when I mention something of my own in case I get a face covered in sputtered froth from overstepping the mark.  |
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Post by pulphack on Mar 2, 2013 7:05:07 GMT
Ah, Mr Benet is a scream... 'actual discussion' and 'real critics criticise'...
What is there to criticise? No-one here hass read the book yet as far as I'm aware. Therefore what is there to discuss? He did not enter into any other topics before plugging himself. He didn't bother after. He just flounced off. Bless.
To be honest, you were too kind to him. He wasn't interested in the stuff talked about here, obviously. He didn't criticise other books and stories discussed. He didn't discuss other books and stories criticised. He got the hump because no-one wanted to play.
David - I am aware you still consider me rude because of past events, but there is a WORLD of difference between someone like yourself or Johnny (for example) who talk endlessly about other people's work and then mention in passing something you have just out (in fact, often others on here will menton it first), and self-serving jerks like Mr Benet. That should be obvious. I would never dream of lumping you in with the likes of him.
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Post by David A. Riley on Mar 2, 2013 11:07:38 GMT
Ah, Mr Benet is a scream... 'actual discussion' and 'real critics criticise'... What is there to criticise? No-one here hass read the book yet as far as I'm aware. Therefore what is there to discuss? He did not enter into any other topics before plugging himself. He didn't bother after. He just flounced off. Bless. To be honest, you were too kind to him. He wasn't interested in the stuff talked about here, obviously. He didn't criticise other books and stories discussed. He didn't discuss other books and stories criticised. He got the hump because no-one wanted to play. David - I am aware you still consider me rude because of past events, but there is a WORLD of difference between someone like yourself or Johnny (for example) who talk endlessly about other people's work and then mention in passing something you have just out (in fact, often others on here will menton it first), and self-serving jerks like Mr Benet. That should be obvious. I would never dream of lumping you in with the likes of him. I don't consider you rude at all and whatever happened in the past has been long forgotten, by me anyway.  And I do consider the responses to have been remarkably restrained, especially as this definitely is not the place for pimping. It annoys me too when newcomers neglect to realise that this is a place for discussion, not to self advertise, and to do the former without even bothering to do the latter is, to me, the height of bad manners. Cheers David |
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Post by doomovertheworld on Mar 2, 2013 15:54:27 GMT
^^^ i agree 100% with his last sentence
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