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Old 07-29-2011, 07:53 PM   #126
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No see, that's just called, having a different opinion than you. Maybe you're not aware, but when it comes to artwork people like drastically different things. Some people might actually think your play covers look displayable, while I think they should be hidden from public eye to prevent mass riots.

We're by invitation only because when we're open submissions we get thousands upon thousands of submissions a month. Instead of hiring more staff to search through a muck pile that never fails to be consistently 95% garbage (trust me, we've gone through a lot of muck piles), we decided to be submission by invitation only.

When you're in the business we are and know the communities we do it's not hard to find new rising stars in the horror/fantasy/sci-fi genres. I won't say there aren't some great youthful authors out there in their 20's or perhaps a little older, but more often than not talented writers in our genres tend to be a little older. Why? Because writing good horror takes a long time. It took me three years myself before I was ever published, and hell, longer than that until I felt like I had truly written something good. Don't worry, we are no partakers in agism, this just tends to be the general population of the horror author crowd.

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It would seem folks are capable of quite a bit, or you market directly to stupid people with no sense of taste (and in the case of gathered dust, the weight of a human body)...wait, that's a distinct possibility.

So here's my question Chris: Why is Dark Regions by invitation only? Do you not have the funds to pay a reader to sift through solicitation letters, or is this just a good 'ol boy thing?

It would seem to me that a small press company like yours would be a good place for an aspiring horror-writer to start his or her career, and you could certainly benefit by having an author under the age "OMG SO F-IN' OLD".

Aside from your "Hard-Boiled Vampire Killers" dude, your author base seems to be entirely composed of my Dad's highschool buddies. Some new blood might really help you guys grow and reach "the kids".

How do you find people? Do you sift through Dragon Magazine looking for a new author, or does Dark Regions take agent submissions or something? Do you grow them in vats like the fishstick man? Do you pull homeless people off the street and give them 5 bucks, a bottle of Mad-Dog, and a Pen?

Inquiring minds want to know.
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Old 07-30-2011, 10:15 AM   #127
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No see, that's just called, having a different opinion than you. Maybe you're not aware, but when it comes to artwork people like drastically different things.
So when people have an opinion different than yours it's "Blowing smoke" and when people have an opinion different than mine it's "people having different tastes"?

But beyond this, all opinions are NOT equal In this case someone is right and someone is wrong, and as of now I have made a much stronger case for my opinions than you have for yours. I have talked about composition, unity, color-use, weight, depth, and dynamic emotional impact. So far all you have done is attempt to simply dismiss the art I have brought to the table by simply saying "It's bad" and making guesses at how long it may have taken to create (A charge which I answered btw) and cited awards your publishing company has won (which, by the way, has little to do with your cover-art as those awards weren't for cover-art).

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You're learning how to communicate on the internet! I am so proud of you. I'm going to print this out and stick it on my refrigerator.

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When you're in the business we are and know the communities we do it's not hard to find new rising stars in the horror/fantasy/sci-fi genres. I won't say there aren't some great youthful authors out there in their 20's or perhaps a little older, but more often than not talented writers in our genres tend to be a little older. Why? Because writing good horror takes a long time. It took me three years myself before I was ever published, and hell, longer than that until I felt like I had truly written something good. Don't worry, we are no partakers in agism, this just tends to be the general population of the horror author crowd.
Fair enough. Still why not solicitation letters or agent submissions? Those are easier to sift through than whole stories, and then you could only respond to the ones who seem interesting. I'm not sure how the Horror writer scene is in CA, but It would seem basing your company overwhelmingly on personal relationships is a recipe for stagnation.

Still it's understandable if you don't have the manpower even for that. I recently had a casting call for my play in the NY fringe this year and recieved over 700 resumes within a week of posting the ad, so I can imagine how bad it must be to be to go through open submissions.
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Old 07-30-2011, 11:46 AM   #128
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So when people have an opinion different than yours it's "Blowing smoke" and when people have an opinion different than mine it's "people having different tastes"?
Well, when people like our cover art they usually don't blow as much smoke as that guy did for you. It truly was adorable.

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But beyond this, all opinions are NOT equal In this case someone is right and someone is wrong, and as of now I have made a much stronger case for my opinions than you have for yours. I have talked about composition, unity, color-use, weight, depth, and dynamic emotional impact. So far all you have done is attempt to simply dismiss the art I have brought to the table by simply saying "It's bad" and making guesses at how long it may have taken to create (A charge which I answered btw) and cited awards your publishing company has won (which, by the way, has little to do with your cover-art as those awards weren't for cover-art).
You neglected to mention how I disected step-by-step how to recreate your play cover in Photoshop. Says something about the "artwork" if anyone with PS could re-create it without much effort.

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Fair enough. Still why not solicitation letters or agent submissions? Those are easier to sift through than whole stories, and then you could only respond to the ones who seem interesting. I'm not sure how the Horror writer scene is in CA, but It would seem basing your company overwhelmingly on personal relationships is a recipe for stagnation.
If you look at our author list you can see we're a far cry from stagnation. We do accept agent submissions from time to time, but not always. We know everyone in this business, so if you're a recognizable name we'll know who you are if you submit to us and consider it accordingly. The problem with open submissions is that you get endless submissions from unknowns who have zero talent. Sometimes you'll find a gem of an unknown that really has a future, but it's rare.
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Well, when people like our cover art they usually don't blow as much smoke as that guy did for you. It truly was adorable.
That's because people don't actually like your cover art. They're just lying because they're happy with having their work published/ It's polite. I wouldn't tell you how bad your art is in real life either. I might even pretend I liked something or find one good thing about the cover art that I actually like in order to be positive.

But this is the internet and I can be honest, and seriously dude, your cover art is really bad and massively wierd. You don't have to admit it, because this is your company and your professional associates/friends creating it, but you've got to know how bad it is. You would do well to change it up.


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And I pointed out that while yours probably involved more effort, mine was still a better image because of it's composition, color choice, etc.

Effort and time spent /= a good product. I know writers who have worked for YEARS on a single piece who's quality has been surpassed by writers who worked on theirs for a month or less. The same is true with visual art. A good illustrator can create a dynamic image in moments or even seconds, and a bad one can labor carefully on one for hours or days and still turn out crap.

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Very true, though in my experience talent is actually fairly common, it's just rare to find the right combination of talent, drive, stubbornness, networking ability, connections and dumb luck that it takes to have a career in the arts.

Writing is harder to find talent in than other art forms though, because pretty much everybody knows how to put words on a page, so alot more people think they know what they're doing when they don't, and people have a harder time judging writing because superficially, a bunch of words on the page all look the same. Hence why the writers featured in Gnet's literary section are pretty much uniformly terrible.

Still everyone has to get their start somewhere, and what resonates with one generation will not necessarily resonate with another.

So what's next Chris? When are you guys going to be announcing your next book? I'm bored with Gathered Dust, and as awesome the concept of a Werewolf Rodeo is I'm thirsty for more insanity.
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Old 08-09-2011, 09:20 PM   #130
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Rob McKenna knew all about pain and suffering. As a member of a top secret black ops mission deep inside Pakistan, his Marine Force Recon Unit had a close up and personal tour of Hell on Earth and the horrors that men are capable of doing to one another. When he returned back stateside to Napa, California, Rob was a shadow of his former self, a broken young man left clinging to the tattered fragments of his marriage, his memory, and the rapid decline of his physical and mental health.

Coming back from the war was supposed to be the end of Rob's misery, the start of his new life, but unfortunately Hell had followed him home and the horror and pain had only just begun. Waiting for him where he least expected.

"Gene O'Neill's imagination transcends genre conventions. His prose is simultaneously lyrical and gritty, poetic and violent. With Rusting Chickens, O'Neill captures the vicious nature of warfare, not merely in physical combat, but in the psychological battles a soldier is cursed to fight for the remainder of his days. This is Gene O'Neill at his finest!"
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"From the brutal horrors of modern war, to the twisted battlefields of the healing human mind, Gene O'Neill takes his growing legion of fans on a chilling journey they won't soon forget. RUSTING CHICKENS will leave readers breathless and guessing right to the bitter end... and beyond. Highly recommended!"
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Gene O’Neill lives in the Napa Valley with his wife, Kay, a retired primary grade teacher at St. Helena Elementary School. They have been married for 40 plus years; their grown children, Gavin and Kay Dee, live in Oakland and San Diego. Gene has two degrees, neither having anything to do with writing (or much of anything else). At one time or another he has been a college basketball player, an amateur boxer, a Marine, carried mail, worked on seismic crews exploring for oil, been a Right-of-Way Agent (appraised, acquired, condemned, and managed real property to build the interstate highway system around Sacramento), been a contract specialist for AAFES (contracting to bring private services like barbers, cleaners, and beauty parlors onto military bases), and vice president of a small manufacturing plant. Gene describes his employment background as “rich, varied, and colorful.” His brother-in-law, the president of the above manufacturing plant, describes Gene as more of a “disgruntled ne’er-do well.”

Since surviving the Clarion Writers' Workshop in 1979,Gene has seen over 120 of his stories published, perhaps most notably: two in the Twilight Zone Magazine, six in the
Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, two in Pulpsmith, four in Science Fiction Age, three in Cemetery Dance, and many in specialized publications like Dragon and Starshore, with numerous anthology placements, including Borderlands 5 and DEAD END:CITY LIMITS. Stories have been reprinted in France, Spain, and Russia. A few of his past stories have garnered Nebula and Stoker recommendations, including “Balance,” a short story Stoker finalist in 2007, and THE CONFESSIONS OF ST. ZACH, a Stoker finalist in the long fiction category in 2009. DOC GOOD’S TRAVELING SHOW was a long fiction Stoker finalist in 2010 and TASTE OF TENDERLOIN won that year for collection. Some of these stories have been collected in GHOST SPIRITS, COMPUTERS & WORLD MACHINES, THE GRAND STRUGGLE, and TASTE OF TENDERLOIN, which also garnered a 2009 starred review in Publishers Weekly. Upcoming is another collection in 2011: DANCE OF THE BLUE LADY & OTHER STORIES. His novels include, THE BURDEN OF INDIGO, COLLECTED TALES OF THE BAJA EXPRESS, SHADOW OF THE DARK ANGEL, DEATHFLASH, LOST TRIBE, and the recently completed NOT FADE AWAY. All of these novels and the two forthcoming collections have been/will be released as s/l HBs in 2010, 2011, and 2012 along with the CAL WILD trilogy in 2012. Also to see release soon are two novella, RUSTING CHICKENS from Dark Regions Press and DOUBLEJACK from Sideshow Press. SSP will also release a chapbook, CHRONICLES OF THE DOUBLE SPARROW in 2012 sometime.

Gene writes full time now, currently finishing up the CAL WILD trilogy.


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Old 08-23-2011, 11:29 AM   #131
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Awwwe yisss

Sorry for the late response, I've been busy producing my play in the NYFringe, so I haven't had the time to properly troll you.

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Rusting Chickens
Rusting Chickens. Rusting Chickens. Rusting Chickens. RUSTING CHICKENS. RUSTIIIIINNNNG CHICKENS. RUSTING CHICKENS

YES CHRIS_MOREY. THAT IS HOW YOU DO IT.



He's all like: "CALL ME THESE FUCKING CHICKENS ARE RUSTING AND THAT MAKES ME ANGRY AND/OR TERRIFIED"

Best. Cover. Ever. I am imitating it now. That is how fucking sweet it is.



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Rob McKenna knew all about pain and suffering. As a member of a top secret black ops mission deep inside Pakistan, his Marine Force Recon Unit had a close up and personal tour of Hell on Earth and the horrors that men are capable of doing to one another. When he returned back stateside to Napa, California, Rob was a shadow of his former self, a broken young man left clinging to the tattered fragments of his marriage, his memory, and the rapid decline of his physical and mental health....
BORING! Don't care. Show me the page where motherfucker gets eaten by a wall of rusting poultry while screaming and throwing up the horns. THAT'S WHAT THE PEOPLE WANT CHRIS_MOREY.

However, you save yourself:



Look at this grizzled motherfucker.
Gene O’Neill is SICK OF YOUR SHIT and he is gonna get all SALTY with you in a minute.

You have exceeded all my expectations sir. More of this please.
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Chris. Stop being a douche and GTFO of G.net. Your hack bullshit isn't wanted here!

Helter Skelter, mother fucker!
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Chris. Stop being a douche and GTFO of G.net. Your hack bullshit isn't wanted here!

Helter Skelter, mother fucker!
Dammit Kontan, get off my account. I'M trolling Chris_Morey, not you, you disembodied fucktard!
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"Wildly imagined."
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Hades is in upheaval. The Damned are rebelling, and worse, the more human-like breeds of Demons are beginning to sympathize with their plight. The Creator Himself decides to venture into Hades to address this conflict, a conflict which may test His very sanity...and make him a target of assassination. Against this tense background, a Damned man named Frank Lyre and a beautiful winged Demon named Oni act out a passionate love affair, but they too will be swept into a battle that may decide the future of all Creation.

Subversive, sexy, poetic and nightmarish, Beautiful Hell is set in the world of Jeffrey Thomas' short story collection Voices From Hades, and the novels The Fall of Hades and Letters From Hades, about which F. Paul Wilson said, "Jeffrey Thomas' imagination is as twisted as it is relentless."


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Jeffrey Thomas's other books set within his vision of Hades are "The Fall of Hades" and "Voices From Hades," both from Dark Regions Press, and the cult novel "Letters From Hades." His other books from Dark Regions Press include "Nocturnal Emissions," "Thought Forms," "Doomsdays" and "Voices From Punktown." He is also the author of the books "Monstrocity" (finalist for the Bram Stoker Award), "Deadstock" (finalist for the John W. Campbell Award), "Blue War," "A Nightmare on Elm Street: The Dream Dealers" and the celebrated collection "Punktown." Visit his blog at: http://punktalk.punktowner.com/.


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Fuck yeah man! You are two for two here.

I actually really like this cover. Not only is the flying octopus art professional quality, but we even have the subtle "Spider eye" effect in its' coloring AND a hidden skull. That is an art burrito, that is turning your cover-art up to eleven - as far as levitating, tree-crushing, mercury-winged chephalopods go, that dude is the best one, and that tree is proper fucked.

I also want to complement you on the cover text and your color use. The text doesn't look like it came out of a pre-set font, and manages to stand out while still looking like it's part of the cover.

Overall, I'll give it a solid B+

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I should hope so. Motherfucker probably imagined this book about floating, gardening, spider-skull headed mollusks riding a motorcycle and snorting coke off a hookers ass, while simultaneously smashing nearby mailboxes with a bat. Beautiful Hell indeed.

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See, here's where it falls apart a little. I'll give you Frank Liar (LOLZ a PUN) But a winged Demon named Oni? You have a demon named "demon" that's not a name, that's an occupation. That's like naming a Microphone "Mike".

Still, I love that the author has his main character fucking a hot, uninhibited asian chick. That's the dream isn't it?

Your Author photo is better as well:



though not as good as that Salty O'Neil Motherfucker. Jeffery Thomas just looks slightly embarrassed to be having a photo taken...or maybe the sun is in his eyes because seriously, that's WAY too bright for his pasty British skin. Having an author look like he's in a strip club for the first time is a step up, but certainly not what I'd call "professional Photography" Ya Dig?

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Man I can't wait for "Whispers of Hades" and "Mumbling from Hades" and "Spam Email from Hades" to come out, Hades-related communication is a seriously under-represented genre. "Drunken Awkward Text Messages at 3am from Hades" is going to blow the roof off all this hizouse.

All in all, your art is getting better, and I bet your book sales are going up. Is that true? 'Cause if so, I want my cut. If it weren't for me you wouldn't have flying octopi ransaking shrubbery in such a well-realized manner.
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Yes, but it's like, the KING of badly done photoshop text.

It's like when you teach a monkey to do sign language, don't yell at him for not being able to recite Shakespeare.
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Well, I was going to show you an example of terrible Photoshop abilities by one of Despanan's play covers, but it seems he was so ashamed of it that he deleted it from the thread.

Then again, if you morons are reduced to insulting the TEXT that proves we're doing something right
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These posts are un-editable after seven minutes. I couldn't delete my stuff if I wanted to. If anything of mine was deleted it was the admin who did it.

Also, all of my stuff is still here. What are you talking about Chris_Morey?
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Well, I was going to show you an example of terrible Photoshop abilities by one of Despanan's play covers, but it seems he was so ashamed of it that he deleted it from the thread.

Then again, if you morons are reduced to insulting the TEXT that proves we're doing something right
I'm not really down for attacking people, I'm not part of the anti-Chris Morey brigade or whatever, I think it's good that you allow people to get their work out in a commercial format. It's just that text is what makes or breaks a design, and if you look at any successful books aimed at the 11+ market you'll see that the text is just simple and refined. Even the shitty ones like Twilight. It's what sets apart a professional designer from an amateur, the realisation that less is more.
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It begins innocently enough, with the death of a prostitute in Bedford Square, London. She isn't the first 'flower girl' to die and she won't be the last, not now the killer had a taste for it.

The man, Nathaniel Seth, is one of the Brethren, a shadow society of occult dabblers and black magickers who hide away in the darkest parts of the city, in corners where they could not be seen by polite society. Little did Seth know that his own life was only hours from ending, his flesh to be taken as host for a daemonic entity clawed all the way out of hell's pit in the centre of the hollow earth because Seth himself breached the Catamine Stair. Now things are afoot. Strange things. The lions of Traflagar have fulfilled their prophecy, climbing down from the plinths around Lord Nelson's column to defend the city. The daemon is out, stalking tender prey through the gaslit streets, meat markets, fish stalls and slaughter houses of Whitehall. He has a taste for women, though not ordinary women. These women are different. Special. They may look like whores but they have the blood of angels flowing in their veins. If he can kill enough of them, bathing in their innocent blood, then the daemonic Seth believes he can open the ancient Ald Gate--one of the seven great gates of London--the last gate to Eden, and go home, even if it means tearing London herself apart.

The gates are guarded by The Seven, bloodsucking angelkind put there to guard a very special prisoner. A prisoner who cannot be allowed to escape. Satanial. The Devil by another name. Cast down and trapped in a hell on earth, watched over by Uriel, the mad Archangel.

A few stedfast men stand in the daemon's way, led by Fabian Stark, a man himself doomed to die before even the first die is cast, and each of them cursed in their own way: Dorian Carruthers, Haddon McCreedy, Eugene Napier, Anthony Millington, and Brannigan Locke. The Grayfriar's Gentleman's Club.

Can these few men stop the daemonic Seth from opening the gates and all hell breaking loose?

It is as though Savile is the bastard child of Philip Pulman and Neil Gaiman, and London Macabre, part serial killer novel, part vast fabulist Victoriana epic, part Steampunk novel with a great slice of occultism and mysticism as well as a radical warping of all things holy, is quite unlike any dark fantasy novel you've ever read.


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Steven Savile has written 20 books for various media properties including Doctor Who, Torchwood, Stargate, Warhammer, Slaine and Primeval. Shadow of the Jaguar, which was a #1 bestseller in the UK in 2008. Steve has sold over half a million books worldwide. 2010 saw the release of his first non-fiction book, Fantastic TV, charting 50 years of science fiction television in the UK and US. He is the co-creator of Monster Town, recently bought by Sony Entertainment to develop for cable tv in the US (with Adam Fierro, Dexter, The Shield, 24, Walking Dead, as show-runner) and his novels have been translated into 9 languages, including German, French, Italian, and Spanish. He has been a bestseller in Germany and Italy. Silver, his debut thriller, was released in January 2010 from Variance, in the US, It reached #3 on the ebook bestseller of Amazon UK and has spent over 100 days in the top 100, having sold 50,000 copies since Feb 1st 2011. Steve also wrote the storyline for Electronic Arts' forthcoming Battlefield 3, the most widely anticipated computer game of 2011. He has been runner up in the British fantasy award, and won the Writers of the Future Award and the Scribe Award for best Media Tie-In in 2010. His most recent novel, The Black Chalice, was released in March. His next novel, Each Ember's Ghost will be published by Fantasy Flight Games, continuing the Fireborn world created by Tracy Hickman (Dragonlance). He has also developed Isra the Nightwalker series for Pathfinder, the bestselling RPG in the US last year. You can visit him online at http://www.stevensavile.com/


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Old 09-06-2011, 02:29 PM   #142
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Hmm, well, I don't love this cover BUT it's so much better than some of the past ones you've shown here. The figure at the bottom doesn't quite look right to me for some reason, perhaps it's the angle, or it could, in all fairness be my shitty eyesight, I'm not sure. However, the last two covers have been much better than previous ones. That's not to say they are brilliant or that they would make me interested in actually buying the books themselves but they are getting better in my opinion.
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The angle of the wings is a little off and it seems odd that the hair doesn't hang over the hands or arms at all, but I think it is the wings that really throw it off. The rest of it looks pretty good though.
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That's not bad. I would have done the text slightly more subtly still but it's all in the same font and not a hint of emboss in sight, so praise be for small miracles.
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Old 09-19-2011, 08:33 PM   #145
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I think that man in the top hat is about to put it in that angel's butt. Clearly, being that that angel looks all beat to hell, we've got a classic case of anal raep going on.
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Old 09-20-2011, 08:33 AM   #146
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The angle of the wings is a little off and it seems odd that the hair doesn't hang over the hands or arms at all, but I think it is the wings that really throw it off. The rest of it looks pretty good though.
The wings are spread when, if the angel is unconscious or hurt, they should be collapsed. She's also just hanging in mid air, which makes me think either she's impaled on a stick we can't see or she's standing firmly on her own feet and just bent over at the middle, leaning on nothing.

So with the spread wings and being able to stand on her feet leads me to believe this angel is not at all threatened by the dark figure in the back, but is simply doing her yoga in public.
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Inspired in part by Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, Percy Bysshe Shelley's, Prometheus Unbound, and the works of Rider Haggard and R. E. Howard, Isis Unbound is set in an alternate history, steampunk version of 1890's Manceastre, Britanniae, ruled by a new governor general related to a descendant of Anthony and Cleopatra, who won the battle of Actium two thousand years ago, and where the ancient Egyptian gods are real. ...Only a god can kill a god. Nepythys has killed her sister, Isis, and therefore the dead cannot pass over to the underworld--their ranks are rapidly swelling and they now roam the streets as zombies. Chief Embalmer Ptolemy Child's two daughters, Ella and Loli, aged eighteen and ten respectively, are being instructed in the secrets of the mummification process, when the dead begin to wake and walk. And eventually lead the sisters to the greatest mystery of all: Isis, herself...

'Allyson Bird is a writer who never plays it safe. Her wild imagination and power to evoke both myth and madness make her one of the most interesting writers working out there on the edge of horror/fantasy.'
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'Allyson Bird is a rare bird indeed. An original voice in a world of plain vanilla. She rides some dark waves with grace and heart full of light and shadow. If there's any justice, she on her way to real recognition.' and she, ‘already has a prominent award under her belt; the British Fantasy Society award for her first collection, which I can also recommend, titled Bull Running For Girls. Still, you may not know her name. You should know her name. You should know her stories, her writing. Her work is as fresh as a spring wind; especially if that wind is carrying nasty spores from outer space, or bringing them from some place split sideways and shadowy, from a universe where the familiar is not as familiar as it might seem.'
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"Generations ago, Cleopatra, with the blessing of Isis and Anthony at her side, started an empire. Her descendants still rule, but the goddess Isis has fallen silent, and there are those who fear her favor has been lost and the empire is falling apart. It is not that Isis has forgotten her empire, but she has been killed by her sister, the goddess Nepythys. Now the dead cannot pass over and stumble restless and frightened through a city already oppressed by plague and tyranny. The Chief Embalmer’s daughters, Ella and Loli, get involved in the machinations of the gods themselves as the fate of an empire is decided. VERDICT Set in a declining Egyptian empire dusted with the familiar technological and scientific trappings of a steampunk setting, this debut novel by British Fantasy Award winner Bird (Bull Running for Girls) is a frightening, gorgeous book that breathes something fascinating and new into the genre. It will appeal to avid readers of steampunk as well as horror fans." — April Steenburgh, George F. Johnson Memorial Lib., Endwell NY.


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Allyson Bird lives on the edge of the South Yorkshire moors in England, with her husband and young daughter. Occasionally she is drawn to strange places and people and they are occasionally drawn to her. Her favourite playground, as a child and adult, has been the village graveyard. Once she wondered what would happen if she took one of the green stones from a grave. She has been looking over her shoulder ever since but has never given it back.

Allyson Bird won the British Fantasy award for her collection Bull Running for Girls.


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At age 36, Ben Fall is a man in torment. Overstressed, out of shape, in the middle of a bitter divorce, and carrying a secret that weighs heavily on his psyche, he's convinced he's a failure. He can hardly get out of bed in the morning to make his way to the high school where he teaches English. But suddenly one gray afternoon, a mousy, nondescript new girl appears in his classroom. She seems fascinated by everything he says and does--disturbingly so. Yet, though she gazes obsessively at him and hangs on his every word, she won't even tell him her name...just that she's "The Rain Girl." Who is she? Where does she come from? What does she want?

And why does no one seem to see her but him?

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Christopher Conlon is a writer, poet, and editor best known for his first novel, Midnight on Mourn Street (Stoker Award finalist, 2009), and his Richard Matheson tribute anthology He Is Legend (Stoker Award winner, 2010). His other titles include A Matrix of Angels (novel), Starkweather Dreams (poetry), and Poe's Lighthouse (anthology). A former Peace Corps Volunteer, Conlon holds an M.A. in American Literature and now resides in Silver Spring, Maryland, with his wife and cats.


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Jesus Christ. Did you crib those covers from Magic: the Gathering? Because if so I cast lightning bolt and end my turn.



I will be back later to talk about the Vagina Angel (the hair is the clit, the arms are the folds, the wings are the thighs.) and the shadowy anal rapist, but I'm sort of in the middle of a big project. Don't worry your regualrly schedualed scorning will return.
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I summon Mountain Goat!!!
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