CHIM+HIM
Now that the all-girl-collabs CHIM+HER is available from Cyber Pulp, last night I got to work on finally getting the brother title CHIM+HIM document ready for final submission to Bob Gunner (who has been wonderfully supportive of my extreme and twisted fiction). There have been one or two cast members who were originally in it but couldn't make it to the end or hadn't the faith to go on... and that is sad. From the final line-up of eight male authors who agreed last year to collaborate with Chimera, one of them has fallen on a bit of bad luck. Marc Sanchez has been unheard of by myself or his regular publisher DDP since his Summer car wreck. Now, we know that he is alive. We dont' know what sort of state he is in, mentally or physically.
Marc's Chim+Him contribution was going well, we were halfway through story two of the agreed three. And that's how it's been for 3/4 of a year now. I will therefore be leaving Marc out of CHIM+HIM. The full layout of the book will look like this:
INTRO (includes the first ever "Tricephallic" email session between the writing of A TORTOISE AND A COUPLE OF HARES by chimera + lewis + korn)
SIMON LOGAN (three collabs with Chimera)
GREG WHARTON (three collabs with Chimera)
MARK MCLAUGHLIN (three collabs with Chimera)
VINCENT SAKOWSKI (three collabs with Chimera)
JOHN EDWARD LAWSON (three collabs with Chimera)
DES LEWIS (three collabs with Chimera)
MIKE KORN (three collabs with Chimera)
TRICEPHALLICS (all of 'em I can find - that's 21 collabs plus however many three-lobed-brains I can harvest)
it's gonna be a(nother) corker from the Factory of Chimera
Tombstone Award-winning writer of various extreme short story collections, collaborations and thirteen novels.
Thursday, February 12, 2004
AS IF THE WORLD SUDDENLY OPENED IT'S EYES
This has been a very bizarre week - it's like, after fifteen years of setting up the great dominoe trick of all time, some clever fucker has stolen into my warehouse overnight and pushed over the first dominoe. The blocks are falling, the wheels are in motion, a plan of action has been designed and is revealing itself with a racing wash of colour and a clattering sound.
Even the great Brian Keene (who is a Leisure Books horror star in the States) thinks it's worth commenting upon my 'skill' on his BLOG. Proof positive that when the greats of any genre start to defend their territory with vitriolic political campaigns such as these, one must be doing something right.
It's also been a crazy time for reviews (many of them brilliant reviews) and general praise and Stoker recommendations and there's a gaggle of upcoming interviews.
phew, I gotta get crackin' on something new before I'm older and greyer
This has been a very bizarre week - it's like, after fifteen years of setting up the great dominoe trick of all time, some clever fucker has stolen into my warehouse overnight and pushed over the first dominoe. The blocks are falling, the wheels are in motion, a plan of action has been designed and is revealing itself with a racing wash of colour and a clattering sound.
Even the great Brian Keene (who is a Leisure Books horror star in the States) thinks it's worth commenting upon my 'skill' on his BLOG. Proof positive that when the greats of any genre start to defend their territory with vitriolic political campaigns such as these, one must be doing something right.
It's also been a crazy time for reviews (many of them brilliant reviews) and general praise and Stoker recommendations and there's a gaggle of upcoming interviews.
phew, I gotta get crackin' on something new before I'm older and greyer
Tuesday, February 10, 2004
CHIMERAWORLD and CHIM+HER
The Chimera + eight female author sex horror gore pathos and devilry collaborative collection CHIM + HER is officially out in ebook, CD and paperback. If this were tomorrow, or possibly the day after, the 23 story collection CHIMERAWORLD (edited by Hertzan Chimera) would also be out.
go to cyber pulp, they're publishing it
The Chimera + eight female author sex horror gore pathos and devilry collaborative collection CHIM + HER is officially out in ebook, CD and paperback. If this were tomorrow, or possibly the day after, the 23 story collection CHIMERAWORLD (edited by Hertzan Chimera) would also be out.
go to cyber pulp, they're publishing it
HELLBOUND BOOKS WILL PUBLISH H.C.'S YôROPPA in 2006
Okay, it's not THAT long a wait - but tonight Walt Hicks confirmed to THE WORLD that he has contractually agreed to bring out the 77,000 word tale of life in a seaside village from the stubbornly uncategorizable Hertzan Chimera in April or May of 2006. The book will be brought out with a tsunami of publisher publicity in a handy mass-market sized format.
very tidy result, chimboy
Okay, it's not THAT long a wait - but tonight Walt Hicks confirmed to THE WORLD that he has contractually agreed to bring out the 77,000 word tale of life in a seaside village from the stubbornly uncategorizable Hertzan Chimera in April or May of 2006. The book will be brought out with a tsunami of publisher publicity in a handy mass-market sized format.
very tidy result, chimboy
Monday, February 02, 2004
MONDAY, STALKED MOMUS
That's where I've been all this time. According to the indie pop phenomenon MOMUS, I and my Terror Tales minions have been stalking him night and day to get that all-important exclusive interview - thank God I had on my badly photoshop'd face at the time, eh?
here's the full journal accusation ...
That's where I've been all this time. According to the indie pop phenomenon MOMUS, I and my Terror Tales minions have been stalking him night and day to get that all-important exclusive interview - thank God I had on my badly photoshop'd face at the time, eh?
here's the full journal accusation ...
TWO HOURS A PIECE
Very weird weekend.
Friday night:
Received a rave review of my second novel UNITED STATES and was also interviewed by the reviewer for Camp Horror and Midwest Book Reviews (both review and interview go live through March-April of this year. To the reviewer/interviewer, Stephanie Simpson-Woods, I'd like to say what a cool set of questions. I love it when interviewers do their homework.
Saturday, Nipped down to London:
Saw the Saatchi exhibition (the Chapman's have taken over completely with room after room of psycho-erotic paedophilia and blood-fetish Naziness. It was a really great exhibition. I spent most of the exhibition stalking two lesbians (yeah, they may not have been lesbians, but in my head....) and watching the stiffness of their downturned facial expressions and obvious horror at the 'art' they were subjecting themselves to. In the end, the two of them looked over at me and their angry faces sorta said, "We refuse to GET this." I smiled and wandered elsewhere, a happy grin on my face.
Saw the London Aquarium, too. That place really depressed me. All the fish were coming up to the window and going like, "Kill me. End my torture." If I'd had a bucket of poison on me, I would have tipped the whole thing in.
Sunday, I wrote TWO two-thousand words short stories (I got the short-story writing bug bad again - yay!):
The first one was a cliché-exercise, WEREWOLVES - now I tend to shy away from fan-fiction of this sort but I had been goaded by some obnoxious cunts rattling on about the death of the Vampire in favour of the Werewolf and it was a great expunging of my anger.
The second one was about another cliché - Angels. With a twist, of course.
Each story was completed in two hours a-piece - hence the title of this entry.
an altogether enjoyable weekend
Very weird weekend.
Friday night:
Received a rave review of my second novel UNITED STATES and was also interviewed by the reviewer for Camp Horror and Midwest Book Reviews (both review and interview go live through March-April of this year. To the reviewer/interviewer, Stephanie Simpson-Woods, I'd like to say what a cool set of questions. I love it when interviewers do their homework.
Saturday, Nipped down to London:
Saw the Saatchi exhibition (the Chapman's have taken over completely with room after room of psycho-erotic paedophilia and blood-fetish Naziness. It was a really great exhibition. I spent most of the exhibition stalking two lesbians (yeah, they may not have been lesbians, but in my head....) and watching the stiffness of their downturned facial expressions and obvious horror at the 'art' they were subjecting themselves to. In the end, the two of them looked over at me and their angry faces sorta said, "We refuse to GET this." I smiled and wandered elsewhere, a happy grin on my face.
Saw the London Aquarium, too. That place really depressed me. All the fish were coming up to the window and going like, "Kill me. End my torture." If I'd had a bucket of poison on me, I would have tipped the whole thing in.
Sunday, I wrote TWO two-thousand words short stories (I got the short-story writing bug bad again - yay!):
The first one was a cliché-exercise, WEREWOLVES - now I tend to shy away from fan-fiction of this sort but I had been goaded by some obnoxious cunts rattling on about the death of the Vampire in favour of the Werewolf and it was a great expunging of my anger.
The second one was about another cliché - Angels. With a twist, of course.
Each story was completed in two hours a-piece - hence the title of this entry.
an altogether enjoyable weekend
Thursday, January 29, 2004
INTERACTIVE CHIMERA
Well, not to be discouraged by the recent rejection by Playboy of my unique interactive sexual pleasure online game on the grounds that it is too explicit, I have girded my loins and will soon mount a campaign to lure in another (more sexually liberated) buyer for this fascinating product.
Already keen to get going on the photo-realistic girls is Steven Giesler, creator of the stunningly sexy artwork for the Final Fantasy film and the Nvidia DAWN demo.
it's gonna be a fucken corker
Well, not to be discouraged by the recent rejection by Playboy of my unique interactive sexual pleasure online game on the grounds that it is too explicit, I have girded my loins and will soon mount a campaign to lure in another (more sexually liberated) buyer for this fascinating product.
Already keen to get going on the photo-realistic girls is Steven Giesler, creator of the stunningly sexy artwork for the Final Fantasy film and the Nvidia DAWN demo.
it's gonna be a fucken corker
Saturday, January 24, 2004
YôROPPA FINDS A MASS-MARKET PUBLISHER
Only a few weeks after the last word was typed on the Yôroppa novel, Hertzan Chimera's third, an American publisher of some repute has very enthusiastically offered to publish it in mass-market paperback in the Spring of 2006.
Not only that, this same publisher is looking at picking up the available paperback rights to the other two Hertzan Chimera novels THE CREATION GAME (formerly "Szmonhfu") and UNITED STATES. Names and details after the signing of the Yôroppa contract.
this is turning into a wonderful 2004!
Only a few weeks after the last word was typed on the Yôroppa novel, Hertzan Chimera's third, an American publisher of some repute has very enthusiastically offered to publish it in mass-market paperback in the Spring of 2006.
Not only that, this same publisher is looking at picking up the available paperback rights to the other two Hertzan Chimera novels THE CREATION GAME (formerly "Szmonhfu") and UNITED STATES. Names and details after the signing of the Yôroppa contract.
this is turning into a wonderful 2004!
Thursday, January 15, 2004
ANTHOLOGIES AIN'T IT
In recent times I have been receiving a large number of offers to appear in THIS anthology and THAT themed collection. And just the same way that I stopped trying to write like a horror writer and started to ENJOY writing once again, finishing the last 30,000 words of my third novel Yôroppa after two periods of writer's block over the space of two years I realised that writing to order is just not how Hertzan Chimera gets off. It has to come from inside where the knots are loosened by the clicking of fingertips on a keyboard late into the night or early morning before the call to paid employment offers me a leg up onto my bicycle and out into the grid-locked traffic of Oxford.
nope, anthologies are not one's cup of tea, vicar
In recent times I have been receiving a large number of offers to appear in THIS anthology and THAT themed collection. And just the same way that I stopped trying to write like a horror writer and started to ENJOY writing once again, finishing the last 30,000 words of my third novel Yôroppa after two periods of writer's block over the space of two years I realised that writing to order is just not how Hertzan Chimera gets off. It has to come from inside where the knots are loosened by the clicking of fingertips on a keyboard late into the night or early morning before the call to paid employment offers me a leg up onto my bicycle and out into the grid-locked traffic of Oxford.
nope, anthologies are not one's cup of tea, vicar
Wednesday, January 14, 2004
LEAVING FOR THE GOOD OF THE COMPANY
I have been thinking recently that when I have left companies in the past, everything has gone well for that company afterwards.
1) Sony Cambridge. I left there because of a management situation. All those certain members of management left shortly after.
2) Creation Books. I left Creation Books they escalated to their former glory with shops in Los Angeles and Tokyo.
3) Eraserhead Press. I left Eraserhead Press - now everything's hunky dory in the house of Mellick.
*sigh*
It seems like all I am doing is making a stand by running away, to the benefit of those companies I infested.
fancy realising this on my 38th birthday
I have been thinking recently that when I have left companies in the past, everything has gone well for that company afterwards.
1) Sony Cambridge. I left there because of a management situation. All those certain members of management left shortly after.
2) Creation Books. I left Creation Books they escalated to their former glory with shops in Los Angeles and Tokyo.
3) Eraserhead Press. I left Eraserhead Press - now everything's hunky dory in the house of Mellick.
*sigh*
It seems like all I am doing is making a stand by running away, to the benefit of those companies I infested.
fancy realising this on my 38th birthday
HC UNIT - CRISIS OF FAITH
The more I think about this HC Unit the less I need it to explain GRAVITY and THE OTHER THREE FUNDAMENTAL FORCES. Contemporary physics works at the Planck length where calculations can be made - this is fine for "up-close" investigation of vectors but gives a real problem when it comes to the "long-range" issue of gravity. So, I have TURNED PHYSICS ON ITS HEAD with my Hertzan Chimera Unit.
Now this is explained in greater depth elsewhere in this blog, but yesterday I thought, "I don't actually need a 'Unit'." The way the term PI is useless in mathematical terms as it merely describes the relationship between ALL CIRCLES and something called A CENTRE, the term Unit is useless to the process of U. E. (UNIVERSAL EQUILLIBRIUM) that the HC Unit hopes to illuminate.
Let me try to explain the dilemma:
the Unit describes that part of space that is falling in on itself - because there is universal GRAVITY, we have to assume that this is because the universe is falling in on itself from all directions. Now I have no mathematical proof for how space would fall in on itself. But the axiom is, "That is what's happening." This falling-in causes mass of one neutron MAXIMUM to exist as a measurable entity - all free neutrons ARE the same mass because the property of space fall-in is universal.
If the physical boundary one of these free neutrons is exceeded the electromagnetic proton-electron pair effect is created. If there is a neighbouring HC Unit, it will accept the charge, if not the charge will evaporate back into Universal equillibrium (if the drop is great enough at the speed of c, we see this as a photon being ejected in quantic steps)
'Light' is the universe hopping backwards to settle the imbalance - why it takes place at c tells us lots about the 'material property' of the universe.
but I don't need a Unit as the axiom is "U. E. is the Unit"
The more I think about this HC Unit the less I need it to explain GRAVITY and THE OTHER THREE FUNDAMENTAL FORCES. Contemporary physics works at the Planck length where calculations can be made - this is fine for "up-close" investigation of vectors but gives a real problem when it comes to the "long-range" issue of gravity. So, I have TURNED PHYSICS ON ITS HEAD with my Hertzan Chimera Unit.
Now this is explained in greater depth elsewhere in this blog, but yesterday I thought, "I don't actually need a 'Unit'." The way the term PI is useless in mathematical terms as it merely describes the relationship between ALL CIRCLES and something called A CENTRE, the term Unit is useless to the process of U. E. (UNIVERSAL EQUILLIBRIUM) that the HC Unit hopes to illuminate.
Let me try to explain the dilemma:
the Unit describes that part of space that is falling in on itself - because there is universal GRAVITY, we have to assume that this is because the universe is falling in on itself from all directions. Now I have no mathematical proof for how space would fall in on itself. But the axiom is, "That is what's happening." This falling-in causes mass of one neutron MAXIMUM to exist as a measurable entity - all free neutrons ARE the same mass because the property of space fall-in is universal.
If the physical boundary one of these free neutrons is exceeded the electromagnetic proton-electron pair effect is created. If there is a neighbouring HC Unit, it will accept the charge, if not the charge will evaporate back into Universal equillibrium (if the drop is great enough at the speed of c, we see this as a photon being ejected in quantic steps)
'Light' is the universe hopping backwards to settle the imbalance - why it takes place at c tells us lots about the 'material property' of the universe.
but I don't need a Unit as the axiom is "U. E. is the Unit"
Monday, January 12, 2004
Saturday, January 10, 2004
4th non-fiction Stoker rec for SPIDERED WEB
Today, SPIDERED WEB (hertzan chimera interviews) received its 4th Stoker rec in non-fiction -- that puts it in 7th position of 17 on that category. *shrugs* Never having been up for a Stoker before I wouldn't know when to start getting excited about this leading to a Nomination proper, other than to say I am already excited about the recommendations.
Thanks go out to all who rec'd and will rec before this joust is ended.
Today, SPIDERED WEB (hertzan chimera interviews) received its 4th Stoker rec in non-fiction -- that puts it in 7th position of 17 on that category. *shrugs* Never having been up for a Stoker before I wouldn't know when to start getting excited about this leading to a Nomination proper, other than to say I am already excited about the recommendations.
Thanks go out to all who rec'd and will rec before this joust is ended.
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