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Andrew Hook
| | Posted on Tuesday, November 02, 2004 - 01:41 am: | |
I'm feeling magnanimous this evening so thought I'd start an author board for myself 
As most of you know, as well as being the brains behind Elastic Press I'm also well-published in my own right with over 50 short stories having appeared in various magazines, one Elastic Press collection of short stories (The Vitual Menagerie which started this whole publishing lark in the first place in 2002), and one novel (Moon Beaver) to my credit to date. For those of you interested, the following is a list of stuff which will appear in the not too distant future...
Runaround in Dark Elations #1 (coming soon)
The Pregnant Sky in Poe's Progeny (Feb 2005)
By The Time I Get To Egypt in The Minotaur in Pamplona (early 2005)
People You Know Who Excite You in A Generation Defining Itself (sometime in 2005)
Abattoir Girl in Dark Horizons (early 2005)
And also, the big news, a new collection of my stories totalling some 70,000 words (around 22 pieces) entitled Beyond Each Blue Horizon to be published by Crowswing Books in August 2005. This is pre-orderable now here
I'll post more story acceptances and other stuff as and when it happens! |
Kathy Sedia
| | Posted on Tuesday, November 02, 2004 - 06:17 am: | |
Oooh... aaah... (Very impressed with publishing credits, and jealous in a good way.) Note to self: publish more stuff and get a message board.
Very much enjoyed Only the Lonely in the 1st issue of Fusing Horizons, BTW. A sad, quiet, lingering sort of story. |
Andrew Hook
| | Posted on Tuesday, November 02, 2004 - 10:30 am: | |
Thanks for the feedback Kathy. A lot of people seem to like that story and it almost made the final nomination list for the British Fantasy Awards this year.
By the way, I meant to mention that the story Abattoir Girl mentioned above is a collaborative effort with Allen Ashley. |
Neil
| | Posted on Tuesday, November 02, 2004 - 02:52 pm: | |
So does this include the noirish story arc you mentioned, Andrew. I notice Kiosk B is included. (Great Story) |
Andrew Hook
| | Posted on Tuesday, November 02, 2004 - 03:59 pm: | |
The line up at the moment is:
The Summer of Hate
Pardon Me Boys
Beat City
Alsiso
Runaround
Only The Lonely
Kiosk B
The Honey Ward
50 Fountain Street
The Luxury of Sleep
Wake Jake
One Day, All This Will Be Fields
Dead Skin Cells
Dora Escudos and the Kiss
The Pregnant Sky
Cinemad
Unchained Melody
Beyond Each Blue Horizon
plus a couple of others (Amarillo Dreams and Fen Shui) yet to be written; and one other story which I can't reveal at this stage. Quite a few of those are noirish (either straight or with a slice of fantasy). I'm quite excited about it |
Allen
| | Posted on Friday, November 05, 2004 - 04:59 pm: | |
Hi Andrew,
Me again. Re: "One Day All This Will Be Fields" - wasn't this one in "Virtual Menagerie" and, indeed, highlighted by me as a very plausible near-future tale in my review of the book? Have you updated / rewritten it?
By the way, I think you should reveal where the stories have been previously published so the sad anoraks among us can double check our back issues of various mags! |
nickjack
| | Posted on Friday, November 05, 2004 - 05:46 pm: | |
Wow! I recognise several of those stories Andrew. I'd hate to spoil it for everyone else, so won't say more than that they're mindblowingly good! |
Andrew Hook
| | Posted on Monday, November 08, 2004 - 05:16 pm: | |
Hi Allen
"One Day..." made its worldwide debut in "Virtual Menagerie", and was of the most recently written stories in that collection. We decided to include it here because thematically it fits the book, plus Sean at Crowswing loved that story when he read it in "VM". I haven't rewritten/updated it for the new collection.
And as requested, here's the info for the anoraks...
The Summer of Hate (Front & Centre Magazine #5)
Pardon Me Boys (Hidden Corners #1)
Beat City (previously unpublished)
Alsiso (The Alsiso Project)
Runaround (Dark Elations #1 - coming soon)
Only The Lonely (Fusing Horizons #1)
Kiosk B (previously unpublished)
The Honey Ward (previously unpublished)
50 Fountain Street (Frothing at the Mouth #3)
The Luxury of Sleep (previously unpublished)
Wake Jake (previously unpublished)
One Day, All This Will Be Fields (Virtual Menagerie)
Dead Skin Cells (Hidden Corners #5)
Dora Escudos and the Kiss (Buzzwords #12)
The Pregnant Sky (forthcoming in Poe's Progeny 2005)
Cinemad (em:writing&music #3)
Unchained Melody (previously unpublished)
Beyond Each Blue Horizon (previously unpublished)
Some of the above might get published prior to the launch (which - stop press - might now be brought forward to May 2005) as they're out for submission at the moment.
Nick, Neil: thanks for your positive comments!
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Andrew Hook
| | Posted on Wednesday, November 10, 2004 - 12:04 am: | |
Got another story accepted yesterday. This is collaborative piece written with Allen Ashley entitled Miss Treat which will be appearing in Scheherazade sometime in 2005. |
marion
| | Posted on Wednesday, November 10, 2004 - 02:34 am: | |
congrats!!! |
Andrew Hook
| | Posted on Monday, December 13, 2004 - 02:40 am: | |
The new collection, Beyond Each Blue Horizon has now been brought forward for a June 2005 release - and I'll post more updates here as and when they happen. A new story, Fen Shui has been added to the collection and Crowswing have also taken it for their first New Wave of Speculative Fiction anthology, featuring writers such as Lisa DuMond and Paul Finch, which will be published in November 2005.
I've one, maybe two, new stories to add to the final line up for the book, but all's looking good so far. |
Andrew Hook
| | Posted on Tuesday, December 21, 2004 - 11:40 pm: | |
Wrote the first draft of Amarillo Dreams last weekend which is definitely going into the new collection, and may add one more story if I get the chance (The Onion Code) - although at the moment it's just at the idea stage.
Other news: My non-genre short story, Tight, will be published in Open Wide Magazine in February. Looks like a good print mag, well worth supporting. |
nickjack
| | Posted on Wednesday, December 22, 2004 - 02:12 pm: | |
OK. My cheque's in the post! |
Allen
| | Posted on Wednesday, December 29, 2004 - 05:00 pm: | |
I should have got back to this page weeks ago. Anyway, suffice to say that despite my reasonably broad reading in the field - though not as broad since i gave up reviewing for The Fix - I haven't read a lot of the stories in "Beyond Each Blue Horizon", so really looking forward to the book. |
Andrew Hook
| | Posted on Sunday, January 09, 2005 - 01:05 pm: | |
As of this morning I'm now able to report that the story, Like A Slow Motion War which was published anonymously in Nemonymous #4 was a collaborative piece between myself and Allen Ashley. We've officially been denemonymised today!
As far as the new collection is going, I've decided to stick at 21 stories (sounds like I'm playing pontoon!) and 70,000 words. I'm working on a final edit to be delivered to Crowswing by the end of February. Exciting stuff!
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marion
| | Posted on Sunday, January 09, 2005 - 02:17 pm: | |
Luck with that, Hooky! |
Allen
| | Posted on Monday, January 10, 2005 - 08:12 pm: | |
Now that we've been "denemonymised", everyone is free to vote for the story in all the awards categories going!!! Go on, you know you want to.
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Andrew Hook
| | Posted on Tuesday, January 11, 2005 - 10:51 pm: | |
Just received confirmation that my story Beyond Each Blue Horizon has been accepted for publication in The Book of Voices to be published by Flame Books in March 2005. I'm exceptionally pleased about this because I wrote that story specifically for the Book of Voices which is supporting the Sierra Leone PEN organisation (more information can be found at the Voices website). Since I decided that story should also be the title story of my Crowswing collection, it also seems fitting that it'll become the flagship for my writing in the future.
Other news: My story, By The Time I Get To Egypt will now be appearing in one of two Greek Myth-themed chapbooks from D-Press. This is a slight change in publication info from that posted on 1st November above. |
Andrew Hook
| | Posted on Sunday, January 16, 2005 - 01:04 pm: | |
As of this morning I'm now able to report that the story, Vole Mountain which was published anonymously in Nemonymous #4, was written by me. I've been officially denemonimised today. My blurb which accompanied the unveiling was as follows: "I've always been a bit sceptical about the process of anonymity, viewing it as an interesting gimmick but not much more than that. Yet despite my reservations I've always considered the quality of both the fiction and presentation in Nemonymous to be high, so when I discovered I had been accepted into its pages the buzz was tremendous. Thankfully - unlike most Nemonymous authors - I was in the rare position of being able to tell someone, Allen Ashley, who co-wrote "Like A Slow Motion War". However, until now Allen (or anyone other than Des) doesn't know that I also wrote "Vole Mountain" which makes me, to my knowledge as I write this, the first person with one and a half stories published anonymously within the pages of Nemo. As a footnote, "Vole Mountain" will also make an appearance in a new collection of my short fiction, "Beyond Each Blue Horizon", which will be published by Crowswing Books later in 2005." |
Andrew Hook
| | Posted on Sunday, January 16, 2005 - 01:09 pm: | |
So, the final line-up for the Beyond Each Blue Horizon collection is:
The Summer of Hate (Front & Centre Magazine #5)
Pardon Me Boys (Hidden Corners #1)
Beat City (previously unpublished)
Alsiso (The Alsiso Project)
Runaround (Dark Elations #1 - coming soon)
Only The Lonely (Fusing Horizons #1)
Vole Mountain (Nemonymous #4)
Kiosk B (previously unpublished)
The Honey Ward (previously unpublished)
50 Fountain Street (Frothing at the Mouth #3)
The Luxury of Sleep (previously unpublished)
Wake Jake (previously unpublished)
Fen Shui (forthcoming in New Wave of Speculative Fiction)
Amarillo Dreams (previously unpublished)
One Day, All This Will Be Fields (Virtual Menagerie)
Dead Skin Cells (Hidden Corners #5)
Dora Escudos and the Kiss (Buzzwords #12)
The Pregnant Sky (forthcoming in Poe's Progeny 2005)
Cinemad (em:writing&music #3)
Unchained Melody (previously unpublished)
Beyond Each Blue Horizon (forthcoming in The Book of Voices) |
Jetse
| | Posted on Sunday, January 16, 2005 - 03:56 pm: | |
Hi Andrew,
When Des denemonimised "Like a Slow Motion War" on Veils & Piques, he already hinted that you had another story in Nemo 4.
My guess was "the Withering", but I was wrong .
Anyway, "Vole Mountain" is one of my favorites in Nemo 4, so kudos to a great story.
(And that late labelling gimmick is fun, isn't it?) |
Andrew Hook
| | Posted on Sunday, January 16, 2005 - 11:22 pm: | |
Thanks Jetse. Must admit I enjoyed your story "The Frog's Pool", too. Once you experience the late-labelling yourself it puts an entirely different perspective on the Nemonymous project. I thoroughly enjoyed myself! |
des
| | Posted on Monday, January 17, 2005 - 07:13 pm: | |
Glad you both enjoyed yourselves!
And thanks for the great stories. |
Andrew Hook
| | Posted on Monday, January 31, 2005 - 03:24 am: | |
The table of contents for The Book of Voices, which contains my short story Beyond Each Blue Horizon is as follows:
Foreword, Caryl Phillips
Introduction, Mike Butscher
The Psalm of the Second Body, Catherynne M Valente
The Soul Surgeons, Gregory Norminton
Electric Fence, Gary Quinn
Polenta, Marc Paoletti
Dasi, Mohanalakshmi Rajakumar
Shining the Light, Neil Grimmett
Sally Moore, Yolande Sorores
Home, Moshe Benarroch
Beyond Each Blue Horizon, Andrew Hook
The Universal Age of Deceit, Patrick Neate
No Story At All, Scott Kelly
On the Road to Godiva, Brian James
Boatman's Holiday, Jeffrey Ford
The Flame, Tanith Lee
It'll be launched in London on 24th March at an event which I'll be attending. Details can be found at the Book of Voices website shortly. |
Andrew Hook
| | Posted on Tuesday, February 01, 2005 - 11:30 pm: | |
The current issue of VideoVista contains three reviews by myself of recently released DVDs: Notorious, Revengers Tragedy, and Vodka Lemon.
Check it out. |
Angela Hook
| | Posted on Monday, February 14, 2005 - 12:50 pm: | |
Wow! I'm so lucky to have such a talented brother - certainly worth logging on!
Have fun in New York this week big bro. |
Andrew Hook
| | Posted on Friday, February 25, 2005 - 05:29 pm: | |
New York was fun, and the reading went very well. Pictures should soon be up on the ENC Press website.
Meanwhile, my novel, Moon Beaver, is now back in stock in the UK via Elastic Press. Of course, it can be ordered through ENC Press for those readers in the States.
My collection, Beyond Each Blue Horizon, will be going to print soon. The collection will contain a foreward by Sean Wright, and an introduction by Joel Lane. A quote for the back cover has been provided by Graham Joyce: Andrew Hook is a wonderfully original writer. This collection of disturbing vignettes and cleverly fractured narratives has the enviable property of detonating after you have put the book down. Full of exciting language and seductive philosophical insight.
Can't argue with that! |
Neil A
| | Posted on Friday, February 25, 2005 - 11:14 pm: | |
Hi, Andrew. Can't access my email at the moment, and will be in work for ages and also tomorrow, so just thought I'd nip in and say the BofVoices launch is confirmed for 24th of March, 5pm on the Ballroom Floor of the RFH until around six thirty, then onto a private pavilion for the writers, edit staff, etc, whilst other attendees can move onto the many bars in the place (there's a reasonable-ish restaurant too. Think there might be a dress code in there. I'll find out). Official announcement will be made sometime next week. Let me know if you'd be happy to do a reading.
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Andrew Hook
| | Posted on Saturday, February 26, 2005 - 02:52 am: | |
Hi Neil. I booked my train today and will get to London at 4pm, so have plenty of time to make my way across to the launch. I'm certainly happy to do a reading (presumably not the whole story...?), so let me know how long my slot might be and I'll work something out. Any idea which other writers will be attending? Are we getting copies of the book before the launch? Email me replies if it's easier. |
Andrew Hook
| | Posted on Tuesday, March 01, 2005 - 11:52 pm: | |
For those of you who're interested, here are some photos from the recent reading I gave in New York to promote Moon Beaver.
Other news: my mainstream short story, Tight, can now be read in the new edition of Open Wide Magazine which went on sale yesterday.
My collection, Beyond Each Blue Horizon, will be launched in London on Saturday 4th June 2005 from 2pm. More details to be posted nearer the time... |
nickj
| | Posted on Wednesday, March 02, 2005 - 07:07 pm: | |
You seem in your element in NYC, Andrew, and the grey and black outfit is very suave looking. Have you been seeing a style guru? |
Andrew Hook
| | Posted on Friday, March 04, 2005 - 03:29 am: | |
I'm the showcased writer this month on Paul Kane's Shadow Writer website. The story featured - The Honey Ward - is brand new and will be included in my forthcoming collection from Crowswing Books. |
Neil A
| | Posted on Saturday, March 05, 2005 - 08:44 pm: | |
Thought people might like to know that Andrew's 'title track' from his forthcoming collection is now available to preorder as part of the Book of Voices collection here:
http://www.flamebooks.com/browseBook.asp?cat=4&catName=Flame%20Books%20Titles |
Andrew Hook
| | Posted on Saturday, March 05, 2005 - 11:06 pm: | |
Yep - pre-order the above book, folks. There's some impressive content lined up and I'm proud to be part of it.
As for my forthcoming collection, I've had a change of heart with one of the stories (The Summer of Hate) and removed it from the book. In it's place will be A Day Is The Life Of Victor Petrovsky which was originally published in Roadworks magazine. Whilst I love hate, it didn't sit that well with the other stories. The collection now has a much stronger opening and unity of theme. |
Andrew Hook
| | Posted on Wednesday, March 09, 2005 - 08:24 pm: | |
An excerpt from Fen Shui, one of the stories in my Beyond Each Blue Horizon collection can now be read online at Crowswing Books
Crowswing Books tend to be extremely collectable, so I'd seriously recommend pre-ordering this collection if you're interested in picking up a copy because they often sell out prior to publication date! |
Andrew Hook
| | Posted on Tuesday, March 22, 2005 - 12:01 am: | |
Another review of my novel, Moon Beaver, has recently been posted on the Whispers of Wickedness website. As the book is now back in stock in the UK via Elastic Press, now's the time to rush out and order your copies!
And as a reminder I'll be reading from my story Beyond Each Blue Horizon which appears in Flame Books, The Book of Voices this Thursday from 5-7pm at the Ballroom floor of the Royal Festival Hall in London. Please come along and support this worthy cause if you can. |
Allen
| | Posted on Thursday, March 31, 2005 - 02:51 pm: | |
Hi Andrew,
Just read your story "Beyond Each Blue Horizon" in "Book Of Voices". A very controlled, involving piece with not a word wasted. We were talking about settings the other day. So, I wondered, which places did you have in mind / amalgamate / draw upon when you wrote this excellent story? |
Andrew Hook
| | Posted on Thursday, March 31, 2005 - 04:35 pm: | |
Hi Allen,
Thanks for the positive feedback. The unnamed country is question is probably an amalgam of Morocco, Egypt, and Tunisia with a bit of Peru thrown in for good measure. But nothing specific, simply whatever came out of the hotpot of my imagination! |
Allen
| | Posted on Monday, April 04, 2005 - 06:21 pm: | |
Cheers for that, Andrew. I was thinking South America - not that I've ever been there, but... |
Andrew Hook
| | Posted on Tuesday, April 05, 2005 - 09:32 am: | |
I've reviewed Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Angel On The Right in the April 2005 DVD round-up at Video Vista.
Some less exciting news is that Lighthouse publications are now not publishing their anthology Dark Elations which was due to contain my story, Runaround. The story will, of course, be appearing in my Beyond Each Blue Horizon collection anyway so all is not lost...
Only two months until that collection is published. I can't wait! |
Neil A
| | Posted on Thursday, April 07, 2005 - 07:25 pm: | |
Glad you like Andrew's story, Allen. Hope you like the rest of the book too. Launch pictures up on the site now: www.bookofvoices.org |
Andrew Hook
| | Posted on Saturday, April 16, 2005 - 11:54 am: | |
The new anthology from Gray Friar Press, Poe's Progeny containing my Kafka-inspired story The Pregnant Sky is now available to pre-order here. I'm looking forward to reading this one myself...
My own collection, Beyond Each Blue Horizon will shortly be going to print. Check out the Crowswing Books website for order information. I'm told there may also be a special deal for those who attend the launches which will be at The Citte of York pub, 22 High Holborn, London from 2pm on Saturday 4th June, and at the Norwich Playhouse in Norwich from 2pm on the Sunday 5th June. All welcome! |
Andrew Hook
| | Posted on Friday, April 22, 2005 - 04:34 pm: | |
Just received my copy of the BFS publication Dark Horizons this morning which contains Abattoir Girl: a collaborative story written by myself with Allen Ashley. There's some nice accompanying artwork by Ian Simmons (I commissioned him for the cover of Matt Dinniman's forthcoming Trailer Park Fairy Tales after I saw the proof), and some other interesting stuff inside too. |
Andrew Hook
| | Posted on Wednesday, May 04, 2005 - 09:49 pm: | |
My short story, Wake Jake, which will be included in my forthcoming Crowswing collection, has also now been accepted for publication in Strange Pleasures #5 - an anthology to be published by Prime Books in the States. Needless to say this is good news |
Andrew Hook
| | Posted on Thursday, May 05, 2005 - 01:10 pm: | |
My DVD reviews of Birth and and Harvie Krumpet are now online at Video Vista |
Andrew Hook
| | Posted on Tuesday, May 10, 2005 - 12:04 pm: | |
I did a radio interview yesterday on The Richard Penguin Retro Show for the Livewire radio station which broadcasts out of the university here in Norwich. We covered Elastic Press, slipstream, and my new collection and I read a few pages from the opening of Vole Mountain. You should be able to listen to the show again by following the links via the Livewire website. |
Chris
| | Posted on Thursday, May 12, 2005 - 01:10 pm: | |
Andrew, just listened to your broadcast... well, all I can say is thank Christ you can fast-forward on "listen again": oi, Penguin, shut the fuck up.
Apart from that, you came over pretty damn well. TV next... |
Andrew Hook
| | Posted on Friday, May 13, 2005 - 01:52 am: | |
I just listened to it myself, Chris, and it seems I have the face for radio
Meanwhile...back at the ranch...it's all systems go for Beyond Each Blue Horizon.
The most important news is that this title will be limited by the publisher to 270 hardbacks and 30 numbered slipcased editions. There are several permutations in terms of signed copies and all can be viewed at Crowswing Books. In addition, this Sunday I'll be sending out an Elastic Press mass mail to all those on the mailing list which will offer a discount effective from then until the launch of the book. So watch your inbox!
Crowswing Books specialise in extremely collectible limited editions, so pre-ordering is advised if you cannot attend the launches shown below. Sean Wright at Crowswing tells me that they’re likely to sell out very fast.
Beyond Each Blue Horizon contains 21 stories (nine of which are previously unpublished). Some of the published stories that you might be familiar with include Vole Mountain originally published in Nemonymous #4, Only The Lonely originally published in Fusing Horizons and nominated for a BFS Award last year, and the title story that appeared in the “Book of Voices” from Flame Books (2005). In addition to a foreword by Sean Wright, the book contains an introduction by Joel Lane (“His fondness for pulp-fiction imagery leads him to evoke a constructed, dreamlike reality haunted by nostalgic memories of fictions that will never come true”), and some back cover blurb by Award winning writer Graham Joyce (“This collection of disturbing vignettes and cleverly fractured narratives is full of exciting language and seductive philosophical insight. Andrew Hook is a wonderfully original writer”).
The launch information is as follows:
Saturday 4th June from 2pm at the Citte of York pub, 22 High Holborn, London (nearest tubes Holborn and Chancery Lane). Naturally I will be in attendance, and so will Sean Wright from Crowswing Books (so any budding writers get your pitch ready now…!).
Sunday 5th June from 2pm at the Norwich Playhouse Theatre, Norwich. Again, both Sean and I will be there.
In addition to the above both Sean and I will be signing copies of our books at the Goldsboro bookstore, 1 Cecil Court, London WC2N 4EZ between 12-1pm on Saturday 4th June 2005. Copies are also being sold in London at Foyles bookstore in Charing Cross Road, and Hatchards in Picadilly. These should be prominently displayed in their SF sections from June onwards.
This is a major collection for me, and I’m very excited about its potential. I hope you take the opportunity to pre-order whilst you have the chance, and that you enjoy reading the book if you choose to do so.
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Neil A
| | Posted on Tuesday, May 17, 2005 - 11:29 am: | |
The Minotaur in Pamplona, featuring Andrew's story By the Time I Get to Egypt has just been released by D-Press.
Here's the full toc:
THE MINOTAUR IN PAMPLONA
Part I
Foreword
Momnemvasia, Brian Aldiss
Dancing the Labyrinth, Liza Granville
By the time I get to Egypt, Andrew Hook
The Minotaur in Pamplona, Rhys Hughes
Part II
The Fire Sermon, Lavie Tidhar
Ascent is not Allowed, Catherynne M Valente
Circe's Choice, Steve Redwood
The Mermaid's Song, Kara Kellar Bell
As well as being available from Whispers of Wickedness' bookshop - www.ookami.co.uk - The Minotaur in Pamplona is also available to order through Project Pulp.
http://www.projectpulp.com
Additional material can be found on this website:
http://www.fragmentmagazine.co.uk/reddiesel/minotaur.html
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Andrew Hook
| | Posted on Tuesday, May 17, 2005 - 12:52 pm: | |
Thanks for adding this Neil, I'm looking forward to reading the other stories in the chapbook. |
Andrew Hook
| | Posted on Saturday, May 21, 2005 - 10:07 pm: | |
Today has been a good day
Picked up a copy of my new story collection, Beyond Each Blue Horizon, from Sean at Crowswing Books today and it's absolutely stunning. A fantastic production all round, and I'm secretly hopeful that you'll agree the contents are just as good as the cover! Signing most of the copies wasn't too much of a chore either ;)
I hope to see some of you at one of the launches listed above in two weeks time...
In addition to that, got confirmation that Vitamin X, a collaborative story between myself and Allen Ashley, has been accepted for publication in Jupiter magazine.
It's all happening here!
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Andrew Hook
| | Posted on Thursday, May 26, 2005 - 09:54 pm: | |
My non-genre short story, Never Doubt My Love For You, which was previously published online at LauraHird.com will now make its first print appearance in the next issue of Aesthetica Magazine in early July. |
Andrew Hook
| | Posted on Thursday, June 02, 2005 - 02:00 am: | |
My DVD reviews of 2046 and For The Love Of Ada are now online at Video Vista |
Andrew Hook
| | Posted on Friday, June 03, 2005 - 10:31 am: | |
Just a reminder that this weekend sees the launch of my collection, Beyond Each Blue Horizon as follows...
Saturday 4th June from 2pm at the Citte of York pub, 22 High Holborn, London (nearest tubes Holborn and Chancery Lane). Naturally I will be in attendance, and so will Sean Wright from Crowswing Books (so any budding writers get your pitch ready now…!).
Sunday 5th June from 2pm at the Norwich Playhouse Theatre, Norwich. Again, both Sean and I will be there.
Hope to see some of you there |
Sarah C
| | Posted on Saturday, June 04, 2005 - 12:38 pm: | |
Thanks for your gorgeous book, Andrew, which arrived this morning. My daughter says it looks *very* professional. Looking forward to reading it.
All the best,
Sarah |
Allen
| | Posted on Sunday, June 05, 2005 - 06:41 pm: | |
Hi Andrew,
Regarding "Vitamin X" - Are you sure about this web link you posted? I clicked on it and ended up at a web site selling furniture. Now,we wouldn't to be involved in any IKEA riot type business, would we? |
Paul Evanby
| | Posted on Sunday, June 05, 2005 - 06:47 pm: | |
http://www.jupitersf.co.uk ? |
Andrew Hook
| | Posted on Sunday, June 05, 2005 - 07:41 pm: | |
Yep, that's the one Paul!
Many thanks!
Just got back from the Norwich half of my Beyond Each Blue Horizon weekend which was a great success. Today felt especially nice and personal, and thanks to all those who turned up over the weekend at either venue. I hope you enjoy the book. |
nick jack
| | Posted on Monday, June 06, 2005 - 07:37 pm: | |
I am enjoying the book! It's nice to possess what seems like the definitive Hook collection. And it was good to make the acquaintance of some interesting authors at the book launch. |
Andrew Hook
| | Posted on Sunday, June 19, 2005 - 10:41 am: | |
I've just updated my author page on the Elastic website. Finally got rid of that old prison-like photograph! |
Andrew Hook
| | Posted on Sunday, June 19, 2005 - 10:14 pm: | |
On the Infinity Plus website you can now read The Luxury of Sleep, taken from my new short story collection, Beyond Each Blue Horizon; plus Duncan Barford’s interview with me about that book, my writing, and Elastic Press. |
Allen
| | Posted on Monday, June 20, 2005 - 02:25 pm: | |
- I thought I'd send you some thoughts on "Beyond Each Blue Horizon".
"Pardon Me Boys" was shocking in the original sense of the word and I did a double-take when the murders happened. Cleverly detached narration, too.
"Vole Mountain" slotted nicely into this collection. I should have twigged it was one of your pieces when it first appeared in "Nemo".
"The Honey Ward" was an amusing twist on the old fairy tale of the twelve dancing princesses. Have you got an obsession with mermaids, or what!
Even though I saw the twist coming, I enjoyed "Wake Jake" a lot. The character Mordent seemed better realised and more clearly motivated than in "Alsiso" (Maybe that's just my continuing inability to pull out every thread of meaning in "Alsiso") and I appreciated the mix of mundane lookout duty and those crazy maths paradoxes about how nothing moves or exists, etc. I read one last year that was some statistical study which "proved" something like because more people existed during the twentieth century than the rest of human history put together, it proves we're on the verge of extinction. No, I didn't get it either.
"The Pregnant Sky”: the story wasn't quite as Kafkaesque as I'd expected - that's probably a good thing, by the way.
"Dead Skin Cells" was very cool and noir and I appreciated Joel's analysis of it in his introduction.
Tales such as "Only the Lonely", "One Day, All This Will Be Fields" and "Beyond Each Blue Horizon" were already happily familiar. I was still impressed by how many unpublished stories you put into the book and it's made me rethink my line-up.
My three favourites were, in no particular order: the beautifully sad "Dora Escudos And the Kiss" which left off at such a poignant moment - what does the future hold for her? For that matter, what happened in her past? "The Luxury Of Sleep" - without getting big-headed, it reminded me of a couple of my stories - "The Locust People" and "The Long Slow Coventry" (the latter was in "Roadworks 5") - because of the fore-grounding of the speculation. In case you don't remember "The Long Slow Coventry", the basic conceit was that a man's family ignore him and he disappears. "Runaround" was possibly my favourite in the whole collection. Gosh, haven't we all known women like Bliss who twist us poor menfolk around their little fingers? This was so believable. Cleverly revealed and yet retaining the essential mystery.
So, great stuff - and quite different from "The Virtual Menagerie". Secretly, you are not a slipstreamer but a crime writer.
And now, after my comments, not so sceret!
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Andrew Hook
| | Posted on Tuesday, June 28, 2005 - 10:22 pm: | |
Got a new story, The Onion Code, accepted for publication in a Norwich-based anthology, Angles, which is currently taking SF submissions from local writers. Not sure of the publication date yet, but I'll post here when it's available. |
Andrew Hook
| | Posted on Monday, July 04, 2005 - 10:12 pm: | |
I review the DVDs Another Lonely Hitman and The Magnificent Trio in the July edition of Video Vista |
Andrew Hook
| | Posted on Wednesday, July 06, 2005 - 10:26 pm: | |
My short story, Never Doubt My Love For You, appears in the current issue of Aesthetica (#10). It's a good magazine, jam-packed with stuff, so check it out... |
steve redwood
| | Posted on Monday, July 25, 2005 - 06:11 pm: | |
Thought I'd pop over here to say thanks for your comments re Who Needs Cleopatra?, and discovered all these other things I believed existed only in fables. Book launches - the stuff of legend!! Limited editions - limited?? 300???? (Both my books have secretly been Limited Editions of ten, and neither is likely to ever sell out!) Readings!! with a real public of living breathing adoring and possibly even enchantingly sweaty people!! Photos of your fine self beng mobbed - MOBBED, I say with frenzied jealousy - by gorgeous women (the only reason for writing) in NJ!! While I lay on my lonely bed dreaming of being in Moon Beaver's untrustworty but deliciously downy arms. And now more Blue Horizons for you - the title story is actually lying somewhere in my bedroom in Book of Voices, which itself is crushed between so many books-to-read (due to be read next-but-one)and another launch (I'd settle for lunch myself). Here we see the gulf between the professional and the eccentric amateur, the man who gets up in the morning to work and teh one who gets up in the morning to pee before returning to bed! And much I befear me I shall have to fork out for a Poegeny as well as a Horizon. Will I ever, I ask myself, find time to finish the Book of Mormon? (Yes, rather liked Smith's inspiration myself - an overly delicate friend tried to get me to remove that sensitive scene...) Liked your strange Phoenix story in Minotaur, by the way, a most original concept, and showing how the brutality of man (some more than others) can destroy the brightest dream. More apt today than ever.
by the way, if ever a smooth-talker calling herself Liza Granville offers to interview you for Whispers of wickedness - run! I can, alas, never return to my homeland due to her revelations. |
steve redwood
| | Posted on Monday, July 25, 2005 - 09:17 pm: | |
And just read story 'Beyond Each Blue Horizon'. Twice. Very strange story, and I decided not to try to make linear sense of everything. What it does is give a feeling of a political dictatorship (with elections!), and it does it so well that the penultimate line rings true. The porridge boiling over earlier is an excellent image to summarize what is really happening. Like Ludio, I've always lived in other countries, where 'their' politics is not my business, but of course in the end that will leave you with the mountains and nothing else. Didn't have the feeling it was an Arab country, by the way (the students had far too much freedom!), more South American. But a perfect story for the Book of Voices anthology. |
Andrew Hook
| | Posted on Tuesday, July 26, 2005 - 09:27 pm: | |
Hi Steve
many thanks for your comments! It's heartening to get good feedback, and I'm glad you enjoyed the story. Like much of my fiction, it was set in an undefinable country that probably exists only in the peripheries of my imagination...
And yes, mobbed! Indeed I was. Although having examined the photos many times over I still can't identify who threw the first punch...! |
Andrew Hook
| | Posted on Tuesday, July 26, 2005 - 10:19 pm: | |
Oh, and another Andrew Hook/Allen Ashley short story, Air Hockey 3000, has just been accepted for publication in the relaunched CimmPlicity magazine. |
Andrew Hook
| | Posted on Tuesday, August 02, 2005 - 01:17 am: | |
I review four Claude Chabrol directed movies that are now out on DVD for this month's Video Vista |
Andrew Hook
| | Posted on Friday, August 19, 2005 - 07:09 pm: | |
Just been notified that one of my mainstream stories, People You Know Who Excite You, has just been accepted for publication by Edifice Wrecked. |
Andrew Hook
| | Posted on Sunday, September 25, 2005 - 11:28 pm: | |
Just been told that another of my Mordent stories (following in the footsteps of Alsiso and Wake Jake), titled Live From The Hippodrome will be published by Gray Friar Press as part of a chapbook of novella-length pieces sometime towards the end of the year. Looking forward to this one! |
Andrew Hook
| | Posted on Wednesday, October 12, 2005 - 11:58 am: | |
My mainstream short story, "Tight", previously published in Open Wide Magazine earlier in the year is now available for free download at the Halfcult Publications website.
I've also recently reviewed 6 DVDs in the October issue of VideoVista |
Andrew Hook
| | Posted on Friday, November 04, 2005 - 07:09 pm: | |
The November issue of Video Vista contains my reviews of Day of the Dead 2: Contagium and Les Clefs de Bagnole
By the way, all previous reviews can be found in their archive. |
Andrew Hook
| | Posted on Monday, November 14, 2005 - 01:14 pm: | |
My review of Ten Minutes Older: The Trumpet and Ten Minutes Older: The Cello (short films by 15 of the world's most celebrated directors), now appears on VideoVista's sister site, The Zone |
Andrew Hook
| | Posted on Thursday, January 05, 2006 - 02:36 pm: | |
My reviews of DVDs Meantime and Dracula's Widow are now online in the January issue of Video Vista
My story, Live From The Hippodrome, has now been published as one of 6 novelettes in the beautiful looking publication, Bernie Herrmann's Manic Sextet which can be purchased from Gray Friar Press. It contains the further adventures of Mordent, who also appears in my Alsiso and Wake Jake short stories. |
Andrew Hook
| | Posted on Thursday, March 02, 2006 - 02:36 pm: | |
The March issue of VideoVista is now online and contains my reviews of "A Chinese Ghost Story 2", "The Gruesome Twosome", and "Momento Mori" amongst many others. |
Andrew Hook
| | Posted on Saturday, March 04, 2006 - 03:05 pm: | |
A story co-written with Allen Ashley entitled "The Androidgenous Zone" has just been accepted for publication by Crowswing Books for their "2050: Speculative Fiction" anthology to be published in 2007.
In addition, see the thread entitled "Slow Motion Wars" for news on a collaborative collection to be published this Autumn... |
Andrew Hook
| | Posted on Monday, March 06, 2006 - 01:58 pm: | |
My short story, The Honey Ward, originally published in my collection "Beyond Each Blue Horizon", will be reprinted in issue #3 of Twisted Tongue magazine, this coming August. |
Andrew Hook
| | Posted on Friday, March 10, 2006 - 07:32 pm: | |
Another story co-written with Allen Ashley, Xanadu Springs, will be published in Midnight Street this summer. It will also be included in our Slow Motion Wars anthology. |
Andrew Hook
| | Posted on Monday, May 01, 2006 - 10:21 pm: | |
My short story, Amarillo Dreams, originally published in my collection "Beyond Each Blue Horizon", will be reprinted in issue #5 of SciFantastic magazine, this June/July. |
Andrew Hook
| | Posted on Sunday, May 14, 2006 - 10:16 pm: | |
Forgot to mention that the April edition of VideoVista carried reviews of "Union City" and "Tell Me Something" reviewed by myself, and that in the May edition I reviewed three Claude Chabrol directed movies: "Les Biches", "Une Femme Infidele" and "Le Boucher". All reviews are archived on the site alphabetically. |
Andrew Hook
| | Posted on Tuesday, July 04, 2006 - 12:40 pm: | |
I've now got a website for my own fiction, designed by myself so probably full of errors, which you can find here |
Andrew Hook
Username: Andrew_hook
Registered: 07-2006
| | Posted on Monday, August 07, 2006 - 03:18 pm: | |
I must be flavour of the month at the moment as the following stories have just been published:
"Amarillo Dreams" in issue #5 of Sci-Fantastic
"The Honey Ward" in issue #3 of Twisted Tongue
(both these stories previously appeared in "Beyond Each Blue Horizon" from Crowswing Books last year, so if you read them and like them you know where to go for more).
Also, a non-genre story, "Document", in the German (but English-language) magazine, "LitSpeak". That story will be included in my non-genre collection from HalfCut Publications available this November. More details on that can be found here. |
Andrew Hook
Username: Andrew_hook
Registered: 07-2006
| | Posted on Monday, February 12, 2007 - 04:42 pm: | |
My website has been updated on the home page with what I've been doing the past six months |
John Barker
Username: Barker
Registered: 07-2006
| | Posted on Tuesday, February 20, 2007 - 07:52 pm: | |
Your ep firm is magnificent. One of your first stories, "Document" was published by me in the "Circle Squared" and you have gone on to be a genius and I am still stalled. it was ever thus. Anyway, my first book has sold out entirely and book two is on the Norwich Playhouse Theatre on the 29th.,April and the day before at the Black Boys Aldborough. Watch the web for finite data
anyway, thank you Andrew for being there for me when I needed you in 2004 and again last year.
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Andrew Hook
Username: Andrew_hook
Registered: 07-2006
| | Posted on Friday, August 17, 2007 - 04:36 pm: | |
My website has been updated with a load of news. Check it out! |
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