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I've been nominated for a Spinetingler Magazine Award for my novel Fifty Grand. If you liked Fitty G you can vote for me at Spinetingler Mag, here. I'm in the rising star category and funnily enough I'm up against my old pal Brian Evenson. Don't vote for Brian, though, he's the head of Creative Writing at Brown and he must be raking it in. All right vote for him if you want, his book, Last Days was brilliant. Another mate of mine Stu Neville is up in the new voice category for his excellent Ghosts of Belfast.
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Done, you rising star you.
Done.
May you rise like fresh-baked rolls. Like the sun. Like a congregation after prayer. Like a defendant when the judge enters. Like a hot air balloon into the sky. Like...
Done - coming from N. Ireland, once I start voting I can't stop!
Matt, Ryan, Philip...
Thank you gents. Now that Liverpool has been knocked out of the Europa Cup on the away goal rule I'm even deeper in the hole. But I can win it all back on an accumulator. I have to win the Spinetingler, Rory McIlroy needs to win a major and the Chicago Cubs have to beat the Red Sox in the World Series by a 1:0 victory in nineteenth inning of Game 7. Seems doable.
You had my vote back when and Spinetingler won't let me vote again. I even tried voting on different machines but they were on to me. Bastards! ;->
I thought you said your wife was in charge of the family finances.
I think this is an example of why my married friends tell me it's not a bad idea to keep a separate bank account. Especially if you're going to be betting on the Cubs.
I wish there was somebody finanicially responsible in charge of my bank account. Sort of.
BTW, Adrian, vegasinsider.com has the Cubs at 14 to 1 to win the world series this year.
Maybe I shouldn't have said that.
I read that as veganinsider the first time around. I have indeed been in Santa Cruz too long.
Holden
Maybe they're just prejudiced against microsoft?
Seana
This is why she's in charge.
Matt
The next post is going to be all about baseball I think.
Good luck, mate!
Seen this ?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EvWh6PMi9Ek
By the way, Paul is too much of a gentleman to mention it, but he was nominated also.
The next post is going to be all about baseball I think.
Can't wait.
Paul
Its good. Its not Herzog but its really really funny.
Marco
Yes, excellent point.
Vote for Paul!
Funnily enough I voted for Peter, Paul and Brian, which I'm pretty sure was the cast list of a 1981 Monty Python film.
Thanks Marco & Adrian. I wouldn't mind blowing my own trumpet, if I could reach ... badah!
Not really relevant, Adrian, but if you haven't been to BoingBoing lately, they have a link to the worst sci-fi novel covers ever. I'm sure it will bring back memories.
http://www.goodshowsir.co.uk/
Adrian
A fellow-follower of yours has asked me why your books don't seem to be published/distributed in mainstream bookshops in the UK (or Ireland?).
I thought it was because your publishers were American or have I got it wrong? All I know is I still can't find your material on our shops' bookshelves where it ought to be (even the books with strong local reference like the Lightship Trilogy and Orange Rhymes with Everything).
Should I just go into a bookshop and ask them to order me Fifty Thousand (not 50,000 copies!) rather than get it through Amazon again?
Philip
You should be able to get them at No Alibis in Belfast. David can pretty much order anything.
"The winner of the 2010 Spinetingler Award for the Best Novel: Rising Star is… 50 Grand by Adrian McKinty".
Congratulations again - I still think it was the duct tape in the opening that did it!
Philip
Gaffer doesnt have the same ring to it does it?
Yeah. Gaffer sounds like a kindly old foreman, of somebody that is always making 'gaffs'. But duct sounds like a tube leading into a dark hole. Very appropriate for beside an awaiting hole in the ice-covered lake.
I watched a film on TV last night with Julia Roberts sticking duct-tape over the mouth of her prisoner while he was still in mid-sentence. But it hadn't the same chilling setting!
Please, please, please don't let Julia Roberts play her in the movie.
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