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Mark, why don't you comment on a book you've actually read or even seen? | |||||||||||
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The etiquette breach was foolish. It was also foolish of me to attempt to address imaginary concerns regarding the press. Anyone who has any actual concerns can, of course, write to the address on the website. | |||||||||||
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Sand: Not to be argumentative, but unless you have actually read any of these books it might be hard to say how “edgy” they are. When I said “sharp edges” I did not mean “edgy” anyhow though. I certainly never meant that flesh eating was either sharp or dull. I was talking about style. Rhys Hughes and D.F. Lewis are very interesting writers in my opinion. I have not read Justin Isis’ book yet, but I plan to—based on some short fiction he sent me which I consider to be very good. But, again, this was never meant to be an argument. It was simply my take—my expression of excitement about what this press is doing. And, if we are going to talk about Baron Corvo: the texts they are publishing are by writers much closer to Corvo than London. Corvo had huge problems publishing his books and died frustrated and neglected. And poor. Should we all have to share the same fate? Should we push up our noses and dive into the nearest canal just because a book is POD?The book Chomu is publishing of mine I could have sold to someone else as a limited edition. But my goal in this brief life is not to be read by six men with thin fingers or to be condemned to writing ghost stories to frighten morbid bachelors which are published in editions of twenty and fifty on cream colored paper and used to heighten the chairs of midgets.The best way to judge these books is to read them. When my own book comes out, I’d be happy to offer you a copy at my own expense. You might very well hate it, but at least you would be talking from first hand experience.
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Sand: Let’s just forget it. I don’t comment often on threads, and this is why. Too easy to argue. I have read something by every author Chomu is publishing but one. I have been back and forthing with them for months over my own book. I have dealt with probably over 100 editors since I began getting published. Chomu has impressed me. That is all. It is ugly to see authors arguing with each other on-line or elsewhere. I bow out and, with a kindly wave of my hand and a subdued smile on my lips, leave the field to you.
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I don't know if you've ever seen How To Get Ahead in Advertising, with Richard Grant. There's a scene where someone is reading, with outrage, extracts from a newspaper on a train. There's an article that the outraged man is reading about some kind of debauchery, obviously meant to instil the reader with a sense of the nation's moral decline, etc. The man reads out, "The bag may also have contained heroin." "Yes. Or peanut butter. The bag may also have contained peanut butter." He goes on to explain that he works in advertising and he knows precisely what tricks are used, and the key here lies in the word "may". Using this word the writers of the article can place any thought they like in the mind of the reader. This is, of course, also the form that all of your posts here have taken. Despite what you say, balance is the very last thing that you are concerned with. You are of course, free to go on saying that the bag may contain heroin, but you should not expect this to be an unchallenged pronouncement. I'm also sure that people who actually want to discuss things here will find no trouble in doing so. | |||||||||||
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After 12 years heavily involved in discussion forums on the internet, I find there are differing protocols, misinterpretations, slippery slopes to arguments - and very little point in inviting people to other threads, as that tends to put them off. Face to face is always different and invariably more communicable of feelings. Here, as Sand points out, we are Nemonymous, qcrisp etc. Sitting round the table we'd be Des, Quentin and Mark etc. Internet is not the best place to have heartfelt debates. And this is a heartfelt debate.
I return to my personal example of POD earlier on this thread, and God forbid, that cliche, the proof of the pudding is in the eating. POD can be better than non-POD and often is. The podding here, from the evidence so far, is very promising, I say, with part of that evidence being the people involved from face to face as well as by reputation. Meanwhile... | |||||||||||
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Any readers of this thread interested in the discussion that Sand advocates are encouraged to buy copies of I Wonder What Human Flesh Tastes Like, read the contents, and comment here on both the contents and the production of the book.
http://chomupress.com/our-books/i-wo...h-tastes-like/ | |||||||||||
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http://www.ligotti.net/showpost.php?...6&postcount=87 was a red rag.
In fear of extending this 'slippery slope' (for Yaks, or otherwise), I'd say that the tea-bag in I don't think anyone has said you were insincere, though, Sand. des | |||||||||||
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There's also the question of whether one should accept a statement merely because it is negative. Apparently you were not happy to accept negativity merely because it was negative (and you should "take it on the chin") in the case of Peter Tennant's review of your book. Surely it depends upon the content of the statement whether you sit back and accept it or not. As to joining discussions, please feel welcome to join the thread I started on Karel Capek's War with the Newts. | |||||||||||
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"The meaning of a word is its use". Discussion point. I've always seen ingenuous as innocent / naive. And disingenuous the opposite of that. It could mean astute in some books.
But seriously, I don't think anyone intended to call you 'morally fraudulent' and if they did it was qcrisp calling Sand that, not Quentin calling Mark that. As to the tea-bag debate. All is context. And intention. Which brings me neatly to the Intentional Fallacy.... | |||||||||||
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