I am horrifying (and honoured)

[Jayaprakash Satyamurthy]

Thanks.

A frame story is the story-around rather than the story-within - the bloke writing letters to his sister forms the frame story for Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, for instance, and Scheherazade's struggles to survive (which was the reference intended here) are the frame story for all the tales within the 1001 Arabian Nights.

I suspect Bangalore is more proud about Jeffrey Archer's recent visit.

Nice to meet a fellow Bangalorean here - I take it you write speculative fiction as well?

 

[cornelius]

Congratulations! I'll read the story soon, I'll let you know what I think

 

[J-WO]

I suspect Bangalore is more proud about Jeffrey Archer's recent visit.

You guys can keep him if you like. Really.

 

[Jayaprakash Satyamurthy]

I wish there was some way to incarcerate him again, only this time he's not allowed to keep a diary.

 

[STING]

I take it you write speculative fiction as well?

Am writing a bunch of short stories which can be called anything but SF. Hope I won't be thrown out of here because of that. I find that quite a bit of the advice and experiences that the members share on these forums are relevant to any genre.

You guys can keep him (Jeffrey Archer) if you like. Really.

It won't be a bad idea if JA stays in India at least for a while especially if he wants to write stories set in this country. Despite my high regard for his storytelling technique, I was recently disappointed to find that a story of his that was set in India got the designations (job titles) and the whole working of the police department here wrong. I thought writers are supposed to do research such stuff.

 

[Jayaprakash Satyamurthy]

I don't think we practice reverse snobbery against non-spec writing here! As for Archer - try some Buchan, Fleming or better still some of the noir writers for real storytelling technique in a thriller format.

 

[STING]

I don't think we practice reverse snobbery against non-spec writing here!

Thanks.

As for Archer - try some Buchan, Fleming or better still some of the noir writers for real storytelling technique in a thriller format.

Read quite a bit of Fleming...perhaps my first exposure to great writing. Surely, JA is no comparison. But there is something in Archer's books that attracts millions of people. But, of course, best-selling authors needn't be best writers.

 

[Jayaprakash Satyamurthy]

I didn't want to create another thread for this purpose, but I would like to share this news with all of you, so I'm using my old thread:

http://hharksenproductions.wordpress.com/2011/05/17/announcement-urban-cthulhu-stories-found/

 

[J-WO]

Wonderful, J, great to see all your hardwork going places. An urban mythos anthology should make for a fascinating angle.

 

[Brian G Turner]

I just clicked on this link: ellen datlow - Honorable Mentions Best Horror of the Year volume three part 2

It's part three of the list of Honourable Mentions to be included in this year's Best Horror Of The Year collection, edited by Ellen Datlow. My story, Come Tomorrow, is among the mentions.

It's an incredible thrill to be on the same list as writers like Kiernan, Oates, Pugmire, Pulver,Tambour, VanderMeer, Yolen and pretty much everyone else whose name my pride swelled up a little too much for me to notice just this moment.

Hey, congrats.

 

[Jayaprakash Satyamurthy]

Thanks, Brian! Hopefully I'll make it into the shortlist some year soon.

 

[blacknorth]

I really liked this story a lot - a lot of striking imagery and ideas. I would have taken it to a different place, but isn't that the beauty of reading other people's stories.

Thanks for the read, great appreciated.

 

[carlos]

congratulations...