Graham Joyce, 1954-2014

[chopper]

http://www.locusmag.com/News/2014/09/graham-joyce-1954-2014/

Horrible news. I had the luck to hear him read from Some Kind of Fairy Tale a couple of years back; his writing was absolutely magnificent.

 

[Jo Zebedee]

Very sad.

 

[Ursa major]

Yes, very sad.

He was, I think, the guest of honour the only time I attended a FantasyCon (in 2002), when he told us what happened when his book, The Tooth Fairy was optioned for a film and the contract specified that he got to write the first two drafts of the script.

 

[Stephen Palmer]

RIP Graham.

http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/sep/10/graham-joyce-fantasy-author-dies-aged-59

 

[chopper]

I love the fact that Graham was goalkeeper for the England Writers' Football Team. The resultant book, Simple Goalkeeping Made Spectacular, just shot to the top of my want list.

 

[Boneman]

Very sad news. I met him (and went to a reading of Some Kind of Fairy tale) in Brighton FantasyCon, and he came over as funny, intelligent, and a writer whose craft was everything to him. Not obsessively bad, but obsessively good, and I brought the book, and had him sign it on the strength of his personality. He seemed relaxed and interested in people around him, not ego-driven in the slightest - he sat in the audience in many panels, rather than pontificating in the bar the whole time. A truly nice guy, who will be sadly missed.

 

[Gary Compton]

Judging by the reaction on Facebook: he was a great guy. 59 is no age to die

 

[cyprus7]

RIP Graham.

http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/sep/10/graham-joyce-fantasy-author-dies-aged-59

I followed the link within the Guardian article to Graham's final post, from which it quoted extensively. A sad but uplifting post that inspired me to check out more of his work.