authors you've met
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May Kasahara
take me to the feeling
Spent a long coach trip to Glastonbury with Irvine Welsh. Made me think of .
butchersapron
Bring back hanging
I met Ken Follet at a Labour party fundraiser - he'd never heard of Tristram Shandy.
Idris2002
Stay Alive in '25
For extra points, you should have said something like 'I bet you've heard of a hand shandy, though, YOU WANKER'.
Yeah same with my Dahl meet.
But I'll always remember the moment proudly, cos I'd brought along my really ancient copies, early editions, everyone else had bought theirs on the day.
Dahl took a look at my books and looked me in the eye and said "So nice to see such good, old books."
Made my childhood, that did.
chico enrico
No hair shows you care.
my dad was good mates and sort of 'mentor' to Ian Banks after he did his English course and was trying to get published. I just remember him as this funny gnomish looking guy who used to come round the house. He used to tell me the best ways to make bombs out of weedkiller etc.
he's the only famous one, tho mates with a few other bods who've written books.
Oh yea, and irvine welsh as well obviously, used to come along to clubs i ran. but not a great deal of time for him after he started hanging about with the edinburgh BNP/C18 types cos he evidently thought it was 'hard'.
he's the only famous one, tho mates with a few other bods who've written books.
Oh yea, and irvine welsh as well obviously, used to come along to clubs i ran. but not a great deal of time for him after he started hanging about with the edinburgh BNP/C18 types cos he evidently thought it was 'hard'.
D'wards
IT'S YOUR DECISION DANIEL
The ubiquitious Road Dahl, in a barn doing a reading.
Joseph heller, he came to the clocktower and did a reading and Q & A session and allegedly a massive fart.
Singed me copy of Catch 22 and got my name spelling right without prompting (normally has 2 t's, i have 1)
Joseph heller, he came to the clocktower and did a reading and Q & A session and allegedly a massive fart.
Singed me copy of Catch 22 and got my name spelling right without prompting (normally has 2 t's, i have 1)
chico enrico
No hair shows you care.
hahaha... oh yea, can't forget ol' Boner.
my dad as well, he wrote a load of books - best known are a trilogy on the Regency/Elizabethan/Victorian underworlds which are a well good read.
chico enrico
No hair shows you care.
D'wards
IT'S YOUR DECISION DANIEL
Nope, less rappy than that.
Plus he SIGNED my book, not singed - would have been upset and annoyed if he'd done that.
ATOMIC SUPLEX
Member Since: 1985 Post Count: 3
Yeah same with my Dahl meet.
But I'll always remember the moment proudly, cos I'd brought along my really ancient copies, early editions, everyone else had bought theirs on the day.
Dahl took a look at my books and looked me in the eye and said "So nice to see such good, old books."
Made my childhood, that did.
I had a little sit down in his famous writing chair with his piece of green baize board over my knees.
I never met him though.
I have met Douglas Adams.
Does Christian Wolmar count?
What about comic book writers? I have been out with John Wagner and Andy Diggle.
Random
Ethnic nalgocrat
One DWJ is worth a horde of most other authors.
Myself I've met Ken McLeod and Alastair Gray at an Edinburgh book fair. Alastair dropped his wine glass; I swept it up and Ken said 'you've missed a bit'.
Great times.
May Kasahara
take me to the feeling
Oh, I forgot Carol Ann Duffy and Benjamin Zephaniah.
rikwakefield
Born to be Mild
I've met and have 2 signed Bill Drummond books.
chico enrico
No hair shows you care.
Peter Sotos.
Andrea Dworkin.
they weren't together.
Andrea Dworkin.
they weren't together.
ATOMIC SUPLEX
Member Since: 1985 Post Count: 3
Bobin from the teeth reckons he went to college with zadie and that the vicar in white teeth is in fact him.
8den
No I'm pretty sure that was 8ball...
Spot the man who's attending more than one Sci Fi convention.
Blagsta
Minimum cage, maximum cage
Oh yeah, I've met Peter Sotos too. And Stewart Home.
Throbbing Angel
this is no longer a place of honour
Iain Banks
Melvin Burgess
Livi Michael
Sherry Ashworth
Nick (nicholas?) Royle
Paul Magrs
Caroline Smailes
Andrew Biswell
Michael Schmidt
Mandy Coe
John Siddique
Michael Symmons Roberts
Simon Armitage
maybe others, canne recall now, too late
Melvin Burgess
Livi Michael
Sherry Ashworth
Nick (nicholas?) Royle
Paul Magrs
Caroline Smailes
Andrew Biswell
Michael Schmidt
Mandy Coe
John Siddique
Michael Symmons Roberts
Simon Armitage
maybe others, canne recall now, too late
Zabo
Well-Known Member
Roger McGough - poet, writer. I don't normally say this but he is one of the nicest human beings I have ever met. Kind, gentle, polite and very friendly.
Sophie Hannah - total opposite
Liz Lochead - nice in a Scottish kind of way
Ian McMillan - more down to earth than a Yorkshire pit.
Sophie Hannah - total opposite
Liz Lochead - nice in a Scottish kind of way
Ian McMillan - more down to earth than a Yorkshire pit.
chico enrico
No hair shows you care.
i'm a sort of character in Home's first novel. can't remember what it's called, was published in Smile before it came out as a book. It's mainly based on Home's rather torrid imaginings of what a load of mates of mine used to get up to. In particular those who shared a flat just round the corner from the Angel tube.
ericjarvis
give a feck for the feckless
No. Just one. However I am a member of an sf writing group, and that accounts for a fair few of them. The rest are a legacy of working in theatre and the visual arts.
Also I was a guest at the sf convention I went to, which probably helped too.
Throbbing Angel
this is no longer a place of honour
oh yea
Carol Ann Duffy
Carol Ann Duffy
Blagsta
Minimum cage, maximum cage
That's a claim to fame! of a sort...
I only met him briefly, he was doing something at an art event an ex of mine organised, along with Sotos. Sotos was...sweaty, but tbf, he had had death threats phoned in to the venue. Still an unsavoury character. Didn't form much an impression of Home.
May Kasahara
take me to the feeling
I read one of her books. It was utter shit, and I mean really so very bad. Plus she wrote a shitty article in Mslexia that was of absolutely no use. She sucks!
Ceej
Where is my mind?
I've met loads, usually at signings or crime writers festivals, including David Hewson, Ina Rankin, Michael Connelly, Val McDermid, RJ Ellroy, Peter Robinson, Christopher Brookmyre, John Irvine (yum..on so many levels), Mo Hayder, Praticia Cornwall (snotty beyond words), Mark Billingham (babe), John Harvey (cool, incredibly clever), Sheila Quigley (who's a gas) and through work I know Danny Schienmann.
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