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Re: Hellhole Website now up
Posted: 20 Jul 2010 17:27
by Robspierre
Actually, it sounds like they are ripping off Spinal Tap with that title.
Rob
Re: Hellhole Website now up
Posted: 20 Jul 2010 17:36
by merkin muffley
Robspierre wrote:Actually, it sounds like they are ripping off Spinal Tap with that title.
Rob
Ah! Yes, of course. I missed that. There are some similarities between Spinal Tap and Kevin J. Anderson, except that KJA is a real person. Maybe this has all been an elaborate joke, or some kind of "Inception"-type torture scenario.
Re: Hellhole Website now up
Posted: 20 Jul 2010 19:14
by SandChigger
Me, I'm gonna hold out for SMELLHOLE IMPACT and SMELLHOLE INFERNO!
(No, I'm not kidding. Remember, those were the announced titles! AH HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
)
Re: Hellhole Website now up
Posted: 20 Jul 2010 19:19
by Nekhrun
SandChigger wrote:Me, I'm gonna hold out for SMELLHOLE IMPACT and SMELLHOLE INFERNO!
(No, I'm not kidding. Remember, those were the announced titles! AH HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
)
Careful, this might not be a
series, just 3 stand alone books that take place one after the other and have a related story that may or may not be published.
Re: Hellhole Website now up
Posted: 20 Jul 2010 21:03
by Omphalos
merkin muffley wrote:Robspierre wrote:Actually, it sounds like they are ripping off Spinal Tap with that title.
Rob
Ah! Yes, of course. I missed that. There are some similarities between Spinal Tap and Kevin J. Anderson, except that KJA is a real person. Maybe this has all been an elaborate joke, or some kind of "Inception"-type torture scenario.
Didn't his first co-author, Nigel Tuffnel, choke on somebody else's vomit?
Re: Hellhole Website now up
Posted: 20 Jul 2010 21:53
by Kojiro
DuneFishUK wrote:Time for an upgrade
At least the cover looks good. I wonder who the artist is and how much they paid him to waste his talent on this.
Re: Hellhole Website now up
Posted: 20 Jul 2010 23:10
by SandChigger
It's the one, the ONLY, Stephen Youll! TADA!
Re: Hellhole Website now up
Posted: 20 Jul 2010 23:25
by Kojiro
Dear god, they must pay him 2/3rds of the profit....
Re: Hellhole Website now up
Posted: 21 Jul 2010 03:59
by SandChigger
Not THIS time!
Re: Hellhole Website now up
Posted: 21 Jul 2010 16:00
by Kojiro
Oh, you're right... with the slumping sales these two guys are bringing in, it'll at least be 3/4ths.
Re: Hellhole Website now up
Posted: 19 Aug 2010 12:44
by Sev
Re: Hellhole Website now up
Posted: 19 Aug 2010 15:27
by Hunchback Jack
Catching up on this thread.
Great work on the cover, DuneFish. Love the BH quote.
Nekhrun wrote:Careful, this might not be a series, just 3 stand alone books that take place one after the other and have a related story that may or may not be published.
Nice one.
Ah yes, Stephen Youll, the guy who was Smellholed on the Winds cover art.
Pushed back until 2011 in the UK as well? This thing is a train wreck.
HBJ
Re: Hellhole Website now up
Posted: 19 Aug 2010 15:36
by TheDukester
Sev wrote:The wheels have officially fallen off of this effort now - release date in the U.K. has now been pushed back from October to February, still one month ahead of its U.S. release.
I love it. No new Anderson or Herbert on the shelves in the calendar year 2010.
I see one of two things behind all the delays:
1. The readers of the world are speaking here, and what they're saying is: "Not interested in what these two bozos have to 'add' to the harsh-planet-with-rugged-heroes genre."
2. The editors are speaking here, and what they're saying is: "Wow, this manuscript you turned in is
awful, even for you hacks. It cannot be published in its current state. Back to the drawing board, geniuses."
Re: Hellhole Website now up
Posted: 19 Aug 2010 17:00
by A Thing of Eternity
I doubt #1 is the cause, though a decline in interest in KJABH may be contributing to possibility #2. There's no shortage of idiots that will buy whatever these guys sell, but the publishers (you said editors... that's one HUGE assumption you're making with a KJABH book!
) could very well be looking at it and wondering why they want to publish more junk if it doesn't say DUNE on the cover.
Re: Hellhole Website now up
Posted: 19 Aug 2010 20:33
by merkin muffley
A Thing of Eternity wrote:the publishers (you said editors... that's one HUGE assumption you're making with a KJABH book!
) could very well be looking at it and wondering why they want to publish more junk if it doesn't say DUNE on the cover.
They're totally screwed without
"of DUNE" on the cover, and even more screwed with the stupid ass title "Hellhole."
Re: Hellhole Website now up
Posted: 19 Aug 2010 20:42
by SandChigger
TheDukester wrote:I love it. No new Anderson or Herbert on the shelves in the calendar year 2010.
Shouldn't that be AND, not OR? KJA's put out at least three books this year:
Terrier Incontinence 2: Mop Up All Things and
Sturrrrrrrr Challengers: Moonface Crikeys!, plus that coffee-service Scientology writing contest thing.
Re: Hellhole Website now up
Posted: 20 Aug 2010 02:54
by TheDukester
True, true.
For some reason, I was thinking that the new book in
Kevin's Pew!-Pew! Sea Adventure came out in late '09. The others don't even register with me.
Re: Hellhole Website now up
Posted: 20 Aug 2010 03:01
by SandChigger
Yeah, the first one came out in 2009, but this is
Kevin's Puke-Puke-Puke Seasick Projectile Vomiting, the second book in the series. (And book #3,
Giant Prawn Shitline in the Sand will be out next year.)
Re: Hellhole Website now up
Posted: 20 Aug 2010 03:37
by Serkanner
HAs anybody here actually read one of those Terra Incontinenta novels by TheHack? I really can not get myself to acquire a second hand copy.
Re: Hellhole Website now up
Posted: 20 Aug 2010 04:31
by TheDukester
I read a chapter of the first one on a recent KJA re-shelving expedition at B&N. There was a monster attacking a ship ... and it was amazingly dull. All of the minor characters died; they might as well have had on the red shirts from Star Trek. The captain (or whomever) survived, and was all captain-y.
I couldn't remember a single significant detail 10 minutes after re-shelving it behind some GURPS role-playing books.
Re: Hellhole Website now up
Posted: 20 Aug 2010 06:35
by Serkanner
TheDukester wrote:I read a chapter of the first one on a recent KJA re-shelving expedition at B&N. There was a monster attacking a ship ... and it was amazingly dull. All of the minor characters died; they might as well have had on the red shirts from Star Trek. The captain (or whomever) survived, and was all captain-y.
I couldn't remember a single significant detail 10 minutes after re-shelving it behind some GURPS role-playing books.
That is enough info for me, thanks. I'll leave them where I find them. Pretty soon there will be a new culture novel ... now we are talking!
EDIT: read all about it,
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Re: Hellhole Website now up
Posted: 20 Aug 2010 11:14
by SandChigger
Serkanner wrote:HAs anybody here actually read one of those Terra Incontinenta novels by TheHack? I really can not get myself to acquire a second hand copy.
I have the first one. I was going to go through and make fun of it, but it was so bad that I couldn't even bring myself to read enough of it to do chapter synopses. (Yep, the only way I can read his shit is if it's McDune. It's the "hate" that provides the motivation to wade through the sewage.) I think I posted a few things about it here, somewhere.
You can see how much excitement the second volume has generated (it came out in June, I think) from the seven reviews for it on Amazon.
Re: Hellhole Website now up
Posted: 20 Aug 2010 11:21
by merkin muffley
I went over to Amazon. WOW, but nobody gives a shit about Hellhole.
Re: Hellhole Website now up
Posted: 20 Aug 2010 19:42
by D Pope
REVIEW BY PROXY, January 31, 2010
By Sandra M. Lee "Christian reader" (Missouri, U.S.A.) - See all my reviews
Amazon Verified Purchase(What's this?)
This review is from: The Edge of the World (Terra Incognita) (Paperback)
I have not read this book myself, but my Nephew was quite pleased with the book. He commented on the condition, as excellent. I would like to have the seller know that his description of the condition was great! I have been ordering books from you for a while,Amazon.com, and have had no problems. Thank you for providing an excellent service to the customers! S. LEE
Five Stars...
Re: Hellhole Website now up
Posted: 20 Aug 2010 20:16
by Hunchback Jack
Well, you can see why KJA is such an accomplished author.
1) He writes many novels a year
2) He delivers them *on time*.
3) They arrive from the bookseller in great condition.
Clearly we must be haters to think he's a hack.
HBJ