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stuart young skip to main skip to sidebar stuart young british fantasy award winning author stuart young not only writes stories he gives them life tim lebbon friday january 31 2014 writing is fun a couple of recent conversations about the hardships of writing reminded me that i had this languishing on my hard drive written during my why the hell do i put myself through this phase also known as my entire career so after complaining about editing yesterday i m now going to stick the boot into writing hack that s what he felt like his attempts at creating literary masterpieces resulting in laughable drivel the talent he used to be so sure he possessed had deserted him leaving him to peck forlornly at the keyboard pathetic one fingered jabs that failed to produce a single memorable metaphor a single worthwhile phrase hack that s what the critics had called him when reviewing his first and only book dull and uninspired they said hackneyed they said his work so banal that they couldn t even be bothered to skewer it with wickedly inventive barbs instead sprinkling it with clichés of their own hack the worst of it was that he believed them his imagination had failed him proving inadequate to the task he had set it his flights of fancy were in fact mired in the mundane weighed down by a dull overwhelming ordinariness yet still his brain was hardwired for the telling of tales seeing stories in every tiny detail of day to day life but cruelly he lacked the talent to communicate these wonders to his readers so he lived his curse stories trapped inside his head begging for release yet dying as soon as they reached the page hack there had to be some way to regain his creative fire to let his muse flow once more rich imaginings that would beguile the world with their splendour he just hadn t put enough effort into his previous work he hadn t fully committed himself to the literary process hadn t put enough of himself into the stories but that would change hack putting down the knife he watched his blood gush over the manuscript posted by stuart young at 10 09 am no comments labels writing thursday january 30 2014 why i hate editing aka i ve edit up to here so i said to peter mark may can i submit a story to this black magic anthology you ve got planned of course you can said peter with an eagerness that should have made me suspicious but only if you edit the book now i have no interest in editing editors have to organise things display communication skills and make important decisions that can make or break a project i m a writer my talent lies in passing off my idle daydreams as entertainment i don t want to do any actual work fortunately peter said he would do all the technical stuff like formatting the layouts and he had already sourced two of the five stories needed for the book so basically all i had to do was ask a couple of my mates to supply the remaining stories piece of cake by the way said peter you can also write the foreword make sure to throw in some biographical stuff about dennis wheatley bugger i knew absolutely sod all about wheatley s life panicking i rushed to the local library to peruse their copy of phil baker s wheatley biography the devil is a gentleman i also scoured every wheatley website i could find amassing a wealth of fascinating trivia i had enough material to fill a book oh i forgot to tell you said peter the foreword only needs to be three paragraphs long i swear he does this stuff to me on purpose at least i could rely on my writers john llewellyn probert and thana niveau are red hot in the horror scene right now and are also huge dennis wheatley fans more importantly they didn t mind working for peanuts so they joined horror novelist peter mark may and pan book of horror stalwart david williamson in the line up now i had the stories i just had to figure out the running order any anthology editor will tell you of the importance of getting the stories in the right order balancing different styles tones and themes in a nuanced display of artistic ebb and flow to achieve literary perfection of course this is just a load of old twaddle anthology editors spout to make themselves sound more important than they actually are most people i know don t read anthologies in order they just dip in and out according to which story happens to take their fancy still i thought i d give this perfect running order idea a go just for the hell of it so you get peter s period occult thriller followed by thana s dark dealings john s sly genre subversions david s satanic sitcom stylings and then finally my story which incorporated a little of each of these ideas the perfect running order displaying different facets of diabolical mayhem building to a hellish crescendo all meticulously planned after hours of long and careful deliberation the fact that you get exactly the same line up by putting the authors names in alphabetical order is pure coincidence although exhausted by my efforts i also came up with the book s title demons devilry normally coming up with a title is a month s work in itself for me then there was the promotional stuff like figuring out who to send review copies and the promotional poems i did for each story not to mention the story notes that were supposed to promote the book online but ended up in the anthology itself giving the readers more bang for their buck and i ve already discussed elsewhere the problems of getting the cover artwork sorted out eventually all that was left was the proofreading not a problem except peter sent me the proofs in a format that transformed into complete gibberish when displayed on my computer fortunately after much cursing i managed to convert the proofs into a format that my computer could handle unfortunately it was a format that peter s computer couldn t handle when i emailed the proofs back to him i ended up having to type out a list of all the necessary alterations so peter could make them at his end so i had to go through the entire manuscript again with a migraine and my back muscles seizing up into a slab of concrete granted it only took me half as long this time but i suspect that s because i only spotted half the mistakes second time round but the book s finished now it s out there in the world picking up some pretty impressive reviews so what have i learned from helming demons devilry editing it s a devil of a job posted by stuart young at 4 32 pm 1 comment labels anthologies demons devilry hersham horror monday january 20 2014 giving the devil his due nice review of demons and devilry at dark musings posted by stuart young at 4 11 pm 1 comment labels anthologies demons devilry hersham horror reviews wednesday january 01 2014 happy new year it s a brand new year and what better way to start than to discover that an anthology of black magic stories has received a good review it s true hellforge loves demons devilry posted by stuart young at 10 12 am no comments labels anthologies demons devilry hersham horror reviews sunday december 29 2013 the alchemy press book of pulp heroes 2 interview abut my story in the alchemy press book of pulp heroes 2 i discuss the nature of pulp fiction my musical tastes and why w e johns is such a big influence on my writing posted by stuart young at 10 45 am no comments labels alchemy press anthologies interviews the alchemy press book of pulp heroes 2 friday december 27 2013 best of 2013 ginger nuts of horror lists demons devilry as one of the best horror anthologies of 2013 i m deeply touched by this honour and i would like to thank all the contributors to the book for their dedication and tireless efforts i d like to thank them but frankly they did bugger all i did all the hard work struggling to decipher the childish crayon scribbles in peter mark may s manuscript wiping all the blood and other bodily fluids off john llewellyn probert s story keeping david williamson supplied with groupies bailing thana niveau out of jail every time she went off to do some research the success of this book is purely down to me me i tell you me posted by stuart young at 4 48 pm no comments labels anthologies demons devilry ginger nuts of horror hersham horror tuesday december 24 2013 stocking filler ginger nuts of horror has included demons devilry in their list of horror xmas gifts yes i know christmas is virtually upon us but the book makes just as good a gift at easter birthdays wedding anniversaries and any other occasion you can think of posted by stuart young at 12 47 pm no comments labels anthologies demons devilry hersham horror older posts home subscribe to posts atom stuart young deftly weaves a chilling atmospheric tale packed with sharp biting prose haunting imagery and healthy doses of paranoia and wry humor emotional brilliant and scary as hell brian keene no one can accuse stuart young of avoiding the big issues with insight and verve he tackles head on the existence of god the mystery of human consciousness and the transformative effects of psychedelic drugs recommended mark chadbourn wow what an impressive story ambitious in fact downright audacious t e d klein this is horror fiction as it should be real confrontational yet simple honest and intimate gary mcmahon about me stuart young author of three short story collections spare parts shards of dreams and the mask behind the face winner of the british fantasy award for best novella view my complete profile blog archive 2014 4 january 4 writing is fun why i hate editing aka i ve edit up to here giving the devil his due happy new year 2013 14 december 4 november 5 october 1 march 1 january 3 2012 25 november 4 october 7 september 1 august 2 july 1 june 1 may 1 april 1 march 2 february 1 january 4 2011 12 december 5 june 2 may 1 april 1 march 1 february 1 january 1 2010 17 december 3 november 2 october 1 september 1 june 4 may 1 march 3 january 2 2009 19 december 2 november 1 october 1 september 1 august 1 july 4 june 1 may 2 april 2 march 1 february 2 january 1 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