Step aboard the magic bus

Re: Step aboard the magic bus

feeds@yuku.com (ushas the rani) — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 17:26:02 GMT

loved the Battlestar Galactica send up in IWATCO

Re: Step aboard the magic bus

feeds@yuku.com (GlynG) — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 21:43:11 GMT

I'm not really a big fan of Iris *looks around a little nervously at the company and hopes not to get lynched* however reading this thread about this is making me a little tempted to buy it (probably via Random Static to help their sales despite living the other side of the world). I'll wait and see what reviews are like.

Re: Step aboard the magic bus

feeds@yuku.com (ushas the rani) — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 17:19:53 GMT

my copy arrived today, I'll try to find time to start reading it this weekend, at the moment I'm 1/3 of the way into Dead Romance (which I'm reading for the 5th time) it's the Loz book I've read the most

Re: Step aboard the magic bus

feeds@yuku.com (Zagreus) — Wed, 27 May 2009 20:30:32 GMT

Wow. You go to the beach for a week and look what happens...

Well, I paid for my copy a month ago, and and look forward to reading it greatly.

Re: Step aboard the magic bus

feeds@yuku.com (Mags L Halliday) — Wed, 27 May 2009 19:32:11 GMT

felice wrote:
I have to say threatening legal action against unpaid volunteers (and it is a threat, no matter how politely phrased) because some idiot is posting obvious drivel on their private forum might have been going a bit overboard. Even if the volunteers in question are clearly quite, quite mad. But I'm definitely going to be ordering Celestial Omnibus now.

The issue for me is that attempts to...

Re: Step aboard the magic bus

feeds@yuku.com (War Arrow) — Wed, 27 May 2009 12:30:40 GMT

Okay. Er... so where does this guy live?

Re: Step aboard the magic bus

feeds@yuku.com (ushas the rani) — Wed, 27 May 2009 12:28:42 GMT

War Arrow wrote:
It all sounds beyond pathetic and rather like someone needs a good slap.

I nominate you to deliver the slapping

Re: Step aboard the magic bus

feeds@yuku.com (War Arrow) — Wed, 27 May 2009 12:19:00 GMT

It all sounds beyond pathetic and rather like someone needs a good slap.

Re: Step aboard the magic bus

feeds@yuku.com (ushas the rani) — Wed, 27 May 2009 10:19:16 GMT

One of my robot minions has ordered me a copy the book DWF tried to ban! it's the must read book of the year

Re: Step aboard the magic bus

feeds@yuku.com (Daniel OMahony) — Wed, 27 May 2009 09:35:21 GMT

Stuart Douglas's account, including extensive quotes from the various posts and emails leading up to Pandagate, can be found here:

http://iriswildthyme.blogspot.com/2009/05/shaun-lyon-on-being-twat.html

Re: Step aboard the magic bus

feeds@yuku.com (felice) — Tue, 26 May 2009 22:48:43 GMT

I have to say threatening legal action against unpaid volunteers (and it is a threat, no matter how politely phrased) because some idiot is posting obvious drivel on their private forum might have been going a bit overboard. Even if the volunteers in question are clearly quite, quite mad. But I'm definitely going to be ordering Celestial Omnibus now.

Re: Step aboard the magic bus

feeds@yuku.com (Daniel OMahony) — Tue, 26 May 2009 22:13:07 GMT

I'm still there, but every thread I've posted on today has been shut down with immediate effect.

Re: Step aboard the magic bus

feeds@yuku.com (JonDennis) — Tue, 26 May 2009 21:13:36 GMT

BTW, I have it on good authority that the Iris book will be ready to ship soon.
www.obversebooks.co.uk

Re: Step aboard the magic bus

feeds@yuku.com (JonDennis) — Tue, 26 May 2009 21:11:49 GMT

If you like Faction Paradox, there's little reason to go there as pretty much every FP writer has left or, in my case, been banned for announcing I was leaving.

Re: Step aboard the magic bus

feeds@yuku.com (ushas the rani) — Tue, 26 May 2009 15:07:43 GMT

a group of former members (we were members at the time now we're former members) left that site months ago en masse in protest to the way it was being run (it seems to be based on Syria, with complete secrecy and refual to mention anything related to authority up front and all interactions done backstage in secret meetings) the best thing that can happen to that site is everyone else sees it for what it is and goes somewhere else, like here or one of the dozens of other cool fan sites out...

Re: Step aboard the magic bus

feeds@yuku.com (JonDennis) — Tue, 26 May 2009 12:16:26 GMT

War Arrow wrote:

scary man23 wrote:
Anybody know why Outpost Homeworld have suddenly banned any mention of this book or it's publishers?
I would imagine it's because they're cunts, or something along those lines (or pricks if you prefer)...

This would explain Monsieur Dennis's recent facebook status message.
...

Re: Step aboard the magic bus

feeds@yuku.com (scary man23) — Tue, 26 May 2009 11:56:06 GMT

I emailed Stuart and he replied and said it was OK to share -

"Ah, that's a good story. After Magister posted to OG saying that he
basically knew I was a crook, I emailed Shaun and Steven Hill to ask
them to remove the posts because it was libellous. They ignored the
email, so I sent another via the OG email address and Paul Magrs sent
yet another. they ignored them all.

Then Phil Purser-Hallard pointed out a new post to me in which
...

Re: Step aboard the magic bus

feeds@yuku.com (War Arrow) — Tue, 26 May 2009 11:11:55 GMT

scary man23 wrote:
Anybody know why Outpost Homeworld have suddenly banned any mention of this book or it's publishers?

I would imagine it's because they're cunts, or something along those lines (or pricks if you prefer)...

This would explain Monsieur Dennis's recent facebook status message.

Re: Step aboard the magic bus

feeds@yuku.com (scary man23) — Tue, 26 May 2009 09:09:26 GMT

Anybody know why Outpost Homeworld have suddenly banned any mention of this book or it's publishers?

Re: Step aboard the magic bus

feeds@yuku.com (Mags L Halliday) — Mon, 04 May 2009 16:19:00 GMT

JonDennis wrote:
It now occurs to me that, though I was putting quotes from my story in my blog on a regular basis, I changed every one of those lines during the editing. The dangers of previewing.

Ah, the advantage of tweeting instead...although I mainly reveal how much I distract myself with other things. I got around to writing up the whole thing

Step aboard the magic bus

feeds@yuku.com (Mags L Halliday) — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 12:34:25 GMT

The contents of the first Iris Wildthyme book from Obverse Books, Iris Wildthyme and the Celestial Omnibus, have been announced. Authors include PPH, Paul Magrs, Jonathan Dennis and, er, me. Enjoy!

Anyone who follows me on twitter will have seen mentions of this story, along the lines of:

is trying...