Nov 08
Max Bathroom comments: “I think the best way to sell a vampire story is to make it look like a novelisation of a videogame…”
Published 2006
(Average: 7.56 out of 10)
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Max Bathroom comments: “I think the best way to sell a vampire story is to make it look like a novelisation of a videogame…”
Published 2006
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November 8th, 2022 at 11:37 am
When your sex-doll turns vampire.
(I hate it when that happens.)
November 8th, 2022 at 1:04 pm
They had to go to goodreads to get a blurb for the back cover.
https://www.amazon.com/Pretty-Young-Things-Dominic-McDonagh/dp/1845839854
November 8th, 2022 at 1:54 pm
Someone must have just told her to calm down.
November 8th, 2022 at 1:55 pm
@fred
Never a good sign, is it?
At least the current edition in your link to Amazon appears to have a better cover…
November 8th, 2022 at 1:56 pm
@Tor – Or someone said “you’d be prettier if you smiled more”
… and regretted it
November 8th, 2022 at 2:55 pm
I was once invited to write for Telos. They were that desperate.
I wasn’t.
November 8th, 2022 at 5:04 pm
Even vampires like wearing wax lips now and then just for the zany fun of it.
November 8th, 2022 at 11:37 pm
Not particularly fang-tastic or fang-ciful, but may appeal to a certain fang base.
(Sorry gang, that’s all I’ve got, and I’m riding on Tag Master’s coattails)
November 8th, 2022 at 11:41 pm
This is probably a teeny tiny publisher, one guy and the people he can sucker in. I would bet all the money in my pocket. *
And I see the cover has changed for the… less bad now.
Am laughing at the one Amazon review (which seems to have disappeared from the listing) which starts “Despite the blurb’s suggestion that it might be soft porn”, although one of the others says there is all that.
Can’t tell if her eyebrows are “bad rendering software” or “this is TOTES how Dominic fantasizes lesbian rave vampires look”. And not only are her fangs wrong, she’s missing the teeth between the incisors and the fangs. Plus other weirdness with the bottom teeth.
I’d say the one Amazon review visible, the deleted one, and anything from Goodreads are all the reviews he ever got. And he might have paid for some of those.
It’s his debut, and according to Amazon, his finale. And whoever he gave the book to didn’t want it either.
@B’man: That is EXACTLY what happened half a second before this picture.
* $1.68. Who uses cash any more?
November 9th, 2022 at 3:59 am
Telos Publishing.
‘We are not looking for teen romance or angst driven supernatural fiction.’
https://telos.co.uk/
November 9th, 2022 at 6:30 pm
@fred
How are you going to spend the dollar sixty eight you’ve just won?
😉
November 9th, 2022 at 8:02 pm
@Max: LOL and GSS!
I stand by my assertion about “the people he can sucker in”, especially in view of @Tat’s comment.
I’mma give Fred $1.50, he wouldn’t want the pennies anyway. Need to dump those.
November 10th, 2022 at 3:41 am
I can live for a month on $1.50, as my upcoming Telos Publishing book will show.
November 10th, 2022 at 8:48 pm
@fred: LOL. Never mind dodgy SF/F — write a book on how to live on $1.50 a month! You’ll soon get more than that.
I’ll give ya the dime too. $1.60, the holidays are coming up.
November 11th, 2022 at 3:36 pm
Leaving aside fred’s monetary issues and returning to the cover girl’s dentistry issues, is it worth mentioning that the vampires in the book don’t have fangs? Maybe the cover is some sort of stock vampire image left over from when the artist was figuring out how Poser worked…
November 11th, 2022 at 9:58 pm
@Max: ALL the teeth, regular and fangs, are completely messed-up. and look to have been.cut and pasted from somewhere else.
So you might very well be right.
November 12th, 2022 at 9:08 pm
@GSS ex-noob
I’m sure you’re right, but it might have been nice if the cover artist had skimmed through the book (it’s only a novella, FFS!) and noticed that the vampires don’t have fangs and cut people with blades instead of biting them.
Whoever they were, they might have been able to render a straight razor in Poser (or whatevs) a bit better than they could teeth…
November 12th, 2022 at 9:42 pm
@Max: But if she didn’t have fangs, how would the clueless punters know she’s supposed to be a vampire?
Which might have been the actual thought process — “How will they know she’s a vampire? Cut and paste some teeth and fangs in there in the next 10 minutes! I don’t care how stupid they look!”
Or possibly the “artist” was never able to read the op cit. Just told “vampire chick! Go!”
At any rate, Talos or the author realized their mistake and changed the cover.
November 14th, 2022 at 2:25 pm
@GSS
I’d honestly not thought of that, but you’re right. Without crap fangs, nobody would know she’s a vampire from looking at that cover. There’s no argument with that.
December 3rd, 2022 at 5:13 pm
Will it run on my old PlayStation?