March 2012
18 posts
The Freebie Experiment
The experiment of making the Kindle edition of my book I Was A Teenage Toyah Fan available free for 24 hours under Amazon’s KDP Select scheme was an interesting one and seems to have been a success in its own way - in 24 hours it was downloaded just shy of 700 times and peaked at number 50 in the Kindle chart.
Whether this translates into a greater visibility of the book in the long run...
Free book! →
The kindle version of my book is available FREE today only. If you want to know what its all about…
From 1986 until its closure, Chris Limb ran the official Toyah Willcox Fan Club Tellurian as well as designing and selling merchandise during Toyah’s extensive tours in the early nineties.
This is not that story.
This is the story of what happened before. It began on a dark...
Source: thetouringprinciple.co.uk via Chris on Pinterest
Shada by Gareth Roberts and Douglas Adams
My rating: 4 of 5 stars Shada is very much a story whose reputation precedes it. I first became aware of it in 1979 - when questioning my eight year old brother about a list of the titles of the stories in the next season of Doctor Who he’d seen when our Dad had taken him into work (at the BBC) one day. At the time the title sounded a bit odd to me. It wasn’t The Horror of something...
The Raw Shark Texts by Steven Hall
The Raw Shark Texts by Steven Hall
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
A man wakes up at home having lost his memory. This alone would make a fascinating story but the notes he starts receiving from his earlier self in between visits to the psychiatrist imply that he is dealing with something more than a dissociative fugue and an unexpected experience in his living room one night results in the start of...
A Matter Of Blood by Sarah Pinborough
A Matter Of Blood by Sarah Pinborough
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
Written three years ago, this is a gritty police procedural set in the dark depressing world we’re all now afraid we might wake up to tomorrow. The NHS is as good as gone, the police are riddled with corruption and the banks are calling the shots. A visceral and disturbing thriller, A Matter of Blood is also compelling and...
Techno Prophets
Some speak in hushed tones of how the great Arthur C Clarke predicted the communications satellite in a 1945 edition of Wireless World, others of the way in which William Gibson invented the internet in 1982’s Neuromancer, coining the word cyberspace into the bargain.
And many speak of the legendary Douglas Adams and his description of that wholly remarkable book the Hitch-Hikers Guide to...
Rik Mayall
I was waiting at a bus stop in north London the day after “Mr Jolly Lives Next Door” had been broadcast for the first time. I was muttering “never ever bloody anything ever” under my breath and chuckling to myself at the memory.
I then realised that the only other person waiting at the bus stop was Rik Mayall. I hope he didn’t hear me.
Book Promotion
From 1986 until its closure, Chris Limb ran the official Toyah Willcox Fan Club Tellurian as well as designing and selling merchandise during Toyah’s extensive tours in the early nineties.
This is not that story.
This is the story of what happened before. It began on a dark winter’s night at the tail end of 1979 when a nerdy 14 year old boy watched an episode of the BBC’s detective show...
