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Wednesday, 6 September 2023

Pipe Dreams by Guy N Smith

Wednesday, September 06, 2023

I can seriously recommend The Dark One as my favourite GNS novel. Masterly fast-paced writing. Anyway, time now to read my 17th GNS book of 2023. Taking a break from his novels for this one...




Monday, 4 September 2023

It's Spider Season!

September 03, 2023

It's spider season in our garden at the moment. Can't move for them!


Sunday, 3 September 2023

It's September

September 02, 2023

It's September. Which means my August break from project work is over. Four projects will be occupying my evenings over the course of the next few weeks. The first is Cold Comfort, my 200,000-word zombie apocalypse novel. I want the final draft of Part One of the book completed this month. Expect to see the full book published sometime in early 2024. The second project will be Tidal Gower. I want to source as much of my photography for this guidebook by the end of September as possible. The third project is the horror novel I want to publish in 2025, which is set in a city office block. I have the title already sorted, and the main premise of the story is looking great. During the next four weeks, I want to put a little meat on the bones of the tale and take advice that there will be no legal or other repercussions for me, given the book's incendiary title and the nature of the novel. Finally, I have a couple of Guy N Smith books I want to read in the next few weeks. I need to start taking notes for my book on the addictive nature of collecting in general and, more specifically, the trials and tribulations of collecting GNS books, manuscripts etc. So, that's my September sorted...



Wednesday, 30 August 2023

Happy Reading

August 30, 2023 

I am really enjoying this book - probably one of GNS' best...

Saturday, 26 August 2023

Guy N Smith - The Dark One

August 26, 2023

Time to start reading my 16th GNS book of the year. 

Thursday, 24 August 2023

GNS Update

August 24, 2023

It's been a busy, and non too cheap, week here on the GNS front. First of all, I managed to grab these four fighters from a previous collector, which included that scarce and probably rarest GNS to find in today's market - Deadbeat.


The have now found their new home snuggled against other classics from "the great scribbler", including Guy's autobiography, which I was offered the day after I purchased above.


Unfortunately, the above titled isn't signed, so if anyone out there reading this has a signed copy they think might find a good home with me, please let me know.

Anyway, here's a pic of my GNS collection as it stands today. This includes all of his books, chapbooks, fanzines and actual hand-written manuscripts from the writer. For those interested in a more in-depth guide to my collection, please click here: https://www.pixie-led.co.uk/p/1.html


Coincidentally, I finished reading my 15th GNS book today. And so I pulled my 16th read from the shelves above:


 I sourced this book a few months back from an online USA thrift shop. And now it's time to open it's cover on this side of the Atlantic and delve into another of Guy's dark work of horror fiction...