Last year my lovely publisher, Beautiful Books, went into administration leaving me unpaid and forcing me to buy back unsold stock. I bear them no ill will and I miss them very much. Around the same time, I parted company with my agent, who, like the two before, hadn’t been able to place any of my work. I have no issues with any of my agents. Sometimes these things just don’t work out.
But it can leave you with the creeping sense that maybe, just maybe, your work isn’t very good – shouldn’t admit that publicly but I think it’s an important detail. Everything seemed a bit bleak and I started writing about it on this blog.
Since then, there have been some changes of fortune. In a scrumptious reversal of convention, editors and publishers have approached me. This has already created two forthcoming books: Splinters, a collection of my short fiction to be published by Timeline Books in September and Blood Fugue, a twist on the vampire genre, due from Proxima in November.
Other developments are afoot and I’ll chat about them here from time to time. Or you can simply wait for the odd poem or bit of nonsense verse that sometimes appears on these pages.
Thanks for dropping by.
All the best,
Joseph D’Lacey
Disclaimer
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Should the random collections of letters and words found on this blog cause an unfavourable emotional response in readers, you are duly advised to get a hold of yourself and stop taking things so personally. Anyone wishing to sue for breach of reality or unfavourable interpretation of supposed events can take a nose dive off an A-380’s tailfin. I bid you all a cheery wave from the far side of both irretrievably and monumentally not giving a fuck.
Having read your work I can say with certainty a new publisher is going to snap you up pretty sharpish…well I hope so, I want a new D’lacey book to read!
I’m torn between print books and Ebooks at the moment, on one hand I want to reach the most people possible but on the other I feel as if converting to the dark side (Ebooks) would somehow kill some of the magic in my work. Hopefully something will come along soon that suits your work down to the ground and have you back on the bookshelves (actual or virtual) soon!
Good luck!
‘No, I will not keep calm
…and you can f*ck off’!
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Hello,
I’ve read that Stephen King wrote “D’Lacey rocks!”. I was wondering if he said more and where this quote come from?
Thanks for reading,
Jeremy.
Hello, Jeremy.
Thanks for stopping by.
Mr. King’s comment was, in totality: “Joseph D’Lacey rocks!” It was his reaction to reading the novel MEAT. It remains one of the best things ever to happen to me in this rather odd ‘business’ of being an author.