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The Three Ages of D.F. Lewis
0. 1948-1985 — Poems / Zeroist Group (1960s), The Visitor (Novel) 1973, Agra Aska (novella) 1983.
1. 1986-2000 – Over 1000 fiction publications in magazines and anthologies, some selected for the Prime Books D.F. Lewis collection ‘Weirdmonger’ (2003). Work once in Stand, Iron, Panurge, Orbis, London Magazine….
I was awarded the BFS Karl Edward Wagner Award.
2. 2001-2010 – Publishing multi-authored ‘Nemonymous’.
3. 2008-
GESTALT REAL-TIME REVIEWING (www.nemonymous.com),
Plus one novel NEMONYMOUS NIGHT (Chômu Press), a story collection and two novellas entitled THE LAST BALCONY (InkerMen Press), and a novella entitled Weirdtongue (InkerMen Press), and my reprint of Agra Aska that was originally published in 1998 by Scorpion Press,
Plus three originally created multi-authored anthologies that I published,
Plus two books from Mount Abraxas Press, and an Eibonvale chapbook called The Big Headed People. And a book collection from Eibonvale: DABBLING WITH DIABELLI,
Plus, in July 2020, a past story selected for THE BIG BOOK OF MODERN FANTASY edited by Ann and Jeff VanderMeer.
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THE LAST BALCONY: HERE

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After many satisfying years of gestalt real-time reviewing, it now feels really special to see one of my own old stories showcased here!

My detailed review of this Big Book: HERE
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MASK


The Ha of Ha above.
Late Labelling:

Someone’s FB for Friends (HERE) discussing Patreon (that I had not heard of before – similar to Kickstarter?) and a seemingLy controversial spin-off thread on the topic of a reviewer buying books to review or having them sent to a prospective reviewer free.
It could sometimes be really hard fitting reviews into 200-300 words when that was the BFS rule, as Dave Brzeski mentions, but it was a good discipline. No idea how Mojo writers manage to do it in 40 for their short reviews.
Patreon is a bit different to Kickstarter. On Kickstarter your project gets funded in one big lump (like I’ve backed the Hemingwrite, and the new MST3K), but Patreon is more like ongoing sponsorship, where you pay a bit if you want to.
Another FB for Friends thread HERE that continues the previous ones linked earlier on this Controversies thread about the big sad British Horror genre controversy from over the last six or seven years…
Marked to Die: http://www.ligotti.net/showthread.php?t=10037&page=13
Looks to have many great writers included. It also represents a rare independently published story by myself. This is one of five such stories published since 2000, whereas I had one thousand plus such stories published in print before 2000. This is probably my last published story.
Philip Fracassi: https://www.facebook.com/philipfracassi/posts/10154224989199154
Gary Fry: https://www.facebook.com/gary.fry.942/posts/10154344632463755
And here
Brett Savory: https://www.facebook.com/brett.savory/posts/10153448478165916
Rhys Hughes: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10156945088620246&set=a.122429835245.210987.791845245&type=3&theater
Me : https://www.facebook.com/des.lewis.90/posts/1322867337728476?pnref=story
#BleakWarrior
https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2016/06/10/bleakwarrior-alistair-rennie/
A symbol for these controversies as battles to the death?
“this is the kind of person that either has multiple pages or has had to restart his page because so many have blocked him. Delete and block as — says. He’s Billy no mates anyway – it’s why he has to get his jollies from cyber bullying female authors.”
“Ignore the trolls, you have some deeply shady ‘writers’ or idiots who consider themselves to be ‘writers’ who are so jealous of others that they deliberately try to harm their careers.”
“send him this way … I’m in just the right mood to have a little chat…I’ll even supply the duct tape.”
Sympathies to you.
Let us know when the vaguebook can become a focusgroup.
It’s weird for an offhand comment from four years ago to suddenly become such a big deal. The writer in question had obviously been stewing about it for a long time, decided to confront me, and seemed as if they expected me to be embarrassed about it. Of course I wasn’t, and I was able to back up everything I had said back then, and I was also quite happy to discuss their use of a sockpuppet to recommend their own books. I’m being careful to not say who it is, bearing in mind the lessons I learned from Jon Ronson’s book on internet shaming, but the more they kick up a fuss the more they’ll attract attention to the stuff they’ve been up to, so I’m happy to leave them to it.
Not heard of that Ronson book before.
Looks fascinating! https://www.amazon.co.uk/So-Youve-Been-Publicly-Shamed/dp/1594487138
PS: I am now reading it on Kindle.
I think it’s quite an important book. Made me reflect on how things went with S_e D__t a while back. She was hassling me, which was irksome, so I talked about it on Twitter, posted screenshots, but then it went semi-viral, and she ended up being hate-rated by dozens of people on Goodreads protesting against authors harassing reviewers. She just wasn’t equipped to deal with that attention, and I rather regret bringing it on her.
Right now, I could be posting screenshots on Twitter of this author’s sockpuppeting, of the things she and her friends are saying about me (the latest gems: “curse his flesh with a million paper cuts and a wedge of lemon”, “Someone with a problem with female genre writers”, “Kill him. Kill him with fire”, “I just hope someone posts a photo of his needle dick so we can all laugh at him”), but would it make me any happier?
So that’s why I just subtweet about such things now.
And what wss good enough for the More Dark man is good enough for the Mark man, I guess.
BFA Juror reported here as talking about one of the nominated books on Twitter.
He mentioned it in a reading progress update on Goodreads. It’s not against the BFA rules to talk about what you’re reading, and I’ve made it clear to him that I don’t think he needs to resign.
Thanks for the clarification, Stephen.
Jeff VanderMeer’s view of Quentin S Crisp and Chomu Press HERE.
Thread now deleted.
http://www.ligotti.net/showpost.php?p=126563&postcount=7
Not a controversy as such, but what I consider to be an interesting discussion about reviews with Rolnikov on his Friends only FB HERE. Although not fully public, it did start with a public Tweet, I believe.
Sarah Pinborough’s forthright FB view on the social media controversy that seems to have been circling around Allyson Bird for some years: HERE
The above FB thread now seems to be deleted – or temporarily deactivated?
WFC programming? https://twitter.com/sarahpinsker/status/760200618929709056
Jeff VanderMeer on this subject HERE.
PART SEVEN of this thread will continue HERE.