Andrew’s Comments (group member since Oct 09, 2015)

Andrew’s comments from the CLOG - Comedy Literature Only Group group.

The Godfather of CLOG! Good to hear from you Alastair. Glad to hear you're still writing.

Raymond wrote: "Andrew wrote: " ...no harm in waking up this group for a while. Hello all! ."

That's right. I forgot. Andrew Chapman exists. Now I remember.
Except that it's three in the morning "

I'll be more quiet until everyone wakes up. Actually, I think I'll go back to bed.

I have started a YouTube channel called AuthorTube with Andrew Chapman. I figured, as my videos have a touch of humour about them, there's no harm in waking up this group for a while. Hello all! How the devil have you been?

In the world of AuthorTube (the dark corner of YouTube in which authors lurk) there is an obligatory rite of passage called the AuthorTube Newbie Tag 2.0, which is essentially a set of 13 questions that introduce you to the community. Here is mine -
https://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=y...

I miss Bill Hicks too.

What is the joke?

Raymond wrote: "Andrew wrote: "...What have I done?"

You have gotten out of bed at the darkest hour of the writers night. Leaving behind the Bunny Slippers of Comedy. You have stumbled into the wing of the house ..."

I can't leave the comedy world completely. The bunny slippers are too comfortable. I didn't intend to write a horror. And it's not some dark spooky thing, I'm having fun and I think it comes through. There is some serious violence in it though.

Rob wrote: "No strangely alluring vampires.
No other sort of vampires.
No chosen ones.
No arcane relics with the power to release an ancient evil.
A maximum of one zombie, and then only seen at a considerable distance.
No remote log cabins, unless presented ironically.
At least one fart gag.
No vampires. (It's just copying.)"

You'll be glad to hear it does not feature any of those things.

The hole thing is mostly set in daytime during the summer (in the South of England) and has a scene where a boy is attacked by Mario (of Nintendo fame). Goosebumps for grownups. Sort of.

On the guitar front, are the Rickenbacker clones made from a single piece of wood like the real thing? A friend of mine had one and it was the smoothest thing I've ever played. I've just sold my banjo, acoustic bass, and travel guitar. I've only got five guitars left now. How will I cope?

There is a lot of humour in it, I'm not sure how to not include it. People make each other laugh, I think that's important in character building. But it is at it's foremost a horror.

I've spent much of Christmas coughing into a tissue and sleeping off a classic case of Rhinovirus. The kid gave it to me and now the missus has it. It's been a riot of snot and fevers all around.

Things are looking good on the writing front though. I'm 50,000 words into my first proper novel. My first two were technically novellas. So this will be my first real book.

I'm wondering what I'm going to do with it though. My first two books were comedies and I intend to write more comedies in the future, but this thing I'm writing now, well, it's a horror.

So what does that mean? Am I still welcome here at CLOG? Will anyone here be interested in reading it when the time comes? I don't have a group of horror writing friends I can turn to. I only have you guys.

What have I done?

Alastair... I knew a guy with that name who had a top hat on his head. But I don't recall any spacemen. Who is this astronaut?

ACX have given me some codes so reviewers can get copies for free. If anyone on here has Audible and would be good enough to review the audiobook of Tripping the Night Fantastic let me know and I will send you a code in a private message!


Oh, I forgot to say, the audiobook is live on Audible, Amazon, and iTunes!

Hello.

I love audiobooks. I love them. There are so many books I wouldn’t have read if it wasn’t for all those strange audiobook producers who sit endlessly in front of a microphone reading. War and Peace was over 60 hours of audio. Some poor bastard had to read the whole thing. But thank god they did. Because of them (and especially the late Frank Muller, who was a legend among audiobook fans until his untimely passing due to a motorcycle accident). Great Expectations, Moby Dick, all of those really big ones we always hope to one day read, I have read because, like a child, I had them read to me.

It’s frowned upon, or at least it was, the listening to of an audiobook. But the impression of these things is changing thanks to Audible. But still a bit of, “Well, you didn’t really read it did you?” goes on. It doesn’t matter by what method the words get into your head, it only matters that they do. I read with my eyes too, my bookcase is overflowing, sometimes I also read with my ears, that’s all. Blind people read with their fingers. You’re not going to accuse them of being lazy are you? I knew a guy who read with his elbows, but he was probably functioning on a different plain of sanity altogether.

Audio is my favourite medium for entertainment. I love podcasts, I love music, and I love audiobooks. It is for this reason that I am as excited as a very excitable person doing a very exciting thing (god I’m great at synonyms. It must be the writer in me…) to announce that Tripping the Night Fantastic, my first novel (and a very strange one at that) has just completed the recording process!

The files have been sent to ACX for review and soon the book will be available to all through Audible and Amazon. When the big day comes I will write another blog post with links and a cheeky little trick that means you can get the book for free and I and the producer/voice-artist (Alan Gronner) will still get paid.

More soon! Hip hip hurrah!

What do you think of the cover for the audiobook?

(I have been lazy and just copy and pasted all of the above from my website. Let me know what you think of the cover - https://andychapwriter.com/2018/06/13...

Have any of you funny looking bunch thought about having your books produced in audio? I highly recommend ACX. It's free if you do a 50/50 royalty share with the producer. You put up a short sample of your book and then people audition and you pick the one you like. It costs nothing!)

I'm glad you liked it! Fairly good response all round it seems. I need to sit myself down in front of that computer and figure out what the hell happens next!

Hopefully more will come soon...

You've all gone mad. The most combustible pet, I've heard, is a parrot. I'll lend you one if you need it.


Monsieur Cushions, I'm a bit late to this thread, but could you chuck a copy my way?


Kind regarbles,
Andy

On its way Nico!

No worries Nico. I don't believe I have your email address.

I really have no idea what the story is about. I'm making it up as I go along. My only goal it to make myself laugh, which is a very childish way to write a story. Still, I'm a very childish person.

I'm not sure yet how she broke the universe. The "I" narrator co-owns the spy supplier that masquerades as a spy supplier (Shipertons and Nala's Accessories are the same place. I need to make that clearer). And yes, the change from Brenda to Barbara was an accident. Feel free to ignore that. I will fix it.

On it's way

Google can't handle Donna Blithers. It's quite apt really, she is (as you will discover) responsible for breaking the universe.