There aren't many authors who would dress up in a rubber nurse's outfit to promote their military SF novels.
I'm just sayin'.
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Showing posts with label hardcore. Show all posts
Showing posts with label hardcore. Show all posts
Thanks, Google!
Okay, this is a little odd...
Does anyone know the Google Analytics tool? It's like an uber-hit-tracker. It doesn't just count hits; it breaks them down into unique and repeat hits, gives you statistics on where visitors came from, what they were looking for, compares statistics month-by-month. Generally a really interesting tool. Debatable value, unless you're working in marketing, but there you go.
Anyway, we use it to show our bosses how useful these blogs are, what sort of posts work, what doesn't. We love talking to you guys 'n' gals, but to justify doing it at work, we need to show that it's getting the message out.
So I was combing through the statistics just now. 47 out of the 229 direct visits the blog has received in the past 10 days come from Google. Fair enough. Of those, 6 were from a search for "rubber underwear."
*ahem*
Thank you, Andy Remic. Your rubber panties brought 6 people to our site who might not have visited otherwise. Not sure they're book-buyers, but it's good to reach out to new people.
David
Does anyone know the Google Analytics tool? It's like an uber-hit-tracker. It doesn't just count hits; it breaks them down into unique and repeat hits, gives you statistics on where visitors came from, what they were looking for, compares statistics month-by-month. Generally a really interesting tool. Debatable value, unless you're working in marketing, but there you go.
Anyway, we use it to show our bosses how useful these blogs are, what sort of posts work, what doesn't. We love talking to you guys 'n' gals, but to justify doing it at work, we need to show that it's getting the message out.
So I was combing through the statistics just now. 47 out of the 229 direct visits the blog has received in the past 10 days come from Google. Fair enough. Of those, 6 were from a search for "rubber underwear."
*ahem*
Thank you, Andy Remic. Your rubber panties brought 6 people to our site who might not have visited otherwise. Not sure they're book-buyers, but it's good to reach out to new people.
David
Reviews
The Falcata Times has posted a sterling review of Andy Remic's Hardcore over here.
And Nayu's Reading Corner has reviewed Eric Brown's Cosmopath here.
And Nayu's Reading Corner has reviewed Eric Brown's Cosmopath here.
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Andy Remic Wears Rubber Panties
And now, a message from Andy Remic, our resident 'certifiable film-making nurse idiot' and author of the hard-drinking, hard-fighting Combat-K series of military SF:-
So, I’ve just finished principal photography for the short promo film HARDCORE, in support of my new Combat K book which came out last month. Previously, my film for KELL’S LEGEND was a low budget affair, me and a cam and a couple of friends messing about in various Scottish forests. This time, we pushed the budget a little further and I wrote a script, we coerced a director (Colin Howarth) into filming, we had a proper cast and gun props, and the main location was a steelworks in Bury, the perfect spot for some bloody nurse zombie mayhem!
Whilst writing the short script, it seemed incredibly humorous to take a scene from the book where Franco Haggis “disguises” himself unconvincingly as a nurse in order to blend with all manner of medical deviants. If I’d followed this through mentally, I would have realised the reality of such a writing outcome!! Who gets to play Franco? Me. Who gets to wear rubber underwear? Me. Ha!
Still, much credit must go to Phil, boss-man at Bradshaw Profiles Ltd, the steelworks in Bury where we filmed on location – because, as I stepped from the toilets, a big fat man dressed as a nurse, wearing a sexy lace garter and carrying a real Remington pump-action shotgun, Phil didn’t so much as bat an eyelid – you know, as if gun-toting nurse transvestites stepped from that toilet cubicle ten times a day. However, he did comment that my nail varnish was particularly fetching.
The actual filming was an insanity of, er, insanity. Great fun, running around with guns shooting advancing dribbling zombie nurses. I was completely absorbed by the role, and entered a kind of Zen-like trance whereby for a while, I really believed I was there, and the zombies were freaking me out, and I was in Shaun of the Dead – or something. I also felt, at times, like I was in a computer game (such as Left 4 Dead) pumping round after round into sickly undead flesh. It was a bit of a surreal and confused experience, if the truth be told; but all the actors (the “talent”, to those in the know) had a great time despite -2⁰ conditions and copious amounts of syrupy blood and pus.
The guns (a Remington shotgun, 9mm Uzi and 9mm Luger machine-pistol) were very kindly supplied by The Fusilier Museum in Bury, and added a real air of authenticity (and yeah, I know, I know, more anachronisms—but then, did you realise Han Solo’s gun in Star Wars was actually a German “broom-handle” Mauser pistol from the early 1900s?). I digress. The staff at The Fusilier Museum were extremely helpful, and thanks must go to Colonel Glover for sanctioning gun release to a certifiable film-making nurse idiot.
As I went to bed that night, it was one of those strange situations – a strange day, in fact – where SO MUCH had happened during the day, your brain is fighting itself trying to decode and file a million strands of information… you know, where the things that happened in the morning (in this case, filming in Ramsbottom park) seemed like they happened a month previous! Madness.
Anyway, the HARDCORE film short is currently in post-production, and will go “live” in a couple of weeks at www.andyremic.com and www.solarisbooks.com.
You can also see some production stills at www.grungefilms.com.
And yes, I was wearing a bra and padded boobs.
And yes, rubber panties are damn uncomfortable! Hoho.
-Andy Remic. February 2010.
So, I’ve just finished principal photography for the short promo film HARDCORE, in support of my new Combat K book which came out last month. Previously, my film for KELL’S LEGEND was a low budget affair, me and a cam and a couple of friends messing about in various Scottish forests. This time, we pushed the budget a little further and I wrote a script, we coerced a director (Colin Howarth) into filming, we had a proper cast and gun props, and the main location was a steelworks in Bury, the perfect spot for some bloody nurse zombie mayhem!Whilst writing the short script, it seemed incredibly humorous to take a scene from the book where Franco Haggis “disguises” himself unconvincingly as a nurse in order to blend with all manner of medical deviants. If I’d followed this through mentally, I would have realised the reality of such a writing outcome!! Who gets to play Franco? Me. Who gets to wear rubber underwear? Me. Ha!
Still, much credit must go to Phil, boss-man at Bradshaw Profiles Ltd, the steelworks in Bury where we filmed on location – because, as I stepped from the toilets, a big fat man dressed as a nurse, wearing a sexy lace garter and carrying a real Remington pump-action shotgun, Phil didn’t so much as bat an eyelid – you know, as if gun-toting nurse transvestites stepped from that toilet cubicle ten times a day. However, he did comment that my nail varnish was particularly fetching.
The actual filming was an insanity of, er, insanity. Great fun, running around with guns shooting advancing dribbling zombie nurses. I was completely absorbed by the role, and entered a kind of Zen-like trance whereby for a while, I really believed I was there, and the zombies were freaking me out, and I was in Shaun of the Dead – or something. I also felt, at times, like I was in a computer game (such as Left 4 Dead) pumping round after round into sickly undead flesh. It was a bit of a surreal and confused experience, if the truth be told; but all the actors (the “talent”, to those in the know) had a great time despite -2⁰ conditions and copious amounts of syrupy blood and pus.
The guns (a Remington shotgun, 9mm Uzi and 9mm Luger machine-pistol) were very kindly supplied by The Fusilier Museum in Bury, and added a real air of authenticity (and yeah, I know, I know, more anachronisms—but then, did you realise Han Solo’s gun in Star Wars was actually a German “broom-handle” Mauser pistol from the early 1900s?). I digress. The staff at The Fusilier Museum were extremely helpful, and thanks must go to Colonel Glover for sanctioning gun release to a certifiable film-making nurse idiot.
As I went to bed that night, it was one of those strange situations – a strange day, in fact – where SO MUCH had happened during the day, your brain is fighting itself trying to decode and file a million strands of information… you know, where the things that happened in the morning (in this case, filming in Ramsbottom park) seemed like they happened a month previous! Madness.
Anyway, the HARDCORE film short is currently in post-production, and will go “live” in a couple of weeks at www.andyremic.com and www.solarisbooks.com.
You can also see some production stills at www.grungefilms.com.
And yes, I was wearing a bra and padded boobs.
And yes, rubber panties are damn uncomfortable! Hoho.
-Andy Remic. February 2010.
And now, a message from Andy Remic...
HARDCORE, the new Combat K novel, is officially out 4th January 2010. However, those nice folks at Solaris Books and Forbidden Planet have teamed up to let me do a “pre-publication” signing event at Forbidden Planet in Liverpool. Why Liverpool you ask? Well, my mother’s side of the family originate from Liverpool, so I have blood there, and family there—– should be fun!!
So, if you want your hands on a copy of HARDCORE nearly a month earlier than official publication, or just fancy a coffee and a chat, please drop in!
- Andy Remic
Solaris Books is pleased to announce a signing by our best-selling, hard-hitting military SF author, Andy Remic.
He will be signing Hardcore at Forbidden Planet, 92 Bold Street, Liverpool, L1 4HY, on Saturday 12th December from 1 – 2pm
In a far future where a Junk alien scourge multiplies across Quad-Gal, Combat K are charged with finding the Junk’s homeland and annihilating the enemy. Mission: a quick SLAM drop to Sick World, a long-abandoned hospital planet once dedicated to curing the deformed, the insane, the dying and the dead. As daylight fades, so hibernation ends. The Medical Staff of Sick World, the doctors, nurses, patients and deviants, abandoned with extreme prejudice, a thousand-year gestation of hardcore medical mutation and accelerated healthcare technology; they can smell fresh meat. And Keenan, Pippa and Franco face their toughest battle yet.
You’ll never look at a nurse the same way again.
Andy Remic is a British writer and teacher with an unhealthy love of martial arts, kick-arse bikes, mountain climbing and computer hacking. The new master of violent, high-octane science fiction, Hardcore is his seventh novel and follows the characters from the massively successful Combat-K series. he has been hailed as ‘the new David Gemmell’, and was recently nominated for the David Gemmell award.
So, if you want your hands on a copy of HARDCORE nearly a month earlier than official publication, or just fancy a coffee and a chat, please drop in!
- Andy Remic
Solaris Books is pleased to announce a signing by our best-selling, hard-hitting military SF author, Andy Remic.
He will be signing Hardcore at Forbidden Planet, 92 Bold Street, Liverpool, L1 4HY, on Saturday 12th December from 1 – 2pm
In a far future where a Junk alien scourge multiplies across Quad-Gal, Combat K are charged with finding the Junk’s homeland and annihilating the enemy. Mission: a quick SLAM drop to Sick World, a long-abandoned hospital planet once dedicated to curing the deformed, the insane, the dying and the dead. As daylight fades, so hibernation ends. The Medical Staff of Sick World, the doctors, nurses, patients and deviants, abandoned with extreme prejudice, a thousand-year gestation of hardcore medical mutation and accelerated healthcare technology; they can smell fresh meat. And Keenan, Pippa and Franco face their toughest battle yet.
You’ll never look at a nurse the same way again.
Andy Remic is a British writer and teacher with an unhealthy love of martial arts, kick-arse bikes, mountain climbing and computer hacking. The new master of violent, high-octane science fiction, Hardcore is his seventh novel and follows the characters from the massively successful Combat-K series. he has been hailed as ‘the new David Gemmell’, and was recently nominated for the David Gemmell award.
So Andy Remic has just shown me his "teaser trailer for the film of the book of the film." Don't expect me to think about that too hard this early on a Monday morning.
Said book is Remic's Hardcore, which Solaris Books will be releasing next January. The full film will be released at Andy's website in January, to coincide with the launch of the book.
Said book is Remic's Hardcore, which Solaris Books will be releasing next January. The full film will be released at Andy's website in January, to coincide with the launch of the book.
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