Comments on: Unborn devil

By: kjbishop

kjbishop — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 22:50:53 +0000

I haven’t been there for very long, but I’m told it has changed a lot in the last 10-20 years.

Thanks for the compliment!

By: daniel6

daniel6 — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 13:06:30 +0000

sky train! the ground was hardly fit enough for samlars! seems the town has grown up, not at all like me.
thanks for the memory and the fiction. not to be too coy, but you are my new favorite author. i shall look forward to your new work.

By: kjbishop

kjbishop — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 06:10:19 +0000

Daniel -- glad you liked Etched City & thanks for dropping by. Thanks also for the reassurance about interviews. Yup, short work is available online here and there: The Heart of a Mouse Saving the Gleeful Horse The Art of Dying here and here, two slightly different versions, neither of which I'm now happy with. I'm currently revamping old stories and writing a new one for a collection which I hope to find a publisher for later this year. Here's a picture of soi 72 nowadays -- you can see the Skytrain extension, but so far trains only run to On Nut.

By: daniel6

daniel6 — Sun, 11 Apr 2010 15:23:55 +0000

you are discovered. i have just finished “the etched city” and was transported. many thanks.

despite your dismissals, your interviews, the few i’ve read, are well considered and involving.

is your short work available still?

my house was on soi 72 and then there was jungle. what is it like now?

By: Alankria

Alankria — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 22:02:07 +0000

I am currently phone-less, so I shall orchestrate via Tori tonight/tomorrow morning!

By: kjbishop

kjbishop — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 14:15:58 +0000

Let’s try for that Saturday drink — Tori has my number. If no go, look forward to seeing you on one of the crossing paths.

By: Alankria

Alankria — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 12:54:05 +0000

I get in at 11pm on Friday, but perhaps we can sneak in a quick morning drink on Saturday? Tori and I fly to Chiang Mai sometime in the afternoon; I know we arrive at 5pm in Chiang Mai, so presumably we depart around 4pm.

If not, I’m going to be popping back into Thailand a couple of times before I set off to the UK in September, so I’m sure our paths will cross after your return from Aus.

By: kjbishop

kjbishop — Sat, 03 Apr 2010 23:21:40 +0000

Sounds like you drove the best way!

Noes, I’m going to miss you! I’m leaving for Oz on the 12th and won’t be back till late in May. If you want a copy of the Chinese version, pop up and get one from Stu, or I can send you one.

(Actually, what time do you get into BKK on Friday?)

By: Alankria

Alankria — Sat, 03 Apr 2010 22:45:40 +0000

I didn’t actually drive on the Hume at all; took some nice back roads, some unsealed (but very nicely graded) and others sealed but narrow. I didn’t drive at dusk or night. Kangaroo collisions would have incurred a high cost to me.

By the time I see you next, you’ll be drowning in unborn devils! (I arrive in Bangkok very late this Friday but fly to Chiang Mai the next day to celebrate Songkran with several friends, including Penny, who sadly is not passing through Bangkok at all. I return to Bangkok on the 17th, I think, and will likely stay there a week or so before wandering off to my first new Asian country, which I think will be a journey through Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam. I want to see your pretty Chinese The Etched City! As well as, uh, you and Stu, obviously. >.> <..> )

By: kjbishop

kjbishop — Sat, 03 Apr 2010 06:51:30 +0000

I’m so glad you’re there safely. I was kind of worried. The Hume can be a tiring road to drive on, plus it’s haunted. My dad had a friend who wouldn’t drive on it at night because of the apparitions he’d seen.

Currently I’ve got them sucking thumbs and tails in the other mouths, but kissing would also be good. I think these drawings are going to multiply!