AYLETT WINS JTS CUP

[Michael Moorcock]

The panel sat, the panel judged. Steve Aylett won. Here's his own press release"

Steve Aylett has won the Prix Jack Trevor Story (or Jack Trevor Story
Memorial Award).

The Jack Trevor Story Memorial Award is given occasionally for a work
of fiction or body of work which best celebrates the humorous spirit
of Jack Trevor Story (Live Now Pay Later, Morag's Flying Fortress, The
Wind in the Snotty Gobble Tree, The Trouble With Harry), who died in
1992.

As well as the traditional cup, a cash prize is awarded. The
conditions of the prize are that the money shall be spent in a week to
a fortnight and the author have nothing to show for it at the end of
that time. Aylett, author of LINT, SLAUGHTERMATIC and the newly
released FAIN THE SORCERER, says "Other than humour and imagination, I
think the Prize is index-linked to authors who, no matter how many
books they have published and in print, manage to have no money or
exist in massive debt. Amazon's 'Buy Used' facility means more authors
than ever meet this criteria. I just put money on a table and watch as
it becomes gauzy and then disappears. I'll enjoy watching the Prize
evaporate."

The jury consisted of Mr John Coulthart(UK), M. Jean-Luc Fromental
(France), Mr Michael Moorcock (UK), Mr Martin Stone (France) and Mr
Jeff VanderMeer (USA).


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http://steveaylett.com/Pages/index2.html

LINT -
http://www.steveaylett.com/Pages/LINTpage.html

Fain the Sorcerer:
http://www.pspublishing.co.uk/cat/fts.asp

[GuyLawley]

Krufrudi! I've been so farking busy I realise my lack of response to important stuff like this on Multiverse may be starting to look like bad manners. Apologies and stiff G&Ts all round.

Not sure I'll be able to get this news on the JTS website before I dash off on my hols on the 5th but I'll try.

Congratulations to Mr Aylett whose books I shall have to investigate, if I ever get off this treadmill.

(I wonder if the Gatwick bookshop will have any?)

[xidrep]

Congratulations, Mr Aylett! Perhaps he would like to enter for the PX micro-fiction prize next year: this year's winner has not yet been announced, and already the panel has eaten the prize (two 'Chunky' Kit-Kats) three times over.
On Mr Aylett's observation of the impact of 'Buy Used': correspondents may be interested (or concerned) to hear that our site host has forty-three (43) titles currently on sale in the Molesey 2nd hand book shop. That's at least fifty quid they owe him, surely? Something should be done...

[Michael Moorcock]

Not so much a problem for me, of course, P, but a serious one for authors who haven't sold as many new as I have. Wouldn't it be wonderful, though, if writers had a law, like the recent one for painters, where a royalty has to be paid to the original creative talent every time a work changes hands...

[GuyLawley]

Wouldn't it be wonderful, though, if writers had a law, like the recent one for painters, where a royalty has to be paid to the original creative talent every time a work changes hands...

(Chorus of George Bernard Shaw's ditty "Wouldn't it be luvverly" from Pygmalion.)

My thoughts exactly when I read Mr Aylett's emotionally charged piece.

The new about the Prix has been squeezed onto the JTS website
http://www.jacktrevorstory.co.uk/
by some cyber-hack just before he flitted off to Gtawick to catch his typing error to Ialty. See you all in 2 weeks.

[Doc]

I have to add, if Steve Aylett lives life in a manner even remotely similar to some of his characters, he will have no trouble disposing of his prize money. I say this only because I read Atom recently...

[Michael Moorcock]

I just discovered that some of my ancestors came from Italy and not Spain as had been popularly (in our family) believed. So if you come across any Moorcockos out there, say hello from me...

[Hieronymus]

And Mike, do you know where they were from?

[Michael Moorcock]

Northern Italy, I understand, though there was some claim they were from Venice. I just got a hint of this from reading a magazine article here in France. I'll see what else I can find.

[Hieronymus]

That's funny Mike!
Venice has some particular aspects similar to Melnibonè

[Michael Moorcock]

The chief city in The Fortress of the Pearl was based on Venice, as you might have spotted. I love Venice, but frankly don't feel any 'echo' of ancestors there. Also wrote about it, of course, in the last Pyat novel.

[Hieronymus]

It's a "strange" town, very magical but also dark and disquieting for me...too much water around...I prefer Rome or Siena as places.
Another "magical" city is Ferrara if you love Italian Reinassance of Ariosto and Tasso and the surrealistic art of De Chirico.

[tvissoc]

Supposedly my family is of Italian decent. Last name spelled Visocchi, I believe.

Tony

[xidrep]

I went in to Borders (Brighton) yesterday and bought that new 3AM Magazine assemblage of avant garde writerly types, and Mr Aylett features in this collection. I haven't read it yet, though, 'cos I also bought some John Wyndham, and I'm more in the mood for him at the moment. Though, I wanted four JW paperbacks, but they were, like, £7.99-£8.99 each...and I thought, well, bugger that: £32 for four 1/4 inch-thick jobs? And I don't care for the cartoony-humour covers, neither. Not when I can get the original editions for about eight pee each down the road. In fact, I should have gone down the road to start with, but it was a bit late to walk back to Molesey. So I just bought Day of the Triffids, the one I remembered I already had the minute I got back in the car. And I haven't even finished The Kraken Wakes, which I'm re-reading.
But I'm looking forward to Mr Aylett's pieces. And I didn't know that 3AM Magazine did all this sort of thing. Although some of its a wee bit pretentious, much of it looks most entertaining.
I could do with a bath, now, but I've worried myself that a Sea-Tank or some of that upward aquatic lightning's going to come up the plug.
£8 bloody 99 though....

[Typhoid_Mary]

Hey Perd, if you have a spare copy of Day of the Triffids, maybe we could do swapsies?