Dracula Retold : A Tales From The Back Side Production

I believe someone out there has a wicked sense of humour It wouldnt be you by any chance? Even though I've only read the first chapter I do intend to read the lot. So I'll back your book becuase I want to know what happens to the orangutan. Yours PelhamJamesJnr10

Very funny and backed with pleasure!

Rusty Bernard
The Mental Pause

hullo Anthony. what an interesting gathering of short stories. I like how you keep an edge of comedy through out. as I can see form your profile there are many more books of yours for me to read. Very good. Already shelved and backed.
Please take a look at my book if you have not and thanks for that.
Linda Lou Long
Southern dis-Comfort
http://www.authonomy.com/ViewBook.aspx?bookid=11421

Ok this is the last one I will read, I have not read it all but will carry on, but for now backed and for now I have to go to bed. Yes your characters are still in my head.

Denise
The Letter

Dear Anthony, 5th book to back, one more to go. ;) I like your Dracula much better than the original - more fun - lots of humors. :) Well written. :) Love, Susie :)

Let me begin by giving my impression of a truely great writing style. What does he mean by that? one might wonder? Well, the writing conveys a presence of being inside the mind of the author, somewhat like sitting in a chair off to the side listening to the "wheels go around in the brain" as the prose appears with comedy leading the charge. The work is a delight to read. Backed. Chuck (Paperboy Adventures) (Literary Agent Blues)

The brilliant cover conveys the writing perectly. this is quirly, funny with the most bizarre companion. i laughed at the fun nature of it. Johnathan harker in bermuda shorts and cursing alarm clocks? it throws you at first but then sucks you right in. the old man and woman echo something is wrong here by appearance alone and i loved the bit where dracula signs the note "All my love." and reassuring harker he will send a carriage with four wheels was so good. Irreverent, insightful, brilliant

How original! Kudos! Just read the first chapter and I'm hooked! You've got my backing...Good luck!

I hope never to walk anywhere near the orang-utan. What a companion for anyone to endure, and yet be on such an important trip to visit a client--a Count no less. As a reader, I retain my right to award my own awards for literature. Currently, this work is in my number one position for comedy, and all that goes with it. I don't have time to make critical remarks because I want to read more of this work. I hereby award my first CICA medal (Chuck's Imaginative Creative Award). Backed Chuck (Paperboy Adventures)

This is just relentlessly silly! What more can I say. It is the greatest accolade that you pull this off so well. Every line of the five chapters I have read has made me smile, you have one the highest gag counts I have seen.
Shelved.

What a fantastic take on life, so glad we are all different; else we wouldn’t have great writing like this. Perhaps could have brought the dialogue in earlier an introspectively back fill the front bit, but then again? Great story

Famlavan – Museum of Old Beliefs

SHELVING you because Tim did. I can use your comments on my book when you can get a chance. Cheers!

JC
The Obergemau Key

Very amusing. Loved the dishwashing and minor prostitution and the farting orangutang. This is definitely a new take on a cliche character.

Tim Chambers
Moonbeam Highway: With Apologies to Miguel de Cervantes.

backed for the lols ^^

I'm enjoying this, so am backing without any more comment. Like Beval(and others), I was reminded of Terry Pratchett's Librarian. All the best with this.

I have to say I've never met an orang-utan I didn't like, the Libarian in Terry Prachett, the charming creature Stephen Matruin found and now Agnes:-))
I've no idea why she's in this and I don't care, because its all hilarious and she just adds to the fun.
Its many years since I read Dracula, I was a total whimp and had to read it in daylight and then sleep with the light on, but I remember enough to see where this comes from and hopefully where its going.
I wish there was more.
Backed.

After reading your manuscript, I remembered what I loved about reading
This is a very interesting manuscript. It is well written and speaks to a variety of readers
You have a flair for connecting your readers with your characters. This is no small feat.
It feels real and not forced. You should be very proud.
This is undeniably suspenseful
Once I started reading, I could not put it down
I wish you the best
Scott
The Esrevinu Chronicles/Secrets of the Elephant Rocks

I know it's cliched to say that 'i laughed out loud' - but this is good enough to evoke that response. My trade prevents me from quoting my favourite bits back at you - but I loved it. I love this sideways form of insane, clever, comedy. Brilliant. SImon

Anthony. This is just plain bloody hilarious. I detect all sorts of influences here, from Mark Twain to W.C.Fields and Spike Milligan - you have a highly developed sense of the ridiculous, and I just love that. Lovely description of the various hotels and misadventures, and I've only read the first chapter! If this doesn't rocket up the charts here then I'd take it elsewhere because no one has a sense of humour and they don't deserve it.

Very happily and laughingly backed. I shall return. Why the orang utan?

Nicholas ("The Warlock") - a different kind of horror.

Anthony. This is just plain bloody hilarious. I detect all sorts of influences here, from Mark Twain to W.C.Fields and Spike Milligan - you have a highly developed sense of the ridiculous, and I just love that. Lovely description of the various hotels and misadventures, and I've only read the first chapter! If this doesn't rocket up the charts here then I'd take it elsewhere because no one has a sense of humour and they don't deserve it.

Very happily and laughingly backed. I shall return. Why the orang utan?

Nicholas ("The Warlock") - a different kind of horror.

Anthony. This is just plain bloody hilarious. I detect all sorts of influences here, from Mark Twain to W.C.Fields and Spike Milligan - you have a highly developed sense of the ridiculous, and I just love that. Lovely description of the various hotels and misadventures, and I've only read the first chapter! If this doesn't rocket up the charts here then I'd take it elsewhere because no one has a sense of humour and they don't deserve it.

Very happily and laughingly backed. I shall return. Why the orang utan?

Nicholas ("The Warlock") - a different kind of horror.

Anthony. This is just plain bloody hilarious. I detect all sorts of influences here, from Mark Twain to W.C.Fields and Spike Milligan - you have a highly developed sense of the ridiculous, and I just love that. Lovely description of the various hotels and misadventures, and I've only read the first chapter! If this doesn't rocket up the charts here then I'd take it elsewhere because no one has a sense of humour and they don't deserve it.

Very happily and laughingly backed. I shall return. Why the orang utan?

Nicholas ("The Warlock") - a different kind of horror.

Just so that you know, I have my own way of commenting. Instead of reading through and then commenting at the end I am making notes as I go along just as if I was looking at a book in a shop or a library. I only ever comment as a reader anyway, and this seems to work quite well and apart from anything else, it is fun. Hope you are happy with that.

First of all I love your cover. Aha nonsense – I love nonsense. My first thought is that it is just a bit rushed, but I am captivated enough to want to read on. It doesn’t really read to me like a journal, I love the little asides and so on but it is reading like a narration. Although I love the orang utang I think that you will have to be careful with him saying OOOK – Have you read any Terry Pratchett? If you have you will already know that he has just this character and so maybe you could make your guy say something else (only an observation and you can of course completely ignore me)

I think you have a very clever and amusing idea here and a witty and whimsical turn of phrase. I am sure that you already know that your book would benefit from editing for typos etc, but then they are the bane of our lives aren’t they. I am going to back this because I think that you have a good start on an unusual idea. Good luck with it. – Diane

Very funny! I love this modern take on Dracula. Very glad to see see you keep the original format of the novel. I kept laughing, and want more!

Marissa
Our Fathers

Oh yes. I like this. Especially the music of the children of the night "does the pianist do requests?" do they really have a marcing band?and why, why an orang utan? Backed.

I read the first two chapters and enjoyed it. The pitch is very good indeed, a real seller.
My only criticism would be that I assumed it would be written in the language of the period within which the original was set. But your language in places is very 'modern' and I wasn't sure whether this was an update and actually takes place in this century.
I haven't read as far as the wolves yet but owing to the number of hilarious comments on here about them I'm definitely going to read on! I backed you on friday and you're on my shelf, I just hadn't had time to comment until now.
Well done,
Alethea (The Hather House)

Oh this is so good! So frickin funny! I love it, and not a damn (bracket) in sight!

Absolutely backed.

Lorrii

Still laughing...I'm doing my read and comment as promised to anyone who backed Mirror in The Sky by Nick Poole during this month...When I got to yours I grinned in preparation of a damned funny and exhilerating read having already read and backed two of your marvelous crazy books.

I love the humor, it's so edgy and over the top situations keep me laughing out loud as i read on. The wolves just about caused me cardiac arrest. Garlic withdrawal can be severe.

Backed for absolute reading pleasure.
Suzannah Burke
Dudes Down Under

Liked it!
Backed it!
A look at mine would be appreciated.
Frank, Sicilian Shadows.

Interesting premise. Best wishes.

Funny stuff. I don't, however, think you need a hyphen for orangutan. Damn, that must've been one powerful fart.

Natalie