Eight Rooks

Eight Rooks

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I'm a Creative Writing first-class honours graduate, for what that's worth, and a film reviewer for www.twitchfilm.net under the alias Eight Rooks, though that's taken a back seat to writing fiction for the past month or two. I've never got paid to write, but over the past nine months or so I've reported on Film4 Frightfest 2009, sat on the Silver Melies jury for Leeds International Film Festival 2009 and reported on Rotterdam International Film Festival 2010. If you're taking a look at Twitch, please be aware some content on that site may very likely not be worksafe.

I don't mind solicitations for swap reads etc. up to a point, but the more messages you send, the less the chance I'll ever read your book at all. Theoretically, I couldn't care less if you've made the ED, even though it'd be nice to get there myself. I back things I think are worth supporting.

I'll always try and leave a substantial comment, but if I didn't like your work, I'll tell you, and I can be pretty blunt if I have to explain why I didn't want to keep reading. At the same time, I comment when I think something's worth commenting on, so I'll always try and mention the things I thought were good. There are always exceptions, but generally I give a book maybe thirty seconds, the same way I would do in a bookshop or a library; if it can't get my attention inside that time I think it's fairly likely I'm not going to enjoy it much.

If you need or want to contact me off the site for any pressing reason, feel free to do so at eightrooks(at)hotmail.com.

favourite books

Cryptonomicon, by Neil Stephenson
A Fire Upon the Deep, by Vernor Vinge
Tigana, by Guy Gavriel Kay
Prayers for Rain, by Dennis Lehane
Signal to Noise, by Neil Gaiman and David McKean

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The Fall

Matthew Lee

In a utopian enclave in the distant future, an android must solve the mysterious killings that coincide with his awakening.


A seismic upheaval in the far future awakens a lone Hierophant model android buried beneath the utopian enclave of Beacon City. He emerges into a world he struggles to understand, an existence free from suffering and want, where he's little more than a relic from a distant past no-one has any interest in acknowledging. But this paradise hides a number of dark secrets, and not all its populace are content with the status quo. As a mysterious epidemic starts to claim scores of lives across the city and violence takes over the streets, the Hierophant must find out who or what the catalyst for this nightmare was and decide - was he awoken to save Beacon City? Or destroy it?

 

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I wrote 772 days ago

Hmmm. I like this a fair bit, but in some respects I think it needs a great deal of work. I think you've got a pretty strong narrative voice here, a nice blend of period detail and more contemporary grit that for the most part doesn't swing too far in either direction; it neither feels like sickly m... view book

I wrote 781 days ago

Well, damn. Very, very well written stuff, one of the better - no, one of the best horror entries on the site I've read so far. This is very professional writing, confident, consistent, compelling, and it's only some significant misgivings about pacing and structure that stop me slapping this on my ... view book

I wrote 781 days ago

Four chapters in and I like this. I'll be blunt and say I got the impression you teetered on the edge of parody a couple of times - noir's so easy to do that with I think most people wander across the line without meaning to - and I can't yet comment on what might set this apart from the large numbe... view book

I wrote 781 days ago

Read the first two uploads (three chapters?) and I liked this quite a bit, though I would say it's not without it's problems. The writing definitely gives off the impression of someone who's very, very familiar with the subject matter, there's a lyricism to a lot of it that's not an easy thing to ac... view book

I wrote 782 days ago

Hmmm. I like this quite a bit. It needs working on - I don't know if you're uploading the most recent version or not, but this feels like something of an early draft to me. The narrative voice is a bit inconsistent - there are too many times where people speak in the same way the narrator lays out t... view book

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