Books By Alan

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RealmShift

"an inventive and action-packed story"

"a gripping, thought-provoking tale"

"a novel I am loath to put down. A most surprising read. Quite a ride"

"fast-paced and engrossing"

"RealmShift is phenomenal. If it’s not already on your bookshelf it should be."

MageSign

"a fast-paced ride through a visceral reality"

"a fast paced supernatural adventure that will leave readers rethinking how they view the Cosmos"

"a gritty tale of blood rituals, mystery, and mysticism… grabs hold of the reader and doesn’t let go"

"fantastic qualities … horrific at times... I highly recommend it"

"Alan Baxter takes the reader right to the edge and then pushes us over. And I thank him for it."

Ghost Of The Black

"Excellent pacing"

"I’ve found myself not wanting to stop reading"

"Everything about it is bang on"

"very, very readable."

Wise Words

"Things need not have happened to be true. Tales and dreams are the shadow-truths that will endure when mere facts are dust and ashes, and forgot." - Morpheus, The Sandman - Dream Country (Neil Gaiman)

"A powerful agent is the right word. Whenever we come upon one of those intensly right words in a book or a newspaper the resulting effect is physical as well as spiritual, and electrically prompt." - Mark Twain

"At the beginning there was the Word - at the end just the Cliche." - Stanislaw J Lec

Pretentious spam arsehole of the week

December 19, 2009

By alan

I got this spam comment today:

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Can you guess what post it was on? It was this one, where I reposted the list of Aurealis Award finalists.

Seriously, what a fuckwit.

8 Responses to Pretentious spam arsehole of the week

Michael on December 20, 2009 at 1:14 am

Yeah, it’s always the funniest when I get those types of spam comments on my posts that are just link collections!
alan on December 20, 2009 at 1:31 am

It’s just such lazy spamming.
Dianne on December 20, 2009 at 5:56 pm

Wow! It looks like the post might have been translated from another language.
alan on December 21, 2009 at 3:01 pm

The language of arseholes.
Gillian on December 22, 2009 at 4:53 am

I’ve had that exact one 4 times this last fortnight. At least they have taste in bloggers.
alan on December 22, 2009 at 5:05 am

Gillian – maybe one of us infected the other!
Gillian on December 22, 2009 at 5:15 am

I think we should blame a third party, just because we can.
alan on December 22, 2009 at 5:23 am

Sounds fair to me.