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Publish America today announced that the official release date for Fair Target is 3rd June 2006 although copies will almost certainly be available prior to that. Keep checking www.darrenfinch.com or www.publishamerica.com for updates. The final cover design has now been approved by Darren who is said to be 'thrilled' with it.
***HAPPY NEW YEAR FROM ALL AT WWW.DARRENFINCH.COM***
>>By finchy (Saturday, 31 Dec 2005 13:58)
Happy -belated- Christmas and Happy Peaceful New Year.
;)
>>By Deusrexmachina (Sunday, 1 Jan 2006 21:59)
Should be a good year for you Finchy, congrets :-)
Hot cultural dates for 2006 - The Independent
Published: 01 January 2006
Andy McNab, novelist
I always enjoy going to the Hay Festival (26 May to 4 June). There seem to be a thousand second-hand bookshops in the town, you could spend weeks just browsing though the books. Thankfully there are also quite a few pubs....
"Hon, I won't be home until late, I haven't seen all the pubs... I mean... books yet??"
;-)
>>By Lynn (Sunday, 1 Jan 2006 22:15)
Andy McNab on the payroll of "Dirty" (2005) as the fight technical advisor ...
Official website for movie: http://www.dirtythemovie.com/
DIRTY, based loosely on the notorious Rampart police scandal, depicts a day in the life of two corrupt LA cops (Gooding and Collins, the latter haunted by the ghost of an innocent bystander killed in the line of fire).
Release Date: March 2006
>>By Lynn (Wednesday, 4 Jan 2006 11:27)
Cheers finch, looks like a good read from the sample chapter. All the best with it.
>>By fony (Wednesday, 4 Jan 2006 11:32)
Did Lynn mention this before?
www.boy-solider.co.uk.
It goes to Random House. (the pub) it's interactive for the kid in us. Or for those of un with 12 yr old boys, ok girls too!!
Payback arrived for the New Year...........Yeyy haaa!!
>>By Reighnman (Friday, 6 Jan 2006 00:52)
Well I posted it somewhat different Reighny ;-)
But thanx, it's a nice one.
I'm sure you've finished Payback? What did you think? For me it has to wait till I've finished Aggressor - no I did not finish yet, you don't stuff your favorite meal!! I'm enjoying it slowly cause it's a long wait till next (?) one. Enjoying it really so far but I think I"m ready for a "I hate Silky" design t-shirt by the end.
Oh and Camban!!
you seriously pissed off some intellectual guy in the Hereford area who was not happy to read you would call him a Pointy-Head !!
It appears to be a derogatory term for the local population, such as "pin-head"
Don't worry - I managed to call him down before he squeezed your address out of me
;-))
>>By Lynn (Saturday, 7 Jan 2006 11:40)
The Hereford man is right, I had forgotten about that. But surely he would rather be thought of as an intellectual than some congenitally deformed yokel? Those soldiers can be so cruel with their playground humour.
>>By camban (Monday, 9 Jan 2006 12:18)
Cruel? Try 13 year old girls in highschool! ;-)
>>By Lynn (Monday, 9 Jan 2006 15:23)
Thanx to Milligoon:
Today Channel 4 - Richard & Judy
Jarhead
Anthony Swofford’s bestselling book Jarhead, which recounts his memories of fighting in the first Gulf War, has been adapted for the silver screen. Directed by Sam Mendes, Jarhead is released on Friday. Anthony, along with other guests, including Andy McNab, will join Richard and Judy in the studio to discuss the movie.
Check their website, there seems to be rerun(s) but I have no time to check it out now, so help yourselves
http://www.channel4.com/entertainment/tv/
microsites/R/richardandjudy/todays_show.html
>>By Lynn (Monday, 9 Jan 2006 19:33)
if you have a sky digi box or cable or freeview they repeat Richard and judy at lunchtimes on more 4 and more4+1, as for Andy well he got about a minute as all the talking was coming from john nicol it seemed and little from the author of jarhead or andy or martin bell. its worth a watch if your having lunch if you missed dont worry didnt miss much just Andy talking about NBC suits and why they dont use them, as they take so long to put on.
>>By Milligoon (Tuesday, 10 Jan 2006 01:43)
Thanx Milli, I'm afraid I don't have all that stuff but I hope someone else will be able to see it.
Just uhm.... one thing Mill, "Andy well he got about a minute" and "if you missed dont worry didnt miss much".......those lines don't match ! ;-)
>>By Lynn (Tuesday, 10 Jan 2006 09:17)
well he was on a panel they asked him one question and that was it, so it wanst liek a long interview, and it was just about teh film Jarhead which everyone should see and oh yeah for anyone who has sky over there is starting soon on sky one. looks pretty good made by the guy who made hill street blues.
>>By Milligoon (Wednesday, 11 Jan 2006 02:24)
Ahhh K Ladies and Gents....
Set your Tivo's, Frontline on PBS Tuesday night. Private Contractors issues will be explorde in Iraq.
Will Andy be on? Or Duncan?
Oh I know, the evil Haliburton...F'ing Cheney!!
>>By Reighnman (Friday, 13 Jan 2006 17:17)
I watched that whole series "over there" or should isay was subjected to it, and thought it was load of crap. a buch of actors walking around in nevada, mixed with dallas.
>>By fony (Friday, 13 Jan 2006 17:48)
Fony.....How dare you!!!! Hush!!!!
Oh but yer right, mate!!!
>>By Reighnman (Friday, 13 Jan 2006 19:53)
Four new books are now available written by Americans serving in the current Iraq situation, full story at:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/ 1/hi/world/americas/ 4602958.stm
All are on sale now, so the publishing dates in the article must be wrong. Three are on world wide sale from Amazon but one is US only and can be ordered from abebooks. I know 'cos I ordered them all! Sound like really good stuff.
(ignore the spaces, had to put them in because Flork objected to the 'long word') Must be a way around this?
>>By camban (Monday, 16 Jan 2006 13:42)
Dear all
FAIR TARGET by Darren Finch is now available to buy despite the official launch date being 2nd March. Log on to www.darrenfinch.com and click on the amazon link. Simply type 'darren finch' or 'fair target' and you'll see the book for sale with a couple of reviews
take care
>>By finchy (Wednesday, 18 Jan 2006 01:25)
Good news Finchy!! Worked hard for your succes so very happy for you! :-)
A regiment's strength lies not in its names and colours, but in its men and their families
Terence Blacker - The Independent
Soldiering - sofa-soldiering, that is - has become quite the thing of late. Television has allowed us to be embedded with our boys in Basra or to gloat as the reality TV saps of the moment are subjected to paramilitary discipline in Survivor or Boot Camp. The continued success of the Andy McNab style of commando thriller has confirmed that traditional male fantasies of comradeship and killing foreigners are alive and well in book form, too.
Events in the real Army tend to impinge only marginally on these stay-at-home versions. When a couple of squaddies, naked and muddy, are filmed knocking hell out of one another in front of their fellow soldiers, including NCOs, the civilised world shudders in distaste, preferring not to think too much about the connection between military effectiveness on the one hand and brutal training or initiation rites on the other.
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Nothing about female fantasies but I'm afraid I have no time to fill you in, figure it out for yourselves ;-)
>>By Lynn (Wednesday, 18 Jan 2006 09:39)
F4J (Father 4 Justice) is “a new civil rights movement campaigning for a child's right to see both parents and grandparents”
“PLOT TO KIDNAP LEO BLAIR,” announces the Sun on its cover page. The paper says that sympathisers of the F4J group planned to snatch five-year-old Leo, the Prime Minister’s youngest child, and hold him as their hostage. They would keep him for a short time and release him unharmed.
(...)
Had the men in masks attempted to grab Tony’s youngest, they’d need to have moved faster than a speeding bullet to avoid the volley of shots being fired at their persons.
So says Andy McNab in a piece entitled “Idiot dads lucky they were not shot dead”.
“SAS hero” McNab, a man every bit as shadowy as the Fathers 4 Justice Penguins, Riddlers and Jokers, says any attempt to snatch Leo would have been met by instant death.
“If they’d gone ahead, they’d be lying dead on the ground with bullets in their heads.” He goes on: “I can guarantee these men’s plan would have failed.”
Full article:
http://www.anorak.co.uk/news.cfm?id=169082
The 'piece entitled...' may be in the printed edition?
>>By Lynn (Wednesday, 18 Jan 2006 13:27)
With World Book Day coming up.......... (March 2)
A major new initiative from leading publishers, booksellers and writers, Quick Reads is one of the most exciting developments on the literary scene for years.
First 12 titles in the Quick Reads series will be published on World Book Day.
McNabs 'The Grey Man' however will be published in May when the other 12 are launched.
The site says: "Quick Reads will be backed by a massive marketing and publicity campaign and a major outreach campaign is currently underway to reach all emergent readers"
No idea if this campaign will (actively) involve AM but if anyone hears or reads anything, keep us informed :-)
World Book Day/Quick Reads page:
http://www.worldbookday.com/about/
about_quickreads.asp
>>By Lynn (Wednesday, 18 Jan 2006 13:43)
I know this is an adult (??) site but I feel I'm entitled to a bit of freedom here.. just thought about it when I read (see above) about penguins... Has anyone seen the penguins 4-mens team in Madagascar??
(yes I know it's a cartoon, it's for children, it's Disney! but I loved it)
Hilarious!!!
>>By Lynn (Wednesday, 18 Jan 2006 13:55)
This is an adult site? Well I can't find the pictures, please advise.
Further to my post about the US service personnel who have published books recently. One of them, Kayla Williams, was interviewed at length on BBC News 24 last night. What a special person she is; bright, intelligent, honest, realistic, compassionate, and more. How is it that great nations can produce soldiers of such high calibre but not politicians of quality? This is not an anti-Bush rant either, it applies across the 'Western' world with few exceptions.
>>By camban (Wednesday, 18 Jan 2006 15:12)
Yeah well.. it was 'adult' or 'for grown ups' ... I mean... I took the best out of 2 ;-)
You want to reform the UK into a stratocracy Cam?
>>By Lynn (Wednesday, 18 Jan 2006 15:35)
Well if I knew what stratocracy was I might do!! But a meritocracy certainly, can't think of a single world leader who got there on merit with the possible exception of General Musharraf of Pakistan, 'nuff said?
>>By camban (Wednesday, 18 Jan 2006 16:04)
Dear friends,
Finally, I have a release date for Fair Target - 2/3/06, however, you can order your copy now via the amazon.co.uk link on www.darrenfinch.com just search for 'Darren Finch' or 'Fair Target'.
I would like to take this opportunity to thank all of you for your support in the past and hopefully your continued support in the future.
Grab your copy now and let me know what you think! The sequel, Celebrity Status is almost finished and I'm hoping will be available shortly before Christmas this year.
All the best & kind regards
Darren
>>By finchy (Wednesday, 18 Jan 2006 22:13)
Other sites picking up the F4J news - Megastar says:
S
un "security adviser", ex-SAS rentaquote and man-in-a-silhouette Andy McNab pipes up to slam the plotters as "complete idiots" and adds that they would probably have been filled with lead had they actually attempted anything.
ex-Sas rentaquote! hehehe - sorry, maybe it's not original but it's a new one for me
I'm sure McNab meant 'complete idiots BECAUSE they would probably have been filled with lead' - they must be making him an ex-SAS misquoted one ;-)
>>By Lynn (Wednesday, 18 Jan 2006 23:46)
Good morning boys and girls!!! Hey i watched this thing on tv last night that spoke of the london bombings, and then it occured to me. Has anybody heard Mr McNabs views on the matter? And since the bombings has there been any McNab activity? even though he is indistructable, if he WAS hurt would we be told? an anybody please forward me any links concerning the matter they might have to my flork page? thanks guys. well im supposed to be finishing an assignment. will talk to you soon.
cavey
>>By cavemole2 (Thursday, 19 Jan 2006 10:54)
I think Andy said, "Bombings are good for tourism." " Keep up the good work, boy's"
But don't quote me on that??? Caveman
>>By Reighnman (Thursday, 19 Jan 2006 18:53)
Great idea Cav! I hereby invite mr McNab personally for tea - to prove he was not harmed - I won't believe it until I see it/him ;-))
>>By Lynn (Thursday, 19 Jan 2006 21:25)
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