Last Light

welshgreen · Post by **welshgreen** » 06 Apr 2008, 00:54

Ordered my copy yesterday! should be here in the next two or three days.

alexscarrow · Post by **alexscarrow** » 06 Apr 2008, 11:54

Hope you enjoy it. (well..again 'enjoy' feels the wrong word to use)

Btw...I hear from my publishers that they're intending to do a poster campaign on the London underground to promote it.

This is really encouraging.

welshgreen · Post by **welshgreen** » 06 Apr 2008, 13:15

Alex, I will tell all my friends about the book. I have already sent a few the link to the video and they seem interested!

alexscarrow · Post by **alexscarrow** » 07 Apr 2008, 19:43

That will be immensely helpful. Word-of-mouth is everything. Thanks.

Post by **clv101** » 07 Apr 2008, 20:52

alexscarrow wrote:...poster campaign on the London underground...

Wow - that's some serious exposure, especially as the subject is so topical. If you can, could you post an image of the poster here?

alexscarrow · Post by **alexscarrow** » 08 Apr 2008, 13:32

Yes...it's very encouraging. I'm really hoping that, and the various other promotions/campaigns will help put PO on everyone's lips. Yes...I'll sell more books...but I'd rather enjoy my income as a writer in a world that isn't a smouldering Post oil-age wreck.

Oh and yes...I plan to snap a photo when the posters go up.

Anyway....please spread the word as far and wide as you can. The book's not just another bleedin' Dan Brown-esque thriller....Last Light was always meant to be a 'recruitment poster' for PO awareness.

Shira · Post by **Shira** » 09 Apr 2008, 00:59

I read it last year and lent it to a PO-aware friend who couldn't bring herself to read more than about half (she's a disabled and depressed single mum living in a run-down block of flats in Hackney, so you can imagine it was quite disturbing for her to read it) but she's now bought a copy of her own and intends to read it when she's feeling up to it. My husband read it and I have to say it scared the ever-living crap out of us both. I'm also disabled so we're really hoping for a slow-ish and manageable descent, but we've stocked up (I think of your damn sardines - or was it pilchards? Fish, anyway, which I cannot stand - and beans every time we go to the supermarket!) and have bug-out bags prepared. We're also now planning to move to Ireland, somewhere sparsely populated and away from cities/large towns/major roads. (yes, I am worried about us being outsiders in a time of trouble, but neither of us live anywhere near where we were born and raised anyway and hopefully we'll be able to establish ourselves as helpful, friendly, useful people before TSHTF). We would probably have got to all that at some point anyway but reading your book made us feel that it was all more urgent! So, er, basically...thanks! You scared us so much we're leaving the country

alexscarrow · Post by **alexscarrow** » 09 Apr 2008, 08:25

Hi.

When I first stumbled on PO, it scared the crap out of me. I think, frankly, that's what needs to happen to everyone else. I know there are those in the PO community who think it undermines the credibility of the movement to have shrill warnings shouted out from the highest rooftops...but I really don't see anybody doing anything at all, unless that happens.

So I'm shouting.

And I hope it has some affect

Anwen · Post by **Anwen** » 28 Apr 2008, 10:27

Hi, I am Shira's Friend, and I picked the book up again this morning, I am about ten chapters in..! It's very good, in a terrifying sort of way.

alexscarrow · Post by **alexscarrow** » 28 Apr 2008, 13:39

Hi Anwen,

yeah...it's probably not the best thing to read if you're feeling down - for which I apologise.

On the other hand, the issues raised ought to be thought about and discussed. I was reading in the last issue of New Scientist an article about how dangerously exposed our globalised society is to any kind of unpredictable hiccup...be it a temporary oil stoppage, an outburst of virulant flu....or as we've seen in recent months, a minority of mid-western home owners defaulting on their 100% morgages.

If you remember in 2000, the oil truck drivers...several dozen of them blockaded two or three refineries, and before we knew it, schools and colleges were closing, hospitals were stopping any emergency procedures. There's now no slack at all, no margin for error in this global machine. If one cog fails....the whole machine breaks down.

Sorry...bit of rant there. Anyway, please 'enjoy' the book, but also...prepare yourself with some bottled water and canned goods.

Anwen · Post by **Anwen** » 28 Apr 2008, 13:49

Well, I'm feeling a bit more mentally together (in that I am just at a perfectly sensible level of terror in view of the world's situation right now as opposed to borderline psychosis as I was when I first tried to read it) so, well, it's currently scaring me less than the news, sort of thing! I did have a wry chuckle at one point when someone mentioned oil prices rocketing past $100/b - those were the days, eh?

Anyway, Shira and her husband have been peak aware for quite some time and introduced the whole topic to me a year or two ago as well, so if it can shake up doomers like us, let's hope it may have some effect on the public... Looking forward to seeing the posters on the Tube!

Brad · Post by **Brad** » 06 May 2008, 21:23

Read the book last week, thoroughly enjoyed it.

alexscarrow · Post by **alexscarrow** » 22 Aug 2008, 08:59

If any of you are interested. I've just released another novel in (big release nationwide yesterday) called October Skies

Whilsts it's not a PO story, it's a chilling read. Here's the trailer:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jpKxDZWJMqI

Meanwhile, as I speak, I'm at work on a sequel to Last Light - which in itself Im finding to be quite deppressing.

I realyl need to write a happy-clappy book someday.

welshgreen · Post by **welshgreen** » 22 Aug 2008, 09:58

Ill have a look at that, plus Im looking forward to that sequel!

Mean Mr Mustard · Post by **Mean Mr Mustard** » 22 Aug 2008, 10:11

alexscarrow wrote:
I really need to write a happy-clappy book someday.

RGR will be able to advise you on that.

PowerSwitch

Last Light

October Skies

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