Graham Joyce - ProfilesArchive

About Me

I'm a writer and I've written too many strange books, including The Tooth Fairy, The Facts Of Life and The Limits Of Enchantment. Here's what clever people have said about my work:My Dad: "Your first book was rubbish and they've got worse each time."My Mum: "Very good books. What are they about?"My younger brother: "I'm earning more than you and I didn't go to University."My kids: "Can't you get another job?"My agent: "What kind of book is this?"My editor: "What kind of book is this?"My local bookseller: "What kind of book is this?"My wife: "It'll all look better in the morning."My website: www.grahamjoyce.netMySpace Layouts

My Interests

My interests are polymorphous and perverse. Earth magic. Ancient places. Strange forces. Dark energy. Things we have no wot of. Objects my aunt kept in her drawer that she didn't want us to see.

I'd like to meet:

Writers, artists, musicians, film-makers, creative & independent minded people. Please, no poets unless you can come up with a really good excuse.

Music:

More Than More Than; The Hungry Vurt; Aibi Kiwanti; We Rode On In; Melanie Simpson; The Half Rockets; Silva Prez; Lordy; Mabel You're A Bastard; Ozark Mountain Daredevils; Kate Schoegloss (only the early stuff before she had her religious visions); Fanxalot; Tonto's Expanding Headband; Nuffink; The Pixies; Ar-Tow-Hep; Pillbox; Suzy Kadabra; Any Jimi Hendrix; Bongo Yabuti. Anything like that. OH! I forgot Captain Beefheart! That's unforgiveable, to go around forgetting Captain Beefheart.

Movies:

Jacob's Ladder. Donnie Darko. Jean De Floret. Bladerunner. Solaris (both versions). Excalibur. Mulholland Drive. Photographing Fairies. Fight Club. Oh this is taking ages, come back later.

Television:

Telly is pollution. Kill telly. Except if it's been written by me or Mark Chadbourn, then it's fine, actually.

Books:

Well there are books and then there are books. And then there are books.

Heroes:

Pity the land that needs a hero.