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Thomas Roper

I am here for Friends and Networking

About Me

Hi, this I am using this page to promote my book - The Tombstone. You can buy it at www.lulu.com/content/819577 . Paper backs cost £6.99 and downloads cost £3.75...................................................... ............................................................ ............................................. If I have added you it's because 1. I know you, 2. I know someone who knows you, 3. You live in Coventry 4. Something on your page has alerted me to the fact that you might like it. I am stating these to avoid the "who are you and why have you added me?" question but feel free to send it anyway. Again this is not a personal page, purely a networking page........................................................ ............................................................ .........................................................Her e is a synopsis of my book........................................................ ............................................................ .........................................................Der ek Merit is a rather sad seventeen year old boy. His father died last year and he is in love with the girl across the road, she is dating his former best friend turned worst enemy. Sounds like you've read it all before, right? Wrong. Derek walks through a graveyard on the way home from school to avoid being beaten up by this guy and his new friends. One day he spots a glowing tombstone and a ghost appears. He tells Derek that he is him in a past life and that he can sort his life out for him. Derek, moron that he is, listens. Then people start dying and Derek doesn't know if he is the one killing them or if he's just going insane. It becomes clear though, that this ghost is not who he says he is. See - zombies attack a fast food restaurant - a seventeen year old boy have a romantic date with a middle aged police chief - a boy eat his best friend, but even more horrifying, use the 'my dog has got no nose' joke.

My Interests

Writing and making music. www.myspace.com/thetombstonemusic.

I'd like to meet:

Readers of black comedy fantasy. Also fellow writers who wish to alert me to their work. I'll add your music page if you're from Coventry but other wise if you want to request www.myspace.com/thetombstone or www.myspace.com/thetombstonemusic that would be better.

Music:


Insane Clown Posse, The Flaming Lips, Genesis, Atari Teenage Riot, Unkle, Kate Bush, Dizzee Rascal, Random 666, Kasabian, Faith No More, Gary Moore, Cult Of Luna, Radiohead, The B52s, The Cardigans, New Order, Babylon Zoo, The Cooper Temple Clause, Muse, Portishead, Silverchair, Nine Inch Nails, Deftones, CKY, Royksopp, Fischerspooner, Blur, Meshuggah, N.E.R.D, Tori Amos, Air, Gnarls Barkley, Cypress Hill, Pulp, Morcheeba, Boards of Canada, The Mars Volta, Sonic Youth, Outkast, Gossip, Tom Waits, Electronicat, Siouxsie And The Banshees, Doves, Sneaker Pimps, Curtis Mayfield, Paul Baxter, Soulfly, Klaxons.

Movies:

Strange Things Happen At Sundown, Cannibal! The Musical, Haggard, Anchorman, The 40 Year Old Virgin, The Halloween, Friday The 13th and Nightmare On Elm Street serieses (or whatever the plural of series is), The Nostril Picker, Maniac Nurses Fin..sasy, The Mutilator, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre series, The House Of 1,000 Corpses and The Devils Rejects, Drive In Massacre, I Spit On Your Grave, Suicide, American Splendor, Camp Blood, Death Trap, The Lady Killers, Napoleon Dynamite, Switchblade Romance, Motel Hell, Natural Born Killers, Delta Delta Die, Club Dread, Slumber Party Massacre, Baseketball, The South Park Movie, Freddie Got Fingered, Borat, Saw 1,2,3, Hostel, Bad Santa, It's All Gone Pete Tong, Hole In My Heart, Killer Klowns From Outer Space, Jolly Roger, The Quiet Family, Bikini Massacre, Mustang Sally's Horror House, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, Goth, Breakfast on Pluto, Swamp Zombies, Transamerica, Nightmare Concert, Cadaverella, Click, See No Evil, Ghost In The Shell 2: Innocence, Torture Me No More, Dead Man's Shoes, Evil Aliens, Hoboken Hollow, Secretary, Happiness, Feed, The Man, The Invisable Maniac, The Trip.

Television:

Beavis and Butthead, The Simpsons, Dark Place, The Mighty Boosh, The IT Crowd, Extras, The Office (English and American), Raw, Smackdown and ECW, King Of The Hill, Match Of The Day, Curb Your Enthusiasm, American Dad, Family Guy, South Park, Friends, Frasier, Becker, Everybody Loves Raymond, King Of Queens, Drawn Together, Arrested Development, That 70s Show, Black Books, Trailer Park Boys, Don't Watch That Watch This, Ren and Stimpy, Peep Show, Invader Zim, Adult Swim, Scrubs, Dragon's Den, Brasseye, The Day Today, Harry Hill's TV Burp, Charlie Brooker's Screenwipe, The League Of Gentlemen, Rocko's Modern Life, Cow and Chicken, The Apprentice, Match of the Day, Impact, 120 Minutes, Samurai Jack, Happy Tree Friends.

Books:

Robert Rankin, Terry Pratchett.

Heroes:

Robert Rankin.

My Blog

To those who have bought the book.

First off thank you very much and I hope you like it. Seeing as the only ways I can get it out to a larger number of people is by word of mouth, Myspace or by people checking it out on Lulu it would b...
Posted by Thomas Roper on Sun, 06 May 2007 05:06:00 PST

The site works.

Yay, the site actually works. If you order a book from it you will receive it. The print and cover quality is good too. I have gathered from the time that it has taken to get to people once ...
Posted by Thomas Roper on Sat, 05 May 2007 06:32:00 PST

Questions?

Got any questions? Feel free to ask. I'll post some answers to questions I think I may get here anyway to save you the trouble. 1. Q- Who the fuck are you and why did you add me?   ...
Posted by Thomas Roper on Mon, 30 Apr 2007 09:26:00 PST

www.authorsden.com/thomasroper

Check out my profile at Authors Den. You can see another sneak preview of the book there. You can also see sample pages of the book in the blog section of www.myspace.com/thetombstone....
Posted by Thomas Roper on Fri, 27 Apr 2007 07:11:00 PST