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SpikeMagazine.com is a website about books, culture and ideas. Spike has been online in various forms since 1996. Thanks to a small army of contributors over the last 11 years, Spike has hundreds of book reviews, interviews, music reviews and features with writers, artists and musicians.

About Spike’s Editor
SpikeMagazine.com is edited by me, Chris Mitchell. I am a British writer and web designer currently based in Bangkok, Thailand. Scuba diving is my big passion (hence why I’m living in Thailand) and I am a Field Editor for Scuba Diver AustralAsia magazine and a regular contributor to Asian Diver magazine.

I edit SpikeMagazine.com in my spare time and travel frequently, so while I love getting email, I am not so good at responding to it unless it’s urgent. Please don’t expect a super quick reply to any correspondence. Sorry if this sounds rude, but I simply do not have time to respond to all the email I receive.

Sending Books For Review
I am always interested in hearing about new books from both book publicists and authors directly. The Thai postal service is efficient, so besides the extra postage, sending books to me here in Thailand is not a problem. Please email me using the form below for my postal address and let me know what you’d like to send to ensure it’s something I am interested in seeing for Spike.

Please note I do not review any of the following: children or young adult books, mass fiction (fantasy/crime/thrillers etc), celebrity, sports, cookery or self help. Besides those categories, I’m pretty much open to anything.

If you take a look around the site at the sort of authors that have been reviewed and interviewed, you can get an idea of where Spike’s interests lie. I am personally fond of history (especially Asian history), biography, art, architecture, technology, politics, current affairs, graphic novels, contemporary fiction and anything to do with pop music.

You can get in touch through the form below. You can leave comments on specific articles through the comments box at the end of each article. You can see the complete list of Spike contributors and their individual contact details on the Contributors page.

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If you’re really desperate to get in contact with an author, write to their publisher asking if they will forward a letter to them. Invariably the publisher will agree. Then send your letter care of the publisher. You’d be surprised how many authors respond personally to intelligent enquiries. Most publishers have their own websites these days, so you can also try emailing the publisher and finding the relevant publicist or editor who looks after the author you wish to contact.

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    Dear Spike.

    Independent filmmaker Graham Bendel is having a busy day on September 20 2007.

    This is date of the screening of “Billy Childish Is Dead”..his one-man documentary about the cult artist. this at the Barbican Centre. (it was nominated for a British Independent Film Award.

    He is also editing a second volume of Poems For The Retired Nihilist
    and releasing his debut novel (both on indie imprint Fortune Teller Press).

    Do Spike want to interview Graham or review any of his books?

    TJS

    Tony Stevens
    July 20th, 2007

    James Kay: So Grandma Says

    3 November 2007-13 January 2008
    Riverside Gallery
    Old Town Hall, Whittaker Ave, Richmond

    Artist, illustrator and writer James Kay presents an irresistible installation charting and reconstructing the creative process. Visitors can explore the evolution of ideas, revisions, omissions, detours, dead ends and developments that lead the artist from the initial creative spark to the completed works. Notes, sketches and studies are juxtaposed alongside completed drawings, monoprints, sumptuous watercolours, digitally manipulated images and three-dimensional automata and mobiles. The exhibition presents Kay’s latest body of work - illustrations for the self-penned as yet unpublished children’s book So Grandma Says.

    Kay sets his story in an a-temporal fantasy England, which falls somewhere between the repressive Victorian era and a very British Boys Own world - occasionally punctured with random intruder elements including ominous brooding anthropomorphic pylons. This dark compelling narrative, in the fine tradition of folklore, fable and legend, recounts the story of a boy concealed and protected from the outside world by his grandmother. In order to prevent him straying into the outside world and gaining autonomy and independence, she weaves cautionary tales of the imagined horrors that await him beyond the protective walls of his room.

    Combining a wealth of western and non-western cultural sources, each tale is visualised in a different artistic style - from Mogul miniatures, illumined manuscripts, to Victorian cartes visites. This offers Kay the opportunity to draw from his encyclopaedic knowledge of art history - he trained as an illustrator and has worked as a picture librarian and curator.

    Kay’s dense detailed works brim with potent archetypal images and symbols. These, and the layering of literary and artistic references, make the work accessible to all visitors and universal in appeal.

    Curator Mark De Novellis states: “James is a cultural magpie. From disparate sources, he has fashioned a world that is both fantastical but also firmly grounded in reality. The combination of intellect, assured technical virtuosity and creative flair heralds a major new talent on the cultural landscape. The inclusion of preparatory studies of this work in progress partially reveals the mechanisms of the literary and artistic process.”

    Admission Free
    Gallery Open: Mon, Thur, Fri:10.00am-6.00pm; Tue & Sat: 10.00am-5.00pm; Wed: 10.00am-8.00pm; Closed on Sundays.

    Notes for Editors:
    Studied Illustration at the University of Westminster. Has produced freelance illustrations for a range of publications including What House Magazine, Classic FM Magazine and Fortean Times, as well as commissions for the NSPCC, Royal Air Force Association and Linney design.

    mark de novellis
    August 14th, 2007

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