Chancery STONE
"I think it quite likely that there is no such thing as good pornography. If it's good, then it's not pornography." - Vincent Canby
Hi, welcome to the blog home of Chancery Stone, cult author, porno auteuriste and art terrorist. I don't believe in any of those titles, of course (except maybe art terrorist, which I rather like) but I believe in picking my own labels.
This is where I speak my mind on all things from popular culture to God, and, of course discuss my work.
I am the author of cult novel DANNY, an epic running to approximately 4,500 pages in four volumes (split into five parts).
The first volume was published in 2004 to great acclaim, and unbelievable amounts of venom. That's how you know it's a cult novel.
If you like controversy, subversion and a decidedly non-populist view on life you'll like it here. There is a large archive of no fewer than 113 articles (as at June 2007) going back to March 2006 on every subject from Hitler to child abuse via cakes and fandom. There is much on gender politics, a lot on writing and even more on things that really piss me off.
However, they are always funny, sharp and guaranteed to make you think.
Here is a short synopsis of DANNY to give you the flavour. If you want more we are currently offering a free excerpt on our all-new website, so now you have no excuse not to become part of DANNY's world. After the synopsis I have also provided links to all other currently related sites of interest.
Enjoy!
P.S. If you wish to comment, please feel free. This blog is open to all. I make no guarantees to respond to comments (although I invariably do), but, likewise, nothing will be deleted except irritating web gibberish. This is a censorship free site.
DANNY VOLUME 1 is the first book in the DANNY quadrilogy and sets the scene for us in the distinctly non-picturesque West coast of rural Cumbria, where farming rests cheek by jowl with industrial ports and open-cast coal mines. It is 1984 and Danny, the eponymous hero, is about to turn twenty.
Danny is the youngest son in the disturbingly dysfunctional Jackson Moore family, a family that is held in a kind of reverential awe - and more than a little fear. Fear of their rapidly declining drunken father. Fear of John, the eldest brother, whose temper is legendary. Fear of Ian whose insidious envy has led to more unhappiness than anyone can imagine. Even fear of Danny, the youngest, whose supernatural beauty unsettles as many people as it captivates.
It soon becomes apparent that there are some old dangerous resentments, and even older dangerous desires, festering behind the carefully constructed facade of this family's life.
When a sudden violent event opens the floodgates, the brothers start to engage in a monstrous game of one-upmanship, determined to outrank each other in acts of more and more outrageous behaviour where bravado is taken to psychotic lengths.
With Ian egging them on the game is soon taken outside the previously unbreachable family walls, allowing outsiders - acolytes of Danny's beauty, jealous of John's power, and foolishly determined to wrest it from him – to enter into the affray with no idea of what dangerous waters they are swimming.
This is not the tame, cool, vanilla thrill-seeking that we have come to expect from a detached literary tradition, but the raw, graphic first-hand experience of a nightmarish addiction where sexual pleasure, revenge and rage are relentless constants.
You will experience DANNY in a way you have with no other book.
I guarantee it.
LINKS:-
Poison Pixie website – home of DANNY. The splendid, all new website is now up and running. You can find details of Volumes 1 AND 2 which is being launched on the 3rd of December 2007, plus you can buy the books here which, incidentally, provides a reasonable profit to the publisher, unlike when you buy from Amazon. So buy from Poison Pixie please, and ensure continued volumes of DANNY! http://www.poisonpixie.com/bookshome.htm
Poison Pixie film site where you can come see me in person, doing my thing. My Lying Bitch film is a tongue-in-cheek exploration of everything from my impetus for writing DANNY to gender roles, transvestites and homosexuality. At the end the author not only finds a stick but concludes that all men are gay. What's not to like? Poison Pixie Films
There is also an independent discussion board on Live Journal. The moderators are passionate on their subject, always looking for new members and always keen to whip up a 'lively debate'. Check them out at C Stone's DANNY
And lastly, but not least, Amazon. As previously discussed the publisher makes a loss selling through Amazon (DANNY is a big book - expensive to produce and costly to post). We appreciate any help from fans and supporters who want to read the rest of the 'ilogy' and the best support you can give is buying through Poison Pixie. Even if you just want to check out the reader reviews on Amazon please consider buying the book off the Poison Pixie site afterwards and save a whale (aka my novel). Capitalist Dogs at Amazon.