Press and Publicity Material
Author Simon Haynes and the Hal Spacejock SF/Humour series
Author photo (c) Pascal Veyradier (Click for high-res)
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Simon Haynes is represented by the John Jarrold Literary agency
Hal Spacejock 4: No Free Lunch
Released June 2008
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Hal Spacejock No Free Lunch
PDF Press Release (800kb)
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Original artwork: (c) Dion Hamill
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Hal Spacejock 3: Just Desserts
Released January 2007
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Hal Spacejock Just Desserts
PDF Press Release (378kb)
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Original artwork: (c) Dion Hamill
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Hal Spacejock 2: Second Course
Released March 2006
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Hal Spacejock Second Course
PDF Press Release (378kb)
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Original artwork: (c) Dion Hamill
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Hal Spacejock
Book one in the series. Released September 2005
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Hal Spacejock PDF Press Release (378kb)
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Original artwork: (c) Dion Hamill
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Hal Spacejock's long and rocky road to publication
I first shopped Hal Spacejock around in the year 2000. I only tried four publishers - two in Australia, one in the UK and one in the US - and while I got personalised feedback from each of them, they'd all come to the same conclusion: Despite the popularity of authors like Douglas Adams and Terry Pratchett and titles like Red Dwarf, SF/Humour didn't sell. Apparently.
So, I gave up on publishers. But I didn't give up on Hal.
At the time I was attending SF conventions with Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine, and so I decided to print up a few copies of Hal Spacejock and give them away to subscribers. (ASIM publishes light-hearted SF rather than the dreary stuff, so the audience was ideal.) At one of these conventions I met the SF specialist from Dymocks Carousel, the local branch of the Australian Dymocks chain, and he agreed to put a few copies on their shelves.
And that's where my current publisher found Hal Spacejock. They offered me a contract and I set to work rewriting the novels with editorial input from Janet Blagg. The first title was released in September 2005 and immediately featured in the Dymocks SF bestseller list. It stayed there for three weeks running, and ongoing sales recently led to a second printing with a brand new cover.
After handing in the final manuscript for book three I signed with the John Jarrold Literary Agency, based in Great Britain, with a view to expanding the Hal Spacejock series to that country.
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For more information see my Biography and Publishing Credits pages. You're also welcome to contact me.
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