Elvis is approaching the building

Elvis the King is approaching the building.In a few weeks, our second Galley Beggar ebook will be made available to buy in our store. It's going to be an ebook re-release of My Elvis Blackout by Simon Crump and it's a goddamn masterpiece. Everyone should own one… But don't take it from us, take it from Dan Rhodes who says:

This is one of the most abnormal books of all time, and also one of the best. Eagle-eyed readers will spot that Rhodes has blurbed the paperback edition. However, as he is one of Britain's least popular writers his endorsement has failed to send My Elvis Blackout into the bestseller lists. No home is complete without this magnificent book.

To help us get the book into every home, we need a good pull quote. Of course, we're hoping to feature some of Dan Rhodes' wise words, as well. But as the lucky owners of The White Goddess: An Encounter will already know, we also like to include a good quote from inside the actual book on the cover.

But! There are so many astonishing, enticing and downright shocking quotes in My Elvis Blackout that we don't know which one to include. So we thought that we'd ask you, our readers and much-valued and beloved customers.

So, which from the following list do you like best? Simply tell us in the comments and we’ll tot up the totals. The favourite will go on the ebook cover. And, as an inducement and thanks for voting, we’re going to put the details of everyone who leaves a comment into a hat. The first one we pull out will get a copy of the ebook, when it comes out.

So! Which one of these beauties should we put on the cover?!

  1. We boil the bodies. We cut them up and boil them in a pot. We boil the babies too. We cut them up like a pig. We eat them hot or cold.
  2. I take a proper look at Elvis's face, catch a glint of metal through the blood, figure out what he's done. The crazy fuck's stapled his eyelids together to keep from doing the washing up.
  3. Elvis looks straight into the poor kid's eyes and in a soft voice he says, "Come here child, approach the sacred altar."
  4. I opened the door a couple of inches and damn me if it wasn't Chris de Burgh back from the fucking dead.
  5. His head was completely gone, there was just a bloodied stump sticking out of his satin bomber jacket, but in a way he kinda looked better, more human almost.
  6. He was the unborn King of Rock 'n' Roll and if he wanted to go out naked except for a ridiculous tartan coat, he bastard well would.
  7. All he had was a radio and a guitar.
  8. "Keep your fucking canoe," said Elvis, "I want to eat men."
  9. Just then Barbara Cartland tottered out into the road, the sedan's tyres squealed angrily as Elvis snatched at the wheel to stop us from wasting the crazy old bird.

Name your favourite in the comments below. If you include contact details, you may well get some FREE STUFF too. Onwards!

Comments

Am I allowed to vote in my own competition?! Sure I am. I set the rules! I’m voting for number one!

From a purely objective and possibly slightly dull point of view I'd go for Six. It's got swearing, but softly-softly swearing, and intimations of horror, rather than the real thing. Simon Crump is a wicked writer. Good luck to you all.

Number 8. It's nearly impossible to deduce the context from a quote like that. Though I am warming to 5… "More human, almost" … Shades of Flannery O'Connor. Dripping away.

I love them all but I'm leaning towards number two. I like its domesticity.

Two is good. A bit too mundane and realistic for my tastes though. (I have teenaged children. This is Kitchen Sink stuff… [Sorry. Groan. More brackets]).

It's all about number 4, really – sold me anyway!

Uhuh, Two is creeping up the charts. John Osborne and Hazel Motes are in a bar, and Lars von Trier is serving the drinks.

Number 9 please – it's a whole short film in a sentence.

This gets harder and harder each time I look and I keep changing my mind.

Elimination…

Dont like 1 (sorry sam)
2 yes!
3 – my original vote, but no one else likes it so that’s that
All the rest – apart from 7 – are winners for me.

So….

4!!

(for now)

Unlike Henry I would go for number 7! I think swearing on the front cover would put off too many people and that's not helpful as you obviously want as big an audience as possible.

number 9 or number 1
but there are too many. if only those editors had edited them down to a shortlist of 5…
but its difficult to know without having read it.
please can i have a FREE STUFF REVIEW COPY?
ms medlikova xxxx

Thought long and hard and I think no. 1. Number four is great too but I agree it might put people off: not so much the swearing as the gratuitous mention of Chris de Burgh.

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