UK Urban Fiction - HardPressed Publishing

This is fantastic! I had to keep wiping tears away, I was laughing so hard. Brilliant premise, I love it! Really well-written, a very good, very original read.

Brilliant. This first piece has such wonderful dialogue. It gives your character more than just a voice, it gives him life. I absolutely loved it.

Wow, wow, wow! What a hilarious read! You laced this whole thing up and down with witty humor. And for the record, Bruce Willis is THE man, so I guess if any white man makes it to heaven it should be him, right? ;) So many lines had me cracking up laughing, especially the whole Sodom and Gomorrah = Vegas and Hollywood.

I'm wondering if this will offend the Christian sect (I include myself in there, though I wasn't really offended), but I don't suspect that's your target audience so you should be alright. Some parts seemed down right blasphemous, and I felt bad for laughing.

You're a master of comedy, my friend.

This is bold, brash, droll and very clever, with the sort of sly, allusive wit that sent me into fits. You'd make a wonderful comedy sketch writer , Michael (if you aren't already). I was often reminded of MASH. The story opens at the gallop with the ludicrously protesting Chris, who is then unceremoniously hurled into the zaniest of Heavens--populated with his own probable mixed-up fantasies. I think this will appeal to a great many people--and offend a few, no doubt--though I think God (and Mrs God) would probably be good sports. (Not sure Mr T would see the funny side, though!)

Your humour does raise some serious points, and tackles them from an entertaining and illuminating position. Your readers will have a laugh. But they'll also have a think, whether they want to or not.

I do have a few suggestions, for what they are worth. I feel the story is too short for a novel, and too long for a short story (I should talk with the length of some of mine!). And you'd have serious difficulty casting it as a piece of theatre, though it appears to have been conceived that way, with Acts. To cut it would be a pity. Full, insane immersion is necessary. So perhaps you could expand it into a shortish novel. There's certainly plenty of leeway. I do think the chapters are too long to sustain the relentless consistency of the wit. Perhaps injecting more physical action would break up the cerebral content to give some peaks and troughs, natural points for chapter endings and beginnings.

This deserves a wider audience. I hope it fares well.

This is one of the funniest things I've read in a long time. Mr. Scott uses popular culture and satire to great effect in this 'novella' which actually reads almost like a screenplay. Sure to appeal to anyone who enjoys TV, films and off-the-wall humour, especially if they're not too straight-laced when it comes to religion.

WARNING: Do NOT read this if you are easily offended or humourously-challenged - it will be far too much fun for you to handle.

I had the privilege in reading this before it was on general release. It was even more off the hook in its original draft. If Arbitration is representative of 'UK Urban Fiction', then by all means, bring it on, the more the better.

I'm not well grounded enough in the other media that this story relies on but I spotted well over 100 references to modern media - excellent.

Clever...very clever.

This book will make you think. Then, think again, and just when you're sure you've got it all figured out, it will change your mind.

Clever, witty, OTT characters that somehow always manage to ring true. It's fun, it's entertaining, and it's very original. Yeah, God'll be pissed, but he'll be highly amused, too.