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“'The Painter' (Nemonymous #4) was my first ever entry as a writer, and as they say here in The Netherlands, I 'fell with my nose in the butter'.” – Dominy Clements

“Being accepted at that time, by a magazine I considered one of the most important of the small press, gave me the motivation I needed to keep on writing.” – Rachel Kendall

“I am proud to be part of such a courageous venture as Nemo.” – Simon Clark

“I enjoyed my "Nemonymous Experience", the beautiful production of the books, the high quality of the stories, Des' more-than-occasional ramblings, and the whole debate it sometimes stirred across the Internet.” – Lavie Tidhar

“Nemonymous is a unique and landmark publication and in the long term scheme of things, whatever Des says, not a failure in the least.” – Tamar Yellin

“Ice Age was the first story that anybody paid me money for. … I remember talking with Des when Nemo was just a gleam in his eye; it was great to see it become (sur)real, and I was proud that my stories appeared in it.” Iain Rowan

“What difference has appearing in Nemonymous made? A huge personal one, considering that I've been an enormous fan of DF Lewis ever since reading "My Giddy Aunt" in a beat-up paperback copy of Year's Best Horror Stories.” – Scott Tullis

“Nemo 5 was a beautiful thing. It resonates in the hand. The whole Nemonymous concept and subsequent execution has been a delight to watch unfold, but to end up with a story in that marvellous vermilion baby was something I had coveted for a long time. When Des took Running Away, I felt I had achieved something unique and strange and rather mystical.” – Paul Meloy

“Getting published in Nemonymous was a real boost for me. It is still by far (if reviews are anything to go by) my most read story, and, it seems, positively read too. And I doubt that I'll ever be published in a more beautiful publication if I live to be a hundred.” – John Travis

“I hereby propose that any Nemo's life is either pre-Evanby of post-Evanby. … What is important to me, though, is that there are people like Des Lewis, who just think of stuff like this. One man, who dreams up late-labelling, and nemonymous publishing, and who then creates a magazine out of a single dropped moment of silence, which, listened to in another context, turns out to be a deafening roar. The difference, in the end, will not be the writer's, but to writing itself.” – Paul Evanby

“I don’t think it the least bit coincidental that every other writer to have had the pleasure of being involved with Des and Nemo says pretty much the same thing – of what a transcendental experience it has been to us as artists.” – Robyn Alezanders.

"More than anything, it gave me a sense of freedom to write in a different way than 'the norm' for me ... As Simon Clark said so perfectly: 'If anything Nemo has become a little voice in the back of my head telling me to be more courageous and more adventurous with my writing.'" - Robert Morrish

"Several of the stories that have been or are awaiting publication are stories I originally wrote, in one form or another, as Nemonymous submissions. Okay, so hey didn't fulfil their original intent, but each one has gone on to gather laurels of their own in other publications. So, if it wasn't for Nemonymous, they would never have been written. Nemonymous itself however, was an astonishing experience." - Terry Gates-Grimwood

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