Thursday, December 06, 2001
With "From Cabinet 34, Drawer 6" behind me, it's back to my notes for Low Red Moon (well, that and the revisions for Bast: Eternity Game Part 1 and my latest mosasaur paper and one on a dromaeosaurid dinosaur from Alabama . . .). I've never made so many notes for a novel, either before I began it or afterwards. It's interesting. Not an outline, per se, but an awful lot of information, the sort of stuff that I usually don't discover until I reach a point in the novel were it becomes relevant. It might make things go faster, and perhaps it won't be three-plus years between novels this time. That would certainly be nice.
Another experiment. I'm trying to find a distinctly different sound for this book and I've started out with The Doors while I work on these early notes. I'll probably try writing the prologue and first few chapters to The Doors. I don't think any goth or darkwave band has ever managed to achieve the utter creepiness of Jim Morrison's gorgeous voice and I've often labled Morrison the urgoth. Anyway, I'd be hard pressed to find songs more disturbing than "The End" and "Riders on the Storm." But I'd never listened to The Doors on my headphones before today and the effect is rather unnerving, having that music in my head. Hopefully something curious will come of it.
I have a short interview in the December 3rd issue of Publisher's Weekly. I haven't seen it yet, but Stefan Dziemianowicz, who conducted the interview, e-mailed to apologize for the editors having misspelled my surname as "Kieran." It's not the first time, though I found this instance particularly annoying since Publisher's Weekly recently reviewed both Threshold and Wrong Things and managed to spell my name correctly in each case. Somewhere, I have a long list of the many odd ways that people have misspelled my name since about 1990. My all-time fave is "Gateland Kermit," for which I have no explanation whatsoever. It's easier to explain fish falling from a clear, blue sky. Anyway, if you can find a copy of the magazine, check out the interview. I talked about the pros and cons of writing for shared-world and themed anthologies, my work on The Dreaming, Threshold as weird fiction, and a bunch of other stuff. I don't know what actually made it into print.
Bill Schafer at Subterranean Press says that From Weird and Distant Shores is at the printer now, so it'll be along very, very soon. I think everyone's going to love Richard Kirk's work on the book's illustrations. Also, Richard's doing an illustration for the aforementioned dromaeosaurid dinosaur paper, by the way.
Tomorrow is a road day, but I'm quickly learning to write on the iBook in the back seat of the van while Jennifer drives. So, I'll be revising Bast at 70 miles per hour.
I suppose it's inevitable that some of these entries will just sort of peter out, like this one's about to do, instead of having eloquent conclusions. Ah, well.
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