Thursday, June 12, 2003
There's a review of The Five of Cups in the June 9th issue of Publisher's Weekly (p. 41). It's the first review of TFoC and, I think, it's fair and much better than I'd ever expected. "Although unrelentingly nihilistic, this flawed gem flashes with brilliance. Scene after scene of compelling narrative fueled by anger and angst testify to the author's talent . . ." I can no longer pretend to have anything like an objective opinion of a book I wrote, for the most part, a good twelve years ago. A book which I finally abandoned and let sit in a box on a shelf for half a decade. It's good to see it finally, however belatedly, put out into the world, where others can decide what they think of it.
I've shelved "Night in an Eye of God," and will be giving John Pelan "La Mer des Reves," instead. It's the story he wanted to start with, but I wanted to try to give him something newerer. "La Mer des Reves" was originally written for a William Hope Hodgson tribute anthology he'd planned, but which didn't happen. I realized, yesterday, that I'd only started the new story as a means of putting off Chapter Five, and that I was being bad, giving into various Deadly Sins disguised as work. The book is god. All else goes behind it. I'll get back to the story later, because it will be a good story. Just not now.
I've contributed a song, a murder ballad, to a forthcoming musical project by Chris Ewen (Future Bible Heroes). The CD, which will be called The Hidden Variable will also include songs written by Peter Straub, Neil Gaiman, Daniel "Lemony Snicket" Handler, Martha Soukup, China Miéville, and others TBA. Vocalists also TBA. I'll post more info. about the The Hidden Variable as it becomes available.
Thanks to everyone who admitted to not having read Silk and volunteered for MOA duty. I now have the two readers I need, but if others are needed, I'll have a pool from which to draw victims.
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