Monday, October 27, 2003
Yesterday, I wrote about 1,500 words on "Mercury." I think the story will run about 5,000-6,000 words. It's going to be exactly the sort of story that once prompted a prominent small-press fantasy publisher and author (no names, 'cause that wouldn't be ladylike) to remark "I can never find the story in a Caitlin Kiernan story." More than anything, it's a study in character and an opportunity for me to talk to myself about various aspects of physical modification, transhumanism, posthumanism, etc. that have been going around in my head lately. And it's good to be with Deacon again. But it's not the sort of story that follows Aristotlean dictates of plot, no convenient beginning and middle and end, because I say so, because it will be the story I frelling well need it to be, and that's that. Because, in the worlds of my story, I am the only true god-like thing (and so I pity the characters more than I can ever say). It's also only the third time that I've written a transsexual character in my prose work (the first, of course, was Wanda Mann in "Escape Artist" for The Sandman: Book of Dreams, and the second was Chantel Jackson in "Breakfast in the House of the Rising Sun" for Tales of Pain and Wonder).
Apparently, the Roc edition of Low Red Moon is showing up early in a few bookstores here and there. This happens. Sometimes clerks put books out ahead of their release dates (they usually arrive well ahead of the time the publisher has scheduled them for release). It's weird, my third novel from Roc. Anyway, if you want a copy from the first-printing, you should probably preorder now. The first printing of Threshold sold out before its release date. Thanks to Allen on the phorum for the heads-up. I'm very nervous about how Low Red Moon is going to be received by readers. Personally, I believe it to be my best book yet, by far. But readers often disagree with writers. I'd think anyone who loved Threshold will adore Low Red Moon, though, as reviewers are noting, it's a very different sort of novel.
Also, I worked on Nebari.Net yesterday. Working with html and java and Photoshop almost feels like working with my hands.
Reminder: you still have six days in which to take advantage of the "tiny monster" offer. Which is to say, anyone who buys or bids on our eBay auctions before midnight, November 1, will get one of the little monster doodles that I'm always doodling. This is proving a very popular offer and I'm glad I have Spooky to keep up with who gets what. It seems I shall soon spend the better part of a day doodling monsters.
For Halloween, I shall be something with pointy ears and fangs, and Spooky shall be something with horns and autumnal herbage in her hair.
And I should probably wrap this up. Much to do today. Too little of me to do it. I sat up last night to watch I Walked With a Zombie on TCM and fell asleep in the middle of a silent German film that was supposed to be set in Egypt, but was actually set in an abandoned German chalk mine. When I woke up on the sofa, The Cat People was just coming on, but I woke Spooky, stumbled off the brush my teeth, and went to bed.
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