Wednesday, March 10, 2004
The ARC for Candlewick Press' Gothic! Ten Original Dark Tales arrived yeterday. The book will be released in September and it's one of the most exciting anthologies that I've been involved with in a long time. Besides my story, "The Dead and the Moonstruck," there are stories by Neil Gaiman, Gregory Maguire, M. T. Anderson, Joan Aiken, and many others. I was amused by a line near the end of the introduction, though, which states, "...you don't have to listen to bands like Bauhaus or wear black to seek uneasy refuge in these pages."
To everyone who has written to ask when or if there will be a hardback edition of Threshold, including everyone whom I've told not to count on it, it now appears there will probably be a hardback after all. It'll most likely be another year or so before it happens, but you can hurry that day along by helping to sell out Subterranean Press' Trilobite: The Writing of Threshold. I'm told that there are only about sixty copies remaining.
Inspired by Neil's announcement that he's taking his first real, no-work vacation since 1988, I'm taking most of the day off. This past week has been unreasonably stressful and I just need to step away from the keyboard for an afternoon and think about other things. Oh, and thanks to Chris (as in Walsh) for "grimalkin." Now Sophie has a title.
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