Category: One for Sorrow
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Familiar Strangers
Over at Bookspot Cenral, Jay Tomio has reposted an essayistic thing, “Notes Towards a Sort of Supreme Fiction”, which I wrote a very. long. time. ago. In my mid-twenties. Reading over it again is like reading the work of a familiar stranger. It also makes me feel just a little bit old. 🙂 Here’s Jay’s…
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On my way to Spain
Some good news last week: One for Sorrow is heading over to Spain now, to be published in translation by La Factoria de Ideas. I’m always excited when something I’ve written is translated into another language, especially languages with which I have at least a passing familiarity. When I received the Italian edition last spring,…
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Locus Interview
The good folks at Locus Magazine are offering a deal for the latest issue, which features an interview with yours truly talking about everything from my first novel to my second novel, from Youngstown to Japan. Order the issue with the full interview in Locus postage free (a savings of $3.00) or completely free with…
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Youngstown: Descent into Darkness
My friend Deb over at Youngstown Moxie found this great photography project on rustbelt cities created by freelance photojournalist Sean Posey of San Francisco. His family left Youngstown in the 80s and now he’s putting together a fine art/documentary project that will look at Youngstown and other areas of Michigan and Pennsylvania as it considers…
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One for Sorrow in Italy
One for Sorrow debuts in Italy this month. Here’s the cover of the book there. And they’ve retitled it as The Secret Voice of Crows, since the title doesn’t translate well because of the rhyme from which it comes not being part of the culture there, I think. I like the new title as well.…
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NewNowNext
This video is from Logo, an MTV owned televison station programmed for the GLBT community. All I can say is that it’s about six minutes long, and you have to “wait for it” till about the last one or two minutes for the really interesting part. (The famous transexual Amanda Lepore is hilarious and weird,…
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Locus Award Nominees
It’s been brought to my attention that my novel One for Sorrow has made it onto the list of finalists for Best First Novel in the Locus Awards this year (thanks Rick and John!). Very excited, of course, especially to be named among that list of other first-time novelists. Congratulations to everyone in all the…
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Hurray for Midwestern Awesomeness
After a day of braving the twelve degree cold today, with a running inner monologue about the ridiculous starkness and severity of the Midwestern winter accompanying me throughout my travels about town, I came home to find an e-mail from my editor telling me that One for Sorrow has been nominated for the 2008 Great…
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The Crawford Award
I just found out yesterday (and see the news was just released) that this year’s Crawford Award is being given to One for Sorrow. The award, according to the press release, is sponsored by the International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts, recognizes an outstanding first book of fantasy published during the preceding year,…
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Great books you may have missed in 2007
From the Village Voice: Yet could there be enough fell doings in a year that saw only one book from Stephen King, the Richard Bachman trunk novel Blaze? King’s son Joe Hill took up some of the slack with his bestselling horror novel Heart-Shaped Box and 20th Century Ghosts, a lovely, earnest collection of short…