a good start to '08
Jan. 1st, 2008 04:41 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
realthogI'm mentioning pendragonpress twice in two entries . . .
Pendragon Press's Christopher Teague clearly doesn't believe in closing down the offices simply because it's New Year's Day. I've just had an e-mail from him alerting me to a review that's been posted today by the webzine SF Crowsnest, another organization that clearly believes New Year's Day offers not a holiday but a chance to get some work done without the phones ringing all the time.
Reviewer Joules Taylor has this time (http://www.sfcrowsnest.co.uk:80/articles/books/2008/nz12065.php) taken on the anthology Triquorum One, which Chris published and himself edited in 2006 -- so it's a pleasant surprise to find a review of it appearing at this stage. The anthology is of three novelettes/novellas (hence its title), one of which is by, ahem, me. Here's a flavour of Taylor's review:
The middle story, 'The Thirty-Million-Day Dance Card', however, makes up for the shortcomings of the other two. John Grant's writing is, as ever, polished and elegant and is a delight to read. The characters are sympathetic, the situation poignant and immediately comprehensible and the resolution heart-warming.
One day into the new year and already this. Let's just hope the daily average keeps up . . .
pendragonpress twice in two entries . . .Pendragon Press's Christopher Teague clearly doesn't believe in closing down the offices simply because it's New Year's Day. I've just had an e-mail from him alerting me to a review that's been posted today by the webzine SF Crowsnest, another organization that clearly believes New Year's Day offers not a holiday but a chance to get some work done without the phones ringing all the time.
Reviewer Joules Taylor has this time (http://www.sfcrowsnest.co.uk:80/articles/books/2008/nz12065.php) taken on the anthology Triquorum One, which Chris published and himself edited in 2006 -- so it's a pleasant surprise to find a review of it appearing at this stage. The anthology is of three novelettes/novellas (hence its title), one of which is by, ahem, me. Here's a flavour of Taylor's review:
The middle story, 'The Thirty-Million-Day Dance Card', however, makes up for the shortcomings of the other two. John Grant's writing is, as ever, polished and elegant and is a delight to read. The characters are sympathetic, the situation poignant and immediately comprehensible and the resolution heart-warming.
One day into the new year and already this. Let's just hope the daily average keeps up . . .
