if it's clockwork it must be Phoenix . . .

[realthog]

Editor Mike Allen (time_shark) and publisher Vera Nazarian/Norilana Books (norilanabooks) have already posted the ARC cover for this forthcoming anthology, but it's a pretty splendid piece of a/w so let's see it here as well! 


 


Meanwhile, apologies for the lack of much by way of posting on this blog this week: the to-be-read-urgently PDF proofs of my book The Dragons of Manhattan arrived on Sunday night from publisher Screaming Dreams at roughly the same time that Pam and I were at the emergency vet's watching one of our cats, Strider, breathe his last. It has been a busy but not very happy few days. Normal service will be resumed soon, honest.

 

Comments

[quietselkie.livejournal.com]

So sorry to hear about your cat. Sad when good friends move along without us.

Gorgeous artwork on the new anthology! Congratulations! Quite the line-up, also. *jots ISBN*

[realthog.livejournal.com]

Many thanks for the sympathies, Selkie!

"*jots ISBN*"

And make sure you pass it along to LStC, too.

[quietselkie.livejournal.com]

I will. She's a giant Tanith Lee fan.

[lilithsaintcrow.livejournal.com]

That's one of my dirty little secrets--my bookshelf of Tanith Lee, tucked away in my bedroom. *hangs head*

My sympathies for your loss, Thog. It's always wrenching when a loved one--furred or feathered or not--goes on the Great Journey.

*hugs*

[realthog.livejournal.com]

Er, I quite like Tanith's fiction, too.

[sarcobatus.livejournal.com]

"Er, I quite like Tanith's fiction, too."

Me too.

[lilithsaintcrow.livejournal.com]

She's my absolute favorite writer. I collect everything I can find by her, including short stories in anthologies. And I buy second and third copies of stuff I particularly like, for example, The Birthgrave, and give them out to people.

I just feel like it's a dirty little secret because I have a whole bookshelf dedicated to her in my room where nobody can touch it without my permission. Growing up in a house where books were considered suspect, I now have a little frisson of delicious feeling when I see my house stuffed full of them. *grin* Plus, her fiction is so good I feel transgressive when I read it.

[realthog.livejournal.com]

"Growing up in a house where books were considered suspect"

That must have been ghastly for you. I'm glad you're able to balance that out now!

I've always thanked the fates that my own childhood was exactly the opposite -- probably because my mother grew up in a house where there was some tension over books: my grandfather was a bibliophile and my grandmother considered them "suspect", as you so rightly term it. Whatever, even though the family never had any money when I was a kid -- especially after my father died -- there were always plenty of books in the house, both bought and library-borrowed.

[sarcobatus.livejournal.com]

I am also grateful that books were never suspect in my house while I was growing up -- one aspect of my childhood I can applaud.

[lilithsaintcrow.livejournal.com]

It WAS ghastly, in more ways than one. I remember being nine or so and my stepfather ripping a book in half (the spine, he wasn't Superman) because I was taking too long to take my bath. *sigh*

But now I can put a book anywhere in my house I want to. Sometimes I leave a book on the kitchen counter just because I CAN. It is unexpectedly sweet.

[realthog.livejournal.com]

"my stepfather ripping a book in half (the spine"

Ouch! That hurts even just to read about!

[realthog.livejournal.com]

Just noticed . . .

As a Tanith fan, you ought to rush and see http://time-shark.livejournal.com/145856.html.

(A confession: I have a story in that antho, too.)

[lilithsaintcrow.livejournal.com]

I think the Selkie is going to order a copy for me. Because, yanno, I'm a completist.

I look forward to reading your story too! :)