frontiers of joy

[realthog]

Norilana Books has now issued its first Press Release about the acquisition of Leaving Fortusa: http://norilanabooks.livejournal.com/38421.html.

I'm so very fired up about this. My ballbuster agent sent the book out with her (genuine, she told me) comment that she felt this was the novel I'd been put here to write, as it were. I was a bit stunned by the description at first, then realized I agreed with her.

It's also a novel that's going to get a lot of people very angry. No one I personally give too much of a $Zb about, to be honest; but a lot of folk out there. I hate raising hackles, but there are times . . . Sinclair Lewis didn't write It Can't Happen Here because he wanted to offend people but because he was terrified by the anti-human horrors that well intentioned Denial might unwittingly accomplish. That's kind of where I'm coming from, too. We can no longer afford the luxury of good people refusing to face the unpleasant truths in front of them.
 

Comments

[realthog.livejournal.com]

Thanks, Charles! Would you like to be on the PDF list in due course?

(Oh, and do I still owe you a PDF of The Dragons of Manhattan? If so, it's because I've been waiting seemingly forever for a JPG of the final cover from the publisher. What I can't remember is if I finally lost patience and sent you the PDF with the semi-final cover.)

[charlesatan.livejournal.com]

Thanks. I got The Dragons of Manhattan and enjoying it immensely (I should be done with it around tomorrow.). (I got one entitled PrelimCover.jpg--it seems to be the cover up at Screaming Dreams)

[realthog.livejournal.com]

Yep -- you got the semi-final cover. Bob went off on holiday for a few days, came back refreshed, and decided there were some improvements he could make. Seeing the revised artwork, Steve Upham of Screaming Dreams decided that, if Bob could make improvements to the artwork, Steve could make improvements he to the design. Since then I've been waiting for the revised masterpiece, so I can post it on my blog!

Glad to hear you're having fun with the book!

[charlesatan.livejournal.com]

Just wondering, when's the release date of the book?

Will stalk your blog for the cover. =)

[realthog.livejournal.com]

"Just wondering, when's the release date of the book?"

I still haven't had a final date out of Steve -- he's been trying to get one out of the printers. Sometime in the next three or four weeks, is my guess.