first review of '09
Jan. 1st, 2009 05:38 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
realthogSteve Upham, whose Screaming Dreams Press published my novel The Dragons of Manhattan last year, has just forwarded me a review of it by Adam J. Shardlow that was sent to him on an advance-sneak-peek basis from the British Fantasy Society, in one of whose publications the review's going to appear.
Because of its current status I obviously can't quote the piece publicly, but I think I can honourably disclose that it's extremely favourable; there's some singing and dancing going on here in Snarl Towers. Certainly this is an extremely jolly way to start the new year, oh yes!
It's not every day of the week that I get compared in the same sentence to Jonathan Swift and S.J. Perelman . . .
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Date: 2009-01-01 11:17 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-01-02 02:33 am (UTC)Why, thank you!
But I'll make sure my head gets stuck in only the very widest doorways . . .
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Date: 2009-01-02 04:04 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-01-01 11:39 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-01-02 02:35 am (UTC)Thank you, ma'am!
And it was a fish poacher Pam gave me for Christmas.
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Date: 2009-01-02 02:47 am (UTC)Jonathan Swift and S. J. Perelman . . . ;D Nice comparison, Paul. I'd say you've started out 2009 with with rocket boosters on both feet.
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Date: 2009-01-02 05:11 pm (UTC)As I said to Pam, it's just lucky that such praise arrived in the lap of someone so modest as I.
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Date: 2009-01-02 05:09 pm (UTC)Many thanks! Of course, it's made me even more insufferable than usual . . .
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Date: 2009-01-02 05:10 pm (UTC)Thanks! (Not sure if I typed that word in my Swiftian or Perelmaniac mode . . .)
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Date: 2009-01-02 04:42 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-01-02 05:08 pm (UTC)"That IS good company."
Too right. I was decidedly gruntled by the comparison -- and indeed by the rest of the review.
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Date: 2009-01-02 05:16 pm (UTC)