Of Elsewhere
Warren Tusk and I have been friends and exchanged writing for more than a decade, and I remain enormously grateful not only for many intellectual exchanges but also for his feedback and encouragement as both of us find our way (at long last) into the world of traditional publishing. In the book this interview discusses […]
Today brings three very different book announcements of different kinds. First, Apocryphile Press is bringing out an audiobook of The Falling Tower on Audible, with an AI reader** (one imitating a British woman, to get Charles Williams’ accent in the right general part of the world)! I’m a written-word-preferring human myself, but I know audiobooks […]
For the rest of the year, I hope to release monthly zines in multiple formats. The ones planned for this year are all of February, and many of them will be in some form in the long February book that I hope to release toward the end of the year (or — just possibly — […]
As of last month, Apocryphile Press has brought out The Falling Tower (available as an ebook and a paperback on Amazon and elsewhere), my Charles Williams-inspired novel in which Charles Williams himself (or, at least, his postmortem poetic Voice) is a character. I am also — almost — a character, in that at least two […]
Huge news in a short post: I signed a contract with Apocryphile Press (https://apocryphilepress.com/) for The Falling Tower, a novella-length metaphysical thriller in the tradition of Charles Williams…in which Charles Williams is a character! It starts when, for Reasons (namely, the reinvention of the Adamic tongue, in which the connection between signifiers and referents is […]
Out of Tales (yes, novel is a dubious word for it, but close enough, perhaps) has been liberated. It was exciting and exhausting to produce. I’m taking stock now, as I’ve sold some copies and gotten my first feedback post-publication (I’ve talked to six readers now). Responses are mixed. I’ve had a reader who preferred […]
I’m picking fitfully away at Evernostian February. There will be seven sections, one for each of the cardinal and theological virtues (don’t worry, or do, depending on your feelings about this: they will be challenging and irreverent takes). The current plan is that each will contain: a messed-up and/or failed romance, some reference to first […]
After somewhere between a year’s and more than half my life’s labor (depending where you draw the lines), I have finally released the first volume of Of Evernost, namely Out of Tales, or January. Feeling anxious and full of doubt, but proud for all that. It’s been a lot of work and love. In addition, […]
You may recall, if you’ve been following this for any length of time, that I have made a couple digital gamelike creations. Well, I’m still at it, I’ve made a few more, and I thought I’d highlight a couple that I was lucky enough to have included in Indiepocalypse 51, a curated monthly anthology of […]
Today I’m talking about what was for me the most fun part of Out of Tales, my braided not-exactly-novel I’m releasing on July 15: the “Jennie sections,” the non-novelistic prose. These are a mix of essay and memoir-through-a-funhouse-mirror. They’re pretty dense and abstract — one early reader said, even abstruse. The essay bits discuss (in […]
Of Elsewhere 