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 not arbitrary — it’s a long story), his novels start coming true on a bunch of Harvard freshmen.
I’ve been picking away at the manuscript off and on for years, and this February I decided I’d finish it and submit it. I was thrilled, if a bit terrified, both that I got through the damn thing and that Apocryphile accepted it.
It’s tolerably normal genre fiction (urban fantasy, though, as above, I prefer Williams’ “metaphysical thriller” as a description), or at least it’s not whatever Out of Tales is, and it’s pretty light (though with a bit of angst). It addresses some of the…weirder…bits of Williams’ biography playfully. I’ll post more about the plot and characters later; for now I’ll just say I hope it’s as fun to read as it was to write.
Of Elsewhere 