Of Elsewhere
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
If you’ve followed my blog for any length of time, you know I try to engage with poetry off and on. I came to reading and writing poetry much later than prose, so I’m not as good at it, but I keep trying, and last year I wrote poems in January — in January and […]
There are three main parts to Out of Tales: the poetry, the essayistic prose, and what I mentioned I call the “Normal Novel,” though it is neither normal nor a novel, being three rather subversively plotted overlapping novelettes from the points of view of three different characters. The Normal Novel is the oldest part (I […]
There are many ways I could start today’s post, but let’s aim for the concrete and immediate: I hope to bring out a book this year (intended release date 7/15, but I’m vacillating: do I need more revision time and fallow time to deepen and strengthen it? will I give into convention and look for […]
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