Of Elsewhere
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 […]
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 […]
So, I’ve already broken my promise a little—but perhaps only a little. I don’t have deep close reading in this entry. What I’m offering instead is some observations on my responses to Night the First of The Four Zoas (outlined in more detail here). Those who read my last blog posts on Blake will notice Blake’s […]
Well, the title is something of an overstatement. I am not convinced that either Evernost the imaginary place or Evernost the real writing project will ever be complete. There is poetry to be written and illustrations to be created and new plots to explore and innumerable whatchamacallits off to the side. What is complete is […]
C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien, the former of whom is quite possibly my favorite author, were part of a Christian writing group at Oxford entitled the Inklings. I am not familiar with all of their work, but I first read Lord of the Rings and Narnia in elementary school, I fell in love with C.S. […]
Apologies for the delay in posting this–again, I’ve been sick, and then on vacation, and the discipline of writing weekly is proving to be at least as difficult in the longer term as I imagined it would be. Still, I want to keep making the good effort, and I thank you for your patience with […]
When I first applied for a job at the bookstore where I work, I wrote on the section of my application that asks for reading preferences that I like fantasy and poetry. This was not terribly descriptive–at least, I didn’t get the job until submitting my next application, on which I listed many specific authors–but […]
Of Elsewhere 