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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Hello! I took a bit of time off work to do Evernost rewrite/revision, and while I wasn’t as productive as I’d hoped to be, I at least hit a major milestone. And I came up with an experimental strategy for revising: turning the prose into poetry and back again. In theory, it will help me […]
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 […]
Of Elsewhere 