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By: James Enge

James Enge — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 18:31:32 +0000

Hey Howard! Thanks. I hope the rest of the semester goes well. (We’re almost done at my university; I’ve found myself counting days on the calendar…)

Hey Sarah: I’m glad you’re both liking it! It’s still pretty exciting to me to hear about sightings of the book in actual bookstores. The savage swamp where I live doesn’t really have a lot of bookstores, and I’m thinking of making a pilgrimage just so I can see the volume on the shelves somewhere.

By: Sarah Avery

Sarah Avery — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 06:00:23 +0000

Okay, here’s something happy you can come back to when you finally do get that dreaded Memo to Morlock:

I hadn’t been following the Black Gate blog, so I had no idea you had a book coming out until it was right in front of me at Barnes & Noble. A novel of Morlock the Maker! What could be better than that? I was able to restrain myself from dancing a jig, but not from emitting a small victory whoop. My husband and I have had to negotiate a treaty over who gets the book when in the day, because neither of us can bear to wait for the other to finish. Passing our copy back and forth is slowing us down, but we’re both enjoying it immensely. Our toddler has weighed in on the friendly dispute by learning to form possessives so that he can say, “Mommy’s book.”

By: Managing Editor Howard Andrew Jones

Managing Editor Howard Andrew Jones — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 17:30:14 +0000

I picked up my copy today. Probably won’t be able to read it until after the end of the semester, but I’ll put it on the top of the teetering pile, and look forward to the experience.

Howard

By: James Enge

James Enge — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 23:54:21 +0000

Conan pastiche must truly be a thankless task. People will hate you for what you do right as much as what you do wrong. (Pastiche in general is tough, but Conan evokes a passion in his fans like no other. Actually, several mutually exclusive passions.) Yours was “Emerald Lotus” wasn’t it? I’ve always meant to track it down and give it a read.

“Crooked Way” is done and turned in–Black Gate readers will recognize some (but not all) of the chapters. The third one keeps sneaking away from me, but will certainly involve werewolves and possibly zeppelins.

By: John Hocking

John Hocking — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 23:28:17 +0000

What is so galling as a glibly dismissive review? Touchstone’s shallow remarks serve only to occupy the space the author was required to fill. They do not serve anyone who might read them hoping to come away with anything of substance. Like a grounded opinion on the work reviewed, for example.

Having published a Conan pastiche I’m fairly certain nothing else I might ever produce will ever generate the flames, scorn and angrily quoted song lyrics that book did. I hardly noticed the glib dismissals in all that, but they were there.

I’m about halfway through Blood of Ambrose. How’s the second one coming? Got the third plotted yet?
Keep swinging, James.

John