"See the sin in the sea..."
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greygirlbeastA thunderstorm is moving in, and the sky has gone marvelously dark above Federal Hill here in Providence.
I have what I think is quite a momentous announcement. This morning William Schafer at Subterranean Press emailed to ask if I'd "be interested in a 200k word The Best of Caitlín R. Kiernan, that, in addition to 5-6 uncollected stories, drew from all of your published collections..."
And, of course, I said yes. I said yes immediately.
So...over the next month or so I'll be compiling the table of contents, which, frankly, seems like an almost impossible task, even with a two-hundred-thousand word limit. I have to go back over all the short fiction I've written the last seventeen years, almost two hundred stories, and figure out which pieces I consider my best (as well as which pieces have received the most attention, and so might be said to represent my "best" work). The book will be released sometime in the spring of 2011, and the limited edition will be accompanied by The Crimson Alphabet as a free chapbook. I will post more details as they become available. By the way, feel free to post suggestions here, or email them to me, your personal favorites you might like to see included. I'll consider those, too, when making my choices. I hope to deliver the manuscript to subpress by the end of the summer.
So, yeah. Big News. Also, I'll be getting back to work on The Dinosaurs of Mars next year, after having set it aside in the summer of 2007. If all goes well, subpress will release it in the fall of 2011. Which means I'm doing two books with them next year.
Meanwhile, my copies of The Ammonite Violin & Others arrived late yesterday, along with the "Sanderlings" chapbook. I am beyond pleased with how the collection turned out. It's definitely one of the best-looking books I've ever done with subpress. And if you preordered and do not yet have your copy, it should be along shortly.
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Today, I did 1,060 words on Chapter One of the Next New Novel, and it's the first writing I've gotten done since Sunday. The less said about the first half of yesterday the better. Most of it was spent at the Peace Dale Public Library, reading Joshi's The Rise and Fall of the Cthulhu Mythos.
Sunday evening, we returned to the Blackstone River Gorge area in southern Massachusetts, the towns of Blackstone and Millville, and almost to Uxbridge. I found more locations important to the Next New Novel, and fell more in love with the region. Many photos were taken, and I'll try to post some soon.
Please have a look at the current eBay auctions. Also, there's the cool stuff at Spooky's Dreaming Squid Dollworks & Sundries shop at Etsy (she says, "Tell them to please buy this stuff, because I'm tired of looking at it."). Yes, she really said that. So, thanks. Buy or bid if you are able.
Okay. That's all for now. I have a table of contents to ponder....
I have what I think is quite a momentous announcement. This morning William Schafer at Subterranean Press emailed to ask if I'd "be interested in a 200k word The Best of Caitlín R. Kiernan, that, in addition to 5-6 uncollected stories, drew from all of your published collections..."
And, of course, I said yes. I said yes immediately.
So...over the next month or so I'll be compiling the table of contents, which, frankly, seems like an almost impossible task, even with a two-hundred-thousand word limit. I have to go back over all the short fiction I've written the last seventeen years, almost two hundred stories, and figure out which pieces I consider my best (as well as which pieces have received the most attention, and so might be said to represent my "best" work). The book will be released sometime in the spring of 2011, and the limited edition will be accompanied by The Crimson Alphabet as a free chapbook. I will post more details as they become available. By the way, feel free to post suggestions here, or email them to me, your personal favorites you might like to see included. I'll consider those, too, when making my choices. I hope to deliver the manuscript to subpress by the end of the summer.
So, yeah. Big News. Also, I'll be getting back to work on The Dinosaurs of Mars next year, after having set it aside in the summer of 2007. If all goes well, subpress will release it in the fall of 2011. Which means I'm doing two books with them next year.
Meanwhile, my copies of The Ammonite Violin & Others arrived late yesterday, along with the "Sanderlings" chapbook. I am beyond pleased with how the collection turned out. It's definitely one of the best-looking books I've ever done with subpress. And if you preordered and do not yet have your copy, it should be along shortly.
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Today, I did 1,060 words on Chapter One of the Next New Novel, and it's the first writing I've gotten done since Sunday. The less said about the first half of yesterday the better. Most of it was spent at the Peace Dale Public Library, reading Joshi's The Rise and Fall of the Cthulhu Mythos.
Sunday evening, we returned to the Blackstone River Gorge area in southern Massachusetts, the towns of Blackstone and Millville, and almost to Uxbridge. I found more locations important to the Next New Novel, and fell more in love with the region. Many photos were taken, and I'll try to post some soon.
Please have a look at the current eBay auctions. Also, there's the cool stuff at Spooky's Dreaming Squid Dollworks & Sundries shop at Etsy (she says, "Tell them to please buy this stuff, because I'm tired of looking at it."). Yes, she really said that. So, thanks. Buy or bid if you are able.
Okay. That's all for now. I have a table of contents to ponder....
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Date: 2010-07-21 10:51 pm (UTC)Nine
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Date: 2010-07-21 10:55 pm (UTC)And well-met by tempest.
The serendipitous timing didn't even occur to me until you mentioned it.
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Date: 2010-07-21 10:55 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-07-21 10:58 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-07-21 11:05 pm (UTC)That is fantastic.
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Date: 2010-07-21 11:16 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-07-21 11:18 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-07-21 11:23 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-07-21 11:24 pm (UTC)More pictures of the river and environs, yes please! It looked swelteringly evil, but peaceful, in that first batch -- I'm curious to see more of the area.
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Date: 2010-07-21 11:28 pm (UTC)but this collection, when can we preorder???
I'll post the news as soon as they start taking preorders.
It looked swelteringly evil, but peaceful
Pretty much.
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Date: 2010-07-21 11:25 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-07-21 11:32 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-07-21 11:34 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-07-21 11:50 pm (UTC)Best Of...
Date: 2010-07-22 12:01 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-07-22 12:21 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-07-22 12:37 am (UTC)Congratulations on the collection, Caitlin.
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Date: 2010-07-22 01:13 am (UTC)I'm picturing Younger Caitlin R. Kiernan hearing this news (if, oh if, traveling back in time were possible) and breathing a big sigh of relief. (And probably adding "Phew. I did manage to survive writing a lot.")
Younger CRK's head would have exploded.
And yeah, older CRK is starting to feel like a survivor. You know, like a coelacanth, or a Dawn Redwood, or a tuatara, or any of those other species that get called "living fossils."
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Date: 2010-07-22 03:27 am (UTC)Gotta be a name for the book in there somewhere - "The Living Fossil Record of Caitlin R. Kiernan" or some such thing....
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Date: 2010-07-22 04:14 am (UTC)Hmmm.
GHOST LINEAGE....
or
LAZARUS TAXA....
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Date: 2010-07-22 04:51 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-07-22 01:29 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-07-22 01:32 am (UTC)Did Mr. Schafer mention a possible super-deluxe binding for the limited edition?
Not specifically, but I would assume.
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Date: 2010-07-22 01:53 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-07-22 02:23 am (UTC)I would love a Dancy Flammarion story myself. But Alabaster is the first book I read of yours so I will always have a soft spot for the character.
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Date: 2010-07-22 04:14 am (UTC)I'm sure there will be at least one story from Alabaster.
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Date: 2010-07-22 02:43 am (UTC)Also, now that my stuff is being consolidated and I have my tools back, I have a number of art jewellery projects based on and inspired by your work, and I would like your permission to reference you and your words when they are completed and I make them available for sale.
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Date: 2010-07-22 04:16 am (UTC)Onion.
Yep. That one's already on the preliminary list.
Also, now that my stuff is being consolidated and I have my tools back, I have a number of art jewellery projects based on and inspired by your work, and I would like your permission to reference you and your words when they are completed and I make them available for sale.
Sure. No problem.
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Date: 2010-07-22 04:49 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-07-22 02:46 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-07-22 03:21 am (UTC)I've had to cut back my book-spending recently, but this one goes to the top of the 'must-purchase-immediately' list.
I'll second the call for a Dancy story or two. As an offbeat idea, I always enjoyed the fragmentary Nareth E. Nishi Parallax journal entries...
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Date: 2010-07-22 06:00 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-07-22 03:32 pm (UTC)I don't know if it would be too long for consideration, but I respectfully request "Riding The White Bull."
That's on the list for probable inclusion.
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Date: 2010-07-22 07:31 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-07-22 03:33 pm (UTC)Also on the probable inclusion list.
Re: Fairfax County Readers
Date: 2010-07-22 03:34 pm (UTC)Seventeen members of the Fairfax County Public Library took out your book The Dry Salvages, before the library released the book which I bought used. I just thought you might be interested.
Not interested, but a little pissed off. Or saddened. Telling a writer that his or her book has been discarded by a library is almost as bad as telling her or him you can't find their books.
Congrats!
Date: 2010-07-22 02:07 pm (UTC)And thanks, also, for news of The Dinosaurs of Mars! Are these two projects in addition to the ones you recently mentioned pitching and selling?
Re: Congrats!
Date: 2010-07-22 03:36 pm (UTC)I am also happy to hear that "The Crimson Alphabet" will be reprinted in chapbook form. When you recently mentioned "The Yellow Alphabet" (amazing!) I got to wondering if any more alphabets would be given the chapbook treatment. So thank you for that.
Yes. I am also pleased it will be a chapbook, at long last.
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Date: 2010-07-22 03:44 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-07-22 09:03 pm (UTC)It would be cool to see "The Belated Burial" or "The Dead and the Moonstruck" in with the mix.
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Date: 2010-07-23 12:32 am (UTC)