"You're the same kind of bad as me."

[greygirlbeast]

Listening to the new Tom Waits, and so a big thank you to Steven Lubold (oldfossil59) 'Cause this one rocks, even for Mr. Waits, and the 40-page book that comes with the deluxe edition is sublime.

But I slept eight hours, and I am not awake. Six hours, that's not enough, but I come awake fast, then feel like shit. Seven hours is perfect. Eight hours, a good lot of sleep, but then I can't wake the hell up. And I wish I could recall last night's (this morning's dreams) as they were odd and seem dimly important. Probably just the end of the world again.

I get ahead of myself. Or behind myself. Whichever. Yesterday, we read chapters Three and Four of Blood Oranges, so we're more than halfway through the ms. Kermit continues to prove useful in text editing, so maybe I haven't made a bad decision, keeping the iPad. I gotta post a photo of me and the Dubious Kermit Tech. But not today. Anyway, unless the MiBs call me to attention today and there's alien retroengineering to be done, we'll be reading chapters Five and Six. There are only Eight chapters to Blood Ornages. Only 70,000 words (my novels are usually well over 100k). So, we'll be done editing (id est, correcting typos and continuity errors) by Sunday evening, and my agent will have the ms. on Monday, when she gets home from the World Fantasy Convention in misbegotten and woebegone San Diego. No, as I keep telling people, I won't be there. If The Ammonite Violin & Others should win a WFA, Elizabeth Bear (matociquala) will be accepting on my behalf. I do not spend a thousand or so dollars to fly to southern California and risk getting felt up and fisted by the motherfucking TSA for any con.

Speaking of short story collections, I have the cover art by Lee Moyer for Confessions of Five-Chambered Heart (Subterranean Press, 2012). And here it is, behind the cut, based somewhat on "Dancing with the Eight of Swords" (Sirenia Digest #36, November 2008):





Artwork Copyright © Lee Moyer 2011



And if you ordered directly from subpress, but you've not yet received your copy of Two Worlds and In Between, hang in there. Be patient. It's coming. To quote Arcade Fire, "We used to wait." I haven't even received all my comp copies yet.

Oh, but the weather has gone to shit and looks like it's gonna stay there a spell. We were so lucky with the shoot for The Drowning Girl: A Memoir and Stills from a Movie That Never Existed. We're in wet Rhode Island October now. Cold and wet, just in time for Samhain and Hallowe'en. If we'd have had to wait one more week, the weather would definitely have been too shitty for our needs. Cutting it close and all.

By the way, the cover art for The Drowning Girl: A Memoir is now up at Amazon.com (follow that link). But the text on the cover isn't final. Not sure why they put it up before we finalized that, but there you go. There's no fathoming the minds of Big New York Publishers. And yes, Penguin did a cover THAT I ACTUALLY LIKE, a lot. There's even a nod to The Red Tree in there. I'm taking that lone oak leaf as a belated apology for the gods-awful mess they made of The Red Tree's cover (which featured a poplar tree, by the way). Anyway, I'll post the cover here when they get the text corrected.

Last night, some good RP in Insilico, then a tad of RIFT before bed. I read more of "About Ed Ricketts" to Spooky.

Only Somewhat Disappointed Today,
Aunt Beast

Comments

[sovay]

I have the cover art by Lee Moyer for Confessions of Five-Chambered Heart

Nice . . .

By the way, the cover art for The Drowning Girl: A Memoir is now up at Amazon.com

That is not terrible cover art! I am amazed!

[chris-walsh.livejournal.com]

Relieved that I like both covers, too.

And maybe the iPad will turn out to be useful in opening locks, like the world's largest credit card, and that would be cool, too.

[ashlyme.livejournal.com]

Nice covers, both. I was preparing myself for something crap from Penguin. Lee's painting has got a rock album vibe to it.

*felt up and fisted by the motherfucking TSA*

I really am not looking forward to my first encounter with US Customs.

Off-topic - BBC Radio are doing some kind of dramatisation of House of Leaves on Friday night. I'm not holding out any great hopes for it: the cast includes Zampano but not Johhny Truant, and the play is ONE GODDAMN HOUR LONG! But I'll listen to it anyway. Thought I'd just mention it.

- Ash

[kaz-mahoney.livejournal.com]

I love the cover art for The Drowning Girl: A Memoir. It's pretty damn fabulous. It has a David Lynchian feel to it, which only makes it more fabulous in my opinion.

[hessit.livejournal.com]

The cover art for The Drowning Girl will find it's way into my dreams, I am sure. Beautifully haunting. Your journal is truly inspirational.

[nykolus.livejournal.com]

The TDG:AM cover is smothered in awesomesauce! One thing, though... I'm of the feeling that her eyes should be open or perhaps at half-lid? Or is that just me?

[subtlesttrap.livejournal.com]

The cover art to Confessions of Five-Chambered Heart is simply BAD ASS, a fitting cover to a fitting collection of bad ass-ery. The sooner I can preorder the deluxe edition, the better!!! Never again will I risk not getting a signed, deluxe edition of one of your collections--this happened to me with To Charles Fort, With Love & Alabaster and only yesterday was I able to score a copy of each complete with chapbooks for under $200...so beware CRK fanatics, get your copies up front or risk paying poachers out the nose!

[everville340.livejournal.com]

The covers for both books are striking in their own ways. I know the release of Drowning Girl is a bit off, but when it arrives would it be possible to mention Stills From a Movie That Never Existed in customer feedback/review on Amazon or is that something that specific permission would have to be granted to be able to do (not sure how that kind of stuff works). Will be watching for the formal Sub Press announcement, although I may have to start dropping hints now that I'd like to find a Five Chambered Heart (preorder) by the Yule Log.

[stsisyphus.livejournal.com]

And yes, Penguin did a cover THAT I ACTUALLY LIKE...

Dear god, I just might need to renew my membership in the Church of the Falling Sky. Astronomical odds are seeming far more common than normal these days.

Speaking of species extinction, I noticed MSN was reporting we've hit seven billion filthy hoonams.

[papersteven.livejournal.com]

The woman on the cover of The Drowning Girl: A Memoir has a very PJ Harvey look to her. Very nice, indeed.

[inthetatras]

I saw the new cover last night by pure chance on Amazon and went, "Oh, hey, was that added recently?" I have to agree with others; that cover looks amazing.

[pisceanblue.livejournal.com]

I'm happy you're happy with the cover art, I certainly agree it is not as egregious as the one for The Red Tree. It's wonderful to see the book that much closer to actuality.