With a face like sin and a heart like a James Joyce novel

[sovay]

Forget the Sleepless Shores has just been favorably reviewed by Brit Mandelo at Tor.com's Queering SFF:

Forget the Sleepless Shores is a haunting, quiet collection of primarily magic-realist stories—poetic and melancholy, echoing Taaffe's usual liminal occupation of multiple genres and modes . . . Introspective and unnerving, poetic and affective: it's what Taaffe does best.

I am putting that last line on all future book jackets if I have anything to say about it.

Now feels as good a time as any to mention that I will be in Brooklyn in February, reading with three other authors for the Women in Horror Month Readings & Q&A at McNally Jackson Williamsburg organized by Farah Rose Smith. I hope to see some New York people there.

And the mail just brought me a Hanukkah DVD from selkie, which I treasure especially since it's the very last movie I watched on FilmStruck and I adored it.

I can write about a nightmare I had some other time.

Comments

[spatch]

it's what Taaffe does best.

Bra-vo.

[sovay]

Bra-vo.

Mow! Thank you. (Good icon.)

[thisbluespirit]

Introspective and unnerving, poetic and affective: it's what Taaffe does best.

I am putting that last line on all future book jackets if I have anything to say about it.

You should! It's a great line! That's lovely. :-D

[sovay]

You should! It's a great line! That's lovely.

Thank you! It made my day.

[gwynnega]

Congratulations on the review!

[sovay]

Congratulations on the review!

Thank you!

[asakiyume]

That is a *beautiful*, and true, quotation.

[sovay]

That is a *beautiful*, and true, quotation.

Thank you.

[selkie]

That is a stand-out quote, innit? *beams*

P.S. I am sorry about the nightmare.

(REVIEW REVIEW REVIEW.)

[sovay]

That is a stand-out quote, innit?

It makes me so happy.

Plus it inspired me to check Amazon for the first time in weeks, and I have six reviews now and they're all five-star!

P.S. I am sorry about the nightmare.

It was sufficiently weird that I may still write it up, but thank you.

(REVIEW REVIEW REVIEW.)

AS SOON AS I SURVIVE MY WORK I PLAN TO.

[selkie]

No! I was reiterating that YOU in fact had a remarkable and reputable review. In this instance.

[sovay]

No! I was reiterating that YOU in fact had a remarkable and reputable review. In this instance.

*hands T. Witt some more gelt and shoves him back out the door*

It can be difficult to distinguish imperative verbs from exclamatory nouns on the internet.

[selkie]

Especially where I’m involved.

Anyway, you can’t look at hims’ little punim at the window and let him in. Philosophers are hardy to cold and he just wants to gnaw your self-worth.