Oh, we're bound for Mother Carey where she feeds her chicks at sea
Good morning! It is now what ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
selkie has informed me I am legally obliged to term the "book birthday."
Forget the Sleepless Shores is now live in the wild. You can buy it from the publisher's website. You can buy it from Amazon. You can buy it from Barnes & Noble. You can buy it in person from the Lovecraft Arts & Sciences Council or Pandemonium Books & Games and I will sign it for you. You can buy it from your local independent bookstore and I will approve of keeping small businesses alive. It makes excellent beach reading and an elegant gift. It is my first fiction collection since 2005 and I am very proud of it.
Not every story in this book is a sea-story, but the sea moves underneath so many of them that I consider it an especially appropriate release for this season that I used to spend as much in the Atlantic as humanly possible. I learned to swim in the July-cold water off Cape Elizabeth, open-eyed to the salt. Even now, I don't feel I've had a summer unless I've been to the sea. Thank you to Steve Berman of Lethe Press for publishing this collection and to every editor who first gave its stories a home. Now you can drown in them, too.
selkie has informed me I am legally obliged to term the "book birthday."Forget the Sleepless Shores is now live in the wild. You can buy it from the publisher's website. You can buy it from Amazon. You can buy it from Barnes & Noble. You can buy it in person from the Lovecraft Arts & Sciences Council or Pandemonium Books & Games and I will sign it for you. You can buy it from your local independent bookstore and I will approve of keeping small businesses alive. It makes excellent beach reading and an elegant gift. It is my first fiction collection since 2005 and I am very proud of it.
Not every story in this book is a sea-story, but the sea moves underneath so many of them that I consider it an especially appropriate release for this season that I used to spend as much in the Atlantic as humanly possible. I learned to swim in the July-cold water off Cape Elizabeth, open-eyed to the salt. Even now, I don't feel I've had a summer unless I've been to the sea. Thank you to Steve Berman of Lethe Press for publishing this collection and to every editor who first gave its stories a home. Now you can drown in them, too.
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Thank you! I should like it to sell lots of copies and garner lots of good reviews and win at least some of the awards. And be read centuries from now. That's the best thing I can wish a book.
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*hugs*
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(and here, have a sea song (with a rather terrible nineties video, but anyway))
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(and here, have a sea song (with a rather terrible nineties video, but anyway))
That's excellent! "As the compass turns and the glass it falls / Where the storm clouds roll and the gulls they call / Anchor me." Thank you; I'd never heard that!
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I am hoping it has a good time here.
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Thank you, mow. I shall do my best to make them so.
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Thank you!
I just ordered a copy.
And thank you! I so much hope you enjoy it!
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Love the author photo, is the coat supposed to match the one on the cover? SUPER EXCITED TO DROWN (wait that came out wrong, or maybe not).
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Love the author photo, is the coat supposed to match the one on the cover?
Total accident! That's my regular coat three seasons out of four and
SUPER EXCITED TO DROWN (wait that came out wrong, or maybe not).
It's a great thing to hear! I hope you enjoy the experience.
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Thank you.
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Thank you! I very much hope you enjoy it!
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Thank you! I hope it travels speedily and you enjoy it when it arrives!
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*offers celebratory squishy food of your choice*
I love that this book is here. You did it. You did. Don't let these times make you doubt the worth of your art and the value of sharing it with the world.
BOOK BIRTHDAY BOOK BIRTHDAY LA LA LA LA LA LA
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BOOK BIRTHDAY BOOK BIRTHDAY LA LA LA LA LA LA
*HUGS*
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Nine
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Thank you! And hooray for the indie near your workplace!
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Also, I had not previously noted that the colours of the coats of the dude on the cover and of the author in the photo are pretty much the same, which is either an incredibly awesome coincidence or really awesome cover design.
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Also, I had not previously noted that the colours of the coats of the dude on the cover and of the author in the photo are pretty much the same, which is either an incredibly awesome coincidence or really awesome cover design.
Incredibly awesome coincidence, although I think the designer ran with it. It makes me happy.
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Thank you!