sovay: (Lord Peter Wimsey: passion)
sovay ([personal profile] sovay) wrote2018-08-07 03:33 am

Oh, we're bound for Mother Carey where she feeds her chicks at sea

Good morning! It is now what [personal profile] 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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[personal profile] thisbluespirit 2018-08-07 08:42 am (UTC)(link)
Happy book birthday, then! And it looks lovely - best of luck to you and it!
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[personal profile] strange_complex 2018-08-07 09:29 am (UTC)(link)
Just had a poke around, and it looks like it is on Amazon UK too, which will allow those of us over here to avoid shipping costs from the States. It's currently 'temporarily unavailable' (and yet mysteriously also available in used condition from some sellers!), but I've put it on my shopping list so I can keep an eye and place an order one I'm sure they actually have access to it.
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[personal profile] sartorias 2018-08-07 09:31 am (UTC)(link)
Congratulations!
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[personal profile] ashlyme 2018-08-07 10:24 am (UTC)(link)
Huh. I placed an order a couple of days ago (for the shipping cost reason too) and they're claiming it'll reach me next week. Bah.
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[personal profile] strange_complex 2018-08-07 10:29 am (UTC)(link)
Maybe it will! Let us know if so. Maybe the UK distributor only had a tiny number of copies (one of which you've bought), and they've already sold out?
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[personal profile] ashlyme 2018-08-07 10:36 am (UTC)(link)
I'll let you know. Meanwhile I'll scowl at Amazon until it arrives!
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[personal profile] ashlyme 2018-08-07 10:36 am (UTC)(link)
W00000000tttt!!!
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[personal profile] cyphomandra 2018-08-07 11:09 am (UTC)(link)
Woo hoo!! Congratulations!!

(and here, have a sea song (with a rather terrible nineties video, but anyway))
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[personal profile] asakiyume 2018-08-07 11:39 am (UTC)(link)
Hurray!! Welcome to the world, Forget the Sleepless Shores!
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[personal profile] spatch 2018-08-07 12:03 pm (UTC)(link)
It has been amazing watching you take this project from idea sparklet to publication. Bravo, so much, and may there be many more.
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[personal profile] umadoshi 2018-08-07 01:51 pm (UTC)(link)
Happy book birthday! *^^* I just ordered a copy.
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[personal profile] yhlee 2018-08-07 03:37 pm (UTC)(link)
Congratulations!!!
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[personal profile] isis 2018-08-07 03:42 pm (UTC)(link)
Yay! Congratulations!
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[personal profile] drwex 2018-08-07 03:54 pm (UTC)(link)
Mazal tov and happy book birthday!
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[personal profile] davidgillon 2018-08-07 04:17 pm (UTC)(link)
Happy book birthday!
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[personal profile] kore 2018-08-07 06:04 pm (UTC)(link)
YESSSSSSSSSSSS AWESOME

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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[personal profile] gwynnega 2018-08-07 06:30 pm (UTC)(link)
Happy book birthday!!!

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