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

[sovay]

Good morning! It is now what 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.

Comments

[thisbluespirit]

Happy book birthday, then! And it looks lovely - best of luck to you and it!

[strange_complex]

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.

[sartorias]

Congratulations!

[ashlyme]

W00000000tttt!!!

[cyphomandra]

Woo hoo!! Congratulations!!

(and here, have a sea song (with a rather terrible nineties video, but anyway))

[asakiyume]

Hurray!! Welcome to the world, Forget the Sleepless Shores!

[spatch]

It has been amazing watching you take this project from idea sparklet to publication. Bravo, so much, and may there be many more.

[umadoshi]

Happy book birthday! *^^* I just ordered a copy.

[yhlee]

Congratulations!!!

[isis]

Yay! Congratulations!

[drwex]

Mazal tov and happy book birthday!

[davidgillon]

Happy book birthday!

[kore]

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).

[gwynnega]

Happy book birthday!!!

[hamletta]

Congrats on book-birthday! It looks great!

[batdina]

mazal tov on the release.

[swan_tower]

Happy book birthday!

[sillylilly_bird]

Congrats!! I ordered directly from the publisher and can't wait to get it:)

[ranalore]

Happy book birthday! I splurged on a copy direct from the publisher yesterday, and I can't wait for it to get here.

[selkie]

It really does make up for being facepoked by metal implements at great personal expense for very little use.

*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

[kathmandu]

Congratulations!

[nineweaving]

Gaudete!

Nine

[thistleingrey]

yay!! Ordered from the indie near my workplace (and I'm so glad that those words may be put in that order--that there is such a thing). Congratulations!

[choco_frosh]

Happy book birthday! Yay, reviews!
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.

[radiantfracture]

Ordered from local independent!