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     Laird Barron (Laird) Username: Laird Registered: 05-2008 Posted From: 71.212.77.200 |
Simon & Barbara get name checked by the Eashington Post -- great going! http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/12/19/AR2008121901592. html | ||
| Laird Barron (Laird) Username: Laird Registered: 05-2008 Posted From: 71.212.77.200 |
Washington Post, that is. Egad. Enough drinking for one night, it seems. | ||
| Huw (Huw) Username: Huw Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 61.216.32.228 |
Thanks for posting this, Laird. It's good to see these small presses getting exposure in major newspapers (I love the way he squeezed in an extra half-dozen publishers at the end!). | ||
| Simon Strantzas (Nomis) Username: Nomis Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 99.225.111.224 |
Thanks, Laird. I must admit, it's a bit thrilling to see one's name in such a major newspaper. | ||
| Barbara Roden (Nebuly) Username: Nebuly Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 216.232.189.136 |
It's an excellent piece, and I'm not just saying that because he talks about Ash-Tree; great to see presses outside the New York mainstream getting such positive comments. And Michael has always championed genre writing, which rather puts him at odds with a lot of other critics and reviewers, who are apt to get a bit sniffy about genre work, or damn it with faint praise ('Well, it's very good for a genre book'). Michael's view is that great writing is great writing, full stop - no need to qualify it - and that a lot of the best writing out there is in the fantasy, SF, and supernatural fields. Some time ago he offered to write the introduction for my first collection, should it ever come about, and renewed the offer when the Prime collection became a reality. He sent the finished piece over a couple of weeks back, and to say I'm pleased with it would be an understatement of incredible proportions. | ||
| Tom English (Deadletterpress) Username: Deadletterpress Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 68.10.197.98 |
I'm really looking forward to Barbara's collection (I want the leather-bound edition) -- but to get to read a Dirda intro along with the Roden stories will be like getting ice cream with my cake. I've always felt the best short stories were genre stories. Today's "mainstream" shorts (imo) read like snippets from novels -- and boring novels, at that. I believe MD has done us all a great service: there probably are countless readers looking for this sort of material, who otherwise would never have heard of these presses. Although I received many orders after my first hardcover BOUND FOR EVIL was published, things began to cool rather quickly. This morning I woke up to a couple new orders for the book in my inbox. Could be a coincidence, but I'm thanking Michael the Guardian Angel of Genre Lit. | ||
| Barbara Roden (Nebuly) Username: Nebuly Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 216.232.189.136 |
Probably not a coincidence, Tom; we've had a few people contact us about Ash-Tree books after seeing Michael mention either the Press or the books in his discussion group. Let him know; I'm sure he'd be pleased. | ||
| Tom English (Deadletterpress) Username: Deadletterpress Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 68.10.197.98 |
Will do. I suspect WP Book World readers are a slightly different audience from the usual readers of dark fantasy. |