| Author | Message | ||
     Barbara Roden (Nebuly) Username: Nebuly Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 216.232.189.45 |
I'm coming somewhat late to the party here, as far as collections go, but I'm pleased and proud to announce that I've sold a collection of my supernatural/strange fiction to Prime Books. Northwest Passages will be published in an initial edition of 1500 hardback copies, and will be out in October 2009, to coincide with World Fantasy in San Jose, California. It will collect together most of my published fiction, and will also contain new material. Looks like I have to get serious with this writing business. | ||
| Laird Barron (Laird) Username: Laird Registered: 05-2008 Posted From: 71.212.78.124 |
Congratulations! I look forward to your book. | ||
| Adriana (Adriana) Username: Adriana Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 99.230.239.233 |
Fantastic news! | ||
| Grant (Grant) Username: Grant Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 67.176.207.225 |
Congrats. | ||
| Huw (Huw) Username: Huw Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 218.168.197.35 |
Congratulations, Barbara! I loved 'Northwest Passage' and look forward to buying (and reading!) your collection. | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.96.249.146 |
Great news, Barbara - I shall look forward to this one. | ||
| Griff (Griff) Username: Griff Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.93.21.100 |
Llongyfarchiadau, Barbara! Excellent news  | ||
| Griff (Griff) Username: Griff Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.93.21.100 |
World Fantasy in San Jose, California. Who's off to this jamboree? | ||
| Allybird (Allybird) Username: Allybird Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 79.70.34.22 |
Congratulations Barbara! | ||
| Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 85.158.137.195 |
Congratulations indeed! | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 129.11.76.229 |
Nice one, Barbara. | ||
| Albie (Albie) Username: Albie Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.195.236.131 |
I would be green with envy, if it were not for the fact that I've gained Enlightenment. It feels like you want to sneeze, down below. | ||
| Mark West (Mark_west) Username: Mark_west Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 217.39.177.173 |
Congratulations, Barbara | ||
| John_l_probert (John_l_probert) Username: John_l_probert Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 213.253.174.81 |
Graet news Barbara! You must be chuffed! | ||
| Joel (Joel) Username: Joel Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.156.110.243 |
Congratulations, Barbara! Good luck with the new stories. The crucial question is: will this collection be a compliation of diverse stuff (featuring the best stories available across a wide spectrum) or be a 'concept album' of fairly similar stories exploring certain themes in depth? In other words, will it be like SHADOWS IN RAIN or THE WHITE HANDS? There's a case for both types of book. Actually there's a case for most types of book. It's called a bookcase. I'm getting help. Honest. | ||
| Tom_alaerts (Tom_alaerts) Username: Tom_alaerts Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 194.78.35.170 |
well done, Barbara, congratulations. | ||
| Albie (Albie) Username: Albie Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.195.244.67 |
Will you be wearing a cape and a wizard hat, Babs? Sat behind three keyboards and glitterty make up distorting your face? | ||
| Michael_kelly (Michael_kelly) Username: Michael_kelly Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 207.188.88.39 |
Huzzah! Good stuff. Congratulations, Barbara. | ||
| Barbara Roden (Nebuly) Username: Nebuly Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 216.232.189.45 |
Thanks, all, for the very kind words! And I should warn you that I'm taking the names of everyone who's blithely promising, at this stage, to buy a copy; I'll have ways of knowing if you do or not, and you really don't want me to set the runes on you. No cape or wizard hat, Albie; although I do have two keyboards. . . . As for your question, Joel: it'll be a collection of diverse stories across a broad spectrum of settings, times, and characters, with a variety of narrative voices. If I had to name one thing that unites many of them it's loneliness and/or isolation of the main characters, whether the story is set in the interior of B.C. in the present day, in the Prairies at the turn of the last century, on the graveyard shift in a hotel in Vancouver's notorious Downtown Eastside, in the Arctic in the mid-1800s, in the northwest of England, or in Antarctica during the 'Golden Age' of South Pole exploration. Sometimes the loneliness is created by the characters, sometimes by the setting, but I find myself drawn to exploring how people deal with being alone, and how even if that is ostensibly what people want, things have a way of turning against you. So it won't be billed as 'the feel-good book of the year'. | ||
| Mark_lynch (Mark_lynch) Username: Mark_lynch Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 212.74.96.200 |
Hope it flies high and far, Barbara. Very best for it. And I'll bet the book makes you feel good! | ||
| Karim Ghahwagi (Karim) Username: Karim Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 83.93.30.31 |
Congrats on the sale Barbara. Looking forward to reading it. :-) | ||
| Richard_gavin (Richard_gavin) Username: Richard_gavin Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 65.110.174.71 |
This is great news. Congratulations, Barbara! Best, Richard | ||
| Matt_cowan (Matt_cowan) Username: Matt_cowan Registered: 04-2008 Posted From: 68.249.106.58 |
Congratulations! That is very cool. I've only sold one story so far, but the dream of someday being to put out a collection drives me on to do keep at it. I love anthologies of that sort, so I'll have to keep an eye out for it. | ||
| John (John) Username: John Registered: 05-2008 Posted From: 82.24.4.67 |
Congratulations. I shall be looking out for it. |