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I've started proofreading the corrected OCR manuscript for my novel SPEAKING STONES for the Phoenix Pick (Arc Manor Press) reprint edition. It's nice to read the novel after a decade or so, though it still brings back echoes and memories from the time when I was writing it. It's still not quite like reading someone else's book, but every once in a while I'll read a line and think "That's nice." Which is a good feeling... :-)
SPEAKING STONES is the sequel to DARK WATER'S EMBRACE, which Phoenix Pick brought out late last year in trade paperback format with some of the material that was missing from the original Eod edition -- and which has a much better cover (IMO) than the Eos mmpb. DARK WATER'S EMBRACE is still a favorite book of mine, exploring sexuality and gender and perception. And I like SPEAKING STONES as well, though I think some readers might have been expecting a second DWE and that's not what I gave them. Both books are concerned with prejudice, but while DWE explored sexual/gender prejudice, SPEAKING STONES looks instead at racial prejudice -- which is why I think they form a decent duology.
It'll be nice to have a new trade paperback version of SPEAKING STONES to go with the new trade edition of DARK WATER'S EMBRACE. Should be out before summer (assuming that I get the proofing done...)
Shahid at Arc Manor is doing some nice things with his Phoenix Pick line -- he's bringing back books he'd read and enjoyed, are out-of-print in their original edition, and making them available again. There's a PDF catalog on the site; if you see a book there you find interesting, you ought to pick it up -- support a small press trying to do something good for the field!
SPEAKING STONES is the sequel to DARK WATER'S EMBRACE, which Phoenix Pick brought out late last year in trade paperback format with some of the material that was missing from the original Eod edition -- and which has a much better cover (IMO) than the Eos mmpb. DARK WATER'S EMBRACE is still a favorite book of mine, exploring sexuality and gender and perception. And I like SPEAKING STONES as well, though I think some readers might have been expecting a second DWE and that's not what I gave them. Both books are concerned with prejudice, but while DWE explored sexual/gender prejudice, SPEAKING STONES looks instead at racial prejudice -- which is why I think they form a decent duology.
It'll be nice to have a new trade paperback version of SPEAKING STONES to go with the new trade edition of DARK WATER'S EMBRACE. Should be out before summer (assuming that I get the proofing done...)
Shahid at Arc Manor is doing some nice things with his Phoenix Pick line -- he's bringing back books he'd read and enjoyed, are out-of-print in their original edition, and making them available again. There's a PDF catalog on the site; if you see a book there you find interesting, you ought to pick it up -- support a small press trying to do something good for the field!