I mentioned yesterday that I received an ARC of Graham Joyce’s upcoming novel. Actually it was an eARC, and I think this is the first time that I’ve read an entire novel on the computer screen, other than one of my own in chunks. It wasn’t a bad experience, and I went throught he entire book in three or four sittings.
It’s a shame that American publishers don’t seem to get Joyce. It took them the better part of a decade to publish his early novels, and he seems to have fallen off the radar again, with the upcoming book being published by Night Shade, which means it may not have the visibility of a Scribner novel like Indigo. I believe this is Graham’s best novel to date, though I have several of his books of which I’m fond. There is a symmetry and a resonance of thematic elements to the book that has my head swimming with admiration.
This is cool:
Hi Bev -
That was cool – Hodder & Stoughton sent me a sampler whihc I read this weekend -
http://januarymagazine.com/2008/07/kings-short-treats.html
Best
Ali
That was you! I saw the comment through Google news search and sent a couple of my collector friends in H&S’s direction to get copies for themselves. “N.” is the only story I haven’t read yet, so I’m happy they chose that one for this motion-comic treatment.
I got to hang out with Michael Marshall Smith a bit at NECON this year. Really nice guy. I moderated one of the panels he was on.