Saturday, January 31, 2009

Avenger Chronicles - limited hardcover

The Avenger Chronicles limited edition hardcover is now out (I do not have my copy in hand, yet). The nifty cover by Doug Klauba has been posted over at Moonstone Books. Although it is not a hi-rez cover scan, it looks great. Can't wait to get my hands on it!

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Saturday, January 17, 2009

Subterranean Press artwork updates, including The Evil in Pemberley House

Subterranean Press has posted a brief artwork update, here.

I am busily reviewing proofs for The Evil in Pemberley House this weekend. I've seen the design for the limited edition chapbook, and can also say that both the trade and limited edition chapbooks will have endsheets which should knock the socks off Wold Newton fans. :-)

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Friday, January 09, 2009

Note to parents traveling with kids

Hey, "parents"! Sitting by yourselves and cuddling on a 4-hour flight, and leaving your squirmy little boy in the "care" of your apathetic (and sleeping) teenage daughter, ain't parenting in my book. Next time try sacrificing your nooky time and sitting one parent with each kid, and actually supervising their behavior, rather than seating the kids off by themselves.

It's called parenting, folks. Try it some time.

Ever had to fight for personal space on an airplane with one of those adult-sized human beings who can't seem to keep their elbow, legs, and shoulders to themselves? Try it with a little kid who can't sit still, to the tune of testing every contortionist position that an 8-year-old can pack into the middle seat within the space of three minutes, including thrusting a sock-clad feet (the shoes came off a long time ago) in my face as he gyrates.

What fun.

Oh, and parents? One more thing. Just a little matter, really.

People do not want to be exposed to your kid's serial farting for 4 continuous hours while trapped in a small, enclosed cylinder of hurtling metal breathing recycled air.

Teach him how to hold it. You may think there's nothing so sweet as the smell of little Johnny's internal combustion exhaust.... Me?

Not so much.

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Tuesday, January 06, 2009

The Evil in Pemberley House - Amazon listing

The Evil in Pemberley House is now listed on Amazon.

Flap copy:
"For over thirty years, readers have marveled at Philip José Farmer's inventive integration of popular fiction and literature's most beloved characters, in a mythical web known as the Wold Newton Family. First described in the fictional biographies Tarzan Alive: The Definitive Biography of Lord Greystoke and Doc Savage: His Apocalyptic Life, Farmer expanded his Wold Newton mythos in novels such as The Other Log of Phileas Fogg, The Adventure of the Peerless Peer, Time's Last Gift, Hadon of Ancient Opar, Flight to Opar, The Dark Heart of Time: A Tarzan Novel, and Escape from Loki: Doc Savage's First Adventure.

The Evil in Pemberley House, an addition to the Wold Newton cycle, plays with the Gothic horror tradition. Patricia Wildman, the daughter of the world-renowned adventurer and crimefighter of the 1930s and '40s, Dr. James Clarke "Doc" Wildman, is all alone in the world when she inherits the family estate in Derbyshire, England, old, dark, and supposedly haunted.

But Farmer, characteristically, turns convention on its ear. Is the ghost real, or a clever sham? In Patricia Wildman, Farmer creates an introspective character who struggles to reconcile the supernatural with her rational scientific upbringing, while also attempting to work through unresolved feelings about her late parents. He sets the action at Pemberley from Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice and ingrains the various mysteries in the Canon of the Sherlock Holmes stories.

The Evil in Pemberley House is a darkly erotic novel with broad appeal to readers of pulp and popular literature, particularly followers of Doc Savage, Sherlockians, and fans of Farmer's own celebrated Wold Newton Family."

Looks like Subterranean Press' projected release date for the Trade hardback edition is September 2009, with a list price of $35.

ISBN-10: 1596062495
ISBN-13: 978-1596062498

More info about cover art, the Limited edition with Chapbook, etc., as it becomes available.

Best,

-Win

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