Three days!

[yendi]

Three days until The Lord of Castle Black comes out! Two Brust books in one calendar year! And this one has an "About the Author" by Neil Gaiman!

I have been waiting for nothing less for the better part of a year. :-)

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[swisscheesed.livejournal.com]

I'm sorta excitedly waiting for Peter Straub's Lost Boy, Lost Girl...I just love anything with an evil house.

[yendi]

I love haunted house stuff, but I've never been able to get into Straub, alas.

[swisscheesed.livejournal.com]

The only other Straub I've read is Black House, which he coauthored with Stephen King. I didn't like it at all and I was so prepared to...King never seems to do a good job with evil house stories (different from haunted house since it is the House itself which is fundamentally wicked) despite his fondness for quoting Shirley Jackson.

[yendi]

Good point. I think evil house stories are a lot trickier to do, since giving a house a personality that's not driven by something else is a challenge.

[swisscheesed.livejournal.com]

Shirley Jackson ruled in that department (The Haunting of Hill House of course, and a short story whose title escapes me) and Algernon Blackwood did a great job at describing one (http://www.livejournal.com/users/swisscheesed/178862.html) too.

House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielski is also a fantastic evil house story.

I should keep a running list.

[mendoza.livejournal.com]

Woohoo! This news brightened my day. The "about the author" is icing on a fabulous cake.

It looks like I'm going to have to juggle packing up my apartment with reading for a while.

[yendi]

Prioritize, woman! Packing can happen at the last second. Reading is more important.

And John Ford is doing the about the author note in the third book. :-)

[digitaldevil.livejournal.com]

You know I can't wait! Have you heard anything about a new Vlad Taltos novel? After Issola I'm really antsy about what will happen next to our favorite assassin/witch.

[unwilly.livejournal.com]

www.dreamcafe.com

Brust's site. Check it out. Click on the LOG button and it has his journal. Stuff on new books.

Also links to some fan sites that have interviews.

UN

[digitaldevil.livejournal.com]

Cool! Thank you very much! I didn't even know he had a website.

[yendi]

There's also a neat mailing list (managed by his son) on which he posts occasionally. It's high traffic, though, so I haven't been on it for a while. There's a link from his page.

[unwilly.livejournal.com]

Brust's own fault, as he made it intentionally hard to find.

The site's opening paragraph sums it up,"You're in the wrong place".

[unwilly.livejournal.com]

Me too, me too!

Brust finally updated his log on his website and there were a few details about the book, but not much.

He keeps teasing us with hints about The Count of Adrhilanka(sp)and some other books.

UN

[rollick.livejournal.com]

Ah, sir, do you suggest you shall be buying this book?

[yendi]

I nearly think I said exactly that!

[rollick.livejournal.com]

Well, and I nearly think you did. And yet it seems to me that you did not.

I need to get into the office tomorrow and see if Tor's sent me a copy yet.

[voltbang.livejournal.com]

That would be nice. I wonder if they sent any copies to my work. I somehow doubt that they would, as they have no reason to believe that any of the security guards I work with would need a copy of such a book, but it would be nice to be surprised. Perhaps one of the people we guard is the sort they would think needs a book.

[mycroftca.livejournal.com]

I didn't know that....thanks for the heads up!