The Postman Rings Twice

What’s show­ing up on my porch any day: author copies for Led­feather and The Long Trial of Nolan Dugatti. Each now up at Ama­zon, if not quite order­able yet. As for offi­cial release dates, I think Led­feather’s going to be first, though Nolan Dugatti’ll be avail­able right around Led­feather’s offi­cial day (early/mid-August). Very excited about each of these, too. Haven’t had a two-novel sea­son since 2003, All the Beau­ti­ful Sin­ners and The Bird is Gone. It’s fun.

And, as for where my porch is these days: Col­orado. It’s why the long silence these past cou­ple of months. Luck­ily, though, I’ve man­aged to hurt myself enough on my new bike¹ that I’m laid up for a few days. So I can catch up in here, maybe.

As for what I’m reading/watching/listening to: Lovecraft’s At the Moun­tains of Mad­ness, The Howl­ing, and “All Sum­mer Long” (those chords up front are sup­posed to be Skynyrdy, I know, but they’re pure “Were­wolves of Lon­don,” yes?). As for what I’m not see­ing yet: Hell­boy 2, The Dark Knight, X-Files. Feels so strange right now being me. Not just from the heap­ing hand­fuls of pills I’m on, but because there’s an X-Files that exists that I haven’t seen yet. The other day at some gas pump I put my card in and, instead of the readout-thing telling me to do this or that, it just came up with the word ‘Dis­loyal.’ Which is about how I’m feel­ing right now. I mean, on the upside, I did recently buy a Jean-Luc Picard action fig­ure to put on my desk with Scully and Mul­der, but still. A true believer would have been there Thurs­day at mid­night, right? Right.

Too, I remem­ber in some inter­view for­ever ago say­ing what my favorite shirt was. And at the time, that shirt pic­tured, yep, it was the shirt of shirts. But now, I don’t know. There’s a con­tender, any­way:

Though of course in a fair world, this would be a t-shirt as well — one in my closet anyway:

Also, that’s kind of a lie, I guess, what I’m watch­ing: The Howling’s spin­ning in the player, sure, even always, but for the past seven hours, I think, it’s been the high end of my chan­nels. Specif­i­cally, Clas­sic Coun­try. I really haven’t found a limit for how long I can watch that channel.

Too, was mak­ing lists, which is prob­a­bly some kind of obvi­ous char­ac­ter flaw, and real­ized (cue epiphany music here) that my all-time favorite SNL bit, ahead even of the ninja sup­port group and all the Jeop­ardy and Land Shark fun, was that old ‘cen­taur job interview’-one. Which I can’t seem to find any­where. Does it exist on-line? Would love a link, if so.

And, last, which should have been first, or its own post: any­body in Ceurnevaca next, say, March 12–15? I’m there, lead­ing a work­shop in FC2’s Writ­ers on the Edge. Ten­ta­tive title of my workshop:“anaerobicize your prose” No period there on pur­pose, yeah.

And, talk­ing FC2: good­bye to my long­time & always edi­tor Brenda Mills, with­out whom … I don’t know. ‘Any­thing,’ I think. And thanks for it.

So, you know: be famous,
Stephen

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¹ I don’t know why I thought I could write a post with­out a foot­note. any­way, new bike: Gary Fisher 29er. Rigid, hard­tail, though I’m think­ing hard about some front sus­pen­sion. Any­body got any they’re not using? Not sure what I’d trade, but it’d be in book form. Maybe even ‘author copy’ book form …

Posted: 07|29|08 at 9:17 pm. Filed under: Main.

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