I've been waiting to
have a reason to say this for quite some time… LOL
So, yes,
“Wanderings on Darker
Shores” has been
"alive" for a bit more than a week now on Amazon.com, but I was waiting for
the LookInside feature to be active and also for other online stores, like Amazon.ca,
to include it in their listings.
Faithful
readers of this blog will recognize many of these stories and poems, but I’ve
also included four stories that have never been published before. These are
bigger stories and together they make up for about 42% of the pages in the
book, or a bit more than 46% of the total word count.
It is
somehow difficult for me to categorize them since it is a rather eclectic collection.
I call them strange stories, or weird stories, if you prefer. There are some
ghosts in there, even some zombies, some aliens. There is no gore. No “real” horror,
unless by suggestion. There are hints. There are shadows.
Actually,
the working title was “The Quiet Fantastic” but I changed it to “Wanderings on Darker Shores”
not only as an homage to Edgar Allan Poe, but also because I see these stories
as incursions into the darker realms that lurk beyond the thin veil of
reality....
The
fantastic (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fantastic
or even better http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fantastique)
is actually the genre that I think applies best to this book.
Anyway, here it is for now:
Thank you for spreading the word! :-) :-) :-)
17 comments:
booyah! putting it on the amazon list...so i can get it for the holidays...woot!
Brian!!! You made my evening!!! :-)
xoxoxo
Congratulations! It looks very impressive... a most attractive cover.
Hey, Bernard, thank you so much!!! :-)
Well done! :-) Congrats. I love the cover.
Greetings from London.
Very cool. Beautiful cover. I'll pick up a copy soon.
Congratulations!
Cuban, thank you! Glad you like! :-)
Charles, thank you so much. For everything! :-)
Thank you, SzélsőFa! :-)
Saw you at Crosshairs, decided to check you out. Congrats on the new book.
Teresa
Teresa, glad you did! :-)
Thank you so much! And thank you for stopping by and for following me. :-)
I'm so, so happy for you, Vesper. That cover is absolutely gorgeous. And I know the words inside are even more so. I feel lucky to have known you for so long, because I have an inkling of what this means to you.
Enjoy every moment! Can't wait to read your beautiful book.
(Added the book to my cart. Like so many others, I'm just waiting to buy until I pick up some other Christmas items!)
Congrats, girl :) I didn't know this was in the works. I would be honored to hit buy. I'm so happy for you :)
Sarah, thank you so much! I don't even know how to say how much your words mean to me. But I think you know it already... Thank you, my friend, from my deepest heart! xoxoxo
Laura, thank you!!! Yes, I think I've been working to put it together since August... It still doesn't feel real... :-) Thank you so much!
It certainly is exciting to see your book(s) at Amazon, I agree.
Wishing you all the best with your first Cora. I'm sure you put a lot of work, heart and soul into this book.
Happy Holidays, G
I still can't believe it... It still feels strange...
Thank you for your visit, Geraldine, and for your good wishes.
All the best to you and your loved ones for Christmas and the New Year.
... Grand! _m
Thank you, Magyar!
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