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Posted on 10.31.08 by Widge @ 10:19 am
Comments on this: none yet. Add your own.  Okay, so this is nuts. I didn't realize this press release had gone out when we posted our last Poe bit, otherwise I would have included it. Bloomsbury Auctions in New York apparently has an unpublished manuscript from Mr. Poe with "never before seen verse." It's going up for auction on December 10th. It's a version of "Irene" or "The Sleeper" and it showed up in rural Virginia. There's little point in me reiterating the press release to you, since it's just really wild and cool and all. So the full text is below for your dancing and dining pleasure. I checked the Bloomsbury website--no updates on this and no image. I've pinged them to see if there's anything else we can share on this. Categorized as: Books
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Posted on 10.31.08 by Widge @ 4:05 am
Comments on this: just one. Add your own. So Baltimore has a huge celebration of Edgar Allan Poe planned, since 2009 is his 200th birthday. That's on January 19th. But they're apparently having stuff all year long. You can read all about it at their official site, but here's the bit that really caught my attention: They're apparently re-interring Poe's remains next to his grandfather, grandmother and brother Henry in Westminster cemetery on October 10th. On October 7th, the date of his death, they're having a public viewing of his body before he's laid to rest again. And then on the 10th a funeral service. I thought I was doing good to share a cup of coffee with Poe's bust at the Poe Museum a few years back. And now I actually the opportunity to see him. On one hand, that's sorta kinda morbid as hell. On the other hand, that's still sorta kinda morbid as hell. On the third hand I keep in the drawer of my desk for just such an occasion...holy crap, I want to be there. Categorized as: Books
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Posted on 09.17.08 by Widge @ 5:17 pm
Comments on this: just one. Add your own.  Eoin Colfer, creator of Artemis Fowl, is being tapped by Douglas Adams' widow, Jane Belson, and the literary agency who manages the Adams estate to write a sixth Hitchhiker's Guide book. This is not, it seems, a job where he is finishing a heretofore unknown unfinished Adams work--Colfer is picking up where Mostly Harmless left off (i.e., an actual ending) and running with it. Apparently Adams himself had kicked around the idea of a sixth book, but that's about it. The book is called And Another Thing... and is due out from Penguin in October of 2009. Now. I have not read the Fowl books. I do not know Colfer. He might be a fantastic writer. And I, of course, don't know what he has planned for this book. It could turn out to be the book that calms the raging tides of dissent among humanity and brings peace to the world, helping us evolve into a state of pure bliss. We will know come next October. And if I am misjudging the situation then I will say so when the time is right. Categorized as: Books
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Posted on 09.11.08 by Widge @ 3:42 am
Comments on this: 2 so far. Add your own.  Form letters from authors make sense. I remember one time I received a yellow postcard back from Stephen King that I believe was addressed: Dear Constant Reader. And it basically explained that while earlier in his career he actually tried to respond to as many fan letters as he could, he figured he could either write letters or write books. And because I was a fan, the postcard told me, he was fairly certain I would rather he be spending his time writing books. It was still really freaking cool to receive. I'm fairly certain I have it still, somewhere around here. But io9 has published a form letter from Robert A. Heinlein (snippet above), in which he could check any number of responses, including "You say that you have enjoyed my stories for years. Why did you wait until you disliked one story before writing to me?" Considering some of these simply make reference to articles or other books, I can just see Heinlein tallying up his letters over a certain period of time and deciding that these twenty-one responses should be the ones to fit on a single typed page. The person who received this one, which you can see by clicking through to io9, obviously left the author speechless. Because nothing was checked. Categorized as: Books
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Posted on 09.01.08 by Widge @ 11:28 pm
Comments on this: none yet. Add your own.  Those of you who were at the Film Fest and on the Apocalypse Rising track at DragonCon might have seen our announcement about There's a Zombie In My Treehouse!, written by Ken Plume (yes, the Ken Plume) and myself with art by the kickass Len Peralta. It's a book for slightly disturbed children. Coming to a place that sells things near you...later this very year. You can sign up for updates on the official site. And you can check out Len's poster art here. Categorized as: Books
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