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Launch Day: Clare Dudman interview and more

"A Death at the White Camellia Orphanage" tells of a young boy's travels through the black heart of Depression America and his search for light both metaphorical and real. Writing with a controlled lyrical passion, Marly Youmans has crafted the finest, and the truest period novel I've read in years.            



     --Lucius Shepard



March 30th at last: today A Death at the White

Marly at "The Curator" of International Arts Movement

Photograph courtesy of Young Tran of San Francisco, California and sxc.hu. Find Young Tran's photographs here.

Not only is it launch day for A Death at the White Camellia Orphanage (first chapter here), but I have something special up at The Curator, a magazine of International Arts Movement. Today's issue contains pieces related to the celebration of a long-ago gift of cherry trees from Japan

Pip Tattnall on the rails once more--

Here I am, waving to you from my daughter's apartment bedroom at Bard College. But I just wanted to say that wonderful artist Laura Frankstone has contributed to the launch interviews here. She asks about Pip's name... Some other writers have contributed new pieces as well, and I will thank them tomorrow.

Download directly: chapter one, A Death at the White Camellia Orphanage

Download
the first chapter
of

A Death at the White Camellia Orphanage
(Mercer University Press -
The Ferrol Sams Award for Fiction)

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The No-Pig-in-a-Poke Post: read chapter one

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G's and Jeremy L. C. Jones

Jeremy L. C. Jones has a piece about his childhood in Cooperstown in Strange Horizons. I like it a lot, and not just because he gives me a nod! (Thanks, Jeremy!) I see Pomeroy Place every day of my life here, and I know a lot of practical, straightforward people who claim to have seen ghosts. Although I thought that our 1808 federal-style house had been one of the ones to escape haunting,

Pip Tattnall on the rails again--

Note the train, with the monkey to celebrate!

Here's another piece of the launch interview, this time by friend and artist Clive Hicks-Jenkins, hosted at his Artlog. He asks two questions; one comes from his years as a painter, the other from his earlier time playing many roles in the world of the stage--dancer, actor, choreographer, set designer, director, etc.

Comments off--please comment

So far: interviews

Though official pub date is Friday, books have arrived
and both hardcover and ebook are available
at the usual online outlets and bookstores.



Interviews to date
The most recent one is Susanna Leberman's post from yesterday.
Part one at Beth Adams (Phoenicia Publishing), The Cassandra Pages (setting and research); part two at Beth Adams (Phoenicia Publishing), The Cassandra Pages (uniqueness,

Good night--

I've been celebrating the end of the day by watching lots of Pina Bausch choreography on youtube. You can too! And now here's the trailer from Pina by Wim Wenders.  And now I am ready for dreaming.

More on Pip Tattnall, riding the rails--

A Death at the White Camellia Orphanage
Mercer University Press, March 30th, 2012
hardcover or ebook

If you look at the list of top ten blog posts in the left-hand column, you will find that my number-one all-time blog post (standing now at 1,390 visitors, though "16 things I learned from editing qarrtsiluni" is close behind) was the first of the "I Interview My Visitors"series. The subject