Sheldon is coming (back) and more …
Here, at the end of November (which feels more like a place than a moment in time), everything looks much different than it did when the year began.
Yesterday, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt put HOW TO FIND YOUR WAY IN THE DARK into production. This is the Sheldon Horowitz prequel to NORWEGIAN BY NIGHT. Reader of NbN will be able to watch Sheldon grow up and understand how he became the man he was in a sweep American epic spanning a decade from 1937 to 1947. For new readers to my work, you absolutely can and might want to start here and read NbN later. I made great efforts to align the stories and as far as I can tell there is only one very minor point that I couldn’t piece together between the two books. Rather than tell you, maybe we’ll make it a contest … The book will be out in the U.S. (HMH) and the UK (Transworld, Penguin Random House) in July 2021 unless something changes.
QUIET TIME is my first foray into Audible Originals. I’m waiting on the final cover, but I’m delighted and honored to say that the wonderful Bahni Turpin was the reader and — though I haven’t heard it yet — I’m very optimistic. This is going to be a lot of fun and very timely story about growing up in our social media world. That will be out in March sometime.
RADIO LIFE, meanwhile — which will be out in January — was read by Christopher Brookmyer, the hilarious and super-smart writer of QUITE UGLY ONE MORNING and other “tartan noir” books as well as literary fiction and sci fit. He said that "It’s one of the most captivating epics I’ve read in ages, evoking a convincing sense of fragile social structure reminiscent of China Miéville at his best, in combination with a philosophical underpinning that lends real weight to the stakes. It reads like Mad Max as imagined by Neal Stephenson. It’s luxuriantly immersive, truly transporting in a way that is invaluable during these trying times." So that’s a nice start! Hollywood, I’m told, is sniffing the manuscript.
And no, there’s no news yet on a possible NORWEGIAN BY NIGHT movie but it remains a possibility.
For the interested, I have a YouTube channel where … I sometimes talk about drama. You can watch fine ideas expressed with very poor production value (for free, so no complaining!).
Best wishes, all.
Derek
Yesterday, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt put HOW TO FIND YOUR WAY IN THE DARK into production. This is the Sheldon Horowitz prequel to NORWEGIAN BY NIGHT. Reader of NbN will be able to watch Sheldon grow up and understand how he became the man he was in a sweep American epic spanning a decade from 1937 to 1947. For new readers to my work, you absolutely can and might want to start here and read NbN later. I made great efforts to align the stories and as far as I can tell there is only one very minor point that I couldn’t piece together between the two books. Rather than tell you, maybe we’ll make it a contest … The book will be out in the U.S. (HMH) and the UK (Transworld, Penguin Random House) in July 2021 unless something changes.
QUIET TIME is my first foray into Audible Originals. I’m waiting on the final cover, but I’m delighted and honored to say that the wonderful Bahni Turpin was the reader and — though I haven’t heard it yet — I’m very optimistic. This is going to be a lot of fun and very timely story about growing up in our social media world. That will be out in March sometime.
RADIO LIFE, meanwhile — which will be out in January — was read by Christopher Brookmyer, the hilarious and super-smart writer of QUITE UGLY ONE MORNING and other “tartan noir” books as well as literary fiction and sci fit. He said that "It’s one of the most captivating epics I’ve read in ages, evoking a convincing sense of fragile social structure reminiscent of China Miéville at his best, in combination with a philosophical underpinning that lends real weight to the stakes. It reads like Mad Max as imagined by Neal Stephenson. It’s luxuriantly immersive, truly transporting in a way that is invaluable during these trying times." So that’s a nice start! Hollywood, I’m told, is sniffing the manuscript.
And no, there’s no news yet on a possible NORWEGIAN BY NIGHT movie but it remains a possibility.
For the interested, I have a YouTube channel where … I sometimes talk about drama. You can watch fine ideas expressed with very poor production value (for free, so no complaining!).
Best wishes, all.
Derek
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