Saturday's Bits and Pieces
"If love is blind, why is lingerie so popular?" -- Anonymous
The authors at Vanilla Heart Publishing are thinking about love and chocolate as Valentine's Day approaches. We're thinking about you, too, and hope you have a special someone to share the day with. If you enjoy reading to each other, we've got the perfect gift: a free PDF book filled with love, stories, humor, and recipes. For your copy, click here: Malcolm's Valentine's Gift.
Finally, Sunetra Gupta's latest novel Go Good in Black, published two years ago in New Delhi, has found a U.S. publisher. It will be released next month from Clockroot Books. The website includes a comment from my review of the earlier edition:
Well worth the wait: So Good in Black, Sunetra Gupta's first novel in ten years, is character-driven literary fiction, featuring a non-linear plot, Spartan passages of stylized and pointed verbal jousting between characters, and highly evocative descriptive passages... Gupta's most powerful work to date challenges the reader with the dynamic and often contradictory shadows cast by friendship across the illusory counterpane of certainty and time.
Deborah J. Ledford has followed up her stunning debut novel Staccato (Second Wind Publishing, 2009) with the highly readable, taut thriller Snare. Set in the Great Smoky Mountains and the Taos Pueblo in Central New Mexico, the novel has been nominated for a Hillerman Sky Award. My review is posted on March of Books.
And, for those of you who write, here's a tempting new anthology from PEN Canada coming out next week. See January Magazine's comments here.
My writing focus continues to be Sarabande, the heroine's journey sequel to The Sun Singer . Once NaNoWriMo was over, I returned to my usual leisurely writing pace where I listen to my muse when she has something to say and don't worry about deadlines when she doesn't.
Have a great weekend and a happy Valentine's Day.
--Malcolm
The authors at Vanilla Heart Publishing are thinking about love and chocolate as Valentine's Day approaches. We're thinking about you, too, and hope you have a special someone to share the day with. If you enjoy reading to each other, we've got the perfect gift: a free PDF book filled with love, stories, humor, and recipes. For your copy, click here: Malcolm's Valentine's Gift.
Finally, Sunetra Gupta's latest novel Go Good in Black, published two years ago in New Delhi, has found a U.S. publisher. It will be released next month from Clockroot Books. The website includes a comment from my review of the earlier edition:
Well worth the wait: So Good in Black, Sunetra Gupta's first novel in ten years, is character-driven literary fiction, featuring a non-linear plot, Spartan passages of stylized and pointed verbal jousting between characters, and highly evocative descriptive passages... Gupta's most powerful work to date challenges the reader with the dynamic and often contradictory shadows cast by friendship across the illusory counterpane of certainty and time.
Deborah J. Ledford has followed up her stunning debut novel Staccato (Second Wind Publishing, 2009) with the highly readable, taut thriller Snare. Set in the Great Smoky Mountains and the Taos Pueblo in Central New Mexico, the novel has been nominated for a Hillerman Sky Award. My review is posted on March of Books.
And, for those of you who write, here's a tempting new anthology from PEN Canada coming out next week. See January Magazine's comments here.
My writing focus continues to be Sarabande, the heroine's journey sequel to The Sun Singer . Once NaNoWriMo was over, I returned to my usual leisurely writing pace where I listen to my muse when she has something to say and don't worry about deadlines when she doesn't.
Have a great weekend and a happy Valentine's Day.
--Malcolm
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