* Title: The Eleanor Sketches * Author name: Jason Gurley * ISBN (or ASIN): NO ISBN # (special edition book) * Publisher: Jason Gurley * Publication date: Jun 4, 2014 * Format: ebook only * Description: "Thirteen years is a long time to write a novel. I began writing Eleanor in 2001, two months after the World Trade Center attacks. I was listening to bands like Cake and Third Eye Blind in those days. The Lord of the Rings movies were not yet released. And I was writing Eleanor.
To get to know the character, I wrote a lot of what I called "the Eleanor sketches". These were short fictions about Eleanor that wouldn't necessarily appear in the novel, but helped me understand how she might respond to different things. It helped me play out scenes that wouldn't work in the book, but that I wanted to see anyway.
For years, those sketches lived on my now-defunct blog, Deeplyshallow. There were about fifty of them, I think, but some disappeared, and now there are about thirty left. They're fascinating little artifacts of the novel that Eleanor might have become, and they're nothing at all like the novel that it did become.
So I've collected these sketches into an ebook, appropriately named The Eleanor Sketches, and I gave it as a gift to anybody who preordered Eleanor. Now that Eleanor is available to the world, The Eleanor Sketches is forever off the market, a fleeting glimpse at the novel Eleanor almost was."
* Author name: Jason Gurley
* ISBN (or ASIN): NO ISBN # (special edition book)
* Publisher: Jason Gurley
* Publication date: Jun 4, 2014
* Format: ebook only
* Description: "Thirteen years is a long time to write a novel. I began writing Eleanor in 2001, two months after the World Trade Center attacks. I was listening to bands like Cake and Third Eye Blind in those days. The Lord of the Rings movies were not yet released. And I was writing Eleanor.
To get to know the character, I wrote a lot of what I called "the Eleanor sketches". These were short fictions about Eleanor that wouldn't necessarily appear in the novel, but helped me understand how she might respond to different things. It helped me play out scenes that wouldn't work in the book, but that I wanted to see anyway.
For years, those sketches lived on my now-defunct blog, Deeplyshallow. There were about fifty of them, I think, but some disappeared, and now there are about thirty left. They're fascinating little artifacts of the novel that Eleanor might have become, and they're nothing at all like the novel that it did become.
So I've collected these sketches into an ebook, appropriately named The Eleanor Sketches, and I gave it as a gift to anybody who preordered Eleanor. Now that Eleanor is available to the world, The Eleanor Sketches is forever off the market, a fleeting glimpse at the novel Eleanor almost was."
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