‘Well, I’m back,’ as someone shorter than myself (and braver than all of us) once said at the end of a very long (very good) novel. It works as a starting quote, too, I think.
As some of you will know, I’ve done Tour Journals on Bright Weavings for my last three novels. People seem to like them. I use them to give background on the way books are published (which is changing by the hour, it sometimes seems). I’ve thrown out challenges – to write jacket copy, for example, and edit each other – to allow hands-on experience with this. I give details of the run-up to a book’s release, and what follows. I still try to be funny at times, and kindly readers still allow me to believe I am succeeding. At times.
So here we go again, with River of Stars. It is due out at the very beginning of April. I tend to start the journals well before publication date, because so much of what goes on with the books happens well in advance. I usually stop around when actual touring stops, or winds down. Or I stop. Or wind down.
The change this time around is formatting. The same nefarious forces among publishers and friends who lured me like Sirens onto the time-obliterating rocks of Twitter have joined forces (scary, yes) to insist that WordPress is way sexier (and easier to read!) than the old format of tucking my journal entries into the Bright Weavings Forums.
I do sometimes listen. Really. I do. It isn’t exactly a quotidian event, people have been known to log the moments in their diaries, but this is one of them. I have also been advised that photogrpahs can be used here. I have also been advised that they might therefore be expected.
Fine. Here:
- This is Antoine Bourdelle’s ‘Hercules the Archer’. I fell in love with it in his studio space/museum in Paris ages ago when I was young. It was a treat to find another version in Prague last week. And yes, I agree, it has nothing, really to do with anything, except … well, there’s a major archer figure in River of Stars. (Yes, I’m reaching for that link. It is true, about the archer, but I really just wanted to show you the sculpture!)
So, this is really just a first post/announcement of more to come. For those who missed it, I did a ‘title reveal’ for the book a while back via this video (done by my filmmaker son).
General news will appear still on the Facebook page (where a couple of the Bright Weavings team, people I really don’t deserve, keep everyone up-to-date on news). I am now @GuyGavrielKay on Twitter (see nefarious forces, earlier in this post!) and, of course, watch this space. I’ll figure out, as I go, how to balance the different modes and forms.
Or is that wildly optimistic?
Ooh. I’m glad you reached for it, because I’ve never seen that sculpture before and it’s astounding. Wow.
Bourdelle is worth looking up and chasing down. Essentially #2 when Rodin was #1 (with a backstory). His studio space is a favourite place for me to send friends when they go to Paris.
Ooh. I’m glad you reached for it, because I’ve never seen that sculpture before and it’s astounding. Wow.
Bourdelle is worth looking up and chasing down. Essentially #2 when Rodin was #1 (with a backstory). His studio space is a favourite place for me to send friends when they go to Paris.
Since I’ve been living in Ireland for SEVEN YEARS and haven’t yet made it to Paris, his studio will be on my list of things to do when I finally get there! Thank you!
I went to do my pre-order as everyone should do and was disheartened to find that there is currently no Kindle version for River of Stars available.
Please say that those nefarious forces have not squandered those additional early sales.
BOB
I went to do my pre-order as everyone should do and was disheartened to find that there is currently no Kindle version for River of Stars available.
Please say that those nefarious forces have not squandered those additional early sales.
BOB
Why does this post from Bob not surprise me in the least? 🙂