Category: One for Sorrow
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Hurray for Midwestern Awesomeness
After a day of braving the twelve degree cold today, with a running inner monologue about the ridiculous starkness and severity of the Midwestern winter accompanying me throughout my travels about town, I came home to find an e-mail from my editor telling me that One for Sorrow has been nominated for the 2008 Great…
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The Crawford Award
I just found out yesterday (and see the news was just released) that this year’s Crawford Award is being given to One for Sorrow. The award, according to the press release, is sponsored by the International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts, recognizes an outstanding first book of fantasy published during the preceding year,…
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Great books you may have missed in 2007
From the Village Voice: Yet could there be enough fell doings in a year that saw only one book from Stephen King, the Richard Bachman trunk novel Blaze? King’s son Joe Hill took up some of the slack with his bestselling horror novel Heart-Shaped Box and 20th Century Ghosts, a lovely, earnest collection of short…
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Locus Review of One for Sorrow
Gary Wolfe reviewed One for Sorrow in Locus this month. It was a feature review, and I loved reading what he made of the book. Okay, so I love reading and hearing what anyone thinks about the book, but this was yet another one of those detailed, thoughtful reviews that I enjoy so much, that…
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Way Cool Moments
The San Francisco Chronicle recently published their holiday gift-book recommendations, and on the sf list you will find Bad Monkeys by Matt Ruff, along with Kage Baker’s The Sons of Heaven, Emma Bull’s Territory, Joe Hill’s 20th Century Ghosts, China Mieville’s Un Lun Dun, Naomi Novik’s Empire of Ivory, Patrick Rothfuss’ The Name of the…
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SF Site Review
Paul Kincaid on One for Sorrow: Whether you read the ghost story as a metaphor for Adam’s psychological travails, or the upheavals in Adam’s family as a grim mirror for the haunting, this is a superbly structured, beautifully written coming of age story. It is, in its way, as powerful and affecting a debut as…
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The Literary Detective
Viriginie over at The Literary Detective wrote about One for Sorrow on her French blog last month, and in between then and now she interviewed me for a new series of author interviews that she would like to start. Here are the results of our interview across the ocean. She asked really great questions, and…
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I can has One for Sorrow
I cracked up last week when I got this in an email last week. Thanks, Cody (and Angela)!
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On Target
Happy Halloween to all you ghosts, goblins and witches. I’m getting ready to leave for the World Fantasy Convention in Saratoga Springs, NY this weekend. Hope everyone has a good one. Mine has already started out really well. I’m pleased to announce that Target has selected One for Sorrow to be one of their Breakout…