For those of you perhaps who are not so eagle-eyed, I've posted a couple of new stories up in the last week. You'll find a tab in the navigation bar titled Pulp Fiction which has a drop down menu where you'll find Swarm and The Angel Who Overslept. Now that they're alive in the world and I can see them from the outside in, there are perhaps a couple of little changes I might make, but for all intents and purposes, knock yourselves out... The odds on you chancing by here as opposed to Neil Gaiman's pages (which is the only thing on the entire web that I check on every single day) are slim. Slim still means an opportunity in my mind, thus, today, I relink to his story about Maurice Sendak, Art Spiegelman and the New Yorker - simply because everybody who is interested in life, being a parent and being a human, should read it and soak up its knowledge.
A chance sequence of events last night, forced my hand to be curious about a writer who goes by the name of Donald Ray Pollock (probably because that really is his name). I predict rather great things ahead for Mister Donald - and am more than impressed/encouraged that he appears to have started writing a little later in life than most. Not that he should give a damn what I actually think though - he's doing just fine by himself.
The world is full of PR and marketing people who like to bandy about phrases such as "...great book and he is only 24". I had absolutely nothing of interest to say to the world at 24. 34 too if I'm really honest with myself, but a few years on, I'd like to think it's finally coming together.
With my curiosity piqued by reviews, respected comments and a great looking cover for The Devil All The Time, I bought in. For the first time ever, I bought the ebooks for my pad/kindle and also ordered hard copies too. The first bit because I couldn't wait and the second because er... I'm not entirely sure why I did that but it feels right and the sort of thing I would pick up in a bookstore off the cuff. Anyway, this is good stuff if you like that American 'road' style. There's an excerpt here at Scribd that will tell you at least what you're getting yourself into.
Whenever I find a good published author with the weight of a big company behind them, it's always great to see them do a nice job on the guys site. Donald's is certainly one of the much better ones out there - which pretty annoyingly makes me look at this one all over again. One day, I'll be happy with it for more than a few weeks at a time.
It's kind of heart-warming to see an author who you can point at and say "they do this sort of thing."
I tried and I failed. I simply don't just do "one sort of thing".
Is that so wrong?