I’ve been away for a few days in New York with work. A great city, once I stepped away from the Disneyland-esque Times Square. While I was there, on my final afternoon before I flew back home, I managed to meet up with my US editor at Del Rey, Chris Schluep, who is an absolute dude. And what great offices, overlooking Central Park – I would never get any work done with that view. We had exciting discussions, and it’s looking like Villjamur will get its US release in Summer 2010.
Back to the grindstone then. Fantasy Book Review begrudgingly gives Nights of Villjamur a good review of 8/10. Some choice highlights:
The book is littered with examples of how the author is in love with his grasp of vocabulary – never before have I had to go to the dictionary so much in one book, and I have a pretty good grasp of vocab.
Such fatuous, execrable, quixotic gobbledygook!
If you like it down and dirty, realistic to the core, show every wart and the pus that seeps from it, then you’ll like this.
Yes indeedy (to the tune of ‘Let’s Get It On’) if you want to get down and dirty… You know, if I wasn’t so jet-lagged, I’d run with this one for a paragraph or two, but I’ve spared you that.
So, did anyone break the interwebs while I was away?
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Very excited about the US date! That is very good news indeed. So glad you liked NY.
We are thinking of going next year…any pointers / suggestions?
Yeah, I was working for the most part, so didn’t quite get the chance to see much of the place. But make sure you go to the top of the Rockefeller Centre. Best view of the city!
hey grudgingly or not it’s a good score. 🙂
I know. I just liked the reviewer’s tone throughout. 🙂
“If you like it down and dirty, realistic to the core, show every wart and the pus that seeps from it, then you’ll like this.”
Mark, you have to convince your publisher to have that in the “words of praise” page in your next book or in the paperback. It turns the stomach.