Yesterday, Lisha Cauthen from the Kansas City SCBWI wrote a review on her blog about what she called my "sandwich book," In the Path of Falling Objects.
And today, over on Lady Reader's Bookstuff there is yet another post -- more sandwich love for that book.
(I'll link the blogs below)
Sometimes, I suppose, books can be kind of quiet and invisible, like being a middle child, I guess -- something that I know a little bit about. Not that In the Path of Falling Objects was necessarily invisible -- it did win a lot of awards and praise, but it was likely, as Lisha suggests, a bit overshadowed by its big brother, The Marbury Lens.
Jack, stop picking on your little brothers.
One of these days, I suppose I'll write something about how maybe it isn't a good idea to write so much stuff [I have one particular writer friend that I am absolutely confident is nodding at this very moment and assuming a sinister I-told-you-so-dumbshit expression].
And... here I am, sitting at my computer at 5 in the morning with exactly two programs running: this one, and the file I am working on for my eighth [I hate the way that word -- 8th -- is spelled] novel.
If my books were my children, I would tell them I love them all, even if I don't want to stop breeding. I'll admit, too, that I've been abusive toward The Marbury Lens -- all those terrible times I've told him I wished he was never born.
We're trying to work our way through that, I guess.
But I do love my sandwich baby, In the Path of Falling Objects, and it's really comforting to see he hasn't been completely forgotten by book bloggers. After all, he's barely a year old.
I've said it before: I really don't think I choose to write what I do. It chooses me, and that's all there is to it. It's the only way I can explain number eight as it gestates inside the womb of its mother's hard drive.
Anyway, (sighs) I have a lot of **stuff** that I'm doing this year, and lots of news to tell about things, too.
And more stuffing to squeeze into the sandwich.
You can read Lisha Cauthen's review of In the Path of Falling Objects here.
You can read Amy (Lady Reader)'s review of In the Path of Falling Objects here.
7 comments:
Wait--let me understand something--you have people telling you to TURN OFF THE TORRENT OF YOUR CREATIVITY? How many writers labor everyday to push through their writer's block?
Do not listen to fools.
If it's marketing we're talking about, your publisher will take care of maximizing profits.
You are building a body of work. Your fans will never tire of you. They will want to read all the books that you will be proud to put on the shelves.
The End.
Brother and love, so nice.
Good to know that not only humans fight about the love of their parents.
Nahno ∗ McLein ™
In The Path of Falling Objects is the only one I haven't read yet of your three that are out and I just ordered it from Books of Wonder (my favorite bookstore in NYC) - they sold their last copy a week ago. Ghost Medicine, Marbury, (and Winger) are three of the best books I've read in years. I'm with lisha, when the muse strikes, let it burn through the night.
And a side note - if you're gong to ALA in New Orleans in June, I'm going too so let's meet up.
Hmmm... where to begin?
Lisha, thank you. I still do not believe in writer's block, though. I know this is something that people have strong feelings about. And maybe it's not about the writing too much aspect of things, but what you do to the stuff you've written. Which is why I keep so much stuff buried in the ice age of my hard drive, I guess. Don't get me wrong... I do love the work I did in my writing of The Marbury Lens. But I still wish I'd never written it, too.
Nahno, because I was raised in a family of only brothers, the whole brother issue and the complexities of male relationships are going to always resurface in my writing (Stick is a good example of that).
And Joe, as always, thank you. I have a feeling you'll like PATH. And thanks for the comment about WINGER, too (which I wrote three years ago). Maybe you'd be willing to send me a blurb on it, being that you're the only YA author who's read it (besides my friend Bill Konigsberg, who also loved it and whom I haven't heard from in ages... Bill, if you're out there, how's it going?).
And I'm not sure if I'll be around at ALA. I will try. I have a sense the library peeps are going to like Stick, but I'm feeling the need for a bit of a vanishing act impending.
I LOVE In the Path of Falling Objects. I read the opening chapter half a dozen times before I could leave it behind to read the rest.
Sarah, I am very honored by that. Thank you.
Will do, Andrew. One blurb for Winger coming up. It will be my pleasure.
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