Here I Am

[ellenkushner]

Light has finally dawned over Marble Head, as I realize that it is easier to post Cool New Things that have Drawn My Attention here in a bloggish sort of way than to try and keep putting them up on my website.

So I'll indulge myself with news of my creative & publishing activities (all the "To Come" stuff, anyway - the Official Appearances, existing performances etc. can all be found at

http://www.sff.net/people/KushnerSherman/kushner/

where they are meticulously updated), plus stray comments on music, film, books & trenchant sayings that I hope will be of interest to anyone who likes the rather sprawling and eclectic Ellenverse that includes the novel Swordspoint http://www.sff.net/people/KushnerSherman/kushner/swordspoint.html (check out the new page - complete with falling snow! - by Theo Black), the public radio show Sound & Spirit http://www.wgbh.org/wgbh/pages/pri/spirit/, and so much in between.

I haven't spent much time on LiveJournal, so am not familiar with the Customs of the Country; but that's all right, I'm used to that, and I won't mind if you don't.

Comments

[penmage.livejournal.com]

Welcome to LJ! I found you via a link in pegkerr's journal, and am thrilled to see you here. Swordspoint has long been a favorite book of mine - I find myself gravitating back to it every two years or so for a reread, and enjoying it just as much each time as I did the first time I stumbled across it unknowing and was intriged by the lovely Thomas Canty cover.

[ellen-kushner.livejournal.com]

Thank you kindly! The new Bantam edition also has a Tom Canty cover, but I don't think it has the magnetism of the original, which was superb. (The new edition does, however, contain the 3 short stories I wrote about those characters, connecting it to the events of THE FALL OF THE KINGS, which is nice. And Tom's KINGS cover is quite something.)

[penmage.livejournal.com]

Oh, I'm so excited. I read and loved The Fall of the Kings, and kept wondering about bits and pieces of it, puzzling it back to Swordspoint. I saw the new edition of Swordspoint in the stores, and was glad to see it out again, but I did not know about the new stories. I am definitly adding it to my want list. New Swordspoint stories, huzzah!

You know when you have a set of old, beloved characters in a single, stand-alone novel, and you think that that's it, there's no more about them to be read? And then you find out that you're wrong, and there are three new stories? It's a fabulous feeling. I think you just made my day.