4 Novellas, 4 Formats?
This seems like an interesting project. Author Mike Heppner is publishing a series of four (thematically) linked novellas. Number 4 is available to you, reader, for free in electronic format. Number 2 is to be published the old fashioned paper way.
Numbers 1 and 3? I don't know. From the press release:
"Part four, Man Talking, is available as a free download. At the other end of the spectrum, part two, Talking Man, is available exclusively from Small Anchor Press, which specializes in limited editions of handmade books and focuses on bringing a handcrafted fine-arts aesthetic to book production. Man will be released in December 2008 and Talking in 2009. Readers can check back for updates as more information about the two remaining parts is made available."
I'm guessing the other two titles will be Woman Talking and Talking Woman.
Anything dedicated to Joseph McElroy is enough to get my attention, regardless of format . . .
(The other two parts are called "Talking" and "Man".)
Posted by: dan visel | September 09, 2008 at 01:55 PM
Well, he says right on his web page that the other two will be titled Man and Talking.
Posted by: King Rat | September 09, 2008 at 11:12 PM
He might be dedicating books to Joseph McElroy, but that's where any similarities or intersections end: Pike's Folly is pretty much as amateur hour as you can get, with some of the most wooden, pedestrian prose I can remember suffering through. Maybe he's turned a corner or something but it's gonna take some raves from people I trust to get me to look at anything else by him.
Speaking of McElroy though, where's Cannonball? He's been giving readings from it for a while now . . .
Posted by: scottbryanwilson | September 10, 2008 at 04:42 AM
That's disappointing . . .
Pretty sure McElroy hasn't found a publisher for Cannonball yet? That's what he said when I asked him about it at a reading that Fiction put on a few months ago. He's writing furiously, though - he read a new piece that was almost about the Democratic primary, and he said he had plans to finish his book on water while teaching at Temple this year.
Posted by: dan visel | September 10, 2008 at 05:45 AM
Too bad. I guess I figured Overlook, who published Actress in the House and re-issued a couple of McElroy's older titles, would publish Cannonball. And you know no major publishing house is going to pick up any of his new work. A shame. SOMEONE will publish it, someone HAS to . . .
Posted by: scottbryanwilson | September 10, 2008 at 06:55 AM