A friend of mine, Ellen Emerson White, just came up with a very, very cool idea, a gesture that Obama could and should make to make the world a better place. It makes such sense that I’m amazed no one has come up with it before. It’s simple, elegant, necessary.
Also, Paul Di Filippo has given ANWAGTHAP a fab review in July’s Asimov’s Magazine:
“…a life story wittily and bracingly told: brave, forthright, illuminating, passionate, rueful, and celebratory. If you melded Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home (2006) with Aldiss’s The Twinkling of an Eye (1998) and Delany’s The Motion of Light in Water (1988), you might come up with a similar tale of a wild girl with literary sensibilities.”
— Paul Di Filippo, Asimov’s, July 2008
Wow. Bechdel, Aldiss *and Delany. Fabulous. And the cherry on top? Kelley’s collection, Dangerous Space, is reviewed glowingly six pages later. Happy day in the Eskridge-Griffith household.
Congratulations on your Lambda win with ANWAGTHAP. If it’s not too impertinent a question, is there any chance of a “mass market” (if you like) print-only edition being published? I’d personally love to read your memoirs, but I really can’t justify $US75 for a single work (multimedia and all!). I tend to believe that the release of a cheaper work doesn’t impinge on the likelihood of people buying the super-duper one. For example, I love Lois McMaster Bujold, and if her novels get released in hardcover and paperback, I buy <>both<> (one for keeping, the other for walking-around-with and pimping).I <>will<> be getting the essay collection, when it appears (assuming it’s somewhat less than $75), tho’.
I’m certainly considering a trade edition of <>And Now We Are Going to Have a Party<>. I just have to find the right publisher. I actually think it could be done pretty inexpensively as a trade paperback with B&W illustrations. I don’t think it would be difficult to include a CD, either. But as a last resort I could always put the music online.I’d want to password-protect the music, though, not because I’m paranoid about people stealing it, but because the music needs to listened to in context. It can’t stand on its own. (That is, I think four of the tracks can, because they were professionally recorded, but the other six tracks really can’t. It would be embarrassing.)Finding a good home for it will take time. I’ll post any progress as and when it occurs.
Groovy, thanks for your response. If you can find a home for a trade version that would be fab. Looking forward to it!