new title

[truepenny]

The marketing people agreed I could have a definite article. So make a note in your diaries, people: Kekropia is now officially titled The Virtu, and shall be referred to as such from here on out.

I don't understand the marketing people, but you know what? They gave me a beautiful beautiful beautiful cover and jacket copy that was so much better than I was expecting and, well, if their augury by Dhole bone dice and coins of Dylath-Leen, cast thrice while breathing the incense of the trees that grow on the far side of the moon, tell them virtu is a beter word than kekropia ... I'm not going to argue. I got my definite article. I'm happy.

(And, yes, I am reading The Dream Quest of Unknown Kadath. How could you tell?)

Comments

[larryhammer]

Well, I could tell because I see your reading above the post in my format.

The Virtu is, I think, a better title if it's in the same setting as Mélusine -- to me Kekropia signals a shift of inspiration and setting from medieval French legend to Greek-myth-land.

---L.

[elynross.livejournal.com]

I just wanted to say I'm loving your postings on and references to Lovecraft, an old favorite of mine. I'm a bit fonder of Derleth than you are, but I think that's simply that I find his fanboyishness kind of... not charming, but... something. *g* And I read him at a point when I'd run out of Lovecraft, and not many people were writing Lovecraftian-influenced pieces, and...

Well. Anyway. It's fun reading your thoughts. *g* And in my word of the day the other day I got a lovely Lovecraftian word:

caliginous (kuh-LIJ-uh-nuhs) adjective

Dark, gloomy, obscure, misty.

[truepenny.livejournal.com]

Oh, I was charmed by Derleth and his earnest, earnest fanboying. It's just that that did not in any way mitigate the fact that his stuff is utter crap. *g*

And thank you for caliginous. It's a beautiful word.

[libskrat]

Not Swich Virtu?

Wait. That's vertu. Never mind.