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Nov. 9th, 2007 08:49 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
truepennyAnother really lovely review of The Bone Key.
If I seem a little gobsmacked by the positive response to Booth--and I am gobsmacked--it's because way back in the day when I started writing Booth stories (in 2000: "Bringing Helena Back" was the second short story I ever finished successfully, "Letter from a Teddy Bear on Veterans' Day" being the first . . . unless it's the other way around: they're yoked in tandem in my head, so I'm not actually sure any longer), I vividly remember thinking, No one is ever going to buy these. No one is ever going to read them. No one is ever going to like them or understand what I'm trying to do with them. And I'm so happy to be mistaken I could just burst into song.
If I seem a little gobsmacked by the positive response to Booth--and I am gobsmacked--it's because way back in the day when I started writing Booth stories (in 2000: "Bringing Helena Back" was the second short story I ever finished successfully, "Letter from a Teddy Bear on Veterans' Day" being the first . . . unless it's the other way around: they're yoked in tandem in my head, so I'm not actually sure any longer), I vividly remember thinking, No one is ever going to buy these. No one is ever going to read them. No one is ever going to like them or understand what I'm trying to do with them. And I'm so happy to be mistaken I could just burst into song.
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Date: 2007-11-09 03:16 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-11-09 03:41 pm (UTC)This post gives me hope for some work on some characters and stories I've been working on for a similar time frame.
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Date: 2007-11-09 03:43 pm (UTC)*fails at html*
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Date: 2007-11-09 04:53 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-11-09 05:53 pm (UTC)Yay!
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Date: 2007-11-09 07:29 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-11-09 08:30 pm (UTC)Plus I needed a fix whilst waiting for The Mirador.
I remember reading the first couple of stories and thinking "Hmmm. Lovecraft, Wells and Poe. Could be worse. At least it makes more sense than The Fall of The House Of Usher". Kept reading. Realised halfway through The Cloud Wall that night had descended on my silent flat and I was sitting in my dark bedroom completely alone. Promptly switched on every light available, put on the loudest Romanian folk music I could find and sat huddled on my bed waiting for my flatmate to come home.
-Spook
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Date: 2007-11-11 05:09 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-11-12 06:05 am (UTC)Congratulations on excellent and well-deserved reviews.
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Date: 2007-11-12 02:41 pm (UTC)