The Bone Key
Feb. 11th, 2009 01:49 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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I got the first royalty statement for The Bone Key today. In its first year out in the big wide world, it sold out its advance approximately six times over. It is totally the Little Book That Could.
And so that this entry is not entirely me me me me me, if you have not already, I highly recommend you read Elizabeth Bear's short story, "Sonny Liston Takes the Fall."
(I have been listening obsessively to the Mark Knopfler song, "Song for Sonny Liston,"
for three days now, and evince no signs of stopping soon.* Which is why, in my head, there's a segue in this post where in actual fact there isn't.)
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*This is how I got about Cry Cry Cry's version of "Cold Missouri Waters"
when I was finishing Corambis.
What exactly it is about either of them, I do not know. It's not just the earworminess--otherwise, I'd do this with a lot more songs.
ETA: discursive footnote inside a discursive parenthesis--feeling convoluted today, are we?
I got the first royalty statement for The Bone Key today. In its first year out in the big wide world, it sold out its advance approximately six times over. It is totally the Little Book That Could.
And so that this entry is not entirely me me me me me, if you have not already, I highly recommend you read Elizabeth Bear's short story, "Sonny Liston Takes the Fall."
(I have been listening obsessively to the Mark Knopfler song, "Song for Sonny Liston,"
for three days now, and evince no signs of stopping soon.* Which is why, in my head, there's a segue in this post where in actual fact there isn't.)
---
*This is how I got about Cry Cry Cry's version of "Cold Missouri Waters"
when I was finishing Corambis.
What exactly it is about either of them, I do not know. It's not just the earworminess--otherwise, I'd do this with a lot more songs.
ETA: discursive footnote inside a discursive parenthesis--feeling convoluted today, are we?
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Date: 2009-02-11 08:06 pm (UTC)That is very awesome.
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Date: 2009-02-11 08:47 pm (UTC)Practically the first thing I did when I reached San Francisco in the autumn of 07 was to find a bookshop and look for it - and found it!
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Date: 2009-02-11 08:59 pm (UTC)I also have to recommend "Sonny Liston Takes the Fall." It's one of Bear's best, and that's saying a lot.
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Date: 2009-02-11 09:30 pm (UTC)Cold Missouri Waters is one of my favourite James Keelaghan songs. (Although the studio version loses a little). That's a very lovely cover.
And Knopfler is always good for an earworm or five.
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Date: 2009-02-11 10:28 pm (UTC)Boothbook.no subject
Date: 2009-02-11 11:28 pm (UTC)The Bone Key is, by the way, a most excellent collection. :)
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Date: 2009-02-12 01:27 pm (UTC)I am certain Mr. Booth is astonished--he is not accustomed to such happy success!
seriously catchy little song...
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Date: 2009-02-14 12:14 am (UTC)Excellent and well deserved!!
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