Two New(ish) JMG Books
Jun. 15th, 2019 12:16 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ecosophia I'm pleased to announce that one of my forthcoming titles is now available for preorder, and one of my backlist titles is available again in a new, updated edition...
The Shoggoth Concerto is a fantasy set in the same fictive universe as The Weird of Hali -- the Haliverse, as some of my readers have taken to calling it. Here's the publisher's blurb:
The Shoggoth Concerto is a fantasy set in the same fictive universe as The Weird of Hali -- the Haliverse, as some of my readers have taken to calling it. Here's the publisher's blurb:*****
Brecken Kendall doesn't plan on becoming a composer. She also doesn't expect to encounter one of the eldritch realities H.P. Lovecraft borrowed for his weird fiction. A sophomore at Partridgeville State University on the edge of the New Jersey pine barrens, she’s trying to leave behind the bitter memories of her childhood and get a degree in music education. Lovecraft? He’s just one of the authors discussed in a class she’s taking that semester, where she learns about the polymorphous monsters called shoggoths. Those are nothing but an old legend, she thinks...until a young shoggoth, traumatized by a night of fire and death, appears in the kitchenette of the converted garage where Brecken lives.
A lucky chance—or is it more than that?—allows Brecken to communicate with the creature, and she decides to give it the food and shelter it so desperately needs. Over the weeks that follow, an unlikely bond grows between them. Brecken will need all the help the creature she nicknames Sho can give her, for her plans for her future are shattered by the awakening of an unexpected talent for music composition; her selfish and abusive boyfriend is seeking power in strange tomes of eldritch lore; the secret organization that annihilated all but one of the shoggoths under Hob’s Hill is still hunting for survivors of that terrible night; the living darkness the old books name Nyogtha, The Thing That Should Not Be, is weaving its own cryptic plans—and from beyond the boundary where curved time meets angular time, the terrible Hounds of Tindalos have scented their prey...
*****
The Shoggoth Concerto will be shipping on July 17 of this year; you can order advance copies of the print or ebook editions here.
And in other publishing new, my novel Twilight's Last Gleaming is back in print in an updated new edition. For those who didn't read it in its earlier incarnation, I should mention that this is not fantasy at all -- it's a fast-paced political/military thriller about an all-too-likely future, in which America's imperial overstretch has disastrous consequences. Here's the publisher's blurb:
And in other publishing new, my novel Twilight's Last Gleaming is back in print in an updated new edition. For those who didn't read it in its earlier incarnation, I should mention that this is not fantasy at all -- it's a fast-paced political/military thriller about an all-too-likely future, in which America's imperial overstretch has disastrous consequences. Here's the publisher's blurb:*****
A chilling high-concept geo-political thriller where a declining United States and a resurgent China come to the brink of all out nuclear war.
The year is 2028. Oil is the black gold that controls the fortunes of all nations and the once-mighty United States is down to the dregs. A giant oil field is discovered off the Tanzanian coast and the newly elected US President finds his solution to America’s ailing economy. While the US blindly plots and plans regime change in this hitherto insignificant African nation, Tanzania’s allies – the Chinese – start their own secret machinations. The explosion that follows shatters a decades-old balance of global power and triggers a crisis on American soil that the United States may not survive.
Political conspiracies, military manouvers, and covert activities are woven together in this fast-paced, gripping novel that paints a stark warning of an uncomfortably likely future.
*****
Twilight's Last Gleaming is now in stock and ready to ship, and you can order copies here. Enjoy!
Cover Design
Date: 2019-06-15 04:52 pm (UTC)TLG updated?
Date: 2019-06-15 06:49 pm (UTC)Twilight´s last gleaming
Date: 2019-06-15 10:11 pm (UTC)Re: Twilight´s last gleaming
Date: 2019-06-15 11:05 pm (UTC)Re: TLG updated?
Date: 2019-06-15 11:08 pm (UTC)Re: Cover Design
Date: 2019-06-15 11:08 pm (UTC)Re: Cover Design
Date: 2019-06-15 11:23 pm (UTC)Of course, Diane Purkiss would never have allowed the cover for Fairies and Fairy Stories: A History if she had a say on it.
I read the first edition of your book and I also intend to buy both.
Pseudopods!
Date: 2019-06-15 11:26 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2019-06-16 12:40 am (UTC)Re: Cover Design
Date: 2019-06-16 02:33 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2019-06-16 02:34 am (UTC)Re: Pseudopods!
Date: 2019-06-16 02:35 am (UTC)You may not be that far off with the "Radiance"
Date: 2019-06-16 07:39 am (UTC)There is apparently some information in print about promoting UFOs as a way to help people continue to believe in Hi Tech;
“These flying saucer cults are all quite insignificant, but one like them could well rise to prominence in a future decade. We need several really aggressive, attractive space religions, meeting the emotional needs of different segments of our population, driving traditional religions and retrograde cults from the field.”
—William Sims Bainbridge, co-director of Cyber-Human Systems at the National Science Foundation, Senior Fellow of the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies
It feels creepy to me that an official in the NSF seems to be in favor of promoting UFO cults as a way to drive 'traditional religions and retrograde cults from the field.'
Here's a link to the book review this came from;
https://auticulture.com/american-cosmic1/#comments
And more Radiance-ready lit--
https://ieet.org/index.php/IEET2/more/bainbridge20090820
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Date: 2019-06-16 12:50 pm (UTC)Found one failure to update
Date: 2019-06-16 02:57 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2019-06-16 05:19 pm (UTC)Re: You may not be that far off with the "Radiance"
Date: 2019-06-16 06:14 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2019-06-16 06:15 pm (UTC)Re: Found one failure to update
Date: 2019-06-16 06:16 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2019-06-16 06:16 pm (UTC)Twilight's Last Gleaming
Date: 2019-06-16 07:46 pm (UTC)By the way, I loved the use of Venezuela - very timely.
Re: Twilight's Last Gleaming
Date: 2019-06-17 03:20 am (UTC)Re: Cover Design
Date: 2019-06-17 03:16 pm (UTC)There's a bimbo on the cover of my book
She is blonde and she is sexy
She is nowhere in the text, she
Is the bimbo on the cover of the book!
By - I think - Michael Flynn, author of Country of the Blind. The basic premise of which was "Suppose there was a conspiracy to rule the world ... and it was incompetent!"
Pat
Re: Cover Design
Date: 2019-06-17 05:55 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2019-06-17 08:48 pm (UTC)Re: Cover Design
Date: 2019-06-17 09:48 pm (UTC)There's a white man on the cover of the book
There's a white man on the cover of the book
Though the heroine is black,
with Art that cut's no slack,
so there's a white man on the cover of the book!
Likewise Emma Bull's Bone Dance. The narrator, Sparrow, is explicitly described in Chapter 4 as an androgynous-looking 15-year-old Native American. The paperback showed a young Lou Diamond Phillips with long, tied-back hair. The hardback showed a face clearly adult, male, and Irish, as pale as can be and freckled. With a short haircut. Nobody in the novel remotely resembling that. I cut the picture off the paperback when it got ratty and pasted it on the hardback.
Re: Cover Design
Date: 2019-06-17 10:59 pm (UTC)Red Hook
Date: 2019-08-12 09:48 pm (UTC)You might want to tell the publisher to update their now out-of-date page for the book, too.
Regards