The Weird of Hali: Red Hook
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The stars have come right again, and the sixth volume of my epic fantasy with tentacles, The Weird of Hali: Red Hook, is now available for preorder in paperback. (E-book preorders will be available in a few days.) Things are getting tense as the Weird of Hali moves toward its fulfillment, and the enemies of the Great Old Ones are becoming desperate -- and deadly. Here's the cover blurb: ***************
Beneath Brooklyn's Sidewalks...
The last thing Justin Martense wants to do is fling himself back into the ancient war between the Great Old Ones and their relentless enemies. Now that his family’s inherited illness has shown up, he wants nothing more than to wrap up eleven years of farming in the Catskill town of Lefferts Corners and figure out what to do with the rest of his life. Suddenly a letter from his old friend Owen Merrill shatters those plans—for Owen is in terrible danger in the Red Hook neighborhood of Brooklyn, and the letter carries a cryptic call for help. With his friends Arthur and Rose Wheeler, he hurries south through a half-ruined landscape to try to answer the call.
But more waits beneath the crumbling sidewalks of the decaying Red Hook neighborhood than Justin can imagine: a half-human sorceress with strange powers, shapeless horrors from the deeps of time, and a colossal device left buried in the living rock by the serpent folk of ancient Valusia, which may hold the key to the fulfillment of the Weird of Hali. The enemies of the Great Old Ones are in Red Hook as well, searching for the device, for Owen—and for Justin. Before he can overcome the dangers that surround him, Justin must gather the clues from a century-old mystery, journey through time into the forgotten past of New York City, obtain a key of silver from a long-dead witch, bring that back to his own time, and then take it into the deep places under Brooklyn—down a stair that no living person can descend...
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Interested? Copies can be ordered directly from the publisher here. **************
Cover blurb
Date: 2019-07-11 04:51 am (UTC)Re: Cover blurb
Date: 2019-07-11 05:10 pm (UTC)?
Date: 2019-07-11 03:26 pm (UTC)Mercury retrograde?
Re: ?
Date: 2019-07-11 05:11 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2019-07-11 05:10 pm (UTC)Does anyone get attacked by salad? I remember you mentioning Lovecraft had a salad phobia.
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Date: 2019-07-11 05:12 pm (UTC)The salad invites HPL to dinner
Date: 2019-07-11 07:32 pm (UTC)Re: The salad invites HPL to dinner
Date: 2019-07-12 12:32 am (UTC)Re: The salad invites HPL to dinner
Date: 2019-07-12 04:35 am (UTC)Re: The salad invites HPL to dinner
Date: 2019-07-12 12:44 pm (UTC)vegetable attack
Date: 2019-07-11 10:26 pm (UTC)Re: vegetable attack
Date: 2019-07-12 01:37 pm (UTC)Re: vegetable attack
Date: 2019-07-13 12:55 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2019-07-11 06:06 pm (UTC)Of course, there'll be the wait after that for #7, but oh well.
-Cliff
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Date: 2019-07-13 12:59 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2019-07-12 05:06 am (UTC)Great news!
Date: 2019-07-12 11:12 am (UTC)I've been waiting for it!
Also, I wanted to suggest to you that it might be a good idea to get some reviews for your books directly in your websites? Not sure how it would work, but there is/are no centralised list/tag (s)?
What about if you make a new tag 'Weird of Hali blog readers reviews' and open for comments (only accepting reviews, no q&a etc) for a bit? Then you could maybe copy & paste to the other blog so that people can find more about your books? If it works ok, maybe do it for other books as well...
I just got Ascendant and really enjoyed your piece there, but I had to go through a few tags to find the name of the book, where to get it and such...Anyway, just a suggestion!
Re: Great news!
Date: 2019-07-12 02:07 pm (UTC)Oh Goodie!
Date: 2019-07-12 06:58 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2019-07-12 09:42 pm (UTC)PS - I have a question about Innsmouth. Are Nyarlathotep's dogs by any chance related to the Hounds of Tindalos?
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Date: 2019-07-13 01:04 am (UTC)2) No, the Hounds of Tindalos are considerably more alien. They aren't "hounds" in a biological sense; they exist in angular time, while we inhabit curved time, and they enter our kind of time through angles. They play a role in book #7, and also in The Shoggoth Concerto.
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Date: 2019-07-13 02:01 am (UTC)2) Look forward to both of those when they come out. Got a late start on the series, had loads of fun reading Innsmouth and Kingsport, just started Chorazin.
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Date: 2019-07-13 04:13 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2019-07-12 09:51 pm (UTC)I just have to say watching this roll out of your fantasy series is just wonderful. It seems like a writers dream to see the publication of such an ambitious set of books coming off so well. I have never read Lovecraft so I thought I wouldn’t be interested in these books but I think I will have to try them. Do I need to have read Lovecraft at all before I get them?
Thanks Will Oberton
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Date: 2019-07-13 01:06 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2019-07-13 08:45 pm (UTC)That said, I'm sure it'd add something to be fluent in Lovecraftian lore while reading this series. Still, I've enjoyed the books enough to read the first few more than once as a "refresher" when a new one arrives. And I write this as someone with very limited exposure to fantasy as a genre.
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Date: 2019-07-14 01:07 am (UTC)Weird NY
Date: 2019-07-13 01:06 am (UTC)I'm probably way out of place here; but I lived in Cornwall-on-Hudson for two and a half yrs not all that long ago.
The Hudson River, its valley, its history--all distinctive. The humans were much nicer to animals than the Texans had been.
And I did wonder about the several religious institutions/monasteries? going nort.
My god's name was (and may continue to be) d-o-g.
New Yorkers (north of NYC) were just so sweet and lovely with my rescues, even the police. The postman walked his beat; knew all the dogs; carried treats for them.
Yes, there were times when he went on vacation, and his fill-in
was terrified of a shy dog who lived across the road.
Luckily, the dog trusted me enough to get him away from the postal mistress.
Roscoe was a character; I'd see him in and out of the yards at night.
There's a heck of a lot of complex history to New York (and I wasn't born there nor have I had romantic interests in anyone from NY --ask me about South Carolina and stand back).
NY is very important because it's Melville territory. Melville family, the much richer Rensselaers, the poor Melvilles who went west, to Indiana. Augusta M, HM's sister, kept notes that I got to transcribe. Pile of physically written documents, found in an attic in Pittsfield, MA.
These bits of history are real. HMelville is buried somewhere in NY ( Botanic Gardens). I had way too much on my plate as instructor at WP and caretaker of five dogs to go explore. What I'm wary about is that you are wading into territory that may not be what it looks like, and that may damage the sense your readers may get.
The Hudson River valley is special. Can't you go write about something else?!
Re: Weird NY
Date: 2019-07-13 01:13 am (UTC)Second, this novel is set in the Red Hook neighborhood of Brooklyn, not about the Hudson valley. I did that because Lovecraft set his most bigoted story there, one of three really dubious stories he set in New York City, and my series is basically standing Lovecraft on his head.
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Date: 2019-07-13 02:57 am (UTC)I about fell out of the chair when I read where Clark Noyse ended up! Go through there about once a year. Always near dusk or later so I've not seen the Mound.
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Date: 2019-07-13 04:15 am (UTC)Clark Noyse
Date: 2019-07-13 04:16 pm (UTC)"A businessbot. An engineer called Dilbert remembers seeing him around at work."
Re: Clark Noyse
Date: 2019-07-14 01:06 am (UTC)