Books By Friends
I picked up my 2.5 weeks worth of accumulated mail yesterday on the way to work. Hidden amongst the bills, magazines and advertising were a few anticipated gems:
Good old infinityltd sent me a few well-worn Wild Card books edited by grrm to reread (it's been decades), along with some comic books and an F. Paul Wilson book.
From comments syndicated had made two weeks back, I knew my copy of The Evil In Pemberley House would be waiting for me, along with the limited edition chapbook. Win co-authored the book with the late, great Philip Jose Farmer, and it is a firmly-entrenched part of Farmer's Wold-Newton Family universe. I'm eager to start the book, but want to give it the attention it deserves, so I'll be holding off until I finish at least one of the other books I'm in the middle of (I'm closest to finishing Thomas Sniegoski's "A Kiss Before The Apocalypse"). I'm a big fan of Win's work in the Wold-Newtonverse on his own, and have enjoyed his friendship here on LJ the past few years.
I also was pretty sure the limited signed and numbered edition of scottsigler 's The Rookie would be waiting for me, and I was right. Scott is a friend-by-association: thanks to my membership in STAPA I am friends with a few of the guys and gals Scott went to high school with in Cheboygan MI. In fact, it was two of those mutual friends (Jim and Steph Savenkoff) who got me hooked on Scott's writing when his novel INFECTED was released by Crown just about two years ago. The Rookie is one of Scott's older works that is now officially coming into print. Looking forward to reading this one, too.
I also just ordered, through my favorite local bookstore, a copy of the soon-to-be-released Dracula: The Un-Dead by Dacre Stoker, the great grand-nephew of Bram Stoker. Dacre just wrote an introductory essay to this month's organized reading of Dracula, and I'm interested to see what his fiction style is like.