Luck has riotous marketing skills: it didn't occur to me until just now how odd it is that
a post-apocalyptic epic in blank verse was catapulted into the world just at the solstice close of the Mayan calendar. Timing! It's a thing marketers are always going on about, and for once I have it--alas, if only I had realized, had thought ahead and made the requisite Mayan Calendar Apocalypse Marketing Plan, and established a post-apocalyptic marketing event...
Would have been helpful to arrange for a gigantic stone statue to shoulder its way from Lake Otsego, waterfalls pouring from its chest and thighs, followed by reeling birds and the coils of our lake monster. He might flog books door to door like a big Fuller Brush Man who can't take
no for an answer. Would be good. Effective, at any rate. And everybody local wants to see what the shy lake monster really looks like. (One of the characters in
Thaliad does catch a glimpse of the monster.) Imagine a basalt army of golem-like book salesmen, each with a Santa-pack of books, led by a stone captain, lake monster flung around his neck as a living scarf.
The air is dark and pouring outside, lake blurring into louring cloud and ground and sky... Could be a scene from the start of
Thaliad.
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On a less silly note, and just in case you want to get your copy before it really is entirely too late,
Thaliad is available: in hardcover (limited edition) and paperback from Phoenicia Publishing's online store; in paperback (stocked via Ingram) for bookstore orders; in paperback from Amazon here and abroad. For more information, hop to
the Phoenicia Thaliad page.
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Mayan Apocalypse or Mayan Party Day report: First it poured so hard that the lake and sky became confused. Then it sleeted a while. That was when I did my errands and took the forgotten mushrooms to school (part of a book report, if you can believe it), as my youngest remembered scales, lemon drop, peasant vest and hat for "The Balek Scales." But not mushrooms. Now the roofs are white, and the snow is sticking despite the soaked ground. A three-story sparrow frolic is going on at the feeder just beyond the window. The least upset, and they whirl into the ravel of rugosa vines and sit for a moment before flitting back. But the little kestrel will be too fast for them if he comes . . . poor little party-sparrows.
You hadn't 'clicked' to the Mayan thing and Thaliad?
ReplyDeleteI can't believe it. Really? Oh, Marly, that is so funny!
Trees down here blocking the roads early this morning, so there were chainsaws going at 6:00 am.
What with that, the meteor, and that space ship thing in the back yard it's all go here.
I guess I should really go and look at the space ship and check that they're OK inside.
Nope, wasn't even thinking about it--just been a mad, busy bug dancing on a hot griddle.
ReplyDeleteThe weather's excessive today her too, but I hope nothing like that. All the trees really near me have already fallen on the van, the garage, and the Corolla. Highly convenient. A few might smack us if they managed the correct angle...
Go check that spaceship!