tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post3935304596927955557..comments2024-03-20T16:46:13.343-04:00Comments on Marly Youmans / The Palace at 2:00 a.m. / poems, stories, novels: Jiggedy-jig, and Jeff Sypeck on Maze of BloodMarly Youmanshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02377938366750387442noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-50602466784194801132015-11-21T08:09:12.521-05:002015-11-21T08:09:12.521-05:00That effort is well worth making, I think. Now tha...That effort is well worth making, I think. Now that I am seeing better, I have started working on a book that won a big poetry prize... a year after, not one review or piece or anything has appeared! It's hard to know what would help, these days.<br /><br />The effort to turn literature into widgets for the marketplace has blighted the culture. We have to do what we can to care for the Marly Youmanshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02377938366750387442noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-83283535000406237672015-11-21T00:29:39.249-05:002015-11-21T00:29:39.249-05:00I appreciate that compliment from Scott, most defi...I appreciate that compliment from Scott, most definitely. I recently unboxed his novel and put it on the to-read shelf in my new office. I wish it weren't taking so long, but we still have rooms full of taped-up boxes, and suddenly it's nearly December.<br /><br />And yeah, those of us in the 97 percent can only keep doing what we can to help others' books find their readers. In the Jeffhttp://www.quidplura.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-33988800366494990292015-11-20T07:43:29.549-05:002015-11-20T07:43:29.549-05:00And you have a compliment from Scott Bailey, too! ...And you have a compliment from Scott Bailey, too! All good. The 97% of writers (especially the good ones) need their books thrust forward as much as is possible, don't they?<br /><br />Oh, I like that, the thought of your light burning in the darkness while the meteorite and the Spirit of Story (just realized that's an SOS) descend....Marly Youmanshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02377938366750387442noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-43345843042158020862015-11-20T01:51:15.061-05:002015-11-20T01:51:15.061-05:00Wow—I come home from a six-hour round-trip drive a...Wow—I come home from a six-hour round-trip drive after seeing a staging of "Henry VI, Part 1" only to find all of my book covers featured on your blog. Thanks!<br /><br />In my review of <i>Maze of Blood,</i> I forgot to mention that I read the last two sections of the book by flashlight during the first of several countryside power outages. In retrospect, it was appropriately eerie.Jeffhttp://www.quidplura.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-53981424619685330692015-11-19T14:30:52.925-05:002015-11-19T14:30:52.925-05:00Oh, I do mean to read that one some day. I need a ...Oh, I do mean to read that one some day. I need a retreat to read, now that my eye is better! Hope that's not famous last words...Marly Youmanshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02377938366750387442noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-69231508172331653612015-11-19T12:01:44.741-05:002015-11-19T12:01:44.741-05:00Ralph the Collier is great weird fun.<i>Ralph the Collier</i> is great weird fun.scott g.f.baileyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05726743149139510832noreply@blogger.com