The PFANM Website, Book #2, and The Evolution of Shadows

The Project for a New Mythology Updates

This last week I’ve been working on the updated version of the Project for a New Mythology website. After years of struggling with MS Frontpage, and then being unable to figure out how to upload all the pages for the site from MS Publisher, I gave up on doing this thing on a Windows based computer, and moved it all over the Mac.

I love my Mac.

I’m still working on the PFANM website, but it’s far enough up that it’s presentable, so go on over and take a look at the site and tell me what you think. In the next week or so I’ll have the contributor’s bios back up, as well as links to the online versions of certain, selected (and author approved) stories from the off-line print editions.

Novel #2 - “By The Still Still Water”

I finished my most recent run-through of my next novel. The knife is still bloody, but I think the story is healthier for all the cutting. I am a bit worried about one character whose sections were almost completely hacked out. I’ll have to build up her existing scenes.

Overall, the book might need some more time, despite its already long gestation period between the completion of the first draft, and now (years).

The Evolution of Shadows News:

31 days (as of Labor day) until my first official reading at Watermark Books.

The book has been getting a lot of positive reviews (snippets here & here, links to the full reviews here). From one angle, that feels great. After all the rejection letters from agents (“present tense literary fiction doesn’t sell [to editors]”, “it has a haunting lyrical quality, but I don’t know how to sell it,” or “personal motivations are great, but there needs to be something bigger, world shaking, like in the Da Vinci Code”), it’s nice to have so many people get what the book is trying to do, and think it succeeds, and is a good read.

From another angle, I can’t enjoy it. What if I can’t duplicate it with the second book? What if, even worse, all the good things they say about this first book makes me lazy with the next book? What if all I had in me is this one book and that’s it?

PLAYLIST ISSUES
For some reason, iTunes removed The Afghan Whigs songs from my iTunes “Evolution of Shadows” playlist. No idea why. So, I removed the playlist from the website and I’ll try to re-do the playlist with The Afghan Whigs songs reinstated.