Ramblings of Jeff Somers, author
Those scamps over at Pat’s Fantasy Hot List reviewedThe Eternal Prison today:
“Filled with wit, intelligence, attitude, dead bodies, and pedal-to-the-metal action, The Eternal Prison is an exhilarating read . . . once a year, a new set of Avery Cates misadventures penned by Jeff Somers is like milk: It does a body good!”
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Hey there – I’m exhausted. Spent Sunday racing around New York trying to support my wife, The Duchess, as she ran the NYC marathon. We’d planned to meet her at miles 6, 11, 17, and 23. Due to startling incompetence (centering on my failure to look at the Sunday subway schedule) we missed her at miles 11 and 17, when apparently she was begging total strangers to hold her as she wept. The Duchess has done 7 marathons and runs every day, but this year she suffered a bad calf pull a few weeks ago and her training has been an uphill battle. but she finished! And I have been manfully keeping my whining about how exhausted I am to a minimum.
As you all certainly have heard through the massive media coverage, the Avery Cates books are being re-released as mass market paperbacks. The Electric Church MM dropped on 11/1, and The Digital Plague will hit the stores on 12/1. So, yesterday I decided I had to mark the occasion with a quick little video (It’s less than a minute long!):
Now that’s quality stuff. I tried for a fast-paced quick-cut thing, and I hope it isn’t too fast. Anyway, just for fun. Feel free to tell everyone you know.
Finally, I got this in the mail yesterday:
That’s the Stephen King Library Desktop Calendar 2010, in which I have a brief essay in the month of August. This was edited by the great Jay Franco, and other contributors are Peter V. Brett, Gary Jansen, and Jae Lee, among many others. It is a beautiful and useful thing, and I’m proud to be a part of it.