As an outsider, Jesmyn Ward and David Joy are the voices that ring for me.
Always a highlight when you have a new one out, pal. Absolutely primed for it.
Not going to lie. There was a thrillingly terrifying period whilst I was slapping it into Word when I was "is this going to be 33k words or 233k words?" Came in at 91k, so my iconoclastic methods are clearly the future.
Even got a hardback release
Puns. The people want puns, Jane.
Fuck yeah
I wrote my last one entirely in OneNote, so there was no word count and no pages. Removed number completely from the endeavour. Oddly, completed it quicker than my last two, and it came in a an almost reasonable length.
One for the list - psychological horror as much as noir, but THE SEVENTH VICTIM has the same great style and photography as all the RKO crime films, and a pervading sense of existential menace. Also, the purest noir ending of any Golden Era studio picture. Amazing they got it past the code office.
Picked up a copy of this from Ortac. Gearing myself up, as it looks less like a book you read than one that happens to you.
He traffics exclusively in awe. Characters are there only for the gratuitous volume of exposition he can't stop himself writing, just in case you don't get what he's doing. The most Nolan character ever was Elliot Page's Ariadne in Inception, who was literally an FAQ sheet in the shape of a person.
