The latest issue of Artella: the Waltz of Words and Art just arrived in the mail, and boy is it beautiful! I’m really excited to see my short piece “Hunting the Power Animal” appearing with the mixed media art doll by artist Anne Mayer Hesse that inspired it, along with some of my better answers to the contributor’s questionnaire. Great job as always, Marney!
You can order a copy here. Do your part to keep this wonderful project — a venue, a forum, and a sane asylum for creatives of all kinds — going.
A full-page ad for a new crime thriller in today’s New York Times Book Review leads with this quote from a Publisher’s Weekly review:
“Michael Connelly comes as close as anyone to being today’s Dostoyevsky of crime literature . . . one of his finest works to date.”
[Boggle].
The thing that really gets me is that some publicist out there actually thought that a quote in which the author is said to be no better than anyone else at writing books in a style completely unsuited to the genre is a compliment.
Note to self: Never hire that publicist.