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Let it bleed, My Brother! !!

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Dear Wilum, I just ordered Sesqua Valley & Other Haunts. It will be the very first new book to arrive at my new address, hopefully coinciding with my moving in there on June 28th. I am looking forward to savouring your prose!

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I hope you enjoy the book. It's my most popular collection among my readers, but I'm somewhat critical of much of its eccentricities and what I see as bad writing. But I had gobs of fun writing it. I was working as a ride operator at a local amusement park when I wrote my sonnet cycle. Some of those poems were written as I sat inside Dumbo the Flying Elephant.

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Haven't been here often of late cos Jerad informed me that the omnibus, as I have it, is too wee and needs more fiction. Thus, "Uncommon Places," whut I meant to be the core of my chapbook that I was hopefully writing for Larry Roberts, is now to see its first publication in my Centipede book, to which I am also added newly polished tales from other books as well as "O, Christmas Tree" and "Pale, Trembling Youth." My sweet chum Jessica will write an afterword for the book. Yesterday I began to rewrite the poems for my sonnet sequence, "Songs of Sesqua Valley," but after the fourth one I was so sick of how poor they are that I've decided not to add yem to ye contents of ye omnibus. We are also including the 3,340 word prose-poem sequence I wrote in memory of Poe into the book. I may try to pen two or three additional new tales for it as well, but they will have to be compos'd quickly. Not certain when the actual deadline for material is, but Jerad wants the book out in time for World Horror in Brighton, to which I won't be going, alas, as Mother is going downhill in regards to health and mental stability, and prolong'd holidays from home cannot be. (Happily, my sister will be staying her for the five days I'll be in San Jose for WFC -- where I hope to see some of yous.)

Thus I now have absolutely no new book of any kind for Larry Roberts, but I'll think about that next year. I am utterly obsess'd with making this Centipede edition the full representation of my work, my own version of Henry James's New York Edition tho in single volume. It's hard work, but I love it. When I am exhausted, in ye wee hours, I often come to TLO to unwind, tho I sometimes don't log in. This is the place that nourished me as no other forum -- being here is a wondrous as opening a beloved book. I am continually astonish'd at the wealth of material here, at the intelligence & friendliness of the members.

I'm taking a wee break now to have some dumpling soup and try not to spill as I tilt over the Centipede edition of Lovecraft's fiction in the Masters of the Weird Tales series. That is one amazing tome! My fondest wishes to all of you.

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Wilum, you're far too modest. You should be plugging your newest book, WEIRD INHABITANTS OF SESQUA VALLEY. It just came out on Sept 14th. Mine is ordered.

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From Amazon:

This collection of Sesqua Valley stories contains new material as well as older work revised or completely rewritten especially for this edition. Sesqua Valley, modeled on North Bend and the Snoqualmie Valley in the Pacific Northwest, is home to Wilum Pugmire's created world of supernatural forces and eldritch beings, attracting mere mortals who feel its call. While inspired by the work of H.P. Lovecraft, Pugmire uses Lovecraftian elements for his own ends, expressing a unique creative and poetic vision that sings of the liberating, if at times terrifying, power of transformation that lies within all of us.

Congrats on another book!

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Also here, through Terradan Works website: www.createspace.com/3398096
(Now accepting credit cards, and with shipping costs just a little more convenient to Europe)

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The Terradan site -- it's kinda weird. They have -- or had -- the book is $15 plus $2 p&h, so please send $18.61 -- or some such thing. Maybe that's ye distributor asking for an additional fee. Kinda weird & uncool. But they made the book look great, and they publish'd it the same year in which it was written! Unheard of in ye small press! Hopefully they will send me more copies so I can send them off to friends to whom I've promised copies!

Just back from ye Lovecraft Film Festival & CthulhuCon -- exhausting and wonderful. The first thing S. T. said to me when he saw me Friday night was, "When can Derrick and I expect a new collection for Hippocampus Press?" So now I've got to try and write three books before next October........

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Wilum, you can do it. You have demonstrated that you can write quickly without being a hack. Bring on the nightmares... :eek:!

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Just a wee note to let y'all know what's going on. Everything has changed, writing-wise. My Centipede omnibus is now going to be called THE TANGLED MUSE and will be out in October. I've added a few more items to it, and Jerad and I have been selecting artwork. Lots and lots of Aubrey Beardsley, some Virgil Finlay, and color prints by the magnificent Jean Delville. The text as we have it comes to only 478 pages, so it will be a smaller than usual book for Centipede. (I just ordered their Reggie Oliver book, which I hear is huge.) I am a huge fan of Centipede Press, their books are amazing and Jerad has been so wonderful to work with -- one of my joyous experiences working with a publisher. So I'm feeling particularly lucky that this omnibus has come about.

I am working with S. T. Joshi on my next Hippocampus book, whut I want to call BEAUTIFUL GROTESQUE. This will be a collection of mostly prose poems or prose poem/vignette sequences, arty to the max. I am at present working on a series of prose poems inspir'd by -- of all books! -- THE HORROR IN THE MUSEUM AND OTHER REVISIONS. So weird when one can find inspiration. I'm also studying the prose poem form, and the works in that format by H. P. Lovecraft, Clark Ashton Smith, Samuel Loveman and Donald Wandrei. S. T. has said that CAS may be the finest prose poet in America; I have just ordered the Arkham House edition of Smith's prose poetry and really look forward to perusing it. I have the Necronomicon Press edition somewhere but keep misplacing it. I hope to have this new book to S. T. by Summer of 2011, and maybe it can see print late that year.

For a long time I've been wanting to collect my tales of Nyarlathotep, write some new ones, and have a wee collection of tales of ye Crawling Chaos. I proposed the thing to David Wynn at Mythos Books and he said cool. I am calling the book THE STRANGE DARK ONE AND OTHERS, and most of it is written. It's contents, as I see it, will be thus:
"Recompense of Sorrow" (reprint)
"Some Bacchante of Irem" (reprint, just got an Honorable Mention from Datlow)
"The Audient Void" (heavily revised reprint)
"The Hands that Reek and Smoke" (reprint)
"One Last Theft"
"The Strange Dark One" (new Sesqua Valley novelette set in, I think, 1917)
"This Terrible Relic" (yet-to-be-penned semi-sequel to "The Haunter of the Dark")
"To See Beyond" (my 7,500 word sequel to Bloch's "The Cheaters")
and maybe a new wee sonnet cycle.

I think my big box full of copies of BLACK WINGS is on a slow boat or something. I could not wait any longer, so I ordered a copy from Abe's Books, and it came in yesterday's post. My gawd! It is so gorgeous, and the contents is so amazing. It bewilders me that the book has yet to find an American publisher. I hope my box of twenty copies comes soon, as I've promised people signed copies. I still have hopes of bringing S. T. here to sit down in front of my webcam for a couple of interviews on my MrWilum channel -- maybe when we sign, together, the autograph sheets for THE TANGLED MUSE.

I love feeling lost in a world of Literature, writing and reading all day every day. It's fantastic. The year flies by, and soon it will be time for The H. P. Lovecraft Film Festival, where I get to surround myself with Lovecraftians, hooray! Then, next January, is the first of Adam Niswander's MythosCon, and honey that is gonna be one hell of a party! The list of writers and artists &c attending grows and grows, and is so exciting. I'm going to meet lots of people for the first time, in a setting devoted completely to HPL and ye Cthulhu Mythos. Just the dream of it makes me want to dance. I think I will dance. Excuse me........

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Congratulations love.I wish i was there to dance with you!

You deserve the success of the whole world!