Paperback of Elfish Gene now out in States. Very exciting, particularly since the marketing mob at Soho have come up with a brilliant trailer for the book. I didn’t even know there were book trailers before this. I grow old, I grow old, I shall… you know the rest. Here it is.
http://bookscreening.com/2009/10/07/the-elfish-gene-by-mark-barrowcliffe/
Do let me know what you think of this. Personally, I think it’s genius.
Werewolf novel is finally, finally finished. It’s nearly killed me. I got the copy edited version back and decided to take a scalpel to the text. Three weeks of micro-editing later, repostioning commas, asking ‘do I use the word “drop” or “fall” here, and it’s done. It’s the most intensive work I’ve ever done on a novel. There’s always the anxiety that you may have over-refined it, cut out some of the things that make it uniquely yours in favour of, say, absolute clarity. Also, you’re never finished this kind of thing. It drives you nuts and you wake screaming ‘if the vikings call a church a ‘temple’, can I then refer to it as a church in the third person?’ It hurts your nut.
Anyway, it’s out in the UK in 2010 under my pen name MD Lachlan. I tweet under that name too so do come and find me there, and I’m on facebook. The book’s called Wolfsangel and is a lot of gruesome, werewolfing, mythology-inspired fun.
Doing an Elfish Gene interview at 11 on Thursday morning on the Tom Dunne show. The book continues to have quite a life over here.
http://newstalk.ie/newstalk/programmes/32/tom-dunne.html