Displacement Reviewed at Innsmouth Free Press
In which our author celebrates an excellent review of a book that in internet terms has been out about a million years, and explains why.
About eighteen months ago Swimming Kangaroo Books published my debut collection Displacement. Unfortunately, despite several attempts to reshedule it, it ended up coming out less than two weeks after publication of Winter Song.
It’s difficult -verging on impossible- to adequately promote two books simultaneously. Anything less than a six month gap between them risks leaving one or both inadequately promoted.
And because one was a break-out novel from a major house, versus a small press collection, unsurprisingly Displacement’s publication was lost in the blizzard of noise about Winter Song, and the subsequent shenanigans about the restructuring of Angry Robot.
By the time I got a chance to focus on Displacement, in the ephemeral nature of modern publishing, it was old news, and reviewers prepared to review small press collections are in any event, limited.
Which is why when it does get a nice review, I want to celebrate it.
Author, editor and critic Paula R Stiles has given Displacement a thorough, considered, and generally favourable review over at Innsmouth Free Press. Which is not to say that she hasn’t pointed what she felt I could have done better, but when that happens the words of praise feel as if they’ve been rather more earned than a more gushing review.
I’m hoping to make a couple more posts about older books over the next couple of weeks, while continuing to look forward.
