Place holder, something from the past weekend at Wilson ‘s Creek Battlefield.
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Month: July 2014
A Bit Of Bragging
My new book, Gravity Box and Other Spaces, has been getting some notice. I offer, in a spasm of unusual self-promotion for me, a selection of recommendations and quotes:
This author is among the most valuable—and insufficiently appreciated—visionaries in the SF field, and his new collection is an important addition to his corpus delectable. Allow me to reprint a quotation I offered the publisher. “Ranging from rural fantasy to urban dystopia, Gravity Box and Other Spaces is the opposite of a black hole: Mark Tiedemann has wrought a stellar event from which phenomena of every sort—fancies, fears, ideas, aspirations, surges of eros, irruptions of violence—escape to transfix and enlighten us. 
Place Holder
I’m going to be writing a story in public tonight, at Left Bank Books. I am cleaning house in preparation and playing a bit with Photoshop. So till I have something to tell you about tonight’s frolics, here’s one of the results.
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Monday Morning Surprise
A friend of mine called while I was out. He left a message (which I thought had to be a mistake) to the effect that apparently my new book, Gravity Box and Other Spaces, made the local (St. Louis) independent bookstore bestseller list of the week ending June 29. Post-Dispatch page here.
Well, not one to be fooled, I looked it up. And there it is. (See link above)
I’m stunned.
I’m…well…stunned. 
I mean, the last thing I expected was for something like this to occur with this book.
Not that I had a list of expectations, mind you. …
…and another shoe falls…
By all appearances, I seem to be having a good year. After my new collection came out last month from Walrus Publishing, a second book has now been released by Yard Dog Press. The link to this “new” title is here.
Logic of Departure is a neat thing. Last year, the marvelous Selina Rosen, chief cook and bottle washer of Yard Dog, called me to ask permission to reissue the two chapbooks of mine they had published. Extensions and Diva are novellas which, being novellas (and notoriously difficult to place), made their debut as nifty chapbooks. Yard Dog has consistently sold them for years. …