Bluesman Mike Lindner Wrote:Didn't you guys write NIGHTKILL together?Right...20 years later.
fpw Wrote:Right...20 years later.
fpw Wrote:We both had our first SF novels published around the same time by the same publisher. We met at a publishing party back then and hit it off. We've been friends ever since.He seems like a really great guy.
Steven Spruill Wrote:Thanks for the good words, Ken. I honestly can't remember any more what F. Paul might have borrowed but it's very flattering indeed to be reminded I'd had any influence on his highly original work.I just reread DYDEETOWN WORLD, and of course I started with the acknowledgments. This was after having read ICE MEN, so this time I recognized your name. So my copy of PARADOX PLANET is winging its way to me.
Quote:Dydeetown Girl takes me back a few years, for sure. I wrote SLEEPER under the Steven Harriman pseudonym because I was a Doubleday author at that time and they didn't want another publisher competing. I was really surprised at the great reception on Amazon -- 40 reviews with a 4-star average.I'm not surprised. SLEEPER was a wonderful novel. I'm probably not alone in trying to figure out what's coming when I read a novel. And I'm probably not alone in NOT being able to see what's coming in SLEEPER. And it was not a matter of misdirection as it sometimes is in other novels. (People will have to read it themselves to understand it.) It has a great plot, and what I especially enjoy -- great character development. And as with Paul's novels; characters that I really CARE about.
fpw Wrote:a couple of JACK: SECRET CIRCLES reviews:
from Kirkus:
JACK: Secret Circles
Author: Wilson, F. Paul
Review Date: JANUARY 01, 2010
Publisher:Tor
Pages: 288
Price (hardback): $$15.99
Publication Date: 2/1/2010 0:00:00
ISBN: 978-0-7653-1855-8
ISBN (hardback): 978-0-7653-1855-8
Category: CHILDREN'S
A month ago, 15-year-old Jack and his best friend Weezy found a small, mysterious pyramid and a body in the huge wasteland called the Pine Barrens (Jack: Secret Histories, 2008). The body led to other deaths; and though Weezy was certain the pyramid was linked to her obsession, the secret history of the world, they lost it. Weezy thinks it was stolen by members of the Ancient Septimus Fraternal Order. Now as the two find a stone structure similar to the lost pyramid in the Barrens, a local five-year-old goes missing and there are sightings of someTHING in the swampy bog. Is the visiting circus involved? The Septimus Lodge? And what, if anything, can Jack do about Mr. Vivino, who is abusing his wife and daughter? Set in 1983, Wilson's second in a trilogy about the teen years of his Repairman Jack character is a periodically breathtaking thriller. Readers of the adult RJ novels will enjoy bringing their background to this reading, but, luckily for kid readers, knowledge of the series is not vital to enjoying this smart, spooky mystery adventure. (Thriller. YA)
...and another from our old friend, Russ Madden: http://www.russellmadden.com/Truth_Is.html
fpw Wrote:You know, Ken, I was just setting up Dydeetown World for Kindle and saw that mention...but for the life of me, I can't remember what I borrowed (with permission, of course). Maybe Steve will remember, but if you spot it, let us know.I finished reading the novel today, and there's a definite connection between THE PARADOX PLANET and DYDEETOWN WORLD.