Thursday, May 7, 2026

So it begins... a final big push

A few items of note.

Arcane Arts: Dispatches from the Silver Key went out yesterday, covering heavy metal, sword-and-sorcery (including Karl Edward Wagner's Kane, a cool fanzine I'm a part of, and an academic panel on REH I'll be speaking on). 

Remember to sign up if you haven't already. It's a free email and covers stuff I don't cover here. 

It also included something I want to talk about in a bit more detail here: The heavy metal memoir.

The Silver Key went dormant from 2013-2019, not coincidentally the same time I went to work on Flame and Crimson.

The good news is: That's not going to happen with the latest WIP. It's fully written, reviewed by a couple close friends and my wife who all appear in it. I rewrote it until I couldn't look at it anyore.

But on Friday/Saturday it came back from a contracted line editor. And, I have some work to do.

I plan to have it done by July-early August. I need to have it done by then. I’m giving myself a little wiggle room, but not much.  I’m hosting a heavy metal party with a live band in mid-Septemer, at which I’m handing out a few free copies of the book.

It must be done by then. And so the big, difficult, final push is on.

Posting here will be less frequent and less substantive. 

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Brian, why don't you do a post on what Clive Barker thinks of Robert E. Howard, and see what happens? ; )


(ISTR that Barker once wrote a dramatic piece called "A Dream" which cited "Robert E. Howard's Conan" as one of its influences, so it seems Barker has some interest in REH's work).

Brian Murphy said...

Or a post on what Stephen King thinks Clive Barker thinks about Robert E. Howard?

Neutral Good Books said...

Right on, Brian.
Best!