Got mine today, nice Halloween treat for me in my mailbox! I just finished reading Carmilla so I will start it tonight.
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Got mine yesterday, but damn, that 'to-read' pile is just growing by the day! I'll get to it eventually.Comment
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Hi Martin: If memory serves, I finished KIN back in 2008.
Glad you dug Jim's story too! He's an absolute gent.Comment
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First time I had read it and I really enjoyed it.Originally posted by Kealan Patrick Burke View PostComment
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Another cool review for KIN (no spoilers):
"If you took the moral quandaries about revenge, justice and violence against evil from Dennis Lehane’s Patrick Kenzie novels, spread it over the sprawling cast of a Stephen King thriller, and mixed it with the Southern Gothic grotesques of Eudora Welty, you might end up with something like Kealan Patrick Burke’s new novel, Kin...an unflinching examination of the aftermath of atrocities, both foreign and domestic, rural and urban; it is a gripping portrayal of fully realized villains and flawed heroes; it is a treatise on the cycle of violence and on the bonds of family; and it is, ultimately, a novel about the redemptive power of defiance." - Litstack.comComment
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I am into the book about 50 pages. I have two comments so far. 1. The story grabs you from the beginning, I immediately wanted to know what was next. 2. You said you wrote this in 2008. Since this story went a couple of years without being published I must assume other publishers passed on this before CD picked it up. I again want to thank CD and other small presses for allowing me to read great stories that the mainstream publishers do not see fit to publish.Originally posted by Kealan Patrick Burke View PostComment
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I just cracked this book open today and so far very good. Thanks Kealan!Looking for the fonting of youth.Comment
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Just got notice today that an ARC is on the way courtesy of CD. Couldn't have come at a better time because I was seriously thinking of pulling the trigger on Kin after reading all the great reviews and comments. Can't wait to get my hands on this one.Searchers after horror haunt strange, far places. - H.P. LovecraftComment
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Just got that email as well! Good books coming soon!
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Actually, CD was the first place I sent it and they snapped it up almost immediately. Afterward my agent did pitch it to a number of New York editors, every single one of whom said the same thing: "Great book, but we wouldn't know how to market it. What else does he have?" - the same response they've given every book I've written. So yes, even though it happened in the reverse order, you're correct. Without Rich, Brian and everyone at CD, this book would still be sitting on my hard drive. It's just one of the many reasons these guys rock. Without them, I'd probably have quit writing (at least for publication) back in the early 2000s.Originally posted by Martin View PostComment
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You are most welcome. Thank you for picking up a copy!Originally posted by copefiend2 View PostComment
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Great news! Thanks Pete!Originally posted by peteOcha View PostJust got that email as well! Good books coming soon!Comment
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Interesting; got the book Kin before the ARC; others I've already ordered plus an unnanounced one!"I'm a vegan. "
---Kirby Bliss Blanton , The Green Inferno (2013)Comment
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