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When's this baby due? Eager fans need to know this stuff ya know!
Clipper Girls by Gary Braunbeck From: Tasmaniac Press
Evan Tanner, a single father, receives a call from the nursing home where his mother (who everyone assumes suffers from dementia) lives, informing him that his mother has become too distruptive in the past few weeks and they’re kicking her out: she keeps screaming in the night about the smell of cigars and crates by the door and someone who ‘warned’ her not to go to work ‘…that day.’
Evan takes his mother in, much to his daughter’s dismay. As the days enfold, both Evan and his daughter awake in the middle of the night to hear the voices of children coming from downstairs. When each investigates, they find the front room filled with the ghosts of dirty, undernourished children doing piecework sewing — buttons on coats, repairing socks, hemming dresses, etc. Evan and his daughter soon realize that Evan’s mother only seems to sleep peacefully when these apparitions appear.
Evan’s mother was a child laborer back in the early 1900’s, who was one of the few children to survive a massive fire at a Cedar Hill sweatshop mill where she was employed as a ‘clipper girl’ — the children whose job it was to snip the stray bits of thread from the dresses and blouses made in the sweatshops. Evan’s mother isn’t suffering from dementia but rather survivor’s guilt, and that guilt has at last manifested itself in the apparitions of the ghosts of the poverty-stricken children with whom she used to work — and who didn’t make it out of the fire.
The fire was deemed an accident, but Evan’s mother and the ‘Clipper Girls’ know better, and the man responsible for the fire — who smoked cigars as he stomped up and down the sweatshop line — is not only alive and well, but flourishing in his successful family business. And Evan, his daughter, his mother, and the restless spirits of the girls killed in the factory fire, cannot rest until there’s justice.
Well...yes. Although the announcement is up at Tazmaniac's web site, I was going to wait a little bit longer before announcing it here so it would be more of a surprise. I like to wait until 6 weeks before a book's release to start publicizing it. One of the things about this field that I have come to loathe are those folks who start publicizing a book 6 months to a year before it's release date -- hell, I recently saw a "teaser" for a novel that won't be out until February of 2011!
I think that if you announce a book too soon, people have a tendency to forget about it. If you announce it too son and then follow up with more teasers every month or so until the book's release, people are sick of hearing about the damn thing it becomes annoying background noise and it doesn't register with them any longer. No, for me, 6 weeks before is the ideal timeframe; just long enough that folks can look forward to it, and not so far in advance that they're likely to forget about it.
So, yes, I was holding out on the announcement about Clipper Girls.
To answer your question, though: roughly 6 months, possibly sooner. But don't let that stop you from checking out the other titles from Tazmaniac Publications -- Steve does first-rate work. TP's most recent release, [i]The Nobody[/i ] by Tom Piccirilli, is one of the most beautiful editions I've seen (plus it's Pic's usual brilliance as a storyteller.
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Thanks Gary! I'm not sure if I agree with your assesment of not promoting a book until 6 weeks before it realease though. Speaking only for myself, I was estatic when I saw this and I'm pretty sure I'm not going to lose interest in it, especialy when you have Far Dark Fields out to stoke the fires even more!
I love Tasmanaic and Steve. I have joined his membership program and already have recieved copies of three books from him (one of which is In The Midnight Museaum).
As far as Tom's "The Nobody" goes, I loved it! I wrote a review of it here for Horroworld's review section. I can't reprint it here, but if you go here:
you can read it. If that doesn't work, its in the Archives (look up top at the banner) in the April 2009 review section, lead off review.
I'm pretty sure God isn't a horror reader. If he was, then he would swoop into Tom's head and make him change his mind about collaborating. A Bruanbeck/Piccirilli novel would be as close to heaven on earth as it comes.
(P.S. This might sound silly, your original title for Far Dark Fields was A Cracked And Broken Path, can I ask you where that came from? There is a King Crimson song that uses that phrase and everytime I read it the song pops into my head, is there a connecton?).
Yeah, the title came from "Epitaph" by Crimson -- you caught me!
My wife doesn't agree with my assessment about announcing something only 6 weeks before its release, either -- in fact, almost no one I knows agrees with that. I should probably change it. What do you think is a good timeframe? 3 months?
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There are so many new books coming out, from so many publishers, that it seems you almost have to start early so you don't get lost in a crowd. For instance, your new Crepping Hemlock novella...I had never heard of it. If it wasn't for Pic directing me to the website for one of his books, I never would have seen yours. In fact, I haven't seen it advertised anywhere! This is a major release for Branbeck fans, and at a price that is practically a giveaway, and no one seems to know about it! (And for the price paid, the production values were great not to mention recieving a very "unusual" story from you).
I look at Tasmaniac and see how they sell out in preproduction most of the time. It pays for them to promote a book early. So I almost think that an author owes something to his publisher by shouting out about a new release as early as possible and building some buzz.
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