My New Book From Delirium

Mark Justice · **Joined:** Mon Mar 14, 2005 1:28 am **Posts:** 1683

In 2008 Delirium Books will publish Bone Songs, my first collection, in a limited hardcover and trade paperback.

Bone Songs will include both previously published stories and several original pieces, including a brand-new novella.

Here’s what one writer says about the collection:

"With Bone Songs, Mark Justice has given us a genuine gift; by turns funny, horrifying, heartbreaking, and just plain weird, this is a real showcase collection, and a feast for readers. You never know from one tale to the next what he's going to hit you with, and it's that very unpredictability that makes this book so much more than the mere sum of its often-brilliant parts. Justice has a keen and unflinching eye for the telling details of human (and un-human) behavior, and a poet's economy with words. There is not a wasted syllable to be found between these covers, and at times I felt as if I were being given a writing lesson. I cannot imagine anyone reading powerhouse stories such as "Black Wings" and the hands-down masterpiece "Father's Day" without feeling envious that they didn't write them. I expected this collection to be good; I didn't expect it to knock my socks off and leave me so wrung out. This is what short fiction should be but too often isn't. If you don't get this collection, your life is going to be all the poorer for it -- and I've never said that about a book before."
--Gary A. Braunbeck, winner of the Bram Stoker Award and International Horror Guild Award, and author of Destinations Unknown and Mr. Hands

More to come!

Matt Cowan · **Posted:** Mon Jun 11, 2007 5:07 pm

Hey Mark,
I'm very excited about this! I have been able to read a handfull of your short stories and thought they were all very good and enjoyable. This will be a must have for me. Are you able to list any of the stories that you have previously published that will be in this book yet? Congratualtions again, and I'm very much looking forward to reading it!

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Congratulations, Mark! Really cool, exciting news! I've read a couple of your stories and this certainly sounds like a great read.

Looking forward to it!

Cesar

ristow · **Posted:** Tue Jun 12, 2007 10:05 pm

I m jealous! Good job! Look forward to adding to adding it to my shelf.

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Matt Cowan · **Posted:** Mon Jan 14, 2008 9:32 pm

Man I can't wait for this one!

wassr · **Posted:** Wed Jan 16, 2008 7:38 pm

Cool. It should be included in the tomb of trivia prize package when it comes out. Or put it up on Horrorworld for it's monthly contest.

KentAllard · **Posted:** Mon Jan 21, 2008 12:00 am

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According to Delirium, Bone Songs is now scheduled for December.

Matt Cowan · **Posted:** Tue Apr 01, 2008 6:08 pm

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ristow · **Posted:** Wed Apr 09, 2008 1:04 am

Any juicy news, like the cover, or anything?

Is this part of their book club, or separate?

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ristow · **Posted:** Sun Apr 27, 2008 1:25 pm

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Because of the tough economy, Delirium Books is dramatically downsizing their publishing schedule. One of the casualties of the cuts is the trade paperback edition of my collection Bone Songs. Delirium will still publish the limited edition hardcover of the book, which has been pushed back to April 2009.

I’m free to shop the trade paperback to other publishers, but I imagine it will be a tough sell because 1) I’m not a big name and 2) collections generally, I’m told, don’t sell as well as novels.

However, if I do find a publisher for the Bone Songs paperback it will be a different book than the hardcover.

I plan to use the two stories that made up the sold-out Deadneck Hootenanny to bookend the collection. I’ll also add a few other pieces that weren’t written when Bone Songs sold to Delirium.

I’ll let you know when and if anything develops. Now back to the novel in progress.

Matt Cowan · **Posted:** Mon May 26, 2008 5:17 pm

Sorry to hear that, Mark.

I just told my wife the other day that I wanted Bone Songs as one of my Christmas gifts this year. I still want to get it, I'll just have to wait a bit longer it sounds like. Hope the novel goes well for you.

Mark Justice · **Joined:** Mon Mar 14, 2005 1:28 am **Posts:** 1683

Thanks, Matt.

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