Is it possible– I think it is– that Skylights hasn’t actually had a review on a blog yet?  I’m up to seven at Amazon, all of which are four- or five-star reviews, and my interweb-buddy D. Emery Bunn just posted a four-star review of the book over at his website.  He’d already provided me probably my favorite Twitter-friendly tag line for the book (“Half love letter to NASA, half space exploration porn”) and he just today came through with a full review.

It’s interesting, actually: this is probably the most critical any reviewer of the book has been, especially if I don’t count a textless two-star review at Goodreads.  He liked it, but he definitely goes into some details about the parts of the book that didn’t work for him.  I’m linking it anyway because I think the criticisms he raises are completely fair, and at least a couple of them are the direct result of deliberate decisions I made while I was writing the book.  Sadly, not everyone is going to unconditionally love every single word I write.

Even though you all should.

Anyway, check the review out; the book itself remains a scant $4.95 as an ebook at Amazon, or a little bit more if you want the print edition.

I promised another announcement: I found out that Stone Skin Press was issuing a call for submissions for their anthology Swords v. Cthulhu yesterday.  Thought about it, walked out to the living room, and said to my wife “Do you think I can pull together a submission for this in just two weeks?”

“Sure you can,” she said.

And maybe an hour later, I had my story– a story that, granted, has had barely a single word committed to a word processing document just yet, but who needs that, right?  Anyway, point is, I’m totally in on submitting something to this anthology, which is always fun, and I’m posting it here because I have a sneaking suspicion that I have a few among my regular readership who might be interested in being my competition.

Anyway.  That’s it for now; I’ll try and shut up until tonight unless something really interesting happens.