Third Time Lucky!
Actually, it turned out that I was involved in three - not two - publications this week. The US paperback edition of SEPULCHRE. Already there's been a great review - thoughtful, interesting, informed - on the website www.supertarot.co.uk, so that was most encouraging. The second edition was my novella for adults getting back to reading after some time, which published on 5th March. But it also turned out that a short story collection to which I'd contributed published on that same time.
Midsummer Nights is the brainchild of the dazzling British writer, Jeanette Winterson. A passionate opera fan, she decided to approach various novelists, short story writers, poets to write special stories for the 75th anniversary in 2009 of the private opera house in the Sussex Downs at Glyndebourne. Each of us was to use an opera that had been performed there - in my case, I chose Debussy's Pelleas et Melisande - as the starting point for our piece. Debussy's otherworldy opera ends with the death of the heroine and the birth of a baby. I took that child and imagined her life.
Others in the collection include Ali Smith, the UK Poet Laureate Andrew Motion, Grande Dame of Crime writing, Ruth Rendell, Alexander McCall Smith and, of course, Winterson herself. Operas chosen as inspiration include Wagner's Tristan and Isolde, Mozart's Marriage of Figaro and Verdi's Rigoletto.
As well as feeling delighted to be included in such glittering literary company, the book itself is beautiful. It is published by the young British publishing company, Quercus, and a perfect book for all opera lovers to celebrate midsummer nights.
A bientot.
Midsummer Nights is the brainchild of the dazzling British writer, Jeanette Winterson. A passionate opera fan, she decided to approach various novelists, short story writers, poets to write special stories for the 75th anniversary in 2009 of the private opera house in the Sussex Downs at Glyndebourne. Each of us was to use an opera that had been performed there - in my case, I chose Debussy's Pelleas et Melisande - as the starting point for our piece. Debussy's otherworldy opera ends with the death of the heroine and the birth of a baby. I took that child and imagined her life.
Others in the collection include Ali Smith, the UK Poet Laureate Andrew Motion, Grande Dame of Crime writing, Ruth Rendell, Alexander McCall Smith and, of course, Winterson herself. Operas chosen as inspiration include Wagner's Tristan and Isolde, Mozart's Marriage of Figaro and Verdi's Rigoletto.
As well as feeling delighted to be included in such glittering literary company, the book itself is beautiful. It is published by the young British publishing company, Quercus, and a perfect book for all opera lovers to celebrate midsummer nights.
A bientot.
