You might know me. I’m Jonathan, lead singer of White Heat, more famously Mercurial Visions and now Merciful Release. Lance asked me to introduce the new book reel for *A Perfect Blindness.* That’s where I live. In its pages.
One evening not long ago In Eastern Ukraine, a soldier hunches over her control panel and examines the dark image sliding across her screen. It’s evening. She can make out trees. A strip of road. A field pocked with fox holes and craters left from Howitzer shells and HIMARS blasts. A tank sits behind a ridge of earth, its turret […]
When the world turns upside down in an instant, where do you go from there?
This past year has been full of bad and then worse news, and to balance this onslaught, I want to bring back a story of survival: a year after 9-11 in NYC. We survived that. We will make it through this. (Adapted from, vol 26 The OHIO STATE Alumni Magazine, September 2002) After “the Event” A […]
On the street, we walk, the survivors. Along side us are the workers of the fish market, in boots, jeans, t-shirts, aprons. I ask where the ferry is.
“Back in hell. Just turn around, and hang a left in the middle of hell.”
I had a breakthrough. But not until suffering through the terror I might have wasted the past two-plus years.
For kicks and giggles last week, I checked World Catalogue again. The book is now in 11 libraries!
So, I stopped the blind stabs of opening files and hopeful keyword searches and used Scrivener to build an Index
Lots of potential here: the parallels between narcotic use and necromancy are interesting, the language is often Chandler-esque in a good way, and it delves into some interesting psychological territory.
“However….”