I’ve decided that as long as this blog is operational (sporadically at best, and likely to conclude at the next billing cycle), I’ll focus on writers and books I appreciate, look forward to, and am excited to share and celebrate. So this one goes out to T.E. Grau whose writing is unquestionably at the head of the pack of contemporary authors. I Am the River is a powerful debut novel, and I’m excited to see a Spanish translation on the way. Dilatando Mentes Editorial has translated and published the likes of Brian Evenson and Michael Cisco, so Grau is in solid company. Well deserved, as Grau is a fantastic author. Pre-orders are now up for Yo soy el río.

Cover art by Raul Ruiz. Translation by Jose Angel De Dios García.

I’ve been anticipating Daniel Mills‘s latest collection for quite some time, so I’m impatiently scouring the internet for any new release date information from Undertow Publications. Per publisher Michael Kelly himself, Among the Lilies is due this coming September. Mills is an absolute master of the uncanny, a writer whose understanding of loss and the beauty of the inexplicable is second to none. His stories consistently fill me with awe and a sense of sorrowful longing, like a child’s ghost returning decades later to the forest that was once home to their treehouse, now long subsumed by nature.

Mills is also an exceptionally kind person whose support and sympathetic words over the year(s) has been invaluable. So very many thanks, Daniel.

Cover art by Yves Tourigny. Design by Vince Haig.