I’ve been dancing with your spam filter for some unknown reason…hopefully, this will go through, and hopefully you haven’t been copied this five times over. : D
Yours are among my few most beloved, formative books and stories, inspiring in my writing and my life. My experience of Solitaire‘s climaxes is imprinted thoroughly in my mind, and I am so grateful for it.
Is “The Hum of Human Cities” available outside of (the scarce, grr-expensive) Pulphouse 9 / are you planning to republish it? I thought it best to ask you, conveniently giving me an excuse to attack you with fan-mail. : )
Adrian
Hello, Adrian, and thank you for being stubborn with the form. You’re not the first person to have trouble. I have to get a different plug-in. In the meantime, if anyone wants to start a conversation here and has trouble with the form, please feel free to email me at contact at kelleyeskridge dot com (although I don’t know why I bother to stretch the address, the spammers-boils-be-upon-them found me long ago). Please say that you are submitting a “Talk To Me” post if you use email.
Thank you so much for these kind words, I’m honored. It is always my hope as a writer to touch other human beings in some way with my work, to make a connection… it means a lot to me when someone takes the time to tell me that has happened.
“The Hum of Human Cities” is indeed available in my recent collection Dangerous Space, under its original title “City Life.” It was my first sale (wow, what a feeling that was…). Kris Rusch, the editor of Pulphouse (bows in Kris’ direction in gratitude), didn’t like the title. So I found “Hum,” and like it well enough, but I’ve never stopped thinking of the story as “City Life.” I can be pretty stubborn myself sometimes (grin). So I returned to that title for the collection.
I don’t know if you’ve read all my stories: if not, there are three free here on the site: “Strings”, “And Salome Danced“, and “Dangerous Space“.
Fan mail is never an attack. Come back anytime.
Adrian, write us some more. People who use words like fan and attack for admiration are passionate people. I, for one, like to talk with them.
[“City Life”] was my first sale.
I wasn’t aware of that when I chose to translate that story first. It pleases me to realize I’m sort of following a chronology with “Somewhere Down the Diamondback Road.” But now that I’ve looked at the publication dates, I won’t be able to claim happy coincidences if I continue this way.
barbara, I enjoy reading your comments. I haven’t told you, but I missed your presence when you went away for a bit. I’m so glad you’re back. I’m also curious about the people who email Kelley (hi, Adrian) with questions. I keep hoping they’ll come and chat with us.
Barbara, I like passion too, of any kind! (grin).
Karina, ah, that’s interesting. It’s seems so clear to me when I see “City Life” in context of the other stories that it is the first. And it was the first story I wrote at the Clarion workshop, and so it’s heavily influenced by my first-week experience with Tim Powers, whose teaching I enjoyed very much and who is still a friend.
Karina, Thanks. I read what you write with great pleasure.Espanol entiendo, pero no hablo mucho. Recuerda 16 Deciembre! I probably butchered it, but anyway….
I’m sure I will, Barbara. Thanks. : )