Norman Partridge interview and book review

Since Norman Partridge's Dark Harvest is our next book, my interview with the author and Peggy's review of the book should be of interest to y'all.

From the interview:

What made you decide to use a second person narrative in Dark Harvest? Is this a style you will continue using?

I'm sure I'll use it again someday, but it's not the kind of style that would fit every project. With DH, I really wanted readers to hear me talking from the other side of the page, the way you do when you listen to a campfire tale.

I wanted to yank them into the book and make them part of it, too. I had that intention from the first paragraph: "A Midwestern town. You know its name. You were born there." That was kind of the wham bam welcome to my world moment.

From Peggy's review:

I came to Norm Partridge's Dark Harvest with high hopes: I'm a big fan of his collection The Man With the Barbed-Wire Fists, so I already knew he could write. But even having read him before, I wasn't prepared for how quickly this book sucked me in.

Forthcoming titles

At our September meeting, the titles for November and December were decided.

Our current schedule:

October 10: Stir of Echoes by Richard Matheson
November 14: Dark Harvest by Norman Partridge
December 12: The Best of Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet edited by Kelly Link and Gavin J. Grant






















As always, we meet at 7 PM at the Flight Path. Visit the Dark Forces home for more info.