My second novel will be on the shelves sometime within the next year. Here’s the official announcement:
Gods of Aberdeen author Micah Nathan’s MEMPHIS IS BURNING, about a recent college grad who takes a job as a driver for a mysterious old man who may or may not be a still-living Elvis, and the perilous 900 mile trip they make from Buffalo to Memphis to find his granddaughter, to Brett Valley at Three Rivers Press, by Jud Laghi at LJK Literary Management.
So there you have it. Memphis is Burning and Jack the Bastard went down to the wire, and Elvis won. This doesn’t mean my long-awaited spaghetti western/samurai revenge tale is taking a tortured route to release in the tradition of Chinese Democracy. It just means some books have a longer birthing process than others, and Jack will drop when Jack wants to drop. Of course there’s the other factor of going toe-to-toe with Elvis. The King wins every time, and Jack will just have to wait…
What else. Jetcomx has the latest installment of my monthly Throwback Thursdays column (with readership growing at a respectable, patient rate) and I have another short story making its appearance in a publication this summer. As for the pub. date of MEMPHIS, nothing is official so I won’t speculate. But seeing it in print within the next year is a safe bet, and of course the moment I know so shall you all.
There was one other thing I needed to mention…what was it…ah, yes. My cousin Larry Block’s book Step by Step: A Pedestrian Memoir drops in one month. The man is in rare form. As usual. Which doesn’t make it rare, right?
