Shiny Thing

Weird Fiction reviews Shiny Thing

A Grannie — Fri, 29 Jun 2012 10:07:03 +0000

Maureen Kincaid Speller of Weird Fiction Review has good things to say in her review of Shiny Thing. We love Weird Fiction Review, a relatively new undertaking by Anne and Jeff VenderMeer, so we were very pleased to see Shiny Thing make an appearance there. And Maureen’s review sums up everything about why this book is unlike any other.

Here is a small part of what Maureen had to say (read the full review at http://weirdfictionreview.com/2012/06/the-mere-touch-weird-reviews-2):

Russo’s is a world full of small, mysterious changes. People become wet, or slippery (‘Turning, Or Turning’), or else begin to sparkle (‘Hiding’) or most perturbingly, they granulate and shed limbs (‘Lusard Street’). Alternatively, they might be surviving the aftermath of … well, no one is quite sure what any more. Whether the one arises from the other is never made clear. Some things have slipped out of the memory and anyway, survival is what matters rather than dwelling on the past. The past is for stories, the present is for action, though action is perhaps too strong a word for people simply getting on with things, dealing with odd events as they arise, making accommodations. And making accommodations is key to how Russo’s post-world functions, that and its habit of being unobtrusive.

A review of Shiny Thing

A Grannie — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 08:12:22 +0000

Francesca Forrest reviews Shiny Thing for a special issue of Not One of Us: Under Review.

“I feel evangelical about Patricia Russo’s Shiny Thing, which would probably cause some folks to look askance south of Blue Street, the rundown city neighborhood where a number of the collection’s stories are set. Folks living south of Blue Street have life hard enough as it is; the last thing they need is some evangelist coming along and testifying to them.”

Read the rest of the review here, on Francesca’s journal.

An interview with Patricia Russo

A Grannie — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 13:23:29 +0000

Author Ryan Schneider interviews Patricia Russo on his blog! Interviews with Patricia Russo are few and far between, so go read it before it disappears. She “hates not only everybody, but everything”, including talking to people about writing.

She’d rather be writing, of course.

If you see me…

A Grannie — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 14:14:11 +0000

I won’t lie. Marketing a book when the author doesn’t tweet or use Facebook or any of that other stuff is definitely a challenge. What we need is for the good denizens of the internet to help a sister out. Like Reda, in the story “Mister”, who helps a young girl write a sign on her chest so that out there, in the wasteland, if someone sees her they won’t be afraid to “say hi”.

The internet is like a wasteland, isn’t it. It’s far too easy to get lost out here.

Please feel free to quote anything on this website to help the cause, with credits of course, or to use any of the images you find here now and in the future. If you’d like a review copy, just say the word. If you’d like to interview Patricia, well, you just have to come up with the right questions.

Shiny Thing

A Grannie — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 08:18:36 +0000

Today a Shiny Thing is released into the world!

Papaveria Press is very pleased to announce the release of Shiny Thing, a collection of nineteen short stories by Patricia Russo, who may very well be one of the most mysterious authors working in the genre today. Or, she was, until she kindly agreed to talk with Papaveria about her writing in general and Blue Street in particular. Please have a look around the site to find out what Blue Street is (and if you do figure it out, let us know), and of course, don’t forget to buy the book!