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7/28/2011

Mail Call

Last week I received something very cool in the mail from a reader of the Outer Dark, David Chandler; his soon to be published fantasy novel entitled, Den of Thieves. David had emailed me a few weeks back and asked if I would be interested in receiving a copy, and of course I was more than happy to do so. The book will be released on August 11th, by Harper Collins.

In his email, David revealed to me that he is a player in the New York Red Box group, is a longtime reader of my blog and from the sound of things he is a proud member of the Old-School Renaissance. Needless to say, he is my kind of guy! He had this to say about his book, "This is not fan fiction, nor the dreaded 'game company novel', but an original story. It is heavily inspired by the contents of Appendix N, most specifically Fritz Leiber’s Lankhmar books." I read the prologue and chapter one last night, and though it is still very early, I can already see I am going to like the story. The main character is a thief named Malden "who had never set foot outside the city" in which the story takes place, the Free City of Ness. All in all, it looks like a fun read, and I will have a review of the book posted as soon as I finish reading it.

Thanks for the book, David!

5 comments:

Sean Robson said...

Sounds good; I look forward to your review.

R.R. Hunsinger said...

read faster!

Chris Kutalik said...

Funny I just a copy too from the man. The intro read great.

You know his alter ego is David Wellington, the horror novel writer.

RobChandler said...

Man, that's really awesome you got an advanced copy! Very nice of him.

Shane Mangus said...

@Raulston - I'm trying, I'm trying! :-)

@ckutalik - David mentioned his last name was Wellington and Chandler was his pen name, but I did not make the connection to his horror work. I have seen his other books on the shelves, but never have read them.

@R.W. Chandler - Yes, it was very decent of him to include me in on the advanced copy mail out.