Tag: The Lure of Devouring Light

Devouring Other Libraries

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Earlier this month I posted about The Lure of Devouring Light being available at 6 branches of Multnomah Country Library, which of course will only be of interest to you if you live in Portland.

If you live elsewhere, you can see which other libraries nationwide are stocking the book (thanks to Jennifer Lockhart for the link to this resource).

The Lure of Devouring Light listing on WorldCat.

If your local library doesn’t have it, maybe you can let them know you’d like them to order it. This would make the world a much better place… you’d get to read the book for free, other people in your local area could read the book for free after you, and we’d sell some extra copies of the book!

Multnomah County Library Branches Have Lure of Devouring Light

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Portland-area folks can find The Lure of Devouring Light at several Multnomah County library branches, according to this:

The Lure of Devouring Light at Mult.Co. Library

It may also be available from Clackamas and Washington and other county libraries, but I’m not a member of those so I’ll have to figure out how to check. If you happen to have a link to the book’s availability at your library, not just in the Portland area, let me know!

People Keep Buying My Book

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It pleases me that people keep buying my book, and showing off their own copy! Here are a few more.

Gus Butler (note, Greener Pastures is also very much worth reading):

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Jeffrey Thomas (whose endorsement appears on the cover of the book — and as above, the other book in this picture is most definitely worth reading):

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Jayaprakash Satyamurthy:

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My thanks to everyone who has picked up a copy of The Lure of Devouring Light, and especially those who took the time to share a picture!

 

The Complete Des Lewis Real-Time Review

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Des Lewis has completed his real-time review of The Lure of Devouring Light. You can read all the installments HERE. Scroll down to the comments to see his coverage of each individual story.

On Facebook, he also described the book as “near-perfect,” which is pretty great.

Thank you, Des, for all the time and effort you put into this! It’s my great pleasure to have my own real-time review, after enjoying many of your previous efforts.

Lure Reviewed by Adrian Shotbolt

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This quite flattering review of The Lure of Devouring Light just appeared on the blog of Adrian Shotbolt, aka Beavis the Bookheed, this morning.

Book Review: The Lure of Devouring Light – Michael Griffin

tl;dr summary version: “Griffin has a wonderful ability to create realistic images through his words, particularly with his deft use of descriptive language, crafting delicious stories of dark, weird horror. This is a fantastic collection and I highly recommend it.”

Thanks, Adrian!

More Books in the Hands of Readers

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It’s wonderful to see pictures of my new book in the hands of readers.

Anya Martin (DO NOT look directly at the cursed frog idol):

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David Bridges, with one hell of a mail day:

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Kelly Young:

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Jim Serfling, proving that Kindles are people too:

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Harry Dibrell:

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S.P. Miskowski:

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I’ve seen quite a few other copies in the wild, and signed many of them, but these are the only new pictures I have since the last blog on this subject HERE. If you have your own copy of The Lure of Devouring Light you’d like to show off, send me the photo or post it to social media. My enthusiastic thanks to everyone who has already done so!

Real-Time Review of Lure of Devouring Light

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Des Lewis has begun one of his real-time reviews (in which he posts to his blog about his ongoing reaction to a book he’s reading) of The Lure of Devouring Light.

The link to that post is HERE.

As I post this, he’s only gotten as far as the first, title story… and his reaction is interesting, because (as you may already know if you read my early “What’s in the book” post) I originally wrote this story as a submission for the Classical Horror anthology edited by Des, and he ended up rejecting the story. This is not a case of sour grapes or “I told you so” on my part, nor defensiveness on Des’s part. It’s genuinely interesting to see an editor revisit a story which he rejected years ago.

I won’t keep re-posting this link as more stories are read and reviews, so if you’re interested, you’ll just need to bookmark the above link and check back. My thanks to Des Lewis for the time and attention.