Sunday, October 18, 2009

Beehiveded

Jereme Dean again benevolently bought a bunch more copies of Scorch Atlas to give away. For one, just comment on this thread with anything and I will put you into a drawing for it, done on Tuesday.

I killed all of my links mostly, cuz linking 50 people seems insane, and not linking 200 other people seems insane. I've had complex linking guilt for a long while now and so just decided to erase it. I will link things now from the postbody, as they are better there. What is linking.





@Deckfight, a list of the 5 best things I've read lately

@Holy Land, Rauan Klassnik talks about his experience so far 45 pages into Scorch Atlas: "like biting into a burning apple. A sizzling cherry. Each taste's a piece of fire that whirrs on the tongue and surrounds the brain in a live-dead sack of cold-burning aura. This book's going on my night stand next to Finnegan's Wake..."

@htmlgiant, I wrote about my experience of the &now conference





Should I call my novel Beehiveded. No. I want to just call it Exit. I like the long title but maybe should just make it brutally short. Should it be called O0o0oo000oo, or another unspeakable chain. I don't know. No. I'm way behind on everything.





The rest of this year will be spent focusing.
at

31 comments:

  1. Mike MeginnisOctober 18, 2009 at 3:11 PM

    Have been meaning to buy a copy. Would appreciate a free one, if I am lucky.

    ReplyDelete
  2. Eric BeenyOctober 18, 2009 at 3:33 PM

    Hi Blake, it was good to meet you in person, and what I really wanted to say while shaking your hand was Congratulations...

    ReplyDelete
  3. Ross BrightonOctober 18, 2009 at 3:59 PM

    Word brother, I'd love a copy. If I get it I'll try and write on it, not that you need any more good words - everyone loves it so much I'm sure I will too!

    ReplyDelete
  4. Molly GaudryOctober 18, 2009 at 6:53 PM

    I remember the day you linked me, and I thought, "I have arrived." I hear you, though; linking is a strange bird. Just wanted to stop in and say good luck with the focusing.

    ReplyDelete
  5. BLAKE BUTLEROctober 18, 2009 at 6:54 PM

    thanks guys

    and thanks molly. it doesn't mean i don't still have the love. :O

    ReplyDelete
  6. Radish KingOctober 18, 2009 at 8:17 PM

    I dropped my copy in the bathtub last night. I was just writing about it on my blog.

    Loudon

    ReplyDelete
  7. exiledbyaccidentOctober 18, 2009 at 8:33 PM

    I really want to read Scorch Atlas asap (I enjoyed Ever a lot, so there you go). Would kill for a free copy. Or, you know, instead of kill, leave this comment.

    ReplyDelete
  8. Jonny RossOctober 18, 2009 at 10:24 PM

    repeat first comment.

    exit is a sweet title.

    ReplyDelete
  9. Ryan W. BradleyOctober 18, 2009 at 11:03 PM

    i think "behived" would be a cool title

    ReplyDelete
  10. mikeOctober 18, 2009 at 11:16 PM

    Enter me in the contest, please. I haven't bought it 'cause I don't believe in ordering direct from the publisher and cutting out my local bookstores, but none of my local bookstores seem to have it in stock, and I wanted to look at it before I bought it. Yeah.

    ReplyDelete
  11. The Labyrinth of the CityOctober 19, 2009 at 12:08 AM

    If you title the novel "Exit" people will immediately think of Sartre's "No Exit".

    ReplyDelete
  12. CoreyOctober 19, 2009 at 3:27 AM

    Do you think people will defile copies of your book after having missed out on the limited run of those defiled by you to try to forge their own, to kid themselves? I'm going to have to come up with a scheme, if I win that is.

    ReplyDelete
  13. DJ BerndtOctober 19, 2009 at 8:40 AM

    I like contests! Goody!

    ReplyDelete
  14. magick mikeOctober 19, 2009 at 10:17 AM

    exit no exit || commenting 4 contest

    ReplyDelete
  15. Donald DunbarOctober 19, 2009 at 12:24 PM

    contests

    I spelled that "contexts" and then "contets" and then "consts". My students are getting their money's worth this morning I can tell.

    ReplyDelete
  16. adamOctober 19, 2009 at 3:16 PM

    sell yourself

    ReplyDelete
  17. AnonymousOctober 19, 2009 at 4:02 PM

    I would like a free copy. I already have one, but I would like to give it to someone who hasn't read your work yet, or like slip it in the library stacks here and see if anyone notices.

    ReplyDelete
  18. AnonymousOctober 19, 2009 at 4:19 PM

    i remember feeling sad about not being linked on here, but then i realized that was a stupid thing to be sad over and was never sad again.

    but the initial anger towards you...has never left.





    :)

    ReplyDelete
  19. CamiOctober 19, 2009 at 10:12 PM

    I like BeehiveDed. I don't like OooOooOoo. Exit seems not good enough for you.

    ReplyDelete
  20. jheorggeOctober 20, 2009 at 11:38 AM

    hey i'd love a copy of scorch atlas more than pretty much anything right now, have no money whatsoever otherwise it'd have been bought by now. cd you enter me in to the free copy draw please?

    ReplyDelete
  21. clarkknowlesOctober 20, 2009 at 11:42 AM

    Blake... totally turned one of my promising young students onto your book and websites today... she came to conference saying she wanted to look at fiction differently... and I said, "I got the author for you!"... she was super excited to see someone doing something so different. SA is up soon in my reading pile... Hope you are well. Are you going to AWP this year?

    ReplyDelete
  22. tomkendallOctober 20, 2009 at 12:30 PM

    Am i too late? NOOooooooooooooooo

    ReplyDelete
  23. tomkendallOctober 20, 2009 at 12:31 PM

    i.e please enter me into the draw.

    ReplyDelete
  24. BLAKE BUTLEROctober 20, 2009 at 12:32 PM

    cool. draw closed now. will pick winner within the hour.

    clark, that is really awesome. thanks man, i appreciate it greatly. yes will def be at awp. you?

    ReplyDelete
  25. The Man Who Couldn't BlogOctober 20, 2009 at 2:59 PM

    I think maybe you should call the novel

    THE UNSPEAKABLE CHAIN

    ReplyDelete
  26. BLAKE BUTLEROctober 20, 2009 at 3:15 PM

    exiled by accident was the winner as caused by a random number generator picking the comment number 7.

    exiled by accident, email yr addy please?

    ReplyDelete
  27. BLAKE BUTLEROctober 20, 2009 at 3:15 PM

    thanks to everyone who commented. wish i could give more. will have another give away i think soon

    ReplyDelete
  28. DBOctober 20, 2009 at 5:07 PM

    comment. book.

    ReplyDelete
  29. DBOctober 20, 2009 at 5:07 PM

    oh shit. nevermind.

    ReplyDelete
  30. jeremeOctober 20, 2009 at 7:09 PM

    i hope this is not the beginning of the death of the "open node"

    ReplyDelete
  31. BLAKE BUTLEROctober 20, 2009 at 7:24 PM

    it's not. it's the beginning of an even further open node.

    ReplyDelete