Everything Mortal Coils
This will be my last post for a while as I’ll be at New York Comic Con next week.I’d thought I’d put up all the relevant Mortal Coils links since the book is out in a few days.
If you haven’t seen it yet, here's the Mortal Coils book trailer:
If you’re interested in reading a sample of Mortal Coils, you can download the first section of the novel (82 pages) here.
And here's an in-depth analysis of Mortal Coils (minor spoilers) from Fantasy Book Critic.
Labels: Mortal Coils, sample chapters, video
posted by Eric Nylund at 5:07 PM
22 Comments:
Apparetnly it's out a few days early. Just got a report that someone picked up a copy last night in Glendale CA.
Hmm, well that's both good and bad, right? Bad because it means someone broke the street date and that's never a good situation, but good because at least it means that someone is interested. Right?
Pretty normal for the book to start showing up before the official due date. Bookstores tend to put things out when it is convenient to do so, not on some arbitrary date set by a New York publisher.
That book trailer was pretty cool! I need to do a book trailer...
Wow just finished it(got it from tor books stand at NYCC and got it signed by you). Definately an amazing piece of fiction. Can't wait for the next in the series to come out.
I finished it yesterday. It was very good. Quite a page-turner. I was worried. I didn't know how well this fantasy book would go for you..... Let's just say I wasn't a fan of Dry Water... But I was pleasantly surprised. I HATE starting new series' right as the author starts them.... I can't stand the waiting. After Harry Potter I swore I'd never do it again. But, it was worth it :)
Sorry for the delayed responses. Lots of traveling and distractions. Also this blog is kind of frozen for a week or so while I get a new site up and running.
Dangerousdave--People like to have a specific launch date to coordinate with the PR efforts and maximizes sales (that’s the theory anyway).
Mike--Yeah, looks like book trailers are here to stay.
Dan--Thanks! Glad you liked it. Almost done with the sequel.
Kilroy--Thanks, man. I appreciate the honest option. (Really!). I also appreciate you trying the series from the start.
The problem with not jumping into a new series from the beginning is that if people don’t (in this economy), the series might never get finished because the publisher drops it due to low sales! Beginning writers, experienced writers, successful writers--no one is immune. That’s why authors are more dependant than ever on readers getting out and talking about their books, putting up reviews, starting a little buzz.
I wanted to take a moment to thank everyone who has posted a review /blog/interview about Mortal Coils. It truly helps!
--Eric
Hi Eric,
Found Mortal Coils in BAM (Books A Million) in Tampa, FL and snapped it up. :) I can still remember the pile of pages you showed me 18 months ago, so I just had to get my very own copy as well as making my local public library buy one. ;)
The story has grabbed me right from the first pages, and I'll look forward to finishing it on the plane to Columbus, OH tomorrow.
Cheers!
Laura
I haven't been able to find a genre to fit my insatiable appetite in quite a very long time. I saw your book on the shelf and read the first page... three days later I woke up to reality. I was so absorbed in this book my family said I was "trapped". Something new to break me from my annoyance at how many vampire books are coming out after the Twilight movie. They figure they'll profit from some of Meyer's fans. They are sadly transparent. Good shootin' Mr. Nylund.
Laura – wow. Thanks for picking up the book. Can’t wait to hear what you think of it when you’re done. And thanks for the report about BAM, as well. I heard they were sold out in some locations.
DarkArbiter – “Absorbed” is great. If the rest of you family gets curious and reads it I’d love to know their reactions as well. I always kind of figured this was a book that brothers, sisters, mothers and fathers might enjoy since there are characters to identify with for everyone....
I was pleasantly shocked when my mother and sister (who I have to admit really don’t read my stuff) devoured _this_ book.
Great book, Eric! I have been a fan ever since I picked up Dry Water--still one of my all time favorites. I look forward to the rest of the series.
Sold out in some locations!? That's always a good thing, I think.
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Laura Fry, a fellow (so to speak) weaver, recommended Mortal Coils. Then Syne mentioned it in her most recent broadcast. I started it last night. Quite a treat and hard to put down. It has broad appeal I think since I am way past the teen-young adult reading group and rarely read "fantasy." Congratulations, Mortal Coils is a winner.
Hi Eric.
Thought you would like to read what I thought about Mortal Coils:
http://www.skyseastone.net/jvstin/unjvst/007877.html
Thanks! That was an insightful and generous review.
Yes, Roger Zelazny continuous to be an inspiration to me.
RE “...and I do hope that the novel sells well enough that Mr. Nylund has the opportunity to write and publish more of the books.”
I hope so too! And to that end I greatly appreciate the posting of the review on your site as well as on Amazon.
I hate having to ask this, especially to the author directly, but . . .
I'm a little confused by the footnotes and the editor's note. I know that you view this work as a piece of fiction/fantasy, but what exactly was meant by the editor's disclaimer for TOR? Is the Post family a real family, part of some huge urban legend that I've never heard of? The footnotes seem to reinforce this idea, specifically the very first footnote of the novel.
I resorted to googling anything I could on the Post Family, hoping some form of divine intervention [ha-ha] might lead me to a revelation; no such luck.
Should I assume these footnotes are to add a sense of historical authenticity, regardless of whether their source materials have been entirely fabricated?
If, by any chance, you have read "Fitzpatrick's War" by Theodore Judson, you might see the similarity. Judson created a scholarly editor to review the diary of the main character. The editor added footnotes from "historical texts" that either supported or refuted the claims made in the diary. The story took place in the 2400's, while the editor adds his commentary from the 2500's.
To change the subject, I love Mortal Coils so far. I just picked up my copy on thursday night, and started friday afternoon. My weekend plans kept me from reading all of saturday, but after a few hours today, I have reached page 114.
I first found you through your Halo novels, and ran to the local Border's to find any of your previous work. I was able to pick up the last copies of Signal to Noise and A Signal Shattered, and coincidently found that my public library has no idea who you are. I love your work nonetheless.
:]
Blair—thanks for the Mortal Coils love.
Re: the footnotes / Editors note. There are two possibilities here.
First, it could be real...and TOR is _making_ me obfuscate the fact for legless reasons. (I mean if there is a Post Family they’ve got to have some serious flesh-eating lawyers, right?) Also, I can see most, if not all, the references therein NOT being on the Internet (yet). You don’t see the black magic Little Chicken Grimoire, on Google, either!.
Or second, it’s a purposeful meta-fictional layer, constructed to add verisimilitude to the world I’ve created (c.f. the Thirteen Warrior by Michael Chritton)
Either way—let’s hope the series is popular enough so TOR commissions or re-prints those 13 volumes of _Gods in the First and Twenty First Centuries_ for us to read!
Take care
Eric
So I am not going to lie here. I don't read very often but I have recently gotten into sci-fi/ fantasy. I was in a local book store and happened to come across "Mortal Coils" so I read the back and I got intrigued. I read the book pretty fast and now I am definitely a fan. I loved the ending because it left me wondering what is going to happen next.
Thanks for the note Frank! Sequel almost done. You'll find out soon what happens to Eliot and Fiona and all those gods and infernals...and “others.”
--E
I bought the book on release day at a B&N (had to ask for it, as they hadn't stocked it yet). I quite enjoyed it and will be buying the rest.
Whenever someone asks me my favourite authors, you are always mentioned, along with P.C. Hodgell, J.K. Rowling, Jim Butcher, (shamed here) Laurell K. Hamilton, and Isaac Asimov.
"Dry Water" to me was the perfect modern fantasy book, and "Signal to Noise," and "A Signal Shattered" are some of the best sci-fi I've read since I was a youngster.
Pookha – thanks! That’s awfully nice of you.
It was very good, use of references to mythology and lore was intreguing and mind boggling. sadly i do not own the book, i borrowed it from my friend at camp, can anyone tell me what happens from page 498 till the end?
I just found "Mortals Coil" in my local library. I read it in two days, then bought a copy at Books-A-Million. Great Stuff. Different from the Halo books I loved (yours of course) but in the way that a Porsche is different from a Lamorghini. Both are great cars, that I would love to own.
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