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Big day in my world today.<\/strong> Today (thanks to Ori Pomerantz for his technical expertise) my new novel Hailstone Mountain<\/a><\/i> made its appearance at Amazon. In order to take advantage of Amazon\u2019s promotional programs, we\u2019ll be exclusively with them for a while.<\/p>\n Hailstone Mountain<\/i> is an H. Rider Haggard-esque story, in which Erling is struck by a curse that could kill him slowly. In order to break the curse, he must sail north (along with Father Ailill, Lemming, and others) to confront the source of the magic face to face. Meanwhile, Lemming\u2019s niece Freydis is kidnapped by her relatives from up in Halogaland, and it\u2019s not a nice kind of family, so she must be rescued. And that sets off repercussions that could destroy the whole country. Erling must join forces with a bitter enemy to stave off a monstrous horror.<\/p>\n In other news, my American Spectator<\/i> review of the Vikings<\/i> TV series is now a citation on the show\u2019s Wikipedia page<\/a>. That\u2019s my second citation there. So where\u2019s my honorary doctorate, already?<\/p>\n It\u2019s possibly not unrelated that (I\u2019m told; I haven\u2019t looked) somebody posted the Spectator<\/i> piece at Free Republic, where it became the target of ridicule and obloquy. I don\u2019t mind. I\u2019ve heard from a couple people today looking for various kinds of information, so my profile is higher than it was yesterday, and that\u2019s what you want when you\u2019re trying to sell books.<\/p>\n Also it\u2019s pretty much decided<\/strong> that I\u2019m going to be going for my Master\u2019s in Library and Information Science. Where will I find the time? I don\u2019t know. If it cuts into my reading, I can always blog about library science, which ought to be within the parameters of this blog.<\/p>\n Oh, one more thing \u2013 <\/strong>if you\u2019re a book blogger with an established blog and have Kindle reader capability, contact me at lars (at) larswalker (dot) com, for a free review copy of Hailstone Mountain<\/i>. We did that for Troll Valley<\/i>, and it worked out pretty well. Big day in my world today. Today (thanks to Ori Pomerantz for his technical expertise) my new novel Hailstone Mountain made its appearance at Amazon. In order to take advantage of Amazon\u2019s promotional programs, we\u2019ll be exclusively with them for a while. Hailstone Mountain is an H. Rider Haggard-esque story, in which Erling is struck … Continue reading A memorable day in literary history<\/span>
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