In which Selkie talks about her new book...

[selkie]

...in hopes that I will thusly be motivated to chug along and finish it. Chuggily.

It  has a Holocaust survivor who has to learn that the only safe thing to do is to go back to Russia.  It has the lost city of Kitezh. It has global warming! And the previously mentioned cheirophant pickpocket. It is my attempt to write a clearly Jewish fantasy that doesn't sound dumb and isn't dated quite the same way as a Hasidic folk story. It has a subterranean medical school.  It has a prison, a garden, a parking garage, a gearworld feel to it, and some gay.

Okay, yes, it still has the gay.

I think I can,  I think I can, I think I can, I think I can....

Comments

[muchabstracted.livejournal.com]

Have you read The Old Country by Mordechai Gerstein? If you haven't, I think you should. YA novel (possibly children's novel, I can't tell the difference) which sounds Yiddish and folktaley and fantastical and Jewish. Very well done.

[muchabstracted.livejournal.com]

(That was almost entirely unrelated, since your plot and his plot are radically different.)