(John, you made Finch look like a million bucks, and King Squid and the title pages in City of Saints are classics.) And, heck, the great musicians like Robert Devereux and The Church and now Murder by Death–has any book cycle ever had three such distinctive soundtracks?–and Juha Lindroos for the Shriek movie. Thanks to all of the artists and other creators involved, especially Eric Schaller, Scott Eagle, and John Coulthart. Thanks to Ann for being by my side during the writing of every single bit of Ambergrisian fiction. And art–a lot of art has been used in the Ambergris Cycle, and a lot of art has been inspired by it. People have gotten tattoos of images from the books. I’ve seen people dressed as characters from the books at conventions.
The books have been translated into twelve languages. This work is primarily responsible for my being able to keep freelancing full-time. It’s defined most of my adult life as a writer. Of course, by then I had a different problem: the weight of it finally hit me, that this is the end of Ambergris, the end of a cycle of stories and novels I’ve worked on ever since I was 25. So I put the copies out on the table and then kind of circled them for awhile before diving in. It’d be like having a fingernail pulled out.
What if a page number was missing or a whole page was missing? I know it sounds ridiculous, but after being so involved in every aspect of this novel for so long, the agony of that would be excruciating. I just didn’t know if I could take, after one of the hardest pre-production schedules ever, which included re-typesetting the book…if I could take finding an error. In the back, there’s the classiest advert I’ve ever seen in a book:Īnd it looks awesome next to the Murder by Death CD (that band is just so bad-ass don’t know another word for it).įor awhile I didn’t have the heart to open Finch up and look it over.
I’d had a sudden image in my head of these village-idiot-looking copies populating bookstores. Then saw these were only the first few on top, and the rest were fine. I opened them half-reluctantly for some reason, then just about died when I saw the top copies were gap-toothed: the left margin of the cover didn’t quite match up to the interior pages. The postman brought a box of Finch today. (Finch, hitting bookstores on November 3.)
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