vanitas: the pg. 99 test

Page 99 Test: Gospel of the Knife. I won the test bigtime, because page 99 is one of my favorite pages in the book.

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you know 2nd person is cool!

Charlie Stross on writing in the second person:
The second person’s big strength is that it lets you show by doing, and it renders infodumps — those big, intrusive gobbets of metainformation that are so useful to the jobbing science fiction writer who’s trying to portray an unfamiliar world — transparent. (It’s big weakness is that [...]

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too late, the last line of The Gospel of the Knife

So, I was autographing a copy of The Gospel of the Knife, and I flipped to the last page because, well, the very end has always bugged me. And then this conversation occurred:
Will (handing book to Emma to show her): I just figured out the last line.
Emma (glancing at page to be reminded of ending): [...]

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obnoxiously smug pimpage, or Second Person Rocks!

Just saw the very nice reviews for our books here at Endicott Redux. Until now, I had been dividing reactions to The Gospel of the Knife this way:
1. Hated the use of second person. (Kirkus, Don D’Amassa.) (Which I don’t hold against them! Reviewers should be honest, and I knew when I made this choice [...]

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