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HARD REVOLUTION
Shipping to me on Feb. 10, 2004, so I'll have
books and be shipping them out myself, mid-February.
The morocco state is sold out, but there still
remain a few cloth copies available.
The final book in the Derek Strange Quartet, which takes us back to the
period 1959-1968, as the title indicates, in two sections: Derek as a
13 year old boy with some character-defining events, then forward to 1968,
where Derek is a 22-year-old rookie cop on the D.C. police force—something
he's wanted to do(be) since the age of 13 or so. But after Dr.
King's assassination, and what befalls his older brother Dennis, his mind
is changed, forever, about how he'll find a place in the world, and specifically
in the post-60s Washington, D.C., with its ever-more-disintegrating society
over the years, that Pelecanos has cataloged in the previous three novels
in the series: Right as Rain (2001), Hell to Pay (2002;
I have a few cloth copies remaining of my limited first edition of this
book—it won the Los Angeles Times' Prize for Fiction in 2003;
$125), and Soul Circus (this is the book I had to cancel my scheduled
limited first edition of, after being blindsided by Orion Press over in
England with their early publication date: because of greed, they had
their book out in the stores in Old Blighty Christmas week 2002, instead
of March 2003 as their agreement with Little, Brown was written, so they
could sell "X" number of copies to American book collectors
who wanted only the true first ed. of the book: frankly, I doubt that
they even knew of my existence or my scheduled limited first ed.
of the book, but they sure did screw me by bringing their book
out so early, and I had to cancel mine [I did do a 500-copy limited
ed. dustjacket, featuring Gary Phillips in the role of one of the gangsters
from the book, just to recoup the monies I'd already spent to have Michael
Kellner design said jacket, and everybody involved signed them, so that
aspect of the fiasco was kind of cool]—if cancelling the book hadn't
put me on a downward slide toward oblivion as a publisher for about 8
months, I wouldn't have minded it so much; as it finally worked out, at
least now Little, Brown is holding Orion to whatever publication date
they've agreed on for the U.K. edition of Pelecanos' and Connelly's books
to come out, so something good came out of it, I guess).
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