![]() ![]() Amazingly to me, not to mention infuriatingly, even unhingingly, she made it clear to me that I had screwed up very thoroughly and required, if not reality therapy, at least a refresher course in How Thrillers Work. After something like three weeks had passed, my inbox at last produced an email from the editor. There followed a silence of puzzling length. After the usual cutting and trimming and general housekeeping, I submitted a seven-hundred page manuscript to my publisher in November, 2008. From mid-2005 to mid-2007, anyhow, I pushed my characters around and around on a stage set I called Madison, Wisconsin, finally to be rewarded by a breakthrough into deeper engagement that led me into a lengthy period of absorbed and nearly always satisfying work. ![]() In his own words, here is Peter Straub's Book Notes music playlist for his novel, A Dark Matter:įor various reasons I will not go into here, A Dark Matter, my new novel, took a lot longer to write than my books usually do. "Brilliant in its orchestration and provocative in its speculations, this novel ranks as one of the finest tales of modern horror." His character-driven drama is skillfully told through the eyes of several narrators, its secrets unfolded layer by layer with perfect pacing. His new novel, A Dark Matter, showcases his talent for storytelling. I have long admired Peter Straub's writing. ![]() ![]() In the Book Notes series, authors create and discuss a music playlist that relates in some way to their recently published book. ![]()
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