I've been writing a book of retellings of Norse Mythology since about 2012. Writing it slowly, between other things. Reading and reading my prose Eddas and my poetic Eddas, in any editions I could find, thumbing through my Simek's Dictionary of Northern Mythology whenever I was unclear on something, and keeping it a secret, mostly.
I actually did a reading of one of the first stories I completed at Boston's Museum of Fine Arts three years ago, and people liked it. (Here's a write-up.) I kept writing.
I even wrote a glossary.
And now the book is done, and will be coming out in February. All the stories I loved, all the myth, many of the contradictions. Loki and Thor and Odin and Freyr and Sif and the rest, from the beginning of things through to Ragnarok and after.
Look! Here is the cover.
It is coming.
Are you ready?
I actually did a reading of one of the first stories I completed at Boston's Museum of Fine Arts three years ago, and people liked it. (Here's a write-up.) I kept writing.
I even wrote a glossary.
And now the book is done, and will be coming out in February. All the stories I loved, all the myth, many of the contradictions. Loki and Thor and Odin and Freyr and Sif and the rest, from the beginning of things through to Ragnarok and after.
Look! Here is the cover.
It is coming.
Are you ready?
It spins!
We are still working on the technology to get the hammer to spin like that on the actual cover.
It will be coming out in the US from WW Norton (http://bit.ly/NorseMythology) and in the UK from Bloomsbury in February.
Norton has a website -- http://www.neilgaimannorsemythology.com/ -- and if you go to it you will see big, not spinning version of the cover, and a photo of me being menaced by a tree.
...
That's almost that. Ash is one year old in two days. A year ago Amanda looked like this:
and now Ash is almost walking and he looks like this:
And I am not sure where the year went....
Labels: Ash, Mjollnir, Norse Mythology