Freder's Blog
April 9, 2013
Two new books in Paperback!
I'm a lucky guy. Today I get to announce the publication of two new titles in paperback, Melies' Notebook and Tinsel*Town Volume 1. Both are available from Duck Soup Productions and wherever fine books are sold!
February 16, 2013
TORCH is now in Paperback!
I'm so happy to announce that my novel, PERSEPHONE'S TORCH is now available in paperback, and that MELIES NOTEBOOK will follow it next month. The finished book looks fantastic. Right now it's only available from the publisher, but soon it will be available absolutely everywhere that good books are sold. Remember to support your local Independent Booksellers!!
Everything you could possibly need or want to know is right here at the Duck Soup Productions website: www.ducksoup.me .
-- Freder
Everything you could possibly need or want to know is right here at the Duck Soup Productions website: www.ducksoup.me .
-- Freder
November 20, 2012
Méliès' Notebook is here!
It's out! As usual, the folks at Amazon are a good deal faster at getting the material online faster than anyone else, and so the Kindle version of Méliès' Notebook and Other Stories, the companion volume to Persephone's Torch, is first out of the gate. But the ePub version should be up at iTunes very soon!
And, coming in December is a newly Remastered, Revisited edition of my graphic novel, Tinsel*Town! I'll keep you posted...
And, coming in December is a newly Remastered, Revisited edition of my graphic novel, Tinsel*Town! I'll keep you posted...
November 13, 2012
Persephone's Torch now has a book trailer!
I'm pleased to announce that the book trailer for TORCH is online at youtube. Just follow the link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ysMwN...
More big news coming soon!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ysMwN...
More big news coming soon!
October 20, 2012
What's in a Name?
Hello!
"Allow me to introduce myself," as Boris Badivov so often said to a certain moose and squirrel. Obviously, "Freder" is not my real name, although it's not exactly false, either. By adopting a nom de plume I'm not trying to shroud my True Identity in secrecy: after all, my real name is right there on the copyright page for all to see. But as I explained to a friend of mine in an email a few weeks back:
"... history proves that unpronounceable last names do not do their owners any favors, Ahnold being the exception that proves the rule. If you could see all the looks I have gotten over the years whenever people try to pronounce [my last name]… it actually produces a negative reaction in people … I've been using this name at the blog for going on two years now, it's a derivation of my middle name and it's the name of the Deeply Confused male lead in Fritz Lang's METROPOLIS, it seemed appropriate to stick with it. Easy to remember. Chalk me up as another 'Trevanian.'"
So that's the scoop, and I think it was the right decision. After all, would we still be talking about Cary Grant today if he'd stuck with Archibald Leach?
-- Freder.
"Allow me to introduce myself," as Boris Badivov so often said to a certain moose and squirrel. Obviously, "Freder" is not my real name, although it's not exactly false, either. By adopting a nom de plume I'm not trying to shroud my True Identity in secrecy: after all, my real name is right there on the copyright page for all to see. But as I explained to a friend of mine in an email a few weeks back:
"... history proves that unpronounceable last names do not do their owners any favors, Ahnold being the exception that proves the rule. If you could see all the looks I have gotten over the years whenever people try to pronounce [my last name]… it actually produces a negative reaction in people … I've been using this name at the blog for going on two years now, it's a derivation of my middle name and it's the name of the Deeply Confused male lead in Fritz Lang's METROPOLIS, it seemed appropriate to stick with it. Easy to remember. Chalk me up as another 'Trevanian.'"
So that's the scoop, and I think it was the right decision. After all, would we still be talking about Cary Grant today if he'd stuck with Archibald Leach?
-- Freder.
