Total Oblivion

"A fast-paced, suspenseful dystopian picaresque, part Huck Finn and part bizarro-world Swiss Family Robinson..."

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Long-listed for the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award and finalist for the Crawford Award. Title short story listed for the 2000 O. Henry award.

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Total Oblivion, More or Less

All right, time for some bona fide big news. My novel, Total Oblivion, More or Less, is going to be published by Bantam! Juliet Ulman at Bantam Spectra has bought it, and I’m just really thrilled since a lot of my friends and colleagues have had great experiences with her editorial expertise. This is truly going to be a wonderful home for the book. Many kudos also go to my agent, Colleen Lindsay, who has been as trustworthy and helpful a guide as one could hope for in this realm. As well of course for everyone’s who taken a gander at critiquing the book, strengthening it with keen insights.

There’s a lot to do until publication, but I’m sure you’ll be hearing much more about this from me in the future, near and far.

Thu, May 29 2008 » Fiction, Uncategorized

44 Responses

  1. Joya May 29 2008 @ 2:53 pm

    Congratulations! I definitely look forward to reading about the journey to publication. :)

  2. Christopher May 29 2008 @ 2:53 pm

    Fantastic! Yays a’poppin’!

  3. Mike May 29 2008 @ 2:59 pm

    Awesome news! And now the comments work, too. Bonus!

    Congrats, man. Can’t wait to read it (great title!).

  4. Stephanie Burgis May 29 2008 @ 3:03 pm

    Woot!!!! Congratulations!

  5. Dave Schwartz May 29 2008 @ 3:05 pm

    SO AWESOME!!!

  6. Susan Marie Groppi May 29 2008 @ 3:12 pm

    HOORAY! This is so fabulous!

  7. Jenn Reese May 29 2008 @ 3:14 pm

    Holy crap, that’s FANTASTIC!!! Congratulations!

  8. Craig May 29 2008 @ 3:14 pm

    You were so on the downlow at the con. Congrats!

  9. Alice Kim May 29 2008 @ 3:16 pm

    YAAAAAAAAAAAY! This book, if it’s the one I’m thinking of, sounds so goddamn great. I can’t wait!

  10. Tim Pratt May 29 2008 @ 3:23 pm

    Awesome! Juliet is a great editor.

  11. Kelly Gay May 29 2008 @ 3:26 pm

    Congratulations Alan! ;)

  12. Niall May 29 2008 @ 3:27 pm

    Excellent. Can’t wait to read it.

  13. Scott Tracey May 29 2008 @ 3:34 pm

    Congrats to you and Colleen!!! This is great news!

  14. Eric Marin May 29 2008 @ 3:44 pm

    Congratulations, Alan!!

  15. Jon Hansen May 29 2008 @ 3:50 pm

    Sweet!

  16. Ingrid May 29 2008 @ 3:54 pm

    Congrats from a fellow Colleen client. Fantastic news!

  17. David Moles May 29 2008 @ 4:04 pm

    w00t!

  18. Amie May 29 2008 @ 4:37 pm

    HUGE Congrats to you and Colleen!!

  19. Greg van Eekhout May 29 2008 @ 4:37 pm

    This is *so* awesome! Congratulations!!

  20. Sean M. Murphy May 29 2008 @ 5:02 pm

    Excellent news, Alan! Great to chat with you at WisCon, though you managed to secret this tasty morsel away. Congrats!

  21. Lawrence Schimel May 29 2008 @ 5:03 pm

    Mazel tov!

  22. Haddayr Copley-Woods May 29 2008 @ 5:07 pm

    WOOOOOOOHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!

    Don’t you want to go back in time to yourself at a Certain Moment and whisper this little secret in your own ear?

    I am so proud of you. This book kicks ASS. It is AWESOME. This is so well-deserved.

  23. Christopher Barzak May 29 2008 @ 6:28 pm

    Finally we can celebrate openly!! Yayyyyyy!

  24. Meghan May 29 2008 @ 6:28 pm

    oh HELLS yes!

  25. Rudi D. May 29 2008 @ 6:43 pm

    That’s great news! Congratulations!

  26. cyn May 29 2008 @ 6:49 pm

    wonderful! congrats!!!
    i know *exactly* how you feel!

  27. Rhonda S May 29 2008 @ 6:56 pm

    Fantastic news-CONGRATS! You must be thrilled!!

  28. Ted May 29 2008 @ 7:28 pm

    Woo-hoo! Congratulations!

  29. Richard May 29 2008 @ 7:33 pm

    Please allow myself to congratulate yourself.

  30. Jason Erik Lundberg May 29 2008 @ 11:35 pm

    Dude! Big congrats, man! Yay!

  31. Eugene May 30 2008 @ 12:48 am

    Congratulations! That seems like it happened really fast, too. Can’t wait to read it. :)

  32. Darja MC May 30 2008 @ 11:03 am

    Whoa, congratulations Alan! Fantastic!

    (I assume this is the novel you were telling me about at WisCon, the one that sounded AMAZING?)

  33. Brett Cox May 30 2008 @ 11:44 am

    Outstanding! Congratulations!

  34. Nym May 30 2008 @ 11:54 am

    Congratz :D

  35. S. E. Ward May 30 2008 @ 7:09 pm

    Awesome, congratulations! I’m looking forward to reading it!

    Also? You totally have my sympathy with regards to work yet to do. Eesh. :)

  36. Jed May 30 2008 @ 9:08 pm

    Yay! Congratulations!

  37. Jackie M. May 30 2008 @ 10:18 pm

    Yay!

  38. follinge May 31 2008 @ 1:08 am

    I’ll have to read it asap.

  39. Alan May 31 2008 @ 9:50 am

    Thanks one and all, really appreciate the kind words!

  40. CatHellisen May 31 2008 @ 11:36 am

    CONGRATS!!!

    And I love the title. :D

  41. Stephanie Leary June 5 2008 @ 3:53 pm

    Congrats!!

  42. David J. Williams June 8 2008 @ 1:25 pm

    Awesome news. Juliet #$ rules; I can’t even tell you how fortunate I feel to have her as my editor, and I have no doubt you’ll have the same experience. Look forward to meeting you/raising a glass or three if/when our paths cross at an upcoming con. And congrats: there’s no feeling like what you’re feeling right now, and I salute you.

    all best,

    djw

  43. jmcc August 31 2008 @ 6:32 pm

    That’s wonderful news! When everything comes together, we’d love to have you up here at the store again!
    It’s been quite some time since I read your blog, we just started one for the store and it made me think of the ole goblin mercantile!
    ~john f/ northern lights books in duluth

  44. Nulldude January 6 2010 @ 1:29 am

    I just started reading through this in the bookstore. Don’t know how it got all the way to Boston but it’s great. I was amused to see your reviewer on Amazon has no idea what ‘Scythians’ or ‘The Empire’ are. Crack a history book, dude. Whatever gave you the idea to juxtapose Minnesota with the decline and fall of the Roman Empire? I mean, where did that come from? Wonderfully bizarre. For all the weirdness you get an idea of what it must have been like to be an ordinary Jovius as the barbarians swept in.

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