Thursday, November 12, 2009

REVIEW OF DAMAGED PEOPLE

The specfic geeks I had drinks with lats night pointed out that Charles Tan (dubbed as the international face of local speculative fiction) did a review of my book Damaged People last October.

Check out the whole thing here. : D

Here's a preview:

Book/Magazine Review: Damaged People: Tales of the Gothic-Punk by Karl R. De Mesa

Every Monday, I'll be doing bite-sized book/magazine reviews.

What got me interested in Karl R. De Mesa's fiction was the praise our editor-in-chief at work gave with regards to his upcoming novella collection, News of the Shaman. Damaged People: Tales of the Gothic-Punk is a a slim (under a hundred pages), four-year-old short story collection. My first impression is that the book is an example of an amateur author's mistake with regards to collections: instead of waiting until the writer has developed a series of strong short stories, this is instead a compilation of the author's recent work (at that time).

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