The Hits Keep Comin’

John Joseph Adams | September 11th 2008 at 6:40 pm

You may recall me posting last week about the news that Graham Joyce is a finalist for this year’s O. Henry Award. His nominated story, "An Ordinary Soldier of the Queen," was first published in The Paris Review, then expanded into a novel, How to Make Friends with Demons, which Night Shade will be publishing later this year.

Well, the O. Henry folks aren’t the only ones who think Graham is awesome. Check out what these fab folk had to say about his work:

“Anyone who isn’t reading Graham Joyce is doing themselves a huge disservice.  No matter what kind of story he takes on, his work immediately becomes the standard to which all others have to be compared.  The only disappointment with a Joyce book is that,at some point, it has to end.” –Charles de Lint, author of The Onion Girl

“Beyond the wonderful clarity of line and inherent word-music that draws a reader into the story, qualities of Graham Joyce’s writing we fans of his have come to expect, in his new novel, How to Make Friends With Demons, he performs a breathtaking juggling act of the literal and metaphorical to tell a serious/hilarious story of our time, for all time, about the nature of good and evil.  Joyce is undoubtedly possessed by the Demon of Great Writing.” –Jeffrey Ford, author of The Shadow Year

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