Oct 26, 2022·edited Oct 26, 2022Liked by Matt Cardin
Congratulations on the release, Matt and thank you for granting the world access to these works of "weird non-fiction."
Reading "in 24 years as a published writer, I have never felt more vulnerable than I do right now" evoked Ligotti's "Alice's Last Adventure." Your journals will undoubtedly serve as both a window and mirror into the bottomless source that constitutes your fiction.
Thank you, Matt. I hadn't noticed the echoes of "Alice's Last Adventure." Kind of reminds me of the closing lines of my "Judas of the Infinite," which came to me in a rush of inspiration, and which I didn't recognize as a kind of homage to the closing lines of Ligotti's "Nethescurial" until it was pointed out to me.
Regarding the journals, I've kind of wondered if some of my readers who come to them from having first read my horror stories and/or essays might be a bit baffled or even put off by the first volume's repeated lengthy excursions into Christian theological reflections and other spiritual matters. The second volume will start more in medias res, as it were, relative to the kinds of thematic focuses that have characterized my published writing career. But for better or worse, the journals in toto do represent the private background to my published work.
" Having presently reached what feels like the end the line as a fiction writer (though who knows, I could be wrong, it’s up to my daemon muse)" — I had not realized, or perhaps forgotten, that you felt the fiction had come to a close. I certainly hope that particular daemon comes to visit you again as I've greatly enjoyed and appreciated your creative fictional works. In the meantime, I will be picking up the journals soon.
Thank you for the interest and support. I remain open to writing fiction. It just isn't something that has carried a sufficient energetic charge to produce an actual story for quite some time. I hope the journals prove worth your while.
Congratulations on the release, Matt and thank you for granting the world access to these works of "weird non-fiction."
Reading "in 24 years as a published writer, I have never felt more vulnerable than I do right now" evoked Ligotti's "Alice's Last Adventure." Your journals will undoubtedly serve as both a window and mirror into the bottomless source that constitutes your fiction.
Thank you, Matt. I hadn't noticed the echoes of "Alice's Last Adventure." Kind of reminds me of the closing lines of my "Judas of the Infinite," which came to me in a rush of inspiration, and which I didn't recognize as a kind of homage to the closing lines of Ligotti's "Nethescurial" until it was pointed out to me.
Regarding the journals, I've kind of wondered if some of my readers who come to them from having first read my horror stories and/or essays might be a bit baffled or even put off by the first volume's repeated lengthy excursions into Christian theological reflections and other spiritual matters. The second volume will start more in medias res, as it were, relative to the kinds of thematic focuses that have characterized my published writing career. But for better or worse, the journals in toto do represent the private background to my published work.
" Having presently reached what feels like the end the line as a fiction writer (though who knows, I could be wrong, it’s up to my daemon muse)" — I had not realized, or perhaps forgotten, that you felt the fiction had come to a close. I certainly hope that particular daemon comes to visit you again as I've greatly enjoyed and appreciated your creative fictional works. In the meantime, I will be picking up the journals soon.
Thank you for the interest and support. I remain open to writing fiction. It just isn't something that has carried a sufficient energetic charge to produce an actual story for quite some time. I hope the journals prove worth your while.