I’m back and what the *&#^!% has been going on around here? Those Noantri, what a bunch. I mean, who asked them? Go get your own blog, you parasitical paranormal paragons, you.
China reports and missing haiku coming soon, but I want to remember this: last year this same time I also was away, and also came back, just in time for Hurricane Sandy. Went down to the river this morning; repair work on a couple of the buildings there is still going on.
Talk to you soon.
SJ Rozan’s still traipsing through China and says no blogs until she gets back. That’s what she thinks! In BLOOD OF THE LAMB, she and Carlos Dews, writing as Sam Cabot, talk a lot about the Noantri. Well, that’s us. Also known as: Vampires! The book tries to correct some of the more egregious ideas about us, and we’ve taken over SJ’s blog while she’s away to continue that educational process for all you Unchanged out there. For example, when you think of Vampires, you may think of this, and we understand why:
The truth? Much more like this. This is Bram Stoker, the author of DRACULA. Rumor has it that he is one of ours.
What are other readers (human readers) saying about BLOOD OF THE LAMB?
“…like taking a literary roller coaster ride through the streets of Rome…” -Marjorie writing on Goodreads
“I love literary suspense, and this is just my kind of book…a word of warning: it’s definitely controversial…Highly recommended.” -Tom S. writing on Amazon
“…full of twists and turns…” – Kendall writing on Goodreads
“…this is a must-read…” – Pam&Ralph writing on Amazon
“Blood of the Lamb by Sam Cabot was a great thriller and literary masterpiece.I could not put he book down.” -Dominick Bluni writing on Amazon
Faithfully Yours,
The Noantri Conclave
You can buy BLOOD OF THE LAMB from one of these places:
Click here to go to Indiebound.
Click here to go to Amazon.
Click here to go to Barnes & Noble.
SJ Rozan’s still in China and says no blogs until she gets back. That’s what she thinks! In BLOOD OF THE LAMB, she and Carlos Dews, writing as Sam Cabot, talk a lot about the Noantri. Well, that’s us. Also known as: Vampires! The book tries to correct some of the more egregious ideas about us, and we’ve taken over SJ’s blog while she’s away to continue that educational process for all you Unchanged out there. For example you may think of Vampires like this:
The truth? Much more like this. This is Amelia Earhart. Rumor has it that she is one of ours.
What are other readers (human readers) saying about BLOOD OF THE LAMB?
“…like taking a literary roller coaster ride through the streets of Rome…” — Marjorie writing on Goodreads
“I love literary suspense, and this is just my kind of book…a word of warning: it’s definitely controversial…Highly recommended.” — Tom S. writing on Amazon
“…full of twists and turns…” — Kendall writing on Goodreads
“…this is a must-read…” — Pam&Ralph writing on Amazon
“Blood of the Lamb by Sam Cabot was a great thriller and literary masterpiece.I could not put he book down.” — Dominick Bluni writing on Amazon
Faithfully Yours,
The Noantri Conclave
(We may be back again…)
You can buy BLOOD OF THE LAMB from one of these places:
Click here to go to Indiebound.
Click here to go to Amazon.
Click here to go to Barnes & Noble.
Hah! SJ Rozan’s in China and says no blogs until she gets back. That’s what she thinks! In BLOOD OF THE LAMB, she and Carlos Dews, writing as Sam Cabot, talk a lot about the Noantri. Well, that’s us. Also known as: Vampires! The book tries to correct some of the more egregious ideas about us, and we’ve taken over SJ’s blog while she’s away to continue that educational process for all you Unchanged out there. For example you may think of Vampires like this:
The truth? Much more like this. This is socialite Dorothy Arnold. Rumor has it that she is one of ours.
What are other readers (human readers) saying about BLOOD OF THE LAMB?
“…like taking a literary roller coaster ride through the streets of Rome…” -Marjorie writing on Goodreads
“I love literary suspense, and this is just my kind of book…a word of warning: it’s definitely controversial…Highly recommended.” -Tom S. writing on Amazon
“…full of twists and turns…” – Kendall writing on Goodreads
“…this is a must-read…” – Pam&Ralph writing on Amazon
“Blood of the Lamb by Sam Cabot was a great thriller and literary masterpiece.I could not put he book down.” -Dominick Bluni writing on Amazon
Faithfully Yours,
The Noantri Conclave
(We may be back…)
You can buy BLOOD OF THE LAMB from one of these places:
Click here to go to Indiebound.
Click here to go to Amazon.
Click here to go to Barnes & Noble.
Newark Airport, United Club Lounge because my buddies at United sent me a pass. Light rain, heavy nerves. Hate this travel anxiety business, we’ve talked about that here before. Worrying about money, worrying about the cat, about all the work I have to do… All displaced, really a much more primal worry. Was thinking this morning on the train about immigrants and refugees, leaving knowing they won’t be coming back. Wow.
Leaving
On a jet plane
Don’t know
When I’ll be back again…
Actually, I do: the beginning of November. Early tomorrow morning I’m going to Yunnan Province in southwestern China. Flickr photographers Anna Blair and Mike Mellinger provided these for us (thanks, guys!).
I hope to come back with some photos of my own. You think? Chances are after tomorrow I won’t be able to blog at you; possibly for the first two days, in Shanghai, but even that’s unlikely. So I leave you with my favorite Korean proverb: Write right, right wrong, sing song, long gone.
See you around the block.
You guys know this site? I’m today’s guest blogger! My post is called How I Learned to be Half of a Non-Existent Writer. Since sometimes I feel like I’m ALL of a non-existent writer, I thought you’d find this interesting.
The new Rozan Report is here!
Some of you may know I’m going to China on Thursday for three weeks. I just dug out a notebook to take, and it turns out to have been the notebook I took to Mongolia last year. And it turns out to contain a poem I never shared with you guys. I don’t know how many of you remember my Ode to Terminal Five at Rome’s Fiumicino Airport. Terminal Five is for when you’re going to the US. Flying from Rome to Mongolia involves going through Moscow. I remembered writing this while I waited for my flight but I lost track of it. So here, a year or so late, is my Ode to Terminal Three.
Now, Terminal Three, I had thought,
Was run as an airport had ought.
As it turns out, however,
That very endeavor
A paragon really is not.
Of airlines, it houses a lot,
Not all of them in the same spot.
A far lowest level
Is there to bedevil
Those who the cheap tickets have bought.
If a third-world location you sought
As round the wide globe you did trot,
Your flight, you would see,
Paid a low landing fee
And a lousy position it got.
With rankness the area’s fraught.
The bathrooms have all gone to pot.
Though of gates there are ten,
The truth, ladies and men,
Is of place to sit, there are squat.
If without breakfast you’re caught,
And you’d kill for caffeine cold or hot,
You’ll find none down there
And must re-climb the stair.
On the airport, this place is a blot.
The lesson has therefore been taught
And a note to yourself you must jot:
When it’s time to leave Rome
To head farther, or home,
Make sure you don’t fly Aeroflot.
Fog fades far shoreline.
Clock tower stands forward, dark,
Solid against ghosts.
Four cormorants fly
In high straight line heading south
Black on silver sky.
Rustle in branches.
Sparrow flock has discovered
Ripening berries.
And more haiku for you.
