![]() ![]() ![]() So I continued to read on until I realized this was a book I absolutely must publish. This brings him back to life and onward to a secretive mission. Holy crap! In the first chapter a man gets struck by lightning on a hill, and then these shadowy people come out of nowhere to stuff his dead, smoking body full of pages of archaic texts. My intention at this time was merely to read the manuscript and then to return it with a polite rejection.Īnd then I read the first chapter. So of course I had to find out just what it was in Cisco’s work that Ligotti trusted I would enjoy. He said he had been referred to my press by Thomas Ligotti. However, Cisco’s cover letter intrigued me. I often found novels in my mailbox from writers hoping for publication and I turned them all down, manuscripts returned unread. When I first encountered Michael Cisco’s work, I was publishing a magazine titled The Silver Web. At that time I had no intention of venturing into the book publishing world and was content to continue with short fiction only. This, then, is both a story of her initial encounter with Cisco’s novel and a fitting introduction for uninitiated readers. Fans and readers may know that The Divinity Student was originally published in 1999 by Ann via her publishing imprint Buzzcity Press. The following is Ann VanderMeer’s introduction to The Divinity Student, originally written for the Centipede Press edition of the title and included in the Cheeky Frawg e‑book edition. ![]()
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