Zoë, not interested in, er, that kind of dinner with a prospective boss any time soon, makes her feelings pretty clear, but after Phil’s assurances that it’s 100% business, accepts the invitation. Phil pushes Zoë a bit on her credentials, and after again, and again, warning her that, really, there’s no way she will take the job once she finds out who she’ll be writing the guidebook for - cue a fair bit of fun dramatic irony as, well, we’ve seen the book cover and read the synopsis of the book and so have a pretty solid idea on what’s coming, and Zoë has not - invites her out to dinner. The dressing rooms backstage, as it turns out, have been repurposed as UP’s offices, and it is into one of these, Phil’s, that Zoë heads for her interview with UP head honcho Phil. As it turns out, Zoë doesn’t need to push that last “1” on her “9-1-…” emergency phone readiness contingency plan, meeting another employee - sitting alone in a sea of chairs in the empty audience of the theater - and making her way on and then backstage of what still is, actually, a theater, though obviously not in use as one. The Shambling Guide to New York City: Chapter ThreeĬhapter two left us on a bit of a cliff-hanger, with Zoë pushing into a derelict below-ground theater entrance behind John, an employee of Underground Publishing.
So, head over to Downpour or Audible or iTunes and get your copy!Īs always, before I get into the write-up, a warning, that I’ll repeat each episode, that the discussion here is oh-so-spoilerific, so if that’s a concern, pop over and take the less-than-half-an-hour each to listen to the podcast episodes first. But! None of these posts seem to get at the fact that, hey, yeah, the book and ebook are out, sure, but the full audiobook is out as well. It’s as strong a debut as I can remember reading, and I can’t wait for the follow-on volumes.” Another high-profile bit of release-day buzz comes from Mur’s guest post on John Scalzi’s Whatever blog, on the Big Idea behind the book, where she writes about its origins as a 4000-word short story for a Katrina benefit project. … There’s love, war, humor and a lot of heart, and by the time it’s done, you know exactly why so many writers have been buzzing about Mur Lafferty for so many years. The big release-day coverage comes from Cory Doctorow at BoingBoing, where Doctorow writes that “Mur Lafferty is one of the worst-kept secrets in science fiction and fantasy publishing. But the big news is, of course, as Mur writes on her own blog, that The Shambling Guide to New York City is Out! As usual, first up a recap of some recent news about the book, starting with last Monday’s Orbit Books interview with the author: Mur Lafferty on THE SHAMBLING GUIDE TO NEW YORK CITY. Welcome to the third installment of The Shambling Guide to New York City Listen-a-Long, covering both Chapter 3 and Chapter 4 of Mur Lafferty’s The Shambling Guide to New York City.
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