The time has come to reveal the true identity of Hotel Noir’s author. Enjoy this guest post by the “shape-shifting” Germaine Shames. Silk and Subterfuge… For the past several years I have been dancing with a shady male alter ego, channeling his dark visions and lofty ideals into novels, and hiding my double identity from all [...]
Hotel Noir: When a Novel Transcends
Pale Fire Press’ second novel, Hotel Noir by Casper Silk, has been compared by critics to the works of F. Scott Fitzgerald, P.D. James “on steroids,” Graham Greene, Thomas Mann and J.G. Ballard. Ironically, we were attracted to Hotel Noir for much the same reason as editor Lexy Bloom, who said of an early version, [...]
When a Novel Tells the Truth
“We live lives based on selected fictions.” Lawrence Durrell, Balthazar With our first title, You, Fascinating You, continuing to draw raves, and our second and third moving briskly through the pipeline, time and again this blog—Selected Fictions, we call it—has been placed on hold. We would like to think our books speak for us. If [...]