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Post by Dante on Jun 11, 2014 1:25:07 GMT -5
EW.com has exclusively revealed the U.S. cover for Daniel Handler's upcoming, long-awaited novel, We Are Pirates, along with a release date of 3rd February 2015. Jacob Shamsian has also conducted an exclusive interview with Daniel Handler, which we'll quote below: See the cover for 'We Are Pirates,' and upcoming novel by Daniel HandlerBy Jacob Shamsian on Jun 10, 2014 at 2:01PM --- Daniel Handler is still working on the All the Wrong Questions series, but he’s also taken his Lemony Snicket hat off to work on another project. We’ve got an exclusive cover reveal for We Are Pirates, his upcoming novel for adults (above), to be released on February 3rd, 2015. The book follows the story of a couple of high school girls who steal a ship and attack other boats in San Francisco bay. We’ve also got an exclusive Q&A with the author — check it out below. ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: Why did you choose piracy as the topic for your new novel? DANIEL HANDLER: When I was in high school, everyone had to take a survey on what careers they had in mind. Every occupation you could possibly imagine was listed, and at the very bottom was a box marked “other.” A friend and I got everyone in our homeroom to check “other” and then, in the blank, write “pirate.” The authorities were not amused, but since then the idea of piracy, how impractical and unusual it is in our era, has burned in my mind. You were born in and live in San Francisco, the same place as the girls in the novel. How important is the setting to you, as an author?Setting’s always a crucial part of a story. While there are other cities in which We Are Pirates could have been set, I’m in an informal competition with Andrew Sean Greer over writing the great San Francisco novel. What can you tell us about the next book in the All the Wrong Questions series?The four volumes in All The Wrong Questions center around crimes arranged in ascending evil. The first volume centers on a theft; the second on an abduction; and the third, Shouldn’t You Be In School?, on arson. What are you reading and recommending now?I am wandering the streets telling people to read Kathryn Davis’s eerie and wondrous novel Duplex, although lately I have been further distracted by the poetry of Dorothea Lasky and a comic I just discovered called Sex Criminals. What would your name be if you were a pirate?“The One Who Stays Below Board During All The Mayhem And Then Serves Gimlets To The Survivors.” --- Discuss.
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Post by Hermes on Jun 11, 2014 9:46:36 GMT -5
Yay!
Now we have a cover, this release date must be genuine. Mustn't it? Surely?
I see that both pirates are female - no news yet on whether they are Finnish (by descent, at least).
The Great San Francisco Novel, eh? I can think of a few candidates for that, but I'm sure there is room for more.
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Post by The Duchess on Jun 12, 2014 16:07:20 GMT -5
I see that both pirates are female - no news yet on whether they are Finnish (by descent, at least). Along with the conspiracies that TB8 is about VFD, and WWBU about Beatrice and Lemony (all from tumblr), what if all handler books take place in the averse? |
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Post by Hermes on Jun 12, 2014 17:21:14 GMT -5
Wha ... wha...?
Could you explain these theories to me, or give me links? Certainly WWBU has some parallels with Lemony/Beatrice, but I don't see how it can possibly be the same story. (Hmm - is Annette Ellington?) And as for TB8 being about VFD, I can't see how that could possibly work (though Flan certainly reminds me of Lemony sometimes). All DH's works are connected, to be sure, but that doesn't mean they are all in the same world.
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Post by Teleram on Jun 12, 2014 17:22:59 GMT -5
worth the wait
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Post by The Duchess on Jun 12, 2014 18:45:07 GMT -5
Wha ... wha...? Could you explain these theories to me, or give me links? Certainly WWBU has some parallels with Lemony/Beatrice, but I don't see how it can possibly be the same story. (Hmm - is Annette Ellington?) And as for TB8 being about VFD, I can't see how that could possibly work (though Flan certainly reminds me of Lemony sometimes). All DH's works are connected, to be sure, but that doesn't mean they are all in the same world. I doubt the theories are true, but every Snicket/Handler book can be connected in SOME way to ASOUE. I don't remember exactly where i saw them, if I'll see them again I'll post a link. |
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Post by Dante on Jun 13, 2014 1:38:23 GMT -5
Well, they share themes and plot devices, but I'd say that's about as far as it goes. Unless the theory is that, in-universe, the works of Daniel Handler are all coded references to the lives of his contemporaries. Heaven knows where that leaves Watch Your Mouth.
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Post by Hermes on Jun 13, 2014 9:53:34 GMT -5
I do actually think that it's likely that the Female Finnish Pirates in BBRE were meant, not as a foreshadowing of something that was going to happen in ASOUE, but as a plug for We Are Pirates, which Handler may then have thought was near completion. Note how pirates (and also things Finnish) turn up again in FU13.
TB8 has several links - a typewriter, a character known only by an initial, and what looks like a synopsis of TBL. WWBU, of course, has the overall plan of the work resembling Lemony/Beatrice, and also the sugar bowl. 29 Myths, though originally written long before Lemony Snicket was invented, links up with FU 13. 13 Words has a baby who rather recalls Sunny. Not sure what there is in Adverbs, and I'm afraid I haven't read Watch Your Mouth. (Could you say that WYM is linked to ASOUE by the Salinger references?)
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Post by Skelly Craig on Jun 13, 2014 13:52:56 GMT -5
I think it's just a kind of meta artistic brushstroke so to speak, and not necessarily anything canon or meaningful to the canon. Quentin Tarantino also does this in his movies, although perhaps a bit more intricately. |
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Post by Skelly Craig on Sept 24, 2014 16:03:31 GMT -5
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Post by Hermes on Sept 24, 2014 16:07:44 GMT -5
NG is a good person to have on one's side.
So, are the girls called Angry and Fierce? These seem rather unusual names.
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Post by Charlie on Sept 24, 2014 18:37:12 GMT -5
This is immensely exciting!
Does the Bloomsbury logo mean that DH has once more changed publishers (Or, so to speak, jumped ship)? I hope everything's still peachy between him and Little Brown :/
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Post by Dante on Sept 25, 2014 2:10:08 GMT -5
Does the Bloomsbury logo mean that DH has once more changed publishers (Or, so to speak, jumped ship)? I hope everything's still peachy between him and Little Brown :/ A lot of authors have work published with different publishers if it happens to be in different fields; publishers don't have exclusivity rights to an author, just to their series (and not even always that). I think it's actually the minority of Handler's books under his own name that have been published by the same publisher as his Lemony Snicket work (which has also been seen in various publishers' hands). Bloomsbury have had their hands on this one for a while, anyway; it was being pitched for February 2014 as early as last year, I think. Handler's said that this one was delayed partly by his publisher switch from HarperCollins, so I guess I'd imagine that he went shopping around then and was in entirely separate negotiations for it as he was for ATWQ. Which might also be a matter of having different editors for his children's and adult work - Sue Rich has always edited his Snicket series work, first at HarperCollins and then at LB (which is why he switched publishers; HC fired her), and so presumably his non-HC work has always had different editors. In short: Business as usual. Just be glad we're finally getting this book; Handler's been writing it for probably longer than some people reading this have been alive. |
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Post by Skelly Craig on Oct 18, 2014 15:47:44 GMT -5
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Post by bandit on Oct 18, 2014 17:14:07 GMT -5
"We Are Pirates!"
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