Yearly Archives: 2015
When VO and Author Worlds Collide…
Not long ago, I got to record the audiobook for my debut novel, Still Life Las Vegas. It was a grueling but oh-so-satisfying three full days of recording. I wrote an essay about the experience for the FSG Book Keeper website:
The Pub Date Cometh
Less than a week to go before the book hits the shelves, and I’m up at 5:20, ruminating… …Last night the heavy shelves above our desk in the study collapsed, bringing down with it all manner of folders, notebooks and small work-related tchotchkes. The iMac hurtled to the ground, knocked down by the lamp above. […]
Hands Off the Safety Bar
Less than three weeks before my book is released to the world, and things are about to get REAL. Lots of news, including book tour dates, the audio book, and a VIRTUAL BOOK SIGNING! Read on!
Augusten Burroughs
STILL LIFE LAS VEGAS is one of the most startlingly assured debut novels I’ve ever read. James Sie’s writing is gorgeous and the story is heartbreaking, a masterful journey through memory and into unseen Las Vegas. Sie goes behind the swarms of tourists and kitsch and gets under the skins of the electric desert city’s […]
Booklist
The stories are haunting, a quality that is beautifully captured by artist Choi’s interpolated graphic novel chapters that expand and complement the text. Sie’s first novel is richly imagined and beautifully written with a well-realized setting and memorable characters. Together they make for an altogether auspicious debut.
