Published anonymously?

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HeavensBlade23

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I've seen a couple people saying CATHR is being published anonymously. Is this in fact the case, and if so, why? I can think of a variety of reasons why this might be done, but I'm interested in the 'real' answer.
 
HeavensBlade23,
I actually asked whether CATHR is going to be published anonymously in my brainstorming review ('On The Hoof') that I posted here. But I would ask that (being the editor of 'Nemonymous'). :-)
I cannot recall anyone else here suggesting this.
all the best, des
 
Call me naive or call me perverse, but I don't see why TL doesn't throw this "hat in the ring" out into as much of the regular marketplace as he can...which for some reason doesn't seem impossible to me despite the book's subject matter. The title alone would have many people interested enough at least to buy it. A little 132-page manifesto from the disturbed segment of society, what's the harm. See how the other half lives. Maybe something for the coffee table -- but UNDER Time and Playboy. Discreet's the word. Then, teenage Pierson or Maya comes along at the right time (teenagerhood) and reads, passes it along to a friend...whose dad works at some think-tank and gets others into it, etc., etc. Then we're that mcuh closer to blessed extinction.

Just call me...
 
I have to agree with Mr. Swans. This little gem should find its way into every home, truck, trailer park, and mansion in the world. It's a meme that the world really needs.

alec
 
I agree with Alec. Indeed it could become that universal meme with or without an author's name, as determined by the author and his publisher. Mine was only a rhetorical question.

In any event, has anyone *seriously* recommended, outside of a discussion-of-all-options format, that CATHR should be published anonymously? I have interpreted both Swans' and HeavensBlade's posts to indicate this has indeed been mooted.
 
Don't know, but I'm coming from a place where I'm not sure "Anonymous" would be a help in any way. I do hope all input is given to Tom before it all goes down official-like. If I had made my name by writing superlative stories of weird fiction, I'd hardly blink at having my name attached to TCATHR.

Those pastries and coffee are another thing entirely...see the woman in purple.
 
If I had made my name by writing superlative stories of weird fiction, I'd hardly blink at having my name attached to TCATHR.



Agreed and I hadn't assumed anything other than publication as "CATHR by Thomas Ligotti" was on the cards. It was never an expectation that it would be otherwise, was it?
That's why I don't know why this thread was started at all.
I hope it wasn't started solely because my review posted here yesterday broached the philosophical possibility of anonymity in the light of the various topics etc. treated within CATHR!
des
 
DF Lewis said:
I hope it wasn't started solely because my review posted here yesterday broached the philosophical possibility of anonymity in the light of the various topics etc. treated within CATHR!
des
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It's possible I did indeed misinterpret your comment when I was giving the discussion threads a quick once-over. I wanted to get a quick feel for the general reaction without getting too 'spoily' since I hadn't read it yet.

In any case now that we're discussing it I think it's an interesting idea. If the book were to be published anonymously it might in time give the work a sort of timeless quality and life it might not otherwise have had. I've always found myself intrigued by books that were written without so much as a pen name attached, especially when the content consists of thoughts that are controversial or not often voiced aloud, much less compiled into literature. Imagine finding a copy of CATHR lying somewhere innocuous like a park bench or a church pew, and taking it home to read, entirely unsuspecting but intrigued by the title... Even better, imagine any indication of its origin being scrubbed from its pages. One might wonder whether it was perhaps a statement of purpose from some unknown political group or forgotten religious sect, or perhaps whether they had found the only copy or one of countless others.

Probably a daft idea, but it's fun to muse about.
 
HeavensBlade23 said:
In any case now that we're discussing it I think it's an interesting idea. If the book were to be published anonymously it might in time give the work a sort of timeless quality and life it might not otherwise have had. I've always found myself intrigued by books that were written without so much as a pen name attached, especially when the content consists of thoughts that are controversial or not often voiced aloud, much less compiled into literature. Imagine finding a copy of CATHR lying somewhere innocuous like a park bench or a church pew, and taking it home to read, entirely unsuspecting but intrigued by the title... Even better, imagine any indication of its origin being scrubbed from its pages. One might wonder whether it was perhaps a statement of purpose from some unknown political group or forgotten religious sect, or perhaps whether they had found the only copy or one of countless others.

Probably a daft idea, but it's fun to muse about.
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If CATHR were to be ideally Anonymous or Nemonymous, it would also have to be relieved of all references as to place and date and perpetrator of publication and so forth. Swans has already worked out a means for the book's distribution in a piece of fiction which he placed in the Repository not too long ago. The bottom line is that advances and royalties have a way of paying the bills...

Buying Red Tower stock furiously,
Phil
 
There are dread secrets in that piece of fiction. Whatever you do, stay away from it. Yes, if you refuse to read only ONE STORY this year, it must be...

"And the Blind Shall Lead Them" !!
 
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