I’m very excited to be part of the lineup at Small Press Saturday, next week at Newtonville Books — one of my favorite local bookstores. I’ll be representin’ Last Light Studio (publisher of my novel Eden Lake). Also reading are poets Ellen Kennedy and Mark Pawlak and fellow novelist Christopher Boucher. Hope you can stop by.
Introducing the official non-trailer for Eden Lake, which neatly sums up my feelings about podiatrists and writers in ironic ski hats. Not to mention book trailers in general. Enjoy! And pass it on.
I started writing my novel, Eden Lake, in early 2006 and finished it in the Spring of 2008. Before I named it, I did a quick Internet search to see if there was another book by the same name, just in case. (Titles can’t be copyrighted, but it’s always good to have a unique title.) I didn’t find another book, but I did find, after some concerted searching, some mentions of a newly-released, low-budget British horror film called Eden Lake.
Apparently the movie won a cult following, and now has a pretty large viewership as a DVD. (The director, James Watkins, seems to have gone on to bigger and better things, too — he has a movie coming out in 2012 starring Daniel Radcliffe, a.k.a. Harry Potter.) So at any given point, when I search “Eden Lake” on Twitter (to see if, you know, anyone is tweeting about how amazing my book is or how excited they are to read it) up will pop at least a couple dozen recent tweets about the movie. Some actual examples:
“Wow that ending to Eden Lake…. What the fuck… Just WOW!!”
“Eden Lake. Best film to watch while high. #fact”
“Eden Lake is the sickest film I have ever watched. Traumatised for life.”
“eden lake heb ik al gezien. en no way dat ik alleen een enge film ga kijken”
“Eden Lake; shittest movie I have ever watched.”
“Kijk ‘Eden Lake’ die is echt eng! Of tenminste heel spannend, vies en zielig.”
“viens de voir un maudit MAUDIT bon film d’horreur Européen “Eden Lake”"
(I can only hope that someday, somebody in France calls my Eden Lake maudit MAUDIT bon. Because one “maudit” would be awesome. But two maudits, one in ALL CAPS? A dream fulfilled.)
Anyway, I can’t imagine how it’s a bad thing that my novel shares a name with a fucked up, maudit bon horror film best watched when high, right?
And to any Eden Lake — the movie — fans or would-be viewers who found their way here by mistake, can I interest you in a nice, wholesome family drama set at a kids’ summer camp? No blood, no torture, no marauding gangs of psychotic, n’er do well teenagers. Might be the perfect thing to have on hand to take the nasty taste out of your mouth after the movie…
What could be better than a free copy of EDEN LAKE? (Wait, don’t answer that…)
Now through May 12, you can enter to win a free copy on Goodreads. Also, check my blog in the next couple of weeks for another chance to win, coming soon.
Lots of (well, some) events are starting to line up for EDEN LAKE! I’ll add additional ones as they are finalized. As of April 6, 2011, here’s what’s on the horizon.
May 19 — Camp-themed launch party and reading. 7:30 pm, Dilboy Hall VFW, 371 Summer Street. Somerville, MA (Cash bar)
May 24 – Reading (with Edith Pearlman), 7:00 pm at Newtonville Books, 296 Walnut St., Newton, MA
June 2 - Reading (with Daphne Kalotay), 7:00 pm at Longfellow Books, 1 Monument Square, Portland, ME
June 8 — Reading/Signing. 7:00 pm. Fairfield Public Library, Old Post Road, Fairfield, CT
June 9 – Camp-themed launch party and reading, with Aryn Kyle and Elissa Bassist. 7:00 pm, Housing Works Bookstore/Cafe. 126 Crosby Street, New York, NY
July 5 – Reading/signing (with Ann Joslin Williams), 7:00 pm. Porter Square Books, 25 White Street, Cambridge, MA
If you’d like me to read or speak at your venue / book club / swap meet / strip club / etc., by all means contact me! jane (at) janeroper . com
It’s countdown to publication time for my debut novel, Eden Lake. The official pub date is May 12, but you can get to know the book’s setting – Camp Eden Lake – and some of the characters at the new Camp Eden Lake Website and/or follow Camp Eden Lake on Twitter.
Meanwhile, I’m in love with the book’s gorgeous cover and the Camp Eden Lake logo — design and illustration courtesy of Lori Salmeri. (Who also designed this website!)
Stay tuned for more news, reviews and all that good stuff. Meanwhile, stock up on mosquito repellent and flashlight batteries, air out your sleeping bag, warm up your campfire singing voice, and get ready to spend the summer of 2011 at Eden Lake!
“Raising twins is maddening and masochistic yet worth every crazy moment. Jane Roper captures them all in her revealing, heart wrenching, hilarious memoir.
As a mother of twins myself, I cackled and related on every page as Jane revealed the unvarnished truth about dealing with twins, depression and trying to ‘have it all.’”
--Stefanie Wilder-Taylor, author of Sippy Cups Are Not for Chardonnay: And Other Things I Had to Learn as a New Mom
Fri, 18 May 03:39
@deamud hope you enjoy the book!
Fri, 18 May 03:38
@JenessaCordes I hope you enjoy it! @stmartinspress @dreamonus
Fri, 18 May 03:38
@midlyfemama whoa. I look like a have The head of a Cabbage Patch doll! Thx for coming
Thu, 17 May 20:54
@Mom101 Cue Will Wheaton collating papers...
