Stillness Backgrounder

By | March 2, 2005

Here are the answers to a few questions you might have about Stillness.

What is Stillness about?

Stillness is about the end of the world. Or, as one of the characters explains
it, not really the end of the world. Something much bigger than that…

Where does it take place?

The action moves around quite a bit: from the US to Russia to Italy to Southeast
Asia; from corporate offices to a criminal hideout to a monastery to a strip
joint, from commonplace locales to some very remote places, indeed.

Who are the characters?

We’ve got your ex-CIA agent, your super-genius kids, your corporate drone loser
who is a mere cog in machinery he can’t hope to understand, your cocktail waitress,
your antiques dealer who doubles as the head of a secret society that may hold
the key to saving the universe, your eccentric millionaire, your scientist,
your writer dying of a mysterious disease, your creepy ex-Stalin Appartchik
with a penchant for deadly games of chance, and so on.

Why publish it as a serial on your blog?

I’m having fun watching it unfold. And by not publishing it all at once, I
get to keep adding stuff and changing the ending.

What are the readers saying?

I’m so glad you asked. Check it out.

Ooh, I got a little shiver…

A week is too long to have to wait!

Terribly engaging story. Congrats.

I’ve never had all that much patience for serial stories (as they were being released, anyway). But I look forward to each new chapter of Stillness.

Reminds me…of John LeCarre.

More? Please?

Holy smokes, it’s John D. MacDonald, Stephen King, and Douglas Adams rolled into one!

One helluva story, but it really needs a copy
editor! (Wait a minute, how did that one get in there? — Phil)

Awesome. Just awesome. You rock, Phil.

No, you rock, readers. Thanks for making Stillness such a success. And for those of you who haven’t yet joined the party, here’s your big chance…