All that silver: Bad Brains and Skin, coming 2024 and 2025

The fierce and graceful Eric LaRocca knows what Skin is all about: not just the silver force of piercing and melting metal, but the fury of two loving hearts locked in collision, unable to swerve . . .This excerpt is from Eric’s heartfelt and precise introduction to Meerkat Press’ upcoming reissue of Skin in early 2025.

For the Centipede Press reissue of Bad Brains, with elegantly terrifying illustrations by David Ho, I wrote an afterword examining the pain at the heart of that novel, as searing and bright as the silver thing that only Austen can ever see.

Silver is everywhere.And I’m beyond delighted that these two novels will be meeting new readers very soon.