{"id":546,"date":"2009-07-29T02:54:53","date_gmt":"2009-07-29T02:54:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.revolutionsf.com\/revblogs\/geekcurmudgeon\/2009\/07\/29\/how-to-make-friends-with-demons\/"},"modified":"2012-08-17T05:19:26","modified_gmt":"2012-08-17T05:19:26","slug":"how-to-make-friends-with-demons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.revolutionsf.com\/revblogs\/geekcurmudgeon\/2009\/07\/29\/how-to-make-friends-with-demons\/","title":{"rendered":"How To Make Friends With Demons"},"content":{"rendered":"

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While reading Graham Joyce’s forthcoming novel How to Make Friends with Demons<\/span><\/a>, I discovered this enlightening passage I wanted to share.<\/p>\n

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Right, I’m going to footnote it for you, but just this once: firstly because I hate the messy intellectuality of footnotes and secondly because, as you will know, it was Goodridge himself who brilliantly identified that the footnoting affliction is itself demonic and is the cause of much of the madness and disorder you find amongst university academics.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

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Here’s what Night Shade Books<\/a> had to say about their publication.<\/p>\n

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William Heaney is a man well acquainted with demons. Not his broken family – his wife has left him for a celebrity chef, his snobbish teenaged son despises him, and his daughter’s new boyfriend resembles Nosferatu – nor his drinking problem, nor his unfulfilling government job, but real demons! For demons are real, and William has identified one thousand five hundred and sixty-seven smoky figures, dwelling on the shadowy fringes of human life, influencing our decisions with their sweet and poisoned voices. After a series of seemingly unconnected personal encounters with a beautiful and captivating woman met in the company of an infuriating poet, a troubled and damaged veteran of Desert Storm with demons of his own, and an old school acquaintance with whom he shared a mystical occult ritual, William Heaney’s life is thrown into a direction he does not fully comprehend. Past and present collide. Long-dormant choices and forgotten deceptions surface. Secrets threaten to become exposed. To weather the changes, William Heaney must learn one thing: how to make friends with demons!<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

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\nExpect a review of How to Make Friends With Demons<\/span> in the near future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

[  Mood: Amused ]While reading Graham Joyce’s forthcoming novel How to Make Friends with Demons, I discovered this enlightening passage I wanted to share. Quote: Right, I’m going to footnote it for you, but just this once: firstly because I hate … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n