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    Not Waving

    By K. A. Laity

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    It's the shiny happy 80s in Los Angeles, but Vida's mood couldn't be blacker. Never mind her writer's block, recent suicide attempt or the painful scrutiny of her colleagues, there's drinking to be done! When a cut-rate psychic releases a recurring nightmare, Vida decides it's time for a Vegas road trip. May the gods help anyone in her path...

    First written in 1991, this novel captures the early voice of a writer who would go on to compose more self-assured books, but this early work retains a rough charm that only youth can claim.

    "Laity is a very remarkable sorceress indeed."
    ~ Elizabeth Hand

    "Laity knocks your socks off with the language and also with the dialog."
    ~ Les Edgerton

    "Laity is probably a figment of her own imagination, and what an imagination that is! A witty and inventive wordsmith. A natural storyteller. A one off!"
    ~ Paul D. Brazill

    "Laity mixes genres in ways that are always rewarding… a compelling writer who is utterly readable."
    ~ Richard Godwin

    "Kate's work is always measured and elegant and is frequently very, very funny and her sense of humour runs pleasingly dark."
    ~ Alasdair Stuart

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherK. A. Laity
    Release dateApr 27, 2013
    ISBN9781301701155
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    K. A. Laity

    K. A. Laity is an award-winning author, scholar, filmmaker, critic, editor, and arcane artist. She has appeared on BBC radio and NPR talking about magic, witchcraft and surrealism. Current research includes medieval Scots, crime fiction/films, medievalism and the writings of Leonora Carrington. Nephomancy (2024) is currently in festival selection competition. Her short experimental film Pomegranate debuted at the 2023 Albany Film Festival, and A Fire Ritual for the Heart was featured in the Silent Fire exhibition co-curated by the Yale Institute of Sacred Music and Nasty Women Connecticut. Her art has been appearing in galleries across the northeast. Her fiction includes Chastity Flame, The Mangrove Legacy, Lush Situation, Love is a Grift, Satan’s Sorority, How to Be Dull, White Rabbit, Dream Book, A Cut-Throat Business, Owl Stretching, and Pelzmantel. She has edited My Wandering Uterus, Respectable Horror, Weird Noir, Noir Carnival and Drag Noir, plus written many short stories, scholarly essays, songs, and plays. Laity has served as History Witch for Witches & Pagans. Her 2011-2 Fulbright Fellowship at the National University of Ireland, Galway, focused on Digital Humanities. Her work has been translated into Italian, Polish, Slovene, German, and Portuguese. Follow her on Twitter, Instagram or Facebook. Her podcast Is It Funny? can be found here. Her radio programme Surreal Noir can be found here. She writes crime as Graham Wynd and historical fiction as Kit Marlowe. For her music & performance visit Higora, Low Vibrational Frequency, and Victoria Squid.

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