In November, 2010, the new Eclipse imprint of Bibliotheque Interdite released Orphanage’s French-language edition, Les Orphelins. Take a look at Eclipse’s stylish youtube trailer for Eclipse’s November lineup (it was supposed to be their October lineup, but France was on strike-seriously) including Les Orphelins, here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9YjPjEhqXA
Eclipse also asked me to create a “Chinese Portrait,” a brief interview format popular with French readers. In English, it read like this:
If you were a flaw? Stubbornness (what my wife calls it)
If you were a time period? The late Cretaceous. Like life, lots of roaring and screaming, followed by a loud bang and chilly silence.
If you were a personage of fiction? Yoda. What could be better than eight hundred years of life without a single text message?
If you were an animal? Something that hibernates.
If you were a celestial object or body? Mousetrap, a hollowed out moonlet that exists in my books. It serves as an interstellar crossroad. Why Mousetrap? Because I’ve met so many interesting people there.
If you were a motto/a quotation? “Expect the worst from the gods of war, and they will seldom disappoint you.” – General Jason Wander, narrator of the Orphanage series
If you were a movie? Le Course en Tete, the documentary about the cyclist Eddy Merckx.
If you were a book? I already am. A novelist whose essence isn’t in the novel has failed.