Man Talking: The Official Website of Mike Heppner
Author of the novels The Egg Code and Pike's Folly
Reply To: pike@mikeheppner.com
Man, the second novella (but the third to be published) in Mike Heppner's Man Talking series, will be released on December 1, 2008. Please check back here for more information.
Heppner's novella project began in April 2008 with a novella called Man Talking, which can be read for free here. While Man Talking was initially conceived as a stand-alone work, Heppner soon saw greater possibilities for it and decided to expand the work to four novellas, of which Man Talking is actually the third. The other three are Talking Man, Man, and Talking.
Heppner explains, "The four novellas aren't related in terms of narrative--you can read them in any order--but all are concerned with what drives people to create, and how the creative impulse might actually be destructive if used for the wrong purposes." Because of this focus, Heppner thought it might be interesting if each of the four novellas were presented in radically different ways.
"The third novella, Man Talking, is available as a free download. The first, Talking Man, is available exclusively for purchase from Small Anchor Press, which specializes in limited editions of handmade books and focuses on bringing a handcrafted fine-arts aesthetic to book production. The last novella, Talking, will come out in 2009."
Click here to read Man Talking for free.
