Wait, are you Soupnazi21 on AO3 (I’m so hopelessly bad at keeping track of people’s IDs on different sites), or have I actually turned TWO people onto that song?

Either way, thank you so much.  I was playing it on repeat as I wrote much of this chapter, trying to capture the feeling of that song in my writing, and make sure we had completely overwritten the jealousy and angst of the beginning chapters of the story.  I’m so glad you liked the story, AND the song.  I’m sort of thrilled some new people might actually appreciate David Poe, now.  If you want to explore, some of my other favorites by him are “Reunion” (hysterical and a bit dark if you listen for it), “Apartment”, “Love is Red”, “Not Enough Night”, “Blue Glass Falls” (angry break up song), “Doxology”, and “These are the Days” and that’s just off the top of my head…

Oh, and a funny story about “Honey Moon.”  I’m on David’s mailing list, and got a signed copy of the album before it was released.  And he and I have met and occasionally email each other about where he’s touring, etc… he’s actually written me about advice on cover artwork before, just surveying a few fans.  Anyway, I was so excited to hear his new album “God and the Girl” that I just immediately put it in my computer to get it loaded into iTunes.  And I started playing before it had finished ripping.  So Honey Moon started playing (because it’s first on the album), but then instead of playing the next song on God and the Girl, my computer just picks another random David Poe song from the (extensive)  library, and it chose “The Settlement”, which is about a divorce.

I thought this was hysterical (obviously), and wrote to David to tell him what happened, and that it felt like he’d written this very abbreviated, REALLY sad story.  He wrote back  tickled, saying even HE would write something that sad, and then apparently told a bunch of his friends.  He hadn’t ever considered pairing those songs but acknowledged that the effect was pretty devastating.

He’s enormously talented and pretty much broke, so please buy his music if you like it.

“May we all live as long as we like, may we all be as strong as the wine”

And thanks so much about your comments on Cleaving.  I just had someone ask me for the address, I think because you’ve been reblogging my teasers. 

Last night I started doing the research I needed for the epilogue… so I’m trying to keep the momentum up…