This week the much anticipate photograph arrived: The Expert of Subtle Revisions by Kirsten Menger-Anderson with Seated Woman with Bent Knees by Egon Schiele, taken by photographer Elisabeth Preininger, Vienna, Austria.
Elisabeth Preininger and I met on Mastodon when I searched for a Vienna-based photographer willing to take a photograph of my book and the painting on its cover. The painting normally lives in the National Gallery in Prague, but is currently part of the Egon Schiele Last Years exhibition at the Leopold Museum.
I’m thrilled that the novel and the painting can be together in time and space, in the city where my family once lived and much of my novel is set! See more of Elisabeth Preininger’s stunning photographs of Vienna here.
In other exciting news, The Expert of Subtle Revision was an Editors’ Choice in the latest issue of the Historical Novels Review! Many thanks to Fiona Alison for the thoughtful review:
“This is an utterly engrossing time-slip novel which doesn’t fall down romantic rabbit holes of people slipping backwards and forwards through the eras, although love runs silently in its shadows. It explores the essence of what time travel might look and feel like were someone to figure out how to accomplish it mathematically. In this case two people do, by creating a music box full of intricate cogs and gears. Menger-Anderson ties classical music with mathematics, using academic brilliance in an intricately plotted tale featuring eclectic individuals and persuasive settings. I never once questioned the credibility of this awesome novel.”
Myfanwy Cook’s New Voices column also features me talking about the inspiration for The Expert of Subtle Revisions, along with authors Tod Lending (author of The Umbrella Maker’s Son), Morgan Ryan (author of A Resistance of Witches) and Elizabeth A. Tucker (author of The Pale Flesh of Wood), who talk about their work.
Fun coincidence: I saw fellow New Voice’s author Elizabeth A Tucker in conversation with Allison Bainbridge at Book Passage a few months ago! I met Allison Bainbridge at that reading, and she subsequently became my conversation partner when I talked about The Expert of Subtle Revisions at Book Passage in March.
Read more about THE EXPERT OF SUBTLE REVISIONS and what people are saying about it, or pick up a copy at a bookshop near you!