Forever October: A Musical Chronicle.

Way back when compact discs first appeared, it occurred to me it would now be possible to write soundtracks for books. But the idea didn’t catch on, I didn’t make the cover of TIME Magazine or become recognized as a visionary and subsequently fabulously well-to-do. Ah, well. However, thanks to advances in recording technology and the arrival of affordable self-publishing, that vision has become a reality. The first foray down this path was my book In Karanapore: A Fantasy, published earlier this year. The present (humble) literary offering might be called “a companion volume” to the soundtrack written for October: A Cautiously Cosmic Curiosity. It isn’t necessary to read this book to enjoy the soundtrack. But y’know, if you have a few bucks to spare … Forever October: A Musical Chronicle isn’t a dry, note-by-note account of how the recordings were made, there’s no technical jargon. Of necessity, there is a certain amount of the old blow-by-blow. But there are also enough tangents and asides to bring a sense of balance to the proceedings. I hope so, at any rate. I guess the best way to describe the work at hand is to say it documents a particular burst of creativity and serves as an introduction to the book that was responsible for it.