So I had to decide whether to cut the reference to Iowa and Massachusetts, indeed to traveling anywhere to get legally married, in order to bring the book up to date. Most pundits now expect that the Supreme Court will soon legalize same sex marriage across the country. In only three years, the novel has become a period piece. “The ocean is sexier than corn,” Ian said. I thought about a now obsolete passage in Angel in which the two protagonists joke about the comparative merits of getting married in Massachusetts or Iowa, the two states that allowed such a thing when the book was written. A panel was discussing how quickly the dominoes were falling when it comes to U.S. (The Methodists, for a number of political reasons that I will not go into here, as far as I know, have not changed their stance.)īack in June, before I knew the publisher wanted to re-issue Angel, I wrote about a particular passage in the novel that was out of date:Ī discussion on the news the other night made me realize that my novel, published in 2011, is already becoming obsolete– and I couldn’t be happier. This changed between the time the book was purchased and first released. At the time I wrote the book Presbyterians did not allow the ordination of openly gay ministers. The novel deals with a protestant minister (of an undefined denomination but a kind of Methodist-Presbyteriny one) who finds himself at odds with his congregation when he falls in love with another man.
STONE TEMPLE PILOTS SINGER PEDIFILE UPDATE
One of the interesting dilemmas I faced in the touch up of Angel was whether or not to try to update some references that are now obsolete.
This is the first time I’ve ever been called on, or given an opportunity, to revise a work that has already been published. I recently went through the process of approving a set of edits on an already published novel, which is going to be re-released in a second edition.
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