User:Millahnna/Sandbox//Swan Song (novel)

Official Site
http://www.robertmccammon.com/novels/swan_song.html Quite a bit of info from him about writing the book.

See also the following articles and interviews he has posted on his site. If possible track down original publication info. Some of these don't mention Swan Song specifically but might have a use in discussing his writing style and themes at large (in his own article) and how those elements work in this book.

http://www.robertmccammon.com/articles.html

http://www.robertmccammon.com/articles/mccammon-bio.html http://www.robertmccammon.com/articles/how-to.html http://www.robertmccammon.com/articles/state_of_where.html http://whatever.scalzi.com/2010/02/22/the-big-idea-robert-mccammon/ http://www.robertmccammon.com/articles/boys-life-censorship.html http://www.robertmccammon.com/articles/the-call.html (major themes of the novel and his work discussed here)

list of interviews  http://www.robertmccammon.com/interviews.html

http://www.robertmccammon.com/interviews/russian-interview-2008.html http://therapsheet.blogspot.com/2008/02/man-of-mystery-part-i.html  (see links in post to lights out and other resources, 4 part interview) http://www.robertmccammon.com/interviews/tz_interview.html  "horror fiction deals with darkness but is there a postive side to it"  ties somewhat with themes expressed in scholarly article below. http://www.robertmccammon.com/interviews/ths87.html interview specifically about swan song jsut after its release, if this were a movie it would go in a "development section" http://www.robertmccammon.com/interviews/footsteps87.html just before release, one great pull quote about it being graphic and not pulling punches http://www.robertmccammon.com/interviews/ms88.html http://www.robertmccammon.com/interviews/ictw2.html HWA award (perhaps pull quote about his surprise) http://www.robertmccammon.com/interviews/cr88.html planned special edition (the Dark Harvest one with pictures from 1989) http://www.robertmccammon.com/interviews/after-hours-89.html southern characters http://www.robertmccammon.com/interviews/89jan.html http://www.robertmccammon.com/interviews/how-to-89.html http://www.robertmccammon.com/interviews/inthelight.html lots of stuff aobut the "Stand" comparisons and how it affected his writing of swan song http://www.robertmccammon.com/interviews/darkdreamers.html hope and humanism theme again http://www.robertmccammon.com/interviews/91aug.html themes relating to Sister

Reviews & themes
http://books.google.com/books?id=EJ2BvOQUf0oC&pg=PA19&dq=swansong+robert+r.+Mccammon&hl=en&ei=SiVbTLTlLpTCsAO7qbHmDQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=14&ved=0CIUBEOgBMA0#v=onepage&q=%22swan%20song%22&f=false (Several references that can be used for a reception and/or themes section). Note page with shapeshifter theme being new at the time.

Awards
Bram Stoker http://books.google.com/books?id=mfjAjibERF0C&pg=PA136&dq=swansong+robert+r.+Mccammon&hl=en&ei=SiVbTLTlLpTCsAO7qbHmDQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=31&ved=0COkBEOgBMB4#v=onepage&q=swan%20song&f=false http://www.robertmccammon.com/bib-books.html#SS

Google scholar links
(main search) http://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&q=%22swan+song%22+robert+r.+Mccammon&btnG=Search&as_sdt=100000000000000&as_ylo=&as_vis=0

http://www.bsu.edu/libraries/virtualpress/student/honorstheses/pdfs/R58_1993RitchieBrettA.pdf

(have this stored as a pdf on hard drive now) http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B6VBD-4695GXY-1T&_user=10&_coverDate=12%2F31%2F1991&_rdoc=1&_fmt=high&_orig=search&_sort=d&_docanchor=&view=c&_searchStrId=1422638388&_rerunOrigin=scholar.google&_acct=C000050221&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid=10&md5=dd9beb72d411cc2d97b681c1fc0ef56a

Article layout changes
Assume the disclaimer "if possible" or "if appropriate as I move along" on all of the following

Add

 * Themes - check scholarly links, may have to bring this over to his author page instead
 * Style - possibly merge with themes. Check with WP:NOVELS to see if this is ok.
 * Background - See Official site page on book.
 * Reception
 * Publication history (note sure there is enough to be notable)

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 * Awards - There is info on author's official website
 * Plot - Sort of. What's there needs a trim and the rest of the plot needs to be included
 * See Also - Saw it compared to books other than The Stand in some of my possible refs

Remove

 * Characters - This can be addressed in the plot section. Perhaps ask for opinion of members of WP:NOVELS if that's appropriate here.

Other

 * check that info box and lead are up to date
 * apply appropriate wikiproject tags (horror, novels, literature, books)
 * apply appropriate lists and categories (genre, year, country, etc.)