The THEN and the NOW: The Stars May Rise and Fall turns three
Three years ago, not quite today, I finally published the book of my heart. That both seems like a very long time and a very short one. Three years is definitely enough to make a book “old news”. And it’s not nearly enough, apparently, to inspire floods of fanworks. (Y’all feel free to get on that, though, if you want.) It’s also enough to upend the entire world. The Stars May Rise and Fall is set mostly between June 2000 and January 2001. Although I was in Japan for that particular New Year’s Eve, I didn’t get seriously into the visual kei scene until I came back as a student in September 2001. But I chose to set my book a year earlier, specifically because I didn’t want it to touch 9/11. Now, even if I had set the book in 2001, I wouldn’t necessarily have needed to mention it. The number of newsworthy events mentioned in the actual book is zero (unless you count, like, Luna Sea breaking up or something?), and while even my not-terribly-worldly characters would’ve gotten news THAT bi