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Jane Yolen
Unregistered User
(4/15/03 4:38 pm)
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Stars
My new Arthurian noel--SWORD OF THE RIGHTFUL KING--has gotten stars in Booklist and PW and a rave in F&SF so far. Nice start.
Jane
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swood
Registered User
(4/16/03 5:59 am)
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Re: Stars
Jane,
I saw that, along with an article about Spiderwick by Holly Black and Tony DiTerlizzi.
I'm a big fan or Arthurian myth (and surprised its not discussed more on the board) and looking forward to your book.
I also thought I would mention that one of my favorite Arthurian books The Winter Prince by Elzabeth Wein is being reprinted by Firebird Books and should be out this month.
Sarah
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Heidi
Anne Heiner
ezOP
(4/28/03 8:23 am)
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Sorcery and Cecelia
For anyone who never had the chance to read it, Pat Wrede and Caroline Stevermer's "Sorcery and Cecelia" is back in print in hardcover. I reread most of it last night for my bedtime story and found it as charming as ever. This book has essentially been on the used books "black market" for several years, selling for $75 or so for a used paperback, so it is a treat to get a nice edition for a reasonable price. A sequel is in the pipeline, too.
Here is an Amazon link:
www.amazon.com/exec/obido...lalufairyt
Heidi
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Kerrie
Moderator
(5/14/03 12:19 pm)
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Word Gems...
Not a print publication, but I'm currently (in between wedding ventures)
writing vignettes for Jennifer Parrish's site, Parrish
Relics. She has several bracelets and a few chokers/circlets
that incorporate a word or phrase, and they inspired me to write
little one-sceners.
Trying to decide which piece to write a story for next is near impossible, as I want to write about all of them!
Valley blossoms,
Kerrie
Edited by: Kerrie at: 5/14/03 12:21:37 pm
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Sharlit
Registered User
(6/1/03 11:42 am)
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Q for Nalo (or anyone In The Know :)
Hey!
So, the February Upcoming Books tells me that Griffone is slated for a August release with Warner - however, last time I was at Bakka-Phoenix they told me Griffone had been re-titled, and was getting a mainstream (non-genre) release! (Congratulations, btw!) So, for those of us looking to make orders for our bookstores...
Who is publishing the new book, what's it called and when is it
coming out?
Needs more Nalo,
-Charlotte @ the Bob Miller Book Room
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Nalo
Registered User
(6/2/03 5:49 am)
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Re: Q for Nalo (or anyone In The Know :)
Yes, my publisher is giving the novel a mainstream, hard cover release. They've re-titled it _The Salt Roads,_ and it's coming out in November. I should put that on my website. Have barely had time to draw breath, much less update my site. Need to change that.
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Richard
Parks
Registered User
(6/3/03 10:54 am)
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LCRW
Not exactly a fairy-tale, but Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet #12 just published my Japanese ghost story, "The Plum Blossom Lantern."
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Richard
Parks
Registered User
(6/5/03 1:00 pm)
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Feast or Famine
These things often come in twos for some reason. "Worshipping Small Gods" in the current (August) Realms of Fantasy. Sort of a zen anti-parable.
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Richard
Parks
Registered User
(6/5/03 1:32 pm)
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Feast or Famine
Greg, in case you hadn't seen it, there's also a really favorable review of FITCHER'S BRIDES in the same issue.
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Terri
Registered User
(6/21/03 7:26 am)
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The Poets' Grimm
I just got an advance copy of The Poets' Grimm: 20th Century Poems from Grimm Fairy Tales, edited by Jeanne Marie Beaumont & Claudia Carlson. It's splendid, absolutely splendid. Jane Yolen has poetry in it, and a host of other good people. The official release date is July 31st, but any of you out there who are reviewers can probably get an early copy from the publisher, Story Line Press. Here's their email address (according to the press sheet that came with the book): mail@storylinepress.com.
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Charles Vess
Unregistered User
(6/25/03 4:57 am)
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The CATS are out of the bag...
Hey All,
Last Friday I hosted a pre-release book signing party and gallery exhibition of all the art from my new children's picture book A CIRCLE OF CATS at my local independent bookstore, 153 West. The book sold like gangbusters and everyone seemed very pleased with the story and the art.
The official release was this Monday (June 23) so you should all be able to run out and buy it if you are so minded. I'd love to read a customer review or two on Amazon or B&N.
Enjoy!
Charles
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Jess
Unregistered User
(6/25/03 6:31 am)
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Available on Amazon
Hey Charles, it looks beautiful. I plan on checking out the Green
Man site to see if you have any of the inside illustrations on it.
A reminder for those out there: if you are planning on buying it from Amazon, click through the SurLaLune Fairy Tale pages.
Jess
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Kim Turner
Unregistered User
(6/27/03 1:28 am)
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The Art of Faery
Hello everybody,
I am new to this message board - by pure luck I found it yesterday.
I'll join in this thread if that is okay - to add my bit of good news! I am being published in The Art of Faery - this is a compilation of twenty four faerie artists from around the world. The faery godfather Brian Froud is in it, and has written the foreword! It is coming out in October and is being published by Chrysalis Books.
www.fairy-shop.com/pages/...uctID=1103
Look forward to reading more of the message board over the weekend!
Best wishes
Kim
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Gail de Vos
Unregistered User
(6/30/03 1:16 pm)
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Storytelling for Young Adults
My new edition of Storytelling for Young Adults: A Guide to Tales for Teens (Libraries Unlimited) just arrived today. It has, along with suggestions of over 200 tales to tell to teens, several full text tales including an excerpt from Midori's lovely book, The Soul String. For some strange reason Jane Yolen's books keep popping up as well -- but annotations to tales rather than the tales themselves.
Yours in stories, Gail
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Heidi
Anne Heiner
ezOP
(6/30/03 4:39 pm)
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New Novels by Various Authors
Here are three upcoming novels I have learned about recently:
The True Story of Hansel and Gretel by Louise Murphy
www.amazon.com/exec/obido...lalufairyt
Goose Girl by Shannon Hale
www.amazon.com/exec/obido...lalufairyt
East by Edith Pattou
www.amazon.com/exec/obido...lalufairyt
All look quite interesting. The True Story of Hansel and Gretel will perhaps make a good companion with Jane's Briar Rose.
Heidi
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Terri Windling
Unregistered User
(7/1/03 8:16 am)
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reviews
A quick note to say that if anyone here has a book coming out that they'd like to see reviewed on the Endicott Studio for Mythic Arts site, please have your publisher send a review copy to our Book Review Editor:
Helen Pilinovsky
Columbia University
Department of English and Comparative Literature
602 Philosophy Hall
Mail Code 4927
New York, NY 10027
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Laura
McCaffrey
Registered User
(7/1/03 8:26 am)
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Re: reviews
Terri -
First - So glad to have you back! Hope all is well.
Second - regarding books' eligibility for review on the Endicott site, do you want only folklore and fairy tale retellings? Fantasies that have mythic themes but aren't retellings? Any specific requirements?
Take care,
LauraMC
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Helen
Registered User
(7/2/03 7:07 pm)
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What a good idea ...
... I wish that I'd thought of mentioning it here - thanks, Terri! I've actually managed to get ahold of some of the offerings mentioned earlier in the thread (Jane - the cover *is* lovely, and the prose more so) but this ought to make for a more certain link than crossing my fingers and hoping that the publishers connect me to the offerings (I've had a few moments of "I didn't know if it was what you were looking for, so ...").
Laura - all of the above sound lovely. So far, I've been looking for books that are possessed of mythic elements, but not necessarily straight retellings ... so, anything from the style of Greg's _Fitcher's Brides_ as a directly inspired work, to A.S. Byatt's _Possession_ as a text permeated by folk tales, but not directly based on any one, to J.K. Rowlings _Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix_, as being structurally similar to a fairy tale ... there aren't any hard-and-fast guidelines. If it seems relevant to a journal concerning the mythic arts, I'll be happy to find it in my box.
On another note: one book which *did* make it to me that might be enjoyed by board residents, both for content and company is _Fantasy Literature: From Dragon's Lair to Hero's Quest_ (ed. Philip Martin). It concerns the question of how to write fantasy literature, including fairy tales, with sections written by Patricia Mckillip, Donna Jo Napoli, Ursula Le Guin, and our own Jane Yolen and Midori Snyder. I know that I would recommend (am/will be recommending) it ...
Edited by: Helen at: 7/2/03 7:19 pm
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Nalo
Registered User
(7/4/03 6:41 pm)
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Re: reviews
I do! Tks, Terri; I've passed the information on to my publicist.
-nalo
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Terri Windling
Unregistered User
(7/5/03 7:02 am)
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review books
Helen has already answered the question, but I'll just add that
we're open to reviewing a broad range of books, from adult novels
to childrens picture books, that are in some way related to myth,
folklore, fairytales, or fantasy in general. They don't have to
be overtly magical tales, however. A realist novel with mythic underpinnings
would work for us too. And we even sometimes stretch beyond our
review mandate to include books that aren't mythic but appeal to
many of our readers anyway, such as the Dorothy Dunnett books. We'll
also sometimes include books that are interstitial rather than mythic
[for a definition of interstitial fiction, see Delia Sherman's essay
on the Interstitial Arts web site: www.endicott-studio.com/ia.html,
such as Sarah Smith's mystery novels or Luis Alberto Urrea's books.
Our reviews are quite short -- more recommendations than reviews
-- but they do sell books, judging by our quarterly report from
Amazon.com. Every book we sell through the Endicott site raises
money for children's charities in Tucson.
Laura, regarding my absence from this board, I've had a great deal of trouble accessing it over the last few months -- 80% of the times I try to come here, it throws me off the net altogether. Very frustrating! I'm having my computer overhauled this weekend, and perhaps that will finally fix the problem. I miss starting my work day at Surlalune.
Regarding recent publications, my third and last "Old Oak Wood" picture book with Wendy Froud is out now: The Faeries of Spring Cottage (Simon & Schuster). I'm pretty unhappy with the text -- a lot of material was hastily, awkwardly cut from the last third of the book when the publisher made a last-minute decision to shorten the page count of the book, and it hurts the flow of the story. I'm not crazy about the cover either -- strange dark choice of picture for the cover. But Wendy's interior pictures are great, as always. She's amazing. It's always a funny feeling to have a book come out that you're not happy with for some reason or another. This one is worth looking at for the art, but for story, I think The Winter Child remains the best of the Old Oak Wood books.
Volume 16 of The Year's Best Fantasy & Horror (St. Martin's Press) will be out very soon, and it's got some good material in it, including fairy tale poems by Tom Disch, Tracina Jackson-Adams, Robert Phillips, and Nan Fry, and a terrific retelling of The Green Children by Kevin Brockmeier. This is the last volume in the series for me -- sixteen years of having all my time swallowed up by this mammoth project was enough! I was able to handpick my successors, Kelly Link & Gavin Grant (of Small Beer Press), and I'm sure they will do such a great job that no one will miss me at all! Kelly and Gavin will be editing the fantasy half of the book as a team, and Ellen Datlow will continue to edit the horror.
The Wood Wife (Tor Books) has also been recently re-released in a new trade edition. And My Swan Sister (sequel to A Wolf at the Door, re-told fairy tales for Middle Grade readers, Simon & Schuster), co-edited with Ellen, will be out at the end of the summer. Ellen and I are just finishing up The Faery Reel for Viking this month, a young adult collection of stories about faeries and the realm of Faerie, illustrated by Charles Vess. (It's a sequel of sorts to The Green Man.)
If anyone here is going to ComicCon, there will be prints of mine for sale at Charles's Green Man Press booth. (Hi, Charles!)
-- Terri
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