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Heidi
Anne Heiner
ezOP
(11/11/02 12:14:54 am)
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Fitcher's Brides
Greg,
I don't have your e-mail in my address book so will ask publicly for a cover image of "Fitcher's Brides." I have been waiting for it to appear on Amazon, but have the next few days to update many areas of SurLaLune and would like to add Fitcher to some bibs and on the front page. Do you happen to have a digital image of the cover available?
I have already baited a few of my library patrons with the new book. They can't wait to read it.
Just send it to surlalune@aol.com if you have one.
Thanks,
Heidi
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Nalo
Registered User
(11/11/02 7:10:30 pm)
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Re: Fitcher's Brides
Heidi, I've got Greg's e-mail address, if you still need it. You can e-mail me at nalo@web.ca
-nalo
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Gregor9
Registered User
(11/12/02 5:54:08 am)
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Fitcher
Heidi,
I've sent you the Tom Canty cover. And thanks for the promotion on it. If you need anything else--quotes, etc.--let me know.
Greg
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Gregor9
Unregistered User
(11/12/02 5:55:53 am)
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Fitcher
Heidi,
I've sent you a JPEG of the extraordinary Tom Canty cover. And thanks for the promotion on it. If you need anything else--quotes, etc.--let me know.
Greg
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Heidi
Anne Heiner
ezOP
(11/12/02 10:11:48 am)
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Re: Fitcher
Thanks, Greg.
I have received it and now it is up on the front page of SurLaLune and in the Bluebeard area of the site. It's a wonderful cover. Now I can't wait to read what's inside it! The release date is December 1 for anyone who doesn't know that already.
Also, I have updated some areas of Bluebeard for anyone wanting to read more about the tale before or after reading Greg's book. There is also a version of "Fitcher's Bird" in the "Tales Similar To" area. Go to:
www.surlalunefairytales.c...index.html
And Terri has a new article about Bluebeard, "Bluebeard and the Bloody Chamber," on Endicott at:
www.endicott-studio.com/forblue.html
Heidi
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Terri Windling
Unregistered User
(11/13/02 12:36:13 am)
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Endicott
Yes, the new Endicott site is up, with an article on Bluebeard, among other things. We've got a new Webmaster and we're still working out the kinks -- so please be patient with us! Apparently the new Gallery page we have for Charles Vess doesn't work properly on every screen -- although it looks gorgeous on mine. We are aiming to fix this....
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Gregor9
Registered User
(11/13/02 8:08:38 am)
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Cursory comparison
Terri,
A quick glance at the Endicott article reminds me of the incredible introduction you did for my book.
For those who've seen neither (the book's not quite out as of this posting), Terri covers, I think, the wide range of Bluebeard variants. When I was researching for the book I thought I'd found them all, but she located others I hadn't even considered. It's a wonderful resource on this fairy tale form.
Greg
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Helen
Registered User
(11/14/02 5:59:09 pm)
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Amazing!
Dear Greg:
I managed to get hold of an advance copy ... and all that I can say is that I now have even more reason to regret having missed your reading from it at the last WisCon. It's a beautifully told tale, and you really managed to bring the terrifying qualities inherent in the archetype of Bluebeard to the fore in a way that I hadn't seen from anyone other than Angela Carter - which, considering how I feel about Carter, is one of the highest compliments that I can pay. All too often, villains can become ciphers; you made Fitcher into a very believable individual. The historical contextualization is marvelous - every detail believably evocative of the period - and, simultaneously, tremendously relateable, as it's brought the latest millenial fever to the forefront of my mind in a rather disturbing way. Greg, congratulations on penning another literally marvelous addition to the Fairy Tale series! And, btw, Greg's quite right about the introduction: it's a thing of beauty, eminently informative, and and it's sending me off to the library to hunt down some of the sources that Terri mentions. Again, congratulations, and thanks, to both of you!
Best,
Helen
P.S. - One more thing, which I'm too excited to try to work coherently into the structure of the post above; I love how you make it clear that there's no validity whatsoever to critical claims that the women deserve their fates in some quasi-Biblical punishment for curiosity, and that it's purely a matter of survival. It illustrates the point that Terri makes in the Introduction without belaboring it, and, hopefully, it'll make readers familiar with Perrault rethink his moral. Jealous malcontents, indeed ...
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Kate
Unregistered User
(11/14/02 7:28:48 pm)
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Reading
Helen--
You can hear Greg read in New York, if you're there in January . . . I don't know what he's reading from (Greg?) I do hope you are in the city! He and I read at the KGB Bar as part of a Fantastic Fiction Reading Series run by Ellen Datlow and Gavin Grant. The reading is on January 15.
www.lcrw.net/kgb
Greg, I can't wait to read the book.
xoxo
Kate
p.s. I owe you a loooong email, coming shortly, I promise. I am buried in boxes and chaos.
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Helen
Registered User
(11/14/02 8:29:44 pm)
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Aaauuggghhhhh!
Ahem. Not to sound unprofessional, or anything ... How wonderful that you're both going to be in the city! I wouldn't miss it for the world, I hope that you'll have time for a dinner or something, perhaps, and I must try to find some way to enthusiastically thank Ellen and Gavin. Will you be reading from _Ketzia_ or _Merry_? I already thought that my heart was going to burst out of my chest when I heard about the upcoming Kushner/Sherman reading, but this as well ...
And don't worry about e-mails and things. I just spent the last week moving, actually, (away, away from the rathole!) so I've been a bit off-balance myself. I hope that everything is going beautifully!
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Gregor9
Registered User
(11/15/02 11:56:22 am)
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Wow
Helen,
Angela Carter is peerless, and the comparison is more than I could ever hope for. There's no question that her "Bloody Chamber" was swirled into the mix as I was writing. (and on an unrelated note, her collaboration with Neil Jordan, "Company of Wolves", is now available on DVD). I'm glad you enjoyed the book.
I don't yet know what I'm going to read at KGB either. I'll be coming off a month of readings in various places, and still have one to go after that, in Ithaca on January 26. I'm tempted to read the section covering the death of Vern simply because it was one of Kelly Link's favorite parts, and she's going to be on hand. And I won't be reading that one elsewhere.
Besides, I'm much more interested in sitting in the shadows and listening to Kate read. She's also going to be reading in Philadelphia in February as part of the Philadelphia Fantastic reading series--which I'll try to remember promote loudly here a little later.
Greg
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