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Richard
Parks
Registered User
(12/17/02 6:09:45 am)
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New Review
Terry McGarry did a really nice review of The Ogre's Wife for the Strange Horizons web site. I'm still blushing.
"Through the Interstices: Richard Parks's The Ogre's Wife: Fairy Tales for Grownups"
www.strangehorizons.com/2...wife.shtml
Edited by: Richard Parks at: 12/17/02 6:11:53 am
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Jess
Unregistered User
(12/17/02 6:37:38 am)
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Having a difficult time
Finding people's work at the bookstores! Help! I would love to read your work, but I have been having a hard time locating it off-line. Is it available at Barnes and Noble? Do you know what "category" (i.e., fiction general, fairytales, fantasy) ? Richard? Gregory, is Fitcher's Bride available yet?
Jess
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Richard
Parks
Registered User
(12/17/02 7:00:50 am)
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Re: Having a difficult time
Jess, bless you for asking. _The Ogre's Wife_ is a small press collection and isn't generally available in stores, sadly. The only way to get it is to order it from Amazon, bn.com (Barnes & Noble Online), bamm.com or directly from the publisher at www.wunzpub.com.
Edited by: Richard Parks at: 12/17/02 7:02:54 am
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Gregor9
Registered User
(12/17/02 11:41:18 am)
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Re: Having a difficult time
Jess,
Yes, Fitcher's Brides is out. Barnes & Noble and Amazon both carrying it if you can't find a good local independent bookstore that has it. If you want to test the waters, I've put the first chapter up on my web site, too, with links to order from the online sources.
www.members.dca.net/gregory_frost
will get you there.
Richard, Thanks for supplying the publisher's info. Will go there directly.
Best,
Greg
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Laura
McCaffrey
Registered User
(12/17/02 4:18:04 pm)
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Re: Having a difficult time - independant booksellers
Jess -
You could also try www.booksense.com
It's a consortium of indie booksellers whose web site seeks and finds the bookseller nearest you who as the item. You can buy online and have the item shipped, or find the location and go there yourself.
Laura Mc
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Richard
Parks
Registered User
(12/17/02 10:10:25 pm)
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Booksense
Should have mentioned Booksense, which is generally a good way to find what you're looking for locally. One caveat, though. In some cases the local bookstore doesn't actually have the book in stock; they will simply order it for you when the request comes in. It's a good idea to call and check before making the trip; otherwise just let them fill the order online.
Thanks, Greg. I hope you enjoy it!
Edited by: Richard Parks at: 12/19/02 5:53:00 am
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Jess
Unregistered User
(12/18/02 7:06:17 am)
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Thanks!
to everyone.
I do use my local indie booksellers first, but they tend to stock local writers, classics, and best sellers. I have been to both umpteen times in the last few days. I was hoping to read a few of your books over the next couple of weeks, however; so, I wanted to lay my hands on hard copies today. I will be very excited though to order what I can't find (as my budget allows).
Richard, I am looking forward to Ogre's Wife. I was so excited to read about it. I can't wait for it to come in!
Speaking of all your wonderful publications, Brian Froud and Terri Windling's latest was among Amazon's top 50 gifts to give for under $25!
I will be off the board for a bit. May you and yours have a safe and wonderful holiday season.
Jess
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nightflight
Unregistered User
(12/19/02 11:42:39 am)
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Let me blow my horn - A New Book Release
A new book has just entered the marketplace titled "Inside Out, Using Classic Children's Stories for Personal and Professional Growth." ISBN 1-931646-93-7 It is now available at BN.com, midwestbookhouse.com and Amazon.
Inside Out uses the core premise from classic children's stories like the Three Little Pigs, Three Billy Goats Gruff and Little Red Riding Hood to teach riveting lessons from leadership, to change management, to team building. This is not a totally novel approach to the business market, but it is extremely interesting how each story is reshaped - yet generally follows the thematic flow of the original fairy tale. Business book reviews have been very favorable to date.
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MinionGrisly
Registered User
(2/7/03 8:12:38 pm)
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Re: "The Cure"
This is a great story.
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Jess
Unregistered User
(2/7/03 9:52:22 pm)
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Richard Parks - The Ogre's Wife
Richard,
I love this book! I finally (*sigh*) got my copy and have been devouring a story a day. Your stories are wonderful, very vivid!
Jess
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Jane Yolen
Unregistered User
(2/8/03 4:13:22 am)
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WFC
Rchard--make sure that the World Fantasy Judges (I am one) get copies of Ogre's Wife.
Greg--I already read Fitcher's Birds--and liked it a lot. "Mr. Fox" (another variant) is one of the stories I storytell. And in NOT ONE DAMSEL IN DISTRESS I retold "Fitcher's Bird." Originally I wanted to retell "Silvernose" and couldn't get permission from the Calvino folks.
Jane
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Richard
Parks
Registered User
(2/9/03 6:39:35 pm)
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The Ogre's Wife
Thanks, Jess. I'm really pleased that you're enjoying it.
Jane, the publisher has promised me faithfully that he will be sending copies to all the judges. If you don't receive it, please let me know.
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Gregor9
Registered User
(2/10/03 12:44:39 pm)
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Ogre's Wife
Richard,
I just got my copy. Looking forward to it hugely.
And Jane, I'm glad you liked FITCHER.
Best,
Greg
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Jess
Unregistered User
(2/10/03 5:24:25 pm)
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Fitcher's Bride
Greg,
Sorry I didn't say anything earlier. Thought you ought to know I really enjoyed Fitcher's Bride - especially the very, very end...a bit satirical? Would say more, but I am afraid I would be a spoiler. I loved the setting having spent a few wintery months in Syracuse. I could picture the setting easily. I look forward to your next book...keep us posted.
Jess
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aboiforpele
Unregistered User
(2/11/03 7:42:55 pm)
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Re: "The Cure"
Hey, thanks! I'm glad you liked the story.
Chris
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Deborah O
Unregistered User
(2/12/03 9:02:19 pm)
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new book about books
Hello!
I've been lurking and enjoying this fascinating site (threads are learned and also kind--an unusual combination); also posted an item a while back, using name Deb, but realized someone's using that--sorry, Deb 1.
I can't resist mentioning a forthcoming book that is not about fairy tales but is about material that seems to be of interest to many of you. My "Readers in Wonderland: The Liberating Worlds of Fantasy Fiction" (Continuum Publishing), by Deborah O'Keefe, is scheduled to appear in May. It discusses why so many children and adults are so devoted to children's fantasy fiction, and talks about a hundred or so books, most of them from the last 50 years. (Going up through William Nicholson, the first great children's fantasy writer to START publishing fiction in the twenty-first century.) It's written in a non-scholarly, personal style which may offend scholarly types--but may appeal to more general readers. The best parts are the descriptions of all those wonderful books and passages from them--such fun I had, reading and rereading everything from Oz to Aboriginal Australia (in Wrightson) to Hogwarts, and pretending this was work.
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