|
Author
|
Comment
|
Heidi Anne Heiner
ezOP
(7/4/04 1:25 am)
|
Upcoming Publications Part 4
And here we start a new thread for the ongoing topic...
Here's the links to past discussions:
Upcoming Publications Part 1
Upcoming Publications Part 2
Upcoming Publications Part 3
HAH
Edited by: Heidi Anne Heiner at: 11/29/04 5:23 pm
|
Heidi Anne Heiner
ezOP
(7/9/04 3:15 pm)
|
Little Red Riding Hood in the Big Bad City
There's a new mass market paperback of fairy tale related short stories titled "Little Red Riding Hood in the Big Bad City" edited by Martin H. Greenberg and John Helfers. It's supposedly traditional fairy tales placed in modern day settings.
Here's the Amazon.com link:
www.amazon.com/exec/obido...lalufairyt
Heidi
|
Meurglys
(7/16/04 6:48 am)
|
Re: Little Red Riding Hood in the Big Bad City
I've just finished The Autumn Castle by Australian writer Kim Wilkins. I was pretty impressed.
The scenes are split between the Real World (present-day Berlin) and a fairy kingdom - the fairy queen grew up on here as a child and became a 'bloodsister' with her childhood best friend and decides to visit the Real World so find her again - but there is an evil fairy-hunter, a malicious witch, a shape-changing counsellor, her friend's present day friends, and others, to deal with.
It reminded me a little of Jonathon Carroll at times...
|
midori
snyder
Registered User
(7/17/04 4:24 pm)
ezSupporter
|
Re: Little Red Riding Hood in the Big Bad City
Helen Pilinovsky just wrote a killer reivew Of "Little Red Riding Hood" for the Endicott board...Like all of Helen's reviews it insightful and highly informative. (its the last entry in a long list of killer reviews actually!)
p090.ezboard.com/fendicottstudioformythicartsfrm7.showMessage?topicID=4.topic
Edited by: midori snyder at: 7/22/04 5:08 am
|
Heather
KT
Registered User
(7/20/04 7:04 pm)
|
Re: upcoming publications
In the Publishers Weekly listing of children's & young adult books due out this fall, there are several that might be of interest:
Emma Burning (sequel to Goose Girl), by Shannon Hale, Bloomsbury
The Purple Emperor (sequel to Faerie Wars) by Herbie Brennan, Bloomsbury
The Book of Fairy Poetry, 50 poems chosen & illustrated by Michael Hague, Harpercollins
Leaping Beauty: and Other Animal Fairy Tales, by Gregory Maguire, Harpercollins
Close Kin (sequel to Hollow Kingdom), by Clare Dunkle, Henry Holt
The Hidden Folk: Stories of Fairies, Dwarves, Selkies, and Other Secret Beings, story collection by Lise Lunge-Larsen, illustrated by Beth Krommes, Houghton Mifflin
Bound, a retelling of the Cinderella story set in China, by Donna Jo Napoli, Simon & Schuster
Spirited, "a fairy tale set in 1756, during the war between the British and the French," by Nancy Holder, Simon & Schuster
Enjoy!
-- Heather Tomlinson
|
bielie
Unregistered User
(7/25/04 10:41 am)
|
Mr Humperdinck's Wonderful Whatsit
My first children's book was published a few days ago in South Africa. Hopefully in other places soon!
www.nb.co.za/HumanRoussea...iItem=2857
Wynand
|
Helen J Pilinovsky
Registered User
(8/1/04 10:55 am)
|
Re: Mr Humperdinck's Wonderful Whatsit
Dear Wynand:
Congratulations! We'll all be looking forward to seeing it.
Best,
Helen
|
Terri Windling
Registered User
(8/11/04 7:41 am)
|
Susanna Clarke
Susanna Clarke's new fairy novel Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell is one of the best books I've read in ages, and I highly, highly recommend it to everyone here. It's her first novel, but if you're familiar with the Show White, Blood Red anthology series, then you've probably read some of her delightful tales ("On Lickerish Hill," "Mr. Simonelli or the Fairy Widower").
I also wanted to mention that we have new Recommended Books pages
in the Scuttlebutt section of the Endicott Studio web site www.endicott-studio.com/scuttle.html
-- which has been revamped with new art, new designs, and updated
info, courtesy of Midori (who has now added html code writing to
her many talents). The titles ont he Recommended Books page aren't
all new -- but they're things we've read recently and enjoyed.
Edited by: Terri Windling at: 8/11/04 7:43 am
|
Terri Windling
Registered User
(8/19/04 11:34 am)
|
Re: Susanna Clarke
Has anyone read The Handless Maiden by Loranne Brown? I just stumbled across a review of it, and was wondering if it makes use of the Handless Maiden/Girl Without Hands fairy tale beyond the title allusion?
|
C Patton
Registered User
(8/19/04 6:13 pm)
|
Charles Vess 'The Book of Ballads'
I have a question about Charles Vess' upcoming 'A Book of Ballads'. Is this a graphic novel like Sandman?
Also - I got 'The Faery Reel' and 'Year's Best Fantasy & Horror 17' from Amazon.com today. Both books are gorgeous! Thanks to the editors for putting the collections together, and congratulations to everyone who contributed to them. I have some great reading ahead of me!
|
janeyolen
Registered User
(8/20/04 1:18 am)
|
Re: Charles Vess 'The Book of Ballads'
Book of Ballads is a graphic short story collection, sort of. Charles asked a number of fantasy authors to pick a ballad (in my case, I couldn't chose just one!) to write as a short comic. Emma Bull, Charles deLint, others wrote one or two. Charles illustrated them brilliantly.Some of the stories are simple retellings of the ballads, some are story glosses on the ballads, some are set in a particular time or place. (For example, I did "King Henry" set in the house where young Bess is being raised, on the very day word comes that Henry VIII has had her mother, Ann Boleyn, beheaded. And I set "Great Selchie of Sule Skerry" on the East Neuk of Fife during the late 19th/early 20th century when herring girls followed the fishing fleets, gutting and packing the herring.) There is also a discography in case you want to hear the ballads sung!
Jane
|
Laura McCaffrey
Registered User
(8/20/04 6:25 pm)
|
Re: Upcoming Publications Part 4
Natalie Kinsey-Warnock's GIFTS FROM THE SEA has a fair bit of folklore woven in, as well as a hint of selchie magic. It's a very quick read and a touching love story.
LauraMc
|
Elizabeth
Registered User
(8/21/04 9:18 pm)
|
ballads
I second (or third, or whatever!) the recommendations for the ballads book. It's gorgeous, very well done, and the love of the music and the stories just radiates from every page. I tracked down the comics and the graphic novel a while back; I'm so glad that it's going to be made available to a wider audience.
Also, Terri, the scuttlebutt redesign looks fantastic!
|
Terri Windling
Registered User
(8/22/04 8:08 am)
|
Scuttlebutt
Thanks, Elizabeth! Though Midori Snyder really deserves the praise--she did all the actual html design work. Midori joined the Endicott site as Associate Editor this spring, and has been a joy to work with. We have lots of good things in store for upcoming issues (which other folks here -- Jane, Helen, Veronica, Charles V., and others, have graciously been contributing to).
|
C Patton
Registered User
(8/22/04 9:38 pm)
|
recent books
My local Barnes & Noble has a display up called 'Welcome to the Mean Streets of Faerie', which has The Faery Reel, Nevernever, Elsewhere, Finder, Tithe, and Waifs & Strays. It was really wonderful to see mythopoeic books so prominently displayed.
'The Grand Tour' is out (a sequel to Sorcery and Cecelia by Wrede and Stevermer). I also saw a couple of new books that looked interesting. Anyone have recommendations for these?:
"Crossroads : Tales of the Southern Literary Fantastic', edited by Andy Duncan
'Flights - Extreme Visions of Fantasy' by Al Sarrantonio
And three young adult books with cool looking covers:
'The Game of Sunken Places' by M.T. Anderson
'The Secret of Castle Cant' by K.P. Bath
'Beyond the Deepwoods (Book 1 of the Edge Chronicles), By Paul Stewart
Christi Patton
Edited by: C Patton at: 8/22/04 9:59 pm
|
Terri Windling
Registered User
(8/23/04 8:48 am)
|
Re: recent books
Wow, that sounds like a great B&N display. What part of the country are you in?
Crossroads by Andy Duncan is terrific. I also recommend Theodora
Goss's new chapbook The Rose in Twelve Petels, from Small Beer Press
(www.lcrw.net,
which contains fairy tale inspired fiction and poetry, and other
magical works.
|
C Patton
Registered User
(8/24/04 7:17 am)
|
Barnes & Noble display
I live in the suburbs of Houston. At the Barnes & Noble, they usually use the top shelf of the first bookcase for new releases, but this month they are using that space to showcase urban fantasy, with the 'Welcome to the Mean Streets of Faery' sign underneath the books. They also have Green Angel, Tamsin, and I was a Teenage Fairy in the display.
Do you like the new covers for Finder, Nevernever, and Elsewhere? I think they are odd, but striking. And are there plans for more Borderland books? There are bidding wars for the old books on ebay (I always gloat when I see the bidding wars because I picked up two of the Borderland books for 25cents each at a used bookstore - I certainly did my bookdance that day). Do publishers pay any attention to the bidding wars when they decide what books to reprint? The high prices are a good indication of interest in the books.
Christi Patton
Edited by: C Patton at: 8/24/04 7:22 am
|
Terri Windling
Registered User
(8/24/04 8:49 am)
|
Re: Barnes & Noble display
I like the new cover of Finder, but not the ones for Elsewhere and Nevernever. I think the old covers for Elsewhere and Nevernever (back when Jane Yolen was editor for these books at Harcourt Brace) were much better. I haven't liked many of the Borderland covers, actually, except the two original Phil Hale covers -- which were kind of odd, in that there were no teenagers in the pictures (my only quibble with them), but I loved their punky, irreverent spirit. Writers and anthology editors, however, only rarely have cover control.
There has been some talk of reviving Borderland (ie, bringing the old books back into print, and doing a new one), but at this point there's no solid news about it. Largely because I've been so busy with other things.
|
Elizabeth
Registered User
(8/24/04 7:18 pm)
|
Borderland displays
For what it's worth, I've been seeing ELSEWHERE, FINDER and NEVERNEVER *everywhere* (I'm in New York City). I finally broke down ("All right! All right! I'll buy them, for crying out loud!") and bought the Shetterly books and am reading them right now. They're most enjoyable. I love all the literary references in them.
|
Charles Vess
Unregistered User
(8/30/04 9:49 am)
|
Ballads and Moonheart and Goss, oh my...
Here's a quick update on several new projects:
THE BOOK OF BALLADS will be released in early November by Tor Books. The package has a wonderfully informative introduction by Terri Windling followed by 160 pages of graphic novel adaptations of English and Scottish ballads by various authors (all art is by myself) and that is followed by an extensive discography of the music involved. There are scripts by Jane Yolen (2), Charles de Lint (2), Neil Gaiman, Sharyn McCrumb, Midori Snyder, Jeff Smith, Delia Sherman, Elaine Lee, Emma Bull, Lee Smith, and myself. This edition will include all of the story/art material from my previously self published collection as well as 50 pages of new adaptations. I drew my first ballad adaptation in 1993 so it is interesting to have finally reached a conclusion. There are still so many terrific ballads with their visually compelling stories still undrawn that I may one day have to produce some more...
The twentieth anniversary edition of Charles de Lint's MOONHEART will be published by Subterranean Press by the end of this year. This edition will contain a cover painting, a full color endpaper design and 8 interior color plates and approximately 15 b/w vignettes. I've read Charles (the other) novel several times over the last 20 years and it had always filled my head with splendid visual images so I was really happy to finally get a chance to put some of them down on
paper.
I also completed a cover for a lovely collection of short stories by Dora Goss, THE TWELVE PETALS OF THE ROSE AND OTHER STORIES (Small Beer Press). A number of these gorgeously written stories are reinterpretations of well known fairy tales, others are entirely new tales, all of them are compulsively readable.
Enjoy!
Charles
|
Elizabeth
Registered User
(8/31/04 11:30 am)
|
Ballads
*50 pages* of new adaptations?! Ooo! Ooo! Ooo!
Any chance that you could be persuaded to reveal which ballads get "the treatment" in the new stuff and from whom? :D
|
