Today, The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making by Catherynne M. Valente is born as a beautiful print book with enchanting illustrations by Ana Juan. I have so much to say about this book that began as a crowdfunded novel, won the Andre Norton Award, and then wended its way to today. You'll have to wait for my proper ( Read more... )

Today is the day that Deathless shows up on bookshelves en masse, waving its stark and terrible banners while dressed in enough opulent finery to make a miser weep. Deathless is the latest novel from Catherynne M. Valente, and it is a marvel to behold: at its most basic, it is a retelling of Koschei the Deathless and Marya Morevna set in Stalinist ( Read more... )

And so we come to the end of February, the month of my birth and the month of Amal El-Mohtar's inspired melimancy in The Honey Month. If you've read my userinfo, you know that my name comes from the Hebrew for "industrious bee" and I feel that's rather apropos ( Read more... )

We have come to the penultimate round-up of icons inspired by The Honey Month by Amal El-Mohtar!

If you don't recall the where and why of these icon sets, allow me to give you a refresher from last week:

Two years ago, Danielle Sucher sent Amal El-Mohtar a host of honey vials and together they dashed headlong into a month-long creative project ( Read more... )

Not only is this Monday the feast of love, but a feast of The Honey Month icons!

If you don't recall the where and why of these icon sets, allow me to give you a refresher from last week:

Two years ago, Danielle Sucher sent Amal El-Mohtar a host of honey vials and together they dashed headlong into a month-long creative project. ... In the end ( Read more... )

Two years ago, Danielle Sucher sent Amal El-Mohtar a host of honey vials and together they dashed headlong into a month-long creative project. Amal wrote a piece of poetry or prose each day, each inspired by a different honey. Danielle created a piece of art, like a necklace or a needle-felted boat.

In the end, The Honey Month was born. It has ( Read more... )

The Habitation of the Blessed by Catherynne M. Valente was officially released into the wild today, though it's been available by Kindle for some time now ( Read more... )

The Spring issue of Goblin Fruit is live! I haven't had a chance to check it out yet, more's the pity: there's just no way any issue featuring Seanan McGuire, C.S.E. Cooney, Shweta Narayan, Nicole Kornher-Stace, and Jaime Lee Moyer could disappoint ( Read more... )

A release day gift for Rob Mosca's High Midnight: 15 original icons!

Preview:

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The time has come for more Wicked Girls icons! As before: Comments are keen. If you use, feel free to credit talkstowolves. And I am totally open to requests!

If you have no idea what this is all about, see this post.

And now for the previews:


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