Faith Richardson aka "Fay Lapka" information?
I'm trying to learn a bit more about a young adult speculative fiction
author, Faith Richardson (Vancouver/Wash St.). I would like to buy and read her
books but I've gotten side-tracked trying to figure out what stopped
publication of the rest of her Clytie SF trilogy and seems to have frozen her
publisher's page and her own at about the same time.
Quotes from her webpage & all of the book info I could find are below, but
everything seems to end in 2004. Does anyone know anything about her or her
writings, or what might have happened in 2004? Did her publisher close its
doors, for instance? I hope nothing happened to her or her family!
======================
Faith Richardson = "Fay Lapka" (her maiden name)
_http://faithrichardson.com/_ (http://faithrichardson.com/)
"Stories reach to the deepest part of us; stories are how we order our lives
and the world around us. It is no wonder that healing can occur through the
telling of our story, our life." ~Faith Richardson~
Author Faith Richardson is a confirmed, non-recovering 'bookaholic'. Early
favorites were the Enid Blyten 'Adventure' Series, Trixie Beldon and Cherry
Ames, the Nesbit stories, and, later, Madeleine L'Engle's and L. M. Montgomery's
novels. Today, her bedside reading has returned again and again to the works
of authors who have influenced her most profoundly: stories by C. S. Lewis,
Charles Williams, and George Macdonald.
As a young author, she was privileged to be mentored by Madeleine L'Engle
(author of Newbery Award winner, A Wrinkle in Time) and to assist her in
Writer's Workshops at Regent College, Vancouver School of Theology, and Oxford
College.
----------------------------------
Author's Statement
"I believe in the power of story to alter lives. Daily, we make choices by
following this path and turning off that path. Many of these choices are made
unconsciously by 'hidden' decisions we've made about what we fear and whom we
love; these are the myths that direct our lives, and they inform us at a
very deep level. Often we are mystified by the paths we follow-for good or for
ill. Becoming aware of the myth that governs our choices, through the clarity
offered by participating vicariously in story, can both affirm and redeem our
own life's journey. Healing has many facets: often it is as simple as
putting on the garb of the dragon slayer and rescuing the innocent townspeople."
Faith Richardson - Fox Song Bks and Cornerstone
The Orbits of Clytie Series
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The Planet Clytie . . .
Caro and friends battle strange creatures and an often misguided Scientific
Community on the mythical planet Clytie . . .
Volume 1 = Dark is a Color
by Fay Lapka Richardson
ISBN 0-9744989-6-3
To be re-released in Spring 2004
A science fantasy adventure set on the mythical planet, Clytie.
Fifteen-year-old Caro lives with her family on a science base, where her scientist
parents work under the direction of the Science Community. Caro, her younger
brother, Ricky, and best friends Hal and Sherri, team up to journey to the dark
side of the planet to rescue their parents from an experiement gone wrong:
surgically-sighted 'lumies', intelligent, wolf-like beasts, have turned on the
scientists and have taken over the End Base.
Fox Song Books Young Adult Fiction, Trade Paper, 264pg, $12.95.
-----------------------
Volume 2 = Hoverlight
ISBN 0-9744989-7-1
To be Re-released in Spring 2004
Caro, inwardly battling the posttraumatic scars of the lumie attack, again
joins with Ricky, Hal, and Sherri, to stand up against the Community to stop
experimentation on the huge, benign 'carepies,' sea creatures native to
Clytie's oceans. During their underground flight to save the carepies, Caro becomes
separated from the others. Lost, and despairing, a healing, living light
comes to Caro, the Hoverlight, who leads her to find what she has lost.
Young Adult Fiction, 284 pg.
-------------------------
and the forthcoming, long awaited third book: (I DON'T THINK THIS GOT
PUBLISHED)
Meet the Dawn
(scheduled to be released Summer, 2005
Caro and friends are soon to be heading in different directions: back to
Earth to attend different colleges. So they decide to go on one final sailing
expedition to explore Clytie's strange ocean currents. However, their trip leads
them into a quest to rescue a dying species. In doing so, they discover a
hidden, unexplored realm on Clytie.
Young Adult Fiction, 264 pg.
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Angel Walker| Hardcover
Faith Richardson | Fox Song Books | November 1, 2003
List Price: $23.63
Sylvie's mom can't deal with her divorce and Sylvie's dad's imminent
wedding, so she sends 12-year-old Sylvie to stay with Great Aunt Honoura over the
Christmas holidays. Sylvie is far from pleased--who wants to spend Christmas
with some old aunt you've never even met??! (Even if she is in Hawaii!) But,
Sylvie very quickly has other things to worry about. Soon after boarding the
airplane at the Vancouver airport, she sees a strange woman do something rather
mysterious to an innocent glass of water. And now this weird lady keeps
turning up wherever Sylvie and her new friend, Keauka are--and then mysteriously
disappears into the ocean... Hey, and why does Cane, the donkey, freak out
when he smells the strange woman?
And just what is Great Aunt Honoura up to?
Sylvie and Keauka enter the world of guardian angels who live as creatures,
and meet one of the caretakers who walks with them...
Young Adult Fiction for ages 12 and up.
Previously published by Shaw under the title "The Sea, the Song, and the
Trumpetfish."
--------------------------
The Peacock's Stone| Trade Paperback
Faith Richardson | Fox Song Books | October 1, 2003
List Price: $12.95
Book Description
Does every action we make, every word we speak create our reality?
What if our reality were only another's myth?
What if you, a child of eleven-summers,
went out for a walk,
found a friend,
picked up a rock along the riverbank,
and turned your village upside down?
The Peacock's Stone is a mythic fantasy set on Ancient Earth. Shahumin, a
young girl, is invited into her grandfather's fire-circle of wisdom, where she
learns the old stories that have shaped the culture of her people.
Encountering a strange youth along the riverbank, Shahumin unwittingly steps into a new
story, a story of power that challenges the wisdom of her people and
threatens to shatter her world.
author, Faith Richardson (Vancouver/Wash St.). I would like to buy and read her
books but I've gotten side-tracked trying to figure out what stopped
publication of the rest of her Clytie SF trilogy and seems to have frozen her
publisher's page and her own at about the same time.
Quotes from her webpage & all of the book info I could find are below, but
everything seems to end in 2004. Does anyone know anything about her or her
writings, or what might have happened in 2004? Did her publisher close its
doors, for instance? I hope nothing happened to her or her family!
======================
Faith Richardson = "Fay Lapka" (her maiden name)
_http://faithrichardson.com/_ (http://faithrichardson.com/)
"Stories reach to the deepest part of us; stories are how we order our lives
and the world around us. It is no wonder that healing can occur through the
telling of our story, our life." ~Faith Richardson~
Author Faith Richardson is a confirmed, non-recovering 'bookaholic'. Early
favorites were the Enid Blyten 'Adventure' Series, Trixie Beldon and Cherry
Ames, the Nesbit stories, and, later, Madeleine L'Engle's and L. M. Montgomery's
novels. Today, her bedside reading has returned again and again to the works
of authors who have influenced her most profoundly: stories by C. S. Lewis,
Charles Williams, and George Macdonald.
As a young author, she was privileged to be mentored by Madeleine L'Engle
(author of Newbery Award winner, A Wrinkle in Time) and to assist her in
Writer's Workshops at Regent College, Vancouver School of Theology, and Oxford
College.
----------------------------------
Author's Statement
"I believe in the power of story to alter lives. Daily, we make choices by
following this path and turning off that path. Many of these choices are made
unconsciously by 'hidden' decisions we've made about what we fear and whom we
love; these are the myths that direct our lives, and they inform us at a
very deep level. Often we are mystified by the paths we follow-for good or for
ill. Becoming aware of the myth that governs our choices, through the clarity
offered by participating vicariously in story, can both affirm and redeem our
own life's journey. Healing has many facets: often it is as simple as
putting on the garb of the dragon slayer and rescuing the innocent townspeople."
Faith Richardson - Fox Song Bks and Cornerstone
The Orbits of Clytie Series
-------------------------------
The Planet Clytie . . .
Caro and friends battle strange creatures and an often misguided Scientific
Community on the mythical planet Clytie . . .
Volume 1 = Dark is a Color
by Fay Lapka Richardson
ISBN 0-9744989-6-3
To be re-released in Spring 2004
A science fantasy adventure set on the mythical planet, Clytie.
Fifteen-year-old Caro lives with her family on a science base, where her scientist
parents work under the direction of the Science Community. Caro, her younger
brother, Ricky, and best friends Hal and Sherri, team up to journey to the dark
side of the planet to rescue their parents from an experiement gone wrong:
surgically-sighted 'lumies', intelligent, wolf-like beasts, have turned on the
scientists and have taken over the End Base.
Fox Song Books Young Adult Fiction, Trade Paper, 264pg, $12.95.
-----------------------
Volume 2 = Hoverlight
ISBN 0-9744989-7-1
To be Re-released in Spring 2004
Caro, inwardly battling the posttraumatic scars of the lumie attack, again
joins with Ricky, Hal, and Sherri, to stand up against the Community to stop
experimentation on the huge, benign 'carepies,' sea creatures native to
Clytie's oceans. During their underground flight to save the carepies, Caro becomes
separated from the others. Lost, and despairing, a healing, living light
comes to Caro, the Hoverlight, who leads her to find what she has lost.
Young Adult Fiction, 284 pg.
-------------------------
and the forthcoming, long awaited third book: (I DON'T THINK THIS GOT
PUBLISHED)
Meet the Dawn
(scheduled to be released Summer, 2005
Caro and friends are soon to be heading in different directions: back to
Earth to attend different colleges. So they decide to go on one final sailing
expedition to explore Clytie's strange ocean currents. However, their trip leads
them into a quest to rescue a dying species. In doing so, they discover a
hidden, unexplored realm on Clytie.
Young Adult Fiction, 264 pg.
---------------------------
Angel Walker| Hardcover
Faith Richardson | Fox Song Books | November 1, 2003
List Price: $23.63
Sylvie's mom can't deal with her divorce and Sylvie's dad's imminent
wedding, so she sends 12-year-old Sylvie to stay with Great Aunt Honoura over the
Christmas holidays. Sylvie is far from pleased--who wants to spend Christmas
with some old aunt you've never even met??! (Even if she is in Hawaii!) But,
Sylvie very quickly has other things to worry about. Soon after boarding the
airplane at the Vancouver airport, she sees a strange woman do something rather
mysterious to an innocent glass of water. And now this weird lady keeps
turning up wherever Sylvie and her new friend, Keauka are--and then mysteriously
disappears into the ocean... Hey, and why does Cane, the donkey, freak out
when he smells the strange woman?
And just what is Great Aunt Honoura up to?
Sylvie and Keauka enter the world of guardian angels who live as creatures,
and meet one of the caretakers who walks with them...
Young Adult Fiction for ages 12 and up.
Previously published by Shaw under the title "The Sea, the Song, and the
Trumpetfish."
--------------------------
The Peacock's Stone| Trade Paperback
Faith Richardson | Fox Song Books | October 1, 2003
List Price: $12.95
Book Description
Does every action we make, every word we speak create our reality?
What if our reality were only another's myth?
What if you, a child of eleven-summers,
went out for a walk,
found a friend,
picked up a rock along the riverbank,
and turned your village upside down?
The Peacock's Stone is a mythic fantasy set on Ancient Earth. Shahumin, a
young girl, is invited into her grandfather's fire-circle of wisdom, where she
learns the old stories that have shaped the culture of her people.
Encountering a strange youth along the riverbank, Shahumin unwittingly steps into a new
story, a story of power that challenges the wisdom of her people and
threatens to shatter her world.