My work at Tor.com
Tor.com has provided me with two awesome bits of news recently, about two pieces I'm particularly proud of, one each. Without further ado:
1) Burning Girls, the novella I wrote a Jewish witch in Poland and New York City is in Tor.com's annual "Some of the Best" anthology! I'm very pleased, of course. The honor comes with a mini-review by Carl Engle-Laird in his post about the anthology. He actually focuses on an aspect of the story I had not consciously considered, the fact that the magic employed by the main character is not systematized. I'd never thought about that. I just based it on what I'd read of Jewish magic, and erudition went hand in hand with invention.
2) "Burning Girls" is not the only story of mine about Jewish women and the supernatural that Tor.com will be publishing! "Among the Thorns," an answer to "The Jew in the Thornbush," the Grimms' most anti-semitic fairy tale (it had been quite popular in anthologies up until, oh, around 1945, when suddenly stories about German gentiles torturing and murdering German Jews didn't seem quite so entertaining any more, go figure). The story will be going up in April 2014, and the cover art has been recently released, and it is one of the most stunning works of art I have ever seen. I want it. I want to get it done on a huge canvas and hang it on my wall, except I would feel bound by all laws of art and morality to donate it to a museum. Here it is:
Here is the amazing thing: this was exactly what I had in mind for this story's art. I was imagining the protagonist's face with her hair slowly turning into vines of thorns, and then, here it is! Only more beautiful than in my mind's eye, because I am not a visually gifted person. I've never even met these illustrators, Anna and Elena Balbusso (twins!), who also did the fabulous art for "Burning Girls," but I desperately want to because they are artistic geniuses, and we are clearly on the same wavelength.
Hurray!
1) Burning Girls, the novella I wrote a Jewish witch in Poland and New York City is in Tor.com's annual "Some of the Best" anthology! I'm very pleased, of course. The honor comes with a mini-review by Carl Engle-Laird in his post about the anthology. He actually focuses on an aspect of the story I had not consciously considered, the fact that the magic employed by the main character is not systematized. I'd never thought about that. I just based it on what I'd read of Jewish magic, and erudition went hand in hand with invention.
2) "Burning Girls" is not the only story of mine about Jewish women and the supernatural that Tor.com will be publishing! "Among the Thorns," an answer to "The Jew in the Thornbush," the Grimms' most anti-semitic fairy tale (it had been quite popular in anthologies up until, oh, around 1945, when suddenly stories about German gentiles torturing and murdering German Jews didn't seem quite so entertaining any more, go figure). The story will be going up in April 2014, and the cover art has been recently released, and it is one of the most stunning works of art I have ever seen. I want it. I want to get it done on a huge canvas and hang it on my wall, except I would feel bound by all laws of art and morality to donate it to a museum. Here it is:
Here is the amazing thing: this was exactly what I had in mind for this story's art. I was imagining the protagonist's face with her hair slowly turning into vines of thorns, and then, here it is! Only more beautiful than in my mind's eye, because I am not a visually gifted person. I've never even met these illustrators, Anna and Elena Balbusso (twins!), who also did the fabulous art for "Burning Girls," but I desperately want to because they are artistic geniuses, and we are clearly on the same wavelength.
Hurray!