Hellebore & Rue: The Print Edition
So, belated post is belated. In between fetching my cat and coming down with a stomach...er, something, Hellebore & Rue, the anthology of stories about lesbian magic users which I co-edited with Catherine Lundoff is finally out in print. Lethe Press has produced the print edition while Drollerie Press did the e-book edition (you can also buy said e-book edition on Drollerie's Website)
Here's a great review of it by Jarla Tangh, which you really should read. Here's my favorite part:
Whenever I read a work of fiction, I am longing to be transported. I want to love what's going on and to love whomever it's happening to. Editors know this and the best of them patiently sift through hours of preternatural wordage in order to yield a suitable harvest. I bow to the wisdom of Joselle Vanderhooft and Catherine Lundoff here.
Twelve tales of women loving women and their magic brought me the required ensorcellment. Milleus ranged from a slightly altered here-and-now to a fantastical futureverse. Certain stories reverberated with the burr of a fast-moving dragon's scales, obscured their happy endings as in gazing into a cloudy crystal ball, and plunged the reader into another character's existence in the literary equivalent of bi-location. Several stories in particular act as threshold guardians with their shared archetype of a troubled stranger bringing challenge to an established magic-worker and two intimate companions relying upon one another to battle malefic forces.
I realize I've been a bit remiss in talking about this book, due both to the chaos that comes when moving across country, starting a new job, and dealing with a bunch of unforeseen problems (Florida, why do you hate my skin?). And this is the reason why I'm going to be throwing a HUGE, days long release party here on my LJ.
What's that, you say? How can this be? Whose responsible this?
In a short while, I'll be receiving 10 copies of the book that I can give out for review. If you want one, all you have to do is link to this post somewhere (FB, twitter, LJ, carrier pigeon), and put the link in a post to this post between today and Friday, the start of Gaylaxicon (which is where I will be this weekend if you want to say hi). I'll then pick 10 lucky winners and send their copies out as soon as they arrive. Simple.
There will also be necklaces just as soon as I dig them out of my boxes. (A lot of my beads got left behind in Utah by accident, and they're just now making it to me.)
Ladies and gentlemen, start your engines!
Here's a great review of it by Jarla Tangh, which you really should read. Here's my favorite part:
Whenever I read a work of fiction, I am longing to be transported. I want to love what's going on and to love whomever it's happening to. Editors know this and the best of them patiently sift through hours of preternatural wordage in order to yield a suitable harvest. I bow to the wisdom of Joselle Vanderhooft and Catherine Lundoff here.
Twelve tales of women loving women and their magic brought me the required ensorcellment. Milleus ranged from a slightly altered here-and-now to a fantastical futureverse. Certain stories reverberated with the burr of a fast-moving dragon's scales, obscured their happy endings as in gazing into a cloudy crystal ball, and plunged the reader into another character's existence in the literary equivalent of bi-location. Several stories in particular act as threshold guardians with their shared archetype of a troubled stranger bringing challenge to an established magic-worker and two intimate companions relying upon one another to battle malefic forces.
I realize I've been a bit remiss in talking about this book, due both to the chaos that comes when moving across country, starting a new job, and dealing with a bunch of unforeseen problems (Florida, why do you hate my skin?). And this is the reason why I'm going to be throwing a HUGE, days long release party here on my LJ.
What's that, you say? How can this be? Whose responsible this?
In a short while, I'll be receiving 10 copies of the book that I can give out for review. If you want one, all you have to do is link to this post somewhere (FB, twitter, LJ, carrier pigeon), and put the link in a post to this post between today and Friday, the start of Gaylaxicon (which is where I will be this weekend if you want to say hi). I'll then pick 10 lucky winners and send their copies out as soon as they arrive. Simple.
There will also be necklaces just as soon as I dig them out of my boxes. (A lot of my beads got left behind in Utah by accident, and they're just now making it to me.)
Ladies and gentlemen, start your engines!