My summer has been so complicated that I've neglected to mention July's best book news: Sharyn November took paperback rights to The Curse of the Raven Mocker and Ingledove for her Viking/Penguin imprint, Firebird.
http://www.firebirdbooks.com/
Here's the Firebird site, including a cover gallery, links, chapters, etc.
http://www.sharyn.org/
And here's a peek at the lively and clever Firebird editor, Sharyn November.
Seek Giacometti’s “The Palace at 4 a.m.” Go back two hours. See towers and curtain walls of matchsticks, marble, marbles, light, cloud at stasis. Walk in. The beggar queen is dreaming on her throne of words…You have arrived at the web home of Marly Youmans, maker of novels, poetry collections, and stories, as well as the occasional fantasy for younger readers.
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Tuesday, August 23, 2005
The Endicott Studio: a novelist reviews Ingledove
It has been a long, arduous summer, and all that has happened feels alternately too close or long ago and far away.
Book news: there's a review of Ingledove up on a featured books page at the lovely Endicott Studio site (http://www.endicott-studio.com/recreading/SprSum05/YA.html). It's by novelist Midori Snyder. Here's a clip: In this exceptional novel Youmans skillfully mixes Celtic, Appalachian and Cherokee mythology and language to create Adantis, a fantastic world, half hidden in nature . . . Youmans’ characters are compelling; the dialogue is unique, rich with invented vocabulary. Her prose, lush and evocative as fireflies, seems to lift from the pages. A simply beautiful novel.
Midori Snyder's biography on the site is quite interesting: http://www.endicott-studio.com/bios/biomidori.html. Now that's a satisfyingly full life.
Book news: there's a review of Ingledove up on a featured books page at the lovely Endicott Studio site (http://www.endicott-studio.com/recreading/SprSum05/YA.html). It's by novelist Midori Snyder. Here's a clip: In this exceptional novel Youmans skillfully mixes Celtic, Appalachian and Cherokee mythology and language to create Adantis, a fantastic world, half hidden in nature . . . Youmans’ characters are compelling; the dialogue is unique, rich with invented vocabulary. Her prose, lush and evocative as fireflies, seems to lift from the pages. A simply beautiful novel.
Midori Snyder's biography on the site is quite interesting: http://www.endicott-studio.com/bios/biomidori.html. Now that's a satisfyingly full life.