Peasants, princesses, princes and fighting men. Wives, daughters, fairy queens and friends. They share in common triumph and loss, but what binds them all is love. This collection of includes five previously published and four unpublished short stories by Erzebet Barthold who is best known for her work as a publisher (Papaveria Press and Hadean Press). Inside you'll find fairy tale retellings, pure fantasy, and the weird, bound together by the subversive notion that while we can be damaged and broken, wholeness is our natural state. Erzebet Barthold is an author, artist, editor, bookbinder, and independent publisher. She is inspired by fairy tales, folklore, and the wild places in the world. Her short fiction has been published by Fantasy Magazine, Not One of Us, Clarkesworld Magazine, Tor Books, Lethe Press, Mythic Delirium Books, and her novellas and novels by Prime Books.

The Mirror Tells All: and Other Stories

Literature & Fiction

Barthold, Erzebet

Short Stories & Anthologies

Papaveria Press

A fascinating experiment in literary synesthesia in which the scents, tastes and textures of assorted honeys are transmuted into a wordsmith's cycle of fey mischief. These bewitching poems and stories unwind a fevered world of magic and longing and young women who chance the uncanny and gain wisdom beyond their years.

The Honey Month

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Amal El-Mohtar

Fantasy

Jack Yap once had his mouth sewn shut for talking too much. His brother Pudding has to wear stone shoes or he'll just wander off. Will little obstacles like these keep the boys out of trouble? Not for the twinkling of an eye. There is magic in the hills, shapechangers and monsters, and Jack Yap has a hankering to meet them all and maybe kill a few. What he and Pudding find in the hills, however, changes both their lives, taking them out of the country and into the cruel and wonderful world, where witches and princesses await. Sometimes they are even the same person. "Stunningly delicious! Cruel, beautiful and irresistible are C.S.E. Cooney's characters and prose. Just when you thought fantasy had devolved into endless repetition, 'Jack o' the Hills' blows us all over the next hill and into the kingdom beyond. C.S.E. Cooney is a rare and exciting new talent. Whatever she offers us next, I'll waiting in line to read." -- Ellen Kushner, author of Thomas the Rhymer "Claire Cooney spins tales of Grimm horror with elvish gold gleaming in their darkness. They have the vivid colors of an extremely good nightmare, a fertile and vernal radiance all their own: funny and horrifying and moving by turns - and sometimes out of turn. If you've forgotten why you love fantasy, these stories of Jack Yap and Shapechanger Tam will remind you." -- James Enge, author of Blood of Ambrose, nominated for the 2009 World Fantasy Award.

Jack O' the Hills

Cooney, C.S.E.

The Glastonbury Tarot is a blending of philosophical traditions that take the reader through the Pagan, Christian and Arthurian stories associated with the mystical Isle of Avalon. This companion book to The Glastonbury Tarot cards clearly and concisely describes the history, symbolism and divinatory meanings of the 78 cards. Each image reveals a step along the path of the soul's journey, and gently guides the reader towards deeper self-understanding. Lisa Tenzin-Dolma is the author of 16 books, and her visionary paintings have been widely exhibited. She created The Glastonbury Tarot while living in Glastonbury.

The Glastonbury Tarot

Religion & Spirituality

TENZIN-DOLMA, LISA

New Age & Spirituality

Do you know how to flirt in Faerie land? C.S.E. Cooney does. In this collection of seventeen poems - four never before published! - you'll find goblins, crones, robber brides, coyotes, and even a sea king. Cooney draws from folklore and myth to create something entirely her own, something glimpsed only in Faerie. From the raucous and bawdy to the sorrowful dirge, these poems will work upon you like a spell. But don't take the publisher's word for it! Hearken to the words of JANE YOLEN, winner of the Grand Master Award from the Science Fiction/Fantasy Poetry Association: "Cooney is drunk on words, and we readers drink a toast to her as well." Or perhaps you prefer to heed SHARON SHINN, author of THE SHAPE-CHANGER'S WIFE: "C.S.E. Cooney piles up words and rhymes and glittering images like so much sea glass on the shore. Sublime, sublime-o." Or maybe DELIA SHERMAN, author of THE FREEDOM MAZE: "This is a poetry collection like no other I've ever read." If those folk can't convince you, then you'll just have to read the book yourselves.

How to Flirt in Faerieland & Other Wild Rhymes

Humor & Entertainment

Humor

The reprint of In the Forest of Forgetting by award-winning author Theodora Goss, first published in 2006 by Prime Books, with an introduction by Terri Windling and cover art by Virginia Lee. The table of contents has been slightly modified: "Phalaenopsis" has been replaced by "Her Mother's Ghosts", which first appeared in 2004 in The Rose and Twelve Petals and Other Stories, released by Small Beer Press.

In the Forest of Forgetting

Goss, Theodora

Theodora Goss has been a finalist for the Nebula, Crawford, Locus, Seiun, and Mythopoeic Awards, and on the Tiptree Award Honor List. Her prose-poem "Octavia is Lost in the Hall of Masks" (2003) won the Rhysling Award and her short story "Singing of Mount Abora" (2007) won the World Fantasy Award. SONGS FOR OPHELIA gathers together eighty of Theodora's otherworldly poems which lead the reader, as though under a spell, through the unfolding of the seasons and into the realm of pure magic. Delia Sherman, author of THE FREEDOM MAZE and CHANGELING, says about SONGS FOR OPHELIA, "Willows, dancing maidens, gypsies, mothers, lovers, daughters, magic animals, living waters, and transformations of all kinds abound in these gorgeous poems. With her formal prosody, her fairytale subjects, and her insights on love and loss and longing, Goss manages, Janus-like, to look back to the Victorians and inward at the heart of a modern woman with intelligence and grace."

Songs for Ophelia

Poetry

Scheherezades Bequest Volume 1, Issue 1. AS YOU WISH: THE LOATHLY LADY gathers together fiction, poetry, and non-fiction in an exploration of what it is women (and men) truly want. We chose the theme of the Loathly Lady for this issue in order to challenge modern perceptions of beauty and to explore the notion of sovereignty. Authors responded to our call for submissions with a diverse arrays of stories, poems, artwork, and academic insights into the Loathly Lady trope. Their answers to our questions may surprise you.

As You Wish: The Loathly Lady

SEVEN WAYS TO PRUNE A GRAPEFRUIT is the long-awaited second collection from literary provocateur Johnny Wink. With three dozen poems spanning three decades, the collection showcases Wink's comitragic wit and restless, inventive genius. Poems such as 'Great Gray Moles', 'Learning to Read', and 'Poem That Some Think Should Be Entitled "Generic Joke"' deploy clandestine erudition and cunning wordplay to confront aging, education, sex, death, and other riddles of the human condition. Often funny, frequently moving, but always a startling delight, SEVEN WAYS TO PRUNE A GRAPEFRUIT heralds the maturity of a uniquely individual poetic voice.

Seven Ways to Prune a Grapefruit

Wink, Johnny

Sister Fox knows so many secrets: why the chickadee sings in the lilac bush, where the best places are to bark at the moon, and how to see an owl on a winter night. Sister Fox even knows the secret of how to catch poems and stories. She knows how to tell from their plumage where poems are coming from and where they might be heading. She's learned through long practice when to chase her tail and when to scan the sky for a song. And in this book, Sister Fox will whisper those secrets to you-if you believe her. Bestselling author Jane Yolen brings us this delightful new collection of poems on the art and craft of writing. Sometimes whimsical, often amusing, and always a wonder and a delight, SISTER FOX'S FIELD GUIDE TO THE WRITING LIFE showcases Yolen at her finest poetic form, ably complimented by Laura Rae's sensitive illustrations. From the goodhumoured, earthy wisdom of "The Muse Speaks," to the snappish introspection of "Keep on Singing," to the sparkling magic of "The Storyteller," these are poems that enchant and dazzle and amuse. They linger in the mind and colour the imagination long after Sister Fox has closed the book. This is a collection no writer, poet, or lover of words should be without.

Sister Fox's Field Guide to the Writing Life

YOLEN, JANE

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