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asakiyumeThing one: in case there are any people who follow me who don't follow the magnificent sovay (Sonya Taaffe), she has a new collection of poems, plus one novelette: As the Tide Came Flowing In, from Nekiya Press. Here is a link.
Sonya's poems are as if you picked up a piece of sea glass and were turning it over in your hands, feeling its smoothness, and then you held it up to the light, and suddenly you found yourself somewhere entirely different. And her stories are peopled with intense, intelligent, often marginal characters--ghosts and golems and alien monarch butterflies. I can't wait to read the new one.
And: THERE ARE NOT MANY HOURS LEFT, but Book View Café, an authors' direct-to-readers book-selling consortium, is having a sale today (Aug 30), and you can pick up all four of Sherwood Smith's entrancing Phoenix Feather books for $10.00. This series, which draws on Chinese history, culture, and storytelling motifs but is set in its own world, has marvelous characters and an intricate, immensely satisfying story. One of my favorite series ever.
Story thing: My friend Nando da Costa Pires has sent me another story. The protagonist of this one is one of six children. Five were born healthy and handsome, one was disabled--our hero. "But his parents loved him dearly," Nando writes, and my heart was filled with love. I can't wait to read more! I will translate it, and then the world will have another folktale from Ainaro, Timor-Leste, as told to us by Nando, available in English!
sovay (Sonya Taaffe), she has a new collection of poems, plus one novelette: As the Tide Came Flowing In, from Nekiya Press. Here is a link.Sonya's poems are as if you picked up a piece of sea glass and were turning it over in your hands, feeling its smoothness, and then you held it up to the light, and suddenly you found yourself somewhere entirely different. And her stories are peopled with intense, intelligent, often marginal characters--ghosts and golems and alien monarch butterflies. I can't wait to read the new one.
And: THERE ARE NOT MANY HOURS LEFT, but Book View Café, an authors' direct-to-readers book-selling consortium, is having a sale today (Aug 30), and you can pick up all four of Sherwood Smith's entrancing Phoenix Feather books for $10.00. This series, which draws on Chinese history, culture, and storytelling motifs but is set in its own world, has marvelous characters and an intricate, immensely satisfying story. One of my favorite series ever.
Story thing: My friend Nando da Costa Pires has sent me another story. The protagonist of this one is one of six children. Five were born healthy and handsome, one was disabled--our hero. "But his parents loved him dearly," Nando writes, and my heart was filled with love. I can't wait to read more! I will translate it, and then the world will have another folktale from Ainaro, Timor-Leste, as told to us by Nando, available in English!
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Date: 2022-08-31 03:19 am (UTC)Another Nando story, huzzah!
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Date: 2022-08-31 06:53 am (UTC)That's a wonderful thing to say. Thank you.
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Date: 2022-08-31 01:07 pm (UTC)(I can, in fact, wait, and will. :)
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Date: 2022-08-31 01:08 pm (UTC)