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  <name><![CDATA[Clare Bell]]></name>
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  <about><![CDATA[Wow, it has been a great Spring 2009! 

From March 14 to May 9, I posted an experimental Ratha novelette on Twitter, entitled &quot;Ratha's Island&quot;, which kept me very busy.  You can find the entire story archived here:
First archive for Ratha's Island on the Forum http://forum.rathascourage.com/index.php?showtopic=156
While visiting the Forum, check out the Named role-play at: http://forum.rathascourage.com/index.php?showtopic=9&amp;st=0

Ratha's Courage was a finalist for the Ursa Major Awards, and is still in the running for the ForeWord Magazine's Book of the Year Award/

 In January, I attended Further Confusion 09 in San Jose as a Guest of Honor and had a great time. I plan to go again to FurCon 2010.





Ratha's Courage is on the Ursa Major Awards Recommended Reading List for Novels.  The Ursa Major Awards are the furry/anthropomorphic community's equivalent of the SF world's Hugo Awards  http://www.ursamajorawards.org/ReadList.htm

Ratha and the Named on Twitter!  See the ClanChirps, http://www.twitter.com/rathacat

Also recent editions of The Scratching Log, including &quot;Ratha on Twitter&quot; and &quot;The Named Are BeingTwits Again&quot;
Http://www.rathascourage.com//scratchlog.html


Children's and Y/A Literature Bloggers Cybil Awards Open for Nominations. Nominate your favorite book published in 2008. Ratha's Courage has already been nominated. Yeeearooo!

http://dadtalk.typepad.com/cybils/


Ratha's Courage now in print from Imaginator Press
 
 ( http://www.imaginatorpress.com ) and
 
distributed by by Beagle Bay

 ( http://www.beaglebay.com


New Ratha and the Named page on Facebook

Check out:
 http://www.new.facebook.com/group.php?gid=45592366176#/pages/Ratha-and-the-Named-Prehistoric-Cat-Clan/30828934743

If it doesn't put you there, scroll down and use the link on the Wall.

Imaginator Press to Publish Ratha's Courage Print Edition
&lt;br&gt;
Sheila Ruth of Imaginator Press and I (Clare Bell, author of the Named series), have signed an agreement to publish a print edition of Ratha's Courage.  Sheila also co-administers Wands and Worlds, a well-known teenage fantasy fiction fan site ( www.wandsandworlds.com).  Agent Richard Curtis helped arrange the agreement. For more information and Sheila's announcement on WW, please see: 
&lt;br&gt;
http://www.wandsandworlds.com/community/node/5276
&lt;br&gt;
I am really pleased that Sheila is going to publish Ratha's Courage.  Yeeearooo!
CB
&lt;br&gt;
My kitty, Dannycat, is on this Friday's LOLGalleycats!
If you like the pic, vote for him.  http://www.mediabistro.com/Galleycat

I just added the first chapter of Clan Ground, Book Two of the Ratha Series.

Blogged gave The Scratching Log author blog a 6.9 rating. Not too bad for my first weblog. See http://www.rathascourage.com/scratchlog.html

Home website forum is up and running
See link on http://www.rathascourage.com and join the conversation.

Ratha Series recommended by Horn Book for Warriors fans

In answer to the parent of a 4th grade Warriors fan, about other books to read,
Horn Book Magazine columnist  Claire E Gross recommended the Ratha series as a good follow-on for older Warriors fans.

Here's a quote from the May 2008 Ask the Horn Book feature:

&quot;A: Two direct corollaries to the Warriors series come to mind (for those of you without pre-teens, the series is a multi-volumed, multi-tiered fantasy drama about sentient, heroic cats). There’s SF Said and Dave McKean’s two Varjak Paw books, about a street cat gifted in martial arts. And in a few years (the target age is a little older), try Clare Bell’s five-volumed Named series (beginning with Ratha’s Creature), about the epic struggles of giant prehistoric cats&quot;

Here's the link:

http://www.hbook.com/newsletter/index.html

Thank you, Horn Book!
Do you ever review E-books?  Ratha's Courage could use a boost...

My thanks to Sheila Ruth and Sharyn November, who sent me the news.

Ratha's Courage E-released on Baen Books 

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