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Rhonda Parrish

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Rhonda Parrish has the attention span of a magpie. Not only can she not focus on a single project at a time, but she also fails at sticking to one genre or even one type of writing (she does manage to stay true to one hockey team, though – Let’s go Oilers!). Perhaps best known for her work as an anthology editor – the Ottawa Review of Books called her “Canada’s best-known and most prolific speculative fiction anthologist” – Rhonda also works as a short story writer, novelist, game writer and a poet.

She has been honoured to be included in a handful of ‘Best of’ anthologies, earn a coveted starred review from Publisher’s Weekly and be shortlisted for several awards including the Rhysling Award, the Aurora Award, the Dwarf Stars Award, Next G ...more

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	Hollow 3.73 avg rating — 173 ratings — published 2020 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Fae by Rhonda Parrish (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Sidney Blaylock Jr. (Goodreads Author), Amanda Block 4.19 avg rating — 136 ratings — published 2014 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Mrs. Claus: Not the Fairy Tale They Say by Rhonda Parrish (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Laura VanArendonk Baugh (Goodreads Author), C.B. Calsing (Goodreads Author) 4.03 avg rating — 94 ratings — published 2017 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A is for Apocalypse 3.89 avg rating — 95 ratings — published 2014 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Swashbuckling Cats: Nine Lives on the Seven Seas by Rhonda Parrish (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Beth Cato (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Krista D. Ball (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 3.84 avg rating — 94 ratings — published 2020 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Grimm, Grit and Gasoline: Dieselpunk & Decopunk Fairy Tales by Rhonda Parrish (Goodreads Author) (editor), Zannier Alejandra (Goodreads Author), Alicia K. Anderson (Goodreads Author) 4.21 avg rating — 84 ratings — published 2019 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Corvidae by Rhonda Parrish (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Jane Yolen (Contributor), Kat Otis (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 4.36 avg rating — 61 ratings — published 2015 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	F is for Fairy by Rhonda Parrish (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Pete Aldin (Goodreads Author), Steve Bornstein (Goodreads Author) 4.13 avg rating — 62 ratings — published 2019 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Clockwork, Curses and Coal by Rhonda Parrish (Goodreads Author) (editor), Christina Ruth Johnson (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Joseph Halden (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 4.23 avg rating — 57 ratings — published 2021 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Eerie Edmonton by Rhonda Parrish (Goodreads Author), Rona Anderson (With) 3.86 avg rating — 58 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Rhonda Parrish's Magical Menageries (5 books)
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Punked Up Fairy Tales (3 books)
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Elemental Anthologies (4 books)
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Aphanasian Adventures (5 books)
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The One (Dark Future #1)

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"With a Broken Wing is a strong successor to One in the Hand. With its strong characters, expanding mythology, and steadily escalating stakes, Parrish continues to deepen Autumn’s world in meaningful ways. As Norse mythology and real life continue to ...more
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“Compassion, During and After the Fall Cory Cone THE WOMAN SHUFFLES ACROSS THE COLD CEMENT FLOOR, testing every surface. She chews the exposed pipes, but they burn her lips. She gnaws the corner of the rotten wood table, and it seems it might do, but in the end she earns only splinters for her effort. Her hand probes the drawers of the table, secures a handful of rusty bolts and pours them like candy into her mouth. One bite and she learns that these will not satisfy, so she spits them, along with bits of her teeth, to the floor.”
― Rhonda Parrish, Forbidden Island

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“Now I know what a ghost is. Unfinished business, that's what.”
― Salman Rushdie, The Satanic Verses

tags: ghosts, regrets

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“He was trying to tell me something."
Derek snorted. "Aren’t they all? Must be a rule in the ghost handbook—if in danger of evaporating, make sure you’re in the middle of a dire pronouncement.”
― Kelley Armstrong, The Reckoning

tags: chloe-saunders, derek, ghosts, necromancer, supernatural, urban-fantasy, young-adult

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message 5: by Rhonda

Mar 25, 2013 04:04PM

I really need to get back to reading fewer books at a time...

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message 4: by Rhonda

Feb 27, 2013 12:01PM

Please stop recommending your own book to me. I'm sure that you would like me to read it, but you need to understand that I suspect your suggestion might be a wee bit biased.

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message 3: by William

Mar 24, 2011 04:55PM

Hi Rhonda - Thank you for your friendship on Goodreads!
Please visit my website http://www.peteradarkenedfairytale.co.uk
to view book snippets. Expected release end of March.
Best wishes, William

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message 2: by Bradley

Jan 27, 2011 07:00AM

Thank you for adding me as a friend. =)

Dreamsbane of Tamalor

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message 1: by Richard

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Hi, Rhonda. Thanks for your kind invitation, which it's my pleasure to accept. I hope you're well and happy.

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