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It's been a while since I did a book report. Sorry.Been ...

 

It's been a while since I did a book report. Sorry.

Been crazy-busy with the Ye Olde Dragon's Library blog, and all sorts of editing assignments for Mt. Zion Ridge Press, as well as prepping several of my own books for publication, both new releases and re-releases.

Here's one of the recently read books:

BECOMING MRS. LEWIS

Patti Callahan

This is a book I've had sitting in my to-be-read bookshelf for a long time. Far too long! 

I knew about the romance of CS Lewis and Joy Davidman, from several different viewpoints in various books, as well as two movies, both titled SHADOWLANDS. 

This novel is told from Joy's viewpoint. It quotes from many of her writings, essays and poems and letters, and follows her spiritual awakening, her personal struggles, and her search for God.  Her long correspondence with CS Lewis grew into a deep friendship, a shared hunger for spiritual things, a mentorship on his part. She helped to edit several of his books, and was a major influence in his novel TIL WE HAVE FACES, the story of Psyche and Cupid, as told by Psyche's sister.

If you're a Lewis-phile or like me a Free Narnian, this is a book you need to read.

Life Imitates Art?

 

DRESS REHEARSAL
Jim Doran
A high school drama production of fairytales becomes just a little too "real."

11 days -- 5 stories to go.
Ready for a new angle on Red Riding Hood?
13 authors offer 12 stories to make you laugh, shiver, and go, "Hmm..."

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Coming May 1 in paper and ebook.

Curses Foiled -- Again

 

Releasing May 1

6 stories and 13 days to go.

We return to a more traditional setting  for Red Riding Hood....

THE CURSE

Angela R. Watts 

A curse has brought a werewolf to the forest.

To save her grandmother and village, she must brave the woods at night to fetch a healer.

Can she save her cursed friend as well?

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Check out the other fairytale anthologies!

Update: What Am I Reading? What are YOU reading? (No, really, I want to know -- let's talk!!)

 

So, I have a confession to make:

I READ MORE THAN ONE BOOK AT A TIME!

What I mean by that is, I have different books in different formats for different times of the day.

Sometimes it takes me weeks to read a book. It all depends on what mood I'm in, how busy I am, if I'm driving, if I'm relaxing, if I'm waiting somewhere, if I'm totally brain-dead at the end of the day and couldn't read the instructions to open a jar of aspirin if my life depended on it ....

Here's what I'm reading right now:

THE WONDERLAND TRIALSSara EllaAudiobookThis is usually for when I'm driving, or I'm walking around a store, shopping.
Take elements from ALICE IN WONDERLAND and mix them with a touch of THE HUNGER GAMES, throw in some racial oppression, a totalitarian state, magic, stolen identities ... Whew! I'm only 2 hours into the story, and I wish I had more errands to run so I can keep listening!!!





THE CARPET PEOPLETerry Pratchett
This is on my tablet, to read during mental health breaks during the day, or when I'm relaxing between a full day of work at the computer and dinnertime.Often, I get a chapter in at bedtime.Which conflicts with the third book on this list.
Terry Pratchett is the inspired, creatively insane author of the Discworld books. That ought to tell you enough right there about his wry British sense of humor -- and if you don't know Discworld, get out there and start reading!!
The carpet people are ... teeny, tiny, microscopic tribes of people who live in ... wait for it ... a carpet! Wacky, deliciously fun, with political commentary however you interpret it.






MIRACLE ON 10TH STREETMadelaine L'Engle
This is ... gasp! ... a PAPER book. It sits on the table next to my bed. I should be reading a couple chapters every night, but ... yeah, I yield to temptation and indulge in wacky humor some nights instead of exploring a spiritual plain.
From the title, can you guess this is a CHRISTMAS book?Yeah, I'm a little behind on my seasonal reading.But y'know what? We should celebrate Christmas all year long. (that's a blatant reference to A CHRISTMAS CAROLE.....)

Sometimes it's Good to be a Wolf ...

 

15 days - 7 stories until release day.

WOLVES AMONG THE LAMBS

Deborah Cullins Smith 

Her sister has been taken. 

A veteran goes hunting.

A wolf goes disguised as an innocent lamb to destroy the predators from within...

Red Riding Hood wasn't so helpless after all ...

Save $1 on ebook EARLY: 4/23-4/30

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Tales from the Forest: A new RED

 

17 days and 8 authors to go until the May 1 release

Turning Red Riding Hood inside out and upside down.

KELLI AND KIRMIZI

Michelle Houston

2 cousins, as different as day and night.  

Beauty and wolf.

Could they break the fairytale mold the world tried to force on them?

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Update! Long-awaited sequel to THE KINDNESS CURSE.

 So, what's up around here lately?

Been kind of busy ....

I'm delighted to announce that MAJJIAN SPRINGS, the long-awaited, long-delayed sequel to THE KINDNESS CURSE, will release in print, ebook and audio on June 1.

What's it about?

Happily ever after is never easy …

 

Formerly an evil queen, Merrigan has reformed. Reunited with herchildhood true love, Prince Bryan, she sets out to return to her father'skingdom, to break the curse she caused to fall on it.

In every kingdom along the way, Merrigan and Bryan, and their friends,Bib the magic book and Crystal the magic mirror, face magical puzzles andcurses that must be lifted.

A league of disgruntled, elitist majjians are turninghappily-ever-afters into curses, in their quest to control all the magic in theworld. Talking frogs and swans are vanishing. The majjian springs are dryingup, threatening the source of magic everywhere.

 

19 Days and 9 Stories Left to Tantalize

 

You'll never see Red Riding Hood the same again ...

Countdown: 19 days & 9 stories to hear about.
Anthology of Red Riding Hood-inspired stories.

A CACTUS AMONG WOLVES
Yvonne McArthur
A motorcycle-riding granny and her grandkids on an outing filled with explosions, critters, wolves on wheels, and painful memories.

Release: 5/1/2024

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Counting down: 21 days left until TALES FROM THE FOREST

 

21 days left.12 stories, 13 authors.Coming May 1.These aren't your granny's fairytales.Just ask Red Riding Hood.THE WAYS OF A WOLFLindsi McIntyreWolves can wear many faces, some quite charming.How does an old woman save her village when no one will listen to the old stories that hold too much frightening truth?Save $1 off the ebook 4/23-4/30YeOldeDragonBooks.com

Ready for Red Riding Hood? Fairytale Anthology 4 is coming May 1

 

COUNTDOWN: 23 days left.

Releasing n May 1: 12 new versions of Red Riding Hood. Some dark, some twisted, some funny, and some facing the ugliness of our modern, un-magical world.

FACE THE WOLF
Kathleen Bird

Late night on a college campus.
A brute who doesn't know the meaning of love.
An athlete who can't outrun her fears.
An hero with a new kind of "axe."

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