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More "10 books"

Not a bull's head but a minotaur.
Clive Hicks-Jenkins

I love popping up on these lists. It's fun to be on one, and it's interesting to see what books are chosen. Here's the third one I've seen one of my books on, this one from Erica Eisdorfer, novelist and 35-year ruler of the Bull's Head Bookshop at UNC-Chapel Hill. That's an awful lot of service to words in the right order! Thanks, Erica.

Dragons?

Study by Clive Hicks-Jenkins for the jacket of Glimmerglass


"Are there dragons in the book?"

Despite the vibrant one on the cover, there are no dragons in "Glimmerglass." There are, however, some salamanders in a cellar. Nor are there any flying lions. There is, however, a little statue of a minotaur that becomes important later on.

What is it?

This book stands "between" genres, if we must

More "10 books that haunt me"

Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, 1995
paperback, Bard, 1996
Editions from Literary Guild, Claasen Verlag,
Editions Anne Carriere, Ediciones B. Also in braille.

Catherwood

Thanks to director/producer Stacy Title for including me on her "10 books that haunt me" list--I'm glad to be popping up in such places, and it's interesting to see preferences. (See Midori Snyder's list here, with a different

Thaliad goes to South Africa

     This is modern day epic poetry about the destruction of our 21st century world and the seven children who escape topping mountains and the great inferno.
     One hundred pages of mesmerizing iambic pentameter surge and swell, plunge and soar the journeying through the children's grief and rotting remains of what was our civilisation, until few of the seven triumph over danger and evil

"The Comb" at Far Fetched Fables

Fantasy Magazine, no. 7 (2007) Editor Sean Wallace.
Reprint in Fantasy: The Best of the Year, edited by Rich Horton (Prime Books, 2008)
Podcast at Far Fetched Fables No. 20 Bill Congreve and Marly Youmans

"The Comb" is the most drastically pruned of any short story that I have written--it is a third or perhaps a fourth of what was originally written. At the time when I was revising, I

Publication day for Glimmerglass!

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Full front quote:I cannot recommend an author more 
than Marly Youmans, whose fantastic prose 
is absolutely gorgeous and haunting.--Sébastien Doubinsky


Glimmerglass (Mercer, 9/2014),

via indies, online venues, and Mercer.



Interior/exterior art by Clive Hicks-Jenkins.


a novelist


Glimmerglass is a series of mirrors and panes that splinter and soften to let you

Katrina Kittle's writing class

I met Katrina at the Antioch Workshops this summer and can say that I like and recommend her. She's running an online writing class that starts very soon:

Are you interested in creative writing, but need a kick in the pants to finally start a project...or to finish one? Katrina Kittle's online class series "Inspiration and Motivation" begins September 3rd. This 5 week class is for writers of

Glimmerglass by starlight

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of the catalogue page.

STARS

I ended the day last night with stargazing... The brilliance of the sky lured us to wander down to Council Rock park and use the ipad to identify constellations hanging over Otsego Lake aka Glimmerglass. The lake looked especially glimmerglassian by starlight, quite smooth with very slight motion and one little fish making

Word frolics in Norfolk

In September I'll be doing an event at the SIBA trade show in Norfolk. And now I've added an open-to-the-public reading with Luisa Igloria. It'll be my first event for the new book--and I think for hers at well. We've planned to get together for years, and now an event is finally happening. We shall read and eat (and frolic and drink chipotle lime margaritas with our feet on Alice-in-Wonderland

Pushcart news

Thanks to Joseph Salemi, editor of the print-and-also-pdf magazine Trinacria, for nominating "The Nuba Christians" for a Pushcart Prize. The poem and another called "The Midden Cross" are in issue 11--first time I have sent there. Mr. Salemi is a highly opinionated poet and professor, but his strongest demand for poetry appears to be that it be formal and well-wrought.

As guest editor at The