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October 30, 2018

Jane Yolen Prize Pack Sweepstakes!

Alec Checkerfield Uncategorized briar rose, elizabeth story, finding baba yaga, how to fracture a fairy tale, Jane Yolen, sweepstakes, tor.com

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The fine folks over at TOR.COM are giving away three of Jane Yolen’s remarkable books including her latest collection HOW TO FRACTURE A FAIRY TALE.

Jane Yolen has two books coming out in the next week—Finding Baba Yaga, available October 30th from Tor.com Publishing, and HOW TO FRACTURE A FAIRY TALE, available November 5th from Tachyon! To celebrate, we want to send you a copy of each of these books, along with a copy of her classic Briar Rose, which was recently reissued by Tor!

In Finding Baba Yaga, a young woman discovers the power to speak up and take control of her fate—a theme that has never been more timely than it is now. Natasha gathers the strength to leave her controlling father and quiescent mother, and comes upon a little house in the wood: A house that walks about on chicken feet and is inhabited by a fairy tale witch. In finding Baba Yaga, Natasha finds her voice, her power, herself….

In HOW TO FRACTURE A FAIRY TALE, Yolen breaks open the classics to reveal their crystalline secrets: a philosophical bridge that misses its troll, a spinner of straw as a falsely accused moneylender, the villainous wolf adjusting poorly to retirement. Each of these offerings features a new author note and original poem, illuminating tales that are old, new, and brilliantly refined.

And Yolen’s graceful retelling of the German folktale of “Briar Rose”—known to some as “Sleeping Beauty”—sets the story amid forests patrolled by the German army during World War II. Yolen confronts the deeply tragic events of the Holocaust with lyrical prose and rich characterizations that tell a tale of good and evil, hope and despair.

Visit TOR.COM for details.

For more info on HOW TO FRACTURE A FAIRY TALE, visit the Tachyon page.

Cover design by Elizabeth Story

February 11, 2017

Happy birthday to the iconic grandmaster Jane Yolen

Alec Checkerfield Uncategorized birthday, briar rose, devil's arthimetic, elizabeth story, how do dinosaurs say goodnight?, Jane Yolen, owl moon, sister light sister dark, the emerald circus, the young merlin trilogy

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Called both the Hans
Christian Andersen of America and the Aesop of the twentieth century,
Jane Yolen, with her first publication, the non-fiction book about
women pirates PIRATES IN PETTICOATS (1963), began an amazing career
of over three hundred and fifty books (and counting). Her impressive
and acclaimed output includes children’s fiction, poetry, short
stories, graphic novels, nonfiction, fantasy, and science fiction.
Her best-known publications include OWL MOON, THE DEVIL’S
ARITHMETIC, BRIAR ROSE, and SISTER LIGHT, SISTER DARK.

Among her many
honors are the Caldecott Medal (OWL MOON [1988]), Christopher Medal
(THE SEEING STICK [1977], HOW DO DINOSAURS SAY GOODNIGHT? [2000]),
Nebula (“Sister Emily’s Lightship” [1998], Lost Girls [1999]),
World Fantasy (FAVORITE FOLKTALES FROM AROUND THE WORLD [1987]),
Mythopoeic (CARDS OF GRIEF [1985], BRIAR ROSE [1993], THE YOUNG
MERLIN TRILOGY [1998, PASSAGER, HOBBY, and MERLIN]), Golden Kite (THE
GIRL WHO CRIED FLOWERS & OTHER TALES [1974]), and National Jewish Book Award (THE DEVIL’S ARITHMETIC [1989]). Yolen received the World
Fantasy Association’s Lifetime Achievement Award in 2009, the
Rhysling Science Fiction Poetry Grand Master Award, and will be
presented the Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award at 52^nd
Annual Nebula Conference and Awards Ceremony on May 18-21, 2017.

Many of Yolen’s
shorter works have been collected in numerous works including THE
GIRL WHO CRIED FLOWERS AND OTHER TALES, THE HUNDREDTH DOVE AND OTHER
TALES, DREAM WEAVER, THE WHITETHORN WOOD AND OTHER MAGICKS,
STORYTELLER, TWELVE IMPOSSIBLE THINGS BEFORE BREAKFAST, SISTER
EMILY’S LIGHTSHIP AND OTHER STORIES, ONCE UPON A TIME (SHE SAID), THE
LAST SELCHIE CHILD, and the forthcoming THE EMERALD CIRCUS. Her
editorial works include the anthologies ZOO 2000, FAVORITE FOLKTALES
FROM AROUND THE WORLD, WEREWOLVES: A COLLECTION OF ORIGINAL STORIES,
2041: TWELVE SHORT STORIES ABOUT THE FUTURE BY TOP SCIENCE FICTION
WRITERS, THE HAUNTED HOUSE: A COLLECTION OF ORIGINAL STORIES (with
Martin H. Greenberg), FEARLESS GIRLS, WISE WOMEN, AND BELOVED
SISTERS: HEROINES IN FOLKTALES FROM AROUND THE WORLD (with Kathleen
Ragan), GRAY HEROES: ELDER TALES FROM AROUND THE WORLD, and MIGHTIER
THAN THE SWORD: WORLD FOLKTALES FOR STRONG BOYS.

Because she
apparently never sleeps, Yolen is also a teacher of writing and a
book reviewer. She lives in Western Massachusetts and St. Andrew,
Scotland.

All of us at
Tachyon, wish the incredible Jane a happy birthday. May your mythic
travels never end.

For more info on THE EMERALD CIRCUS, visit the Tachyon page.

Cover design by Elizabeth Story