Barbara's Blog

  I have a short story - in fact, a re-print, the first short-story I ever wrote - in the anthology "Shapers of Worlds, Vol. II," which will be out Tuesday, Nov. 2. "The Little Tailor and the Elves" appeared originally in Jane Yolen's Xanadu-2 anthology - I think we were asked to do re-takes of fairy-tales. I've done a number of re-takes of fairy-tales - particularly with Sun Wolf and Starhawk Further Adventures - but this one, in modern New York (or at least New York in the early '90s, which was when the story was written), though not a Sun Wolf/Starhawk tale, is one of my favorites. https://www.amazon.com/Shapers-Worlds-II-featured-Worldshapers-ebook/dp/B09FM3M37Y/

  I shamelessly stole this from Just History Posts - a fun site that I visit when I can, though it's been b usy, busy times. A lot of cascading deadlines (including the fantasy I started seven years ago which unexpectedly came to life again) and the whole Holiday cycle thing coming up. Plus teaching. Luckily, the deadlines all come before Finals and Research Paper Time, and the holidays themselves look to be quiet and undemanding (except that I have to start the second Hollywood Murder Mystery on the 23rd of November...) (mostly because the editorial notes for Ben January #19 are due in on the 22nd). I plan to celebrate Halloween as I always do: by turning out the lights in the front of the house and watching the Rocky Horror Picture Show quietly in the back. Don't dream it... be it. In other news, George's cyberpunk masterpiece "When Gravity Fails" will be downpriced, digitally, on-line from Open Road Media on Halloween (Sunday the 31st) - US, UK, Canada, and Aus