Myth
is the sea on which the Fantasy story floats.
Legend
is the wind that drives it.
Its place of birth is
the Fairy Tale.
I'm pleased to announce the release of the first book in Aqueduct Press's spring 2013 list, The Queen, the Cambion, and Seven Others by Richard Bowes, the 35th in our Conversation Pieces series. Rick has won the World Fantasy Award twice, and the Lambda Award (for his excellent Minions of the Moon) and been nominated several times for the Nebula.
This collection of
modern Fairy Tales, their Fantasy offspring, and their legendary ancestors
presents eight of his stories including “The Lady of Wands,” in which a Fey cop
tells her story, that appears here for the first time. Also original to this
book is Rick's afterword, “A Secret History of Small Books,” which traces the
path of Fairy Tales as a refuge for women, gay/lesbian writers, and LGBT
readers from the sevententh century on.
This collection also
includes “Seven Smiles and Six Frowns” a story of the evolution of a Fairy
Tale; “The Cinnamon Cavalier,” a Fairy Tale variation a critic has called, “The
Gingerbread Man, writ large,” and “The Margay’s Children,” a modern take on a
“Beastly Bridegroom” tale; “The Progress of Solstice and Chance,” with its complex
sexual relations and invented pantheon of gods, the outrageous situation and
characters of “The Bear Dresser’s Secret,” and the “The Lady of Wands,” set in
a fairy/mortal demimonde; and two Arthurian tales, “Sir Morgravain Speaks of
Night Dragons and Other Things” and “The Queen and the Cambion,” in which the
eponymous queen, though famous, is not Guinevere.
Aqueduct is selling it for $9 at www.aqueductpress.com. We'll be releasing an ebook edition soon.
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