Endicott Studio Auction begins today!
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ellenkushnerBeginning around 7 pm EST on Saturday, Feb. 12, there will be a week-long online auction in support of Terri Windling's remarkable Endicott Studio's online Journal of Mythic Arts
http://www.endicott-studio.com
The auction runs through Feb. 23rd. Enter it via:
http://www.duirwaighgallery.com/about_news.php?section=60
Various "friends and relations" of Terri and Endicott have banded together under the very kind auspices (and very hard work of Angi Sullins) of Duirwaigh Gallery to donate a host of treasures: Neil Gaiman, Charles de Lint, Charles Vess, Thomas Canty, Alan Lee, Brian Froud, Wendy Froud, Kinuko Y. Craft are just some of the writers and artists to whom Terri and the work she does with Endicott mean so much. They have donated signed books, prints, and orginal art work (paintings, drawings, photography, and sculpture) . . . it's a real cornucopia.
I had a swell time figuring out something special I could contribute: in the end, I went down to the basement and fetched up my pristine copies of all the American editions of THOMAS THE RHYMER: the original Morrow hardcover, with a wraparound cover by Tom Canty, the Tor paperback with a *different* Canty cover, and the new Bantam paperback with that stunning Kinuko Craft http://www.kycraft.com/Detail%20pages/Thomas%20the%20Rhymer.html and signed them, and mailed the books to their respective artists, who promised to sign them as well - and possibly sketch something in there for lagniappe? To provide something for impecunious buyers in the auction, I signed some cover flats from Kinuko’s THOMAS, which I hope she’ll also decorate. We'll see . . . . [SEE NOTE BELOW ]
Not only is THOMAS the most Mythic Arts-y work I've written, but I wrote it entirely because of Terri: Back in the days when we were both nursing broken hearts in a rambly old NY apartment on the Upper West Side, Terri decided to edit a series of light, fun paperback novels based on traditional ballads. I looked at her and said, “If you let anyone else write ‘Thomas the Rhymer,’ I’ll kill you.” (As I recall, she had, in fact, already gotten a “Thomas” proposal from another writer, but with her usual kindness and courtesy she somehow sweet-talked them into giving it up.) Then, of course, I had to write it. I had only finished one novel so far, SWORDSPOINT, and that took me years. Terri gave me a deadline of about 6 months, and when I was down to about 6 weeks (with only a few pages written) she let me shut myself up in her Boston studio for several of them (while she went to England to visit Alan Lee, wasn’t it?) . . . . . I played all her records – Silly Wizard, the Cramps, Alain Stivell – and wrote feverishly, telling myself, “If it’s crap, Terri will tell me. We’ll fix it together. She won’t let me make a fool of myself. Terri will help me . . . .” I emerged with about 75% of what eventually became the published novel (which did not, in the end, go into the “light fun paperback series,” as you know – the series never happened, and my agent said, “This is your next novel, Ellen.” Ha! If I’d knownf I’d known that, I would have taken ten times and long to write it, and agonized a whole lot more! Sly dogs).
I’ve got more to say about Terri and Endicott, but I want to get this up now. So let me just encourage you to support the community of Mythic Artists she is busy creating for all of us, by bidding in the auction; and if the auction’s not for you, you can still support Endicott Studio by becoming a Friend of Endicott at
http://www.endicott-studio.com/friends.html
http://www.endicott-studio.com
The auction runs through Feb. 23rd. Enter it via:
http://www.duirwaighgallery.com/about_news.php?section=60
Various "friends and relations" of Terri and Endicott have banded together under the very kind auspices (and very hard work of Angi Sullins) of Duirwaigh Gallery to donate a host of treasures: Neil Gaiman, Charles de Lint, Charles Vess, Thomas Canty, Alan Lee, Brian Froud, Wendy Froud, Kinuko Y. Craft are just some of the writers and artists to whom Terri and the work she does with Endicott mean so much. They have donated signed books, prints, and orginal art work (paintings, drawings, photography, and sculpture) . . . it's a real cornucopia.
I had a swell time figuring out something special I could contribute: in the end, I went down to the basement and fetched up my pristine copies of all the American editions of THOMAS THE RHYMER: the original Morrow hardcover, with a wraparound cover by Tom Canty, the Tor paperback with a *different* Canty cover, and the new Bantam paperback with that stunning Kinuko Craft http://www.kycraft.com/Detail%20pages/Thomas%20the%20Rhymer.html and signed them, and mailed the books to their respective artists, who promised to sign them as well - and possibly sketch something in there for lagniappe? To provide something for impecunious buyers in the auction, I signed some cover flats from Kinuko’s THOMAS, which I hope she’ll also decorate. We'll see . . . . [SEE NOTE BELOW ]
Not only is THOMAS the most Mythic Arts-y work I've written, but I wrote it entirely because of Terri: Back in the days when we were both nursing broken hearts in a rambly old NY apartment on the Upper West Side, Terri decided to edit a series of light, fun paperback novels based on traditional ballads. I looked at her and said, “If you let anyone else write ‘Thomas the Rhymer,’ I’ll kill you.” (As I recall, she had, in fact, already gotten a “Thomas” proposal from another writer, but with her usual kindness and courtesy she somehow sweet-talked them into giving it up.) Then, of course, I had to write it. I had only finished one novel so far, SWORDSPOINT, and that took me years. Terri gave me a deadline of about 6 months, and when I was down to about 6 weeks (with only a few pages written) she let me shut myself up in her Boston studio for several of them (while she went to England to visit Alan Lee, wasn’t it?) . . . . . I played all her records – Silly Wizard, the Cramps, Alain Stivell – and wrote feverishly, telling myself, “If it’s crap, Terri will tell me. We’ll fix it together. She won’t let me make a fool of myself. Terri will help me . . . .” I emerged with about 75% of what eventually became the published novel (which did not, in the end, go into the “light fun paperback series,” as you know – the series never happened, and my agent said, “This is your next novel, Ellen.” Ha! If I’d knownf I’d known that, I would have taken ten times and long to write it, and agonized a whole lot more! Sly dogs).
I’ve got more to say about Terri and Endicott, but I want to get this up now. So let me just encourage you to support the community of Mythic Artists she is busy creating for all of us, by bidding in the auction; and if the auction’s not for you, you can still support Endicott Studio by becoming a Friend of Endicott at
http://www.endicott-studio.com/friends.html
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Date: 2005-02-12 12:22 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2005-02-12 04:24 pm (UTC)MKK
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Date: 2005-02-15 06:12 pm (UTC)I mean to put a lot up about THOMAS's sources on my website, when I get the chance - meanwhile, I'm so glad you've found an online source for Child Ballads.
Here are some of the links I plan to put on my THOMAS page:
http://www.legends.dm.net/ballads/thomas.html
http://www.mythopoetica.com/numinous/tom.php
http://www.britannia.com/bios/rhymer.html
http://www.endicott-studio.com/forcbmof.html
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Date: 2005-02-24 11:28 pm (UTC)This is way, way cool, especially after the crappy day I've had at work. Thanks so much :)
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Date: 2005-02-12 05:07 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-02-15 06:14 pm (UTC)AUCTION ERRATA
Date: 2005-02-15 06:25 pm (UTC)It's on page:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=29223&item=6946724702&rd=1&tc=photo
There are errors in the information posted on the site which have been corrected in an addendum that you might not notice; the correction reads:
"This very rare ARC (advance reading copy) of 'The Fall of the Kings' was written by Ellen Kushner and Delia Sherman and is a trade paperback released before the official copy in 2002. (not 1999, as stated above)."
Meanwhile, I am drooling and slobbering over what Tom and Kinuko have done with the paperbacks of THOMAS, which are being sold as a set at
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=29223&item=6946716931&rd=1&tc=photo
Kinuko's drawing of the Elf Queen kissing Thomas particularly
http://images.auctionworks.com/fullView.asp?img=http://images.auctionworks.com/hi/48/48391/rhymer-remarqe-k.jpg
has me "sweating with enlightenment," as we like to say....If you've been wondering what to get me for my birthday, seek no further!
The auction on these items will close on Feb. 19th.