Villains & Tricksters
Feb. 8th, 2007 12:58 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ellenkushnerYippee!! Just sold that fairy tale villains story to Datlow & Windling for their middle-grade anthology! Had to rewrite it more times than I like to think til I got it right, but "The Shoes that were Danced to Pieces" finally made it. (Sorry, Holly - had to take this opportunity to sing the
I hate being the oldest princess. You always have to be responsible and watch the younger ones, and make sure they have their shoes on before we leave, and that Serena doesn’t forget her scarf so she doesn’t catch a chill, and Imelda took her asthma medicine so she doesn’t wheeze, and Larissa has eaten properly so she doesn’t she’ll faint, and keep the twins from fighting.
And that’s just at night. )
Also thrilled that D&W's teen-and-up collection of trickster tales, The Coyote Road, is finally coming out from Viking this summer, with my Jessica Campion story, "Honored Guest," in it - plus stories by an all-star cast including beloveds Elizabeth Wein, Caroline Stevermer, Pat McKillip, Ellen Klages, Dora Goss, and . . . well, here's the whole list. Kind of amazing. We're doing a reading/signing at Books of Wonder in NYC on June 9th - I'll keep you posted, or Ellen Datlow will.
I hate being the oldest princess. You always have to be responsible and watch the younger ones, and make sure they have their shoes on before we leave, and that Serena doesn’t forget her scarf so she doesn’t catch a chill, and Imelda took her asthma medicine so she doesn’t wheeze, and Larissa has eaten properly so she doesn’t she’ll faint, and keep the twins from fighting.
And that’s just at night. )
Also thrilled that D&W's teen-and-up collection of trickster tales, The Coyote Road, is finally coming out from Viking this summer, with my Jessica Campion story, "Honored Guest," in it - plus stories by an all-star cast including beloveds Elizabeth Wein, Caroline Stevermer, Pat McKillip, Ellen Klages, Dora Goss, and . . . well, here's the whole list. Kind of amazing. We're doing a reading/signing at Books of Wonder in NYC on June 9th - I'll keep you posted, or Ellen Datlow will.