My true love gave to me, “Bloody Hands” by E. Grace Diehl and “A Perfect Rose” by Gary Inbinder.
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E. Grace Diehl is the author of a YA fantasy series that begins with Kinlea Keeper.
About E. Grace Diehl +/-
| E. Grace started devouring folklore and fairytale anthologies at a very early age, and her folktale habit has only gotten worse with the propagation of online collections. She often used world folklore in English translation as a teaching tool when she taught high school ESL (English as a second language) in Japan. Her bachelor of arts degree was in Musical Theatre, and in the course of her studies she played the parts of fairies, damsels in distress, and even the odd toad. She is currently working on an MFA in Asian Performance and can add the Chinese folktale heroine White Snake to the list. Naturally, folk and faerie tales have so strong a foothold in her that they can’t help but come out in the stories that escape her pen. Her other literary influences include William Shakespeare, Dr. Seuss, and Niel Gaiman. Kinlea Keeper is the first in a series of mixed-folklore/fantasy stories about Keepers and Haneth’s End. The series community can be found at http://kinleakeeper.com and the author’s personal homepage (which details her other writing and acting work) can be found at http://worldsofwords.org. |
About Kinlea Keeper +/-
| Kinlea Waltham has spent his entire life being told he’s dying. He’s never left his house or made a single friend. Everything changes when his parents send him to stay with family friends in the country (to “die in cleaner air”), and his hosts tell him that he is not actually ill. Instead, he discovers that he has been cursed with a powerful enchantment.
Born to be the Keeper of Haneth’s End, a small but pivotal corner of the world’s magical realm, he must stand up to enemies he can’t understand in order to protect everything he loves. His enemies want something besides Kinlea’s death, but he’s not sure what. Their perplexing actions endanger his Keep, the world, and even magic itself. It’s his job to stop them, for without Kinlea to stand in the way, everything might fold in upon itself, and the world might have to learn the true meaning of the words “the end.” |
Read an Excerpt of Kinlea Keeper here.
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Gary Inbinder is the author of Confessions of the Creature, a novel that picks up where Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein left off.
About Gary Inbinder +/-
| Gary Inbinder is an attorney who recently left the practice of law to write full-time. Gary holds a J.D. from the University of La Verne (California) where he received an American Jurisprudence Award for Legal Writing, and a B.A. in English Literature from the University of Illinois, Chicago. His fiction, articles and essays have appeared in Bewildering Stories, The Copperfield Review, Humanitas, Praesidium, Quodlibet and Touchstone Magazine. He is a member of the Bewildering Stories Editorial Review Board.
Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and European art, music, literature, politics and philosophy of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries provided background for his first novel, Confessions of the Creature. Gary also finds inspiration in myths, legends and a furtive Muse who shares his taste for good scotch and fine old cognac. |
ABout Confessions of the Creature +/-
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Frankenstein’s creature is determined to gain revenge against Frankenstein for condemning him to a lonely, fearful life. His revengeful pursuit of Frankenstein, and Frankenstein’s death, leave the creature stranded far from civilization, both physically and spiritually.
Now that his driving force is gone, he must learn to live. A chance meeting with a remarkable Russian granny who sees through his hideous exterior to his badly damaged spirit gives him the opportunity to overcome what he is, and perhaps become who he was meant to be.
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Read an excerpt here.
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