FTR at 50% off (and disappearing soon)
Tags: Fairy Tale Review, J. M. McDermott, Tansy Rayner Roberts![FAIRY TALE REVIEW [The Red Issue]](http://weightlessbooks.com/wp-content/uploads/images/9771556615000_big-100x150.gif "FAIRY TALE REVIEW [The Red Issue]")
If you’ve ever fancied picking up DRM-free copies of the Fairy Tale Review, now is your chance—and they’re 50% off. As of March 6th, the journal is disappearing from Weightless, although FTR books will stay. Use coupon FTR when you check out.
Also! J. M. McDermott’s Women and Monsters is 50% off, too. Grab it here.
We added a whole lot of Small Beer preorders last week as well as a couple of new Chelsea Station Editions titles. Also a new ebook edition of Splashdance Silver by Tansy Rayner Roberts, which looks like a it would be a great way to lighten the day here. (The sky is so low it’s about to touch the trees. Go on and fall, snow!)
Joy Williams, LCRW, esubs TK
Tags: Fairy Tale Review, LCRWToday we’re proud to announce that we are the exclusive publisher of the first ebook edition of The Changeling by Joy Williams. The Changeling, Williams’s second novel, was out of print for 30 years before Fairy Tale Review Press brought it back into circulation.
This edition is the full 256-page Fairy Tale Review Press edition with an introduction by by Rick Moody.
Also today we have the new ish of LCRW. The paper edition is going out later this week and electronic subscriptions should be available next week—unless we go nuts and do them tomorrow or something. Michael, who made it all happen, will get beer for this.The new issue is excellent and is available in pdf, epub, etc. This esub machine that Michael has built means we’ll be talking to other serial publishers (i.e. zinesters, magazines, Ginn Hale[!]), about releasing their books/zines/magazines on here.
And, horn tootle, don’t miss last week’s title at the excellent price of 99 cents: a short story by me and Kelly Link originally published in the Australian magazine Altair, “Sea, Ship, Mountain, Sky.”
Next week: we expect to have interesting news about adding another energetic indie press!
NEW FTR, Joy Williams coming!
Tags: Fairy Tale Review, Joy WilliamsHey, it’s the last few days of the month and the big question around here is will Ginn Hale still rule the roost on the Bestseller chart? Hmm! It’s going to be a big autumn here—how do we know? Because ebook readers keep selling and we have great ebooks!—and we’re already working on 2011: The Year of Ginn Hale. Michael is making great things happen behind the scenes which means we will be adding a few more presses either in October or November.
Today we released the latest issue—The Red Issue—of the Fairy Tale Review, and as with the other issues it’s available at the amazing price of $2.99! If you’re not sure, download the first issue free. Contributors to The Red Issue include Jennifer Calkins, Rikki Ducornet, Noy Holland, Daniel Pafunda, Maria Tatar, Kellie Wells, and Matthew Zapruder.
Also, the editor of the Fairy Tale Review, Kate Bernheimer, along with Maria Tatar, Kelly Link, and Kathryn Davis, will be on a panel at the Boston Book Festival on October 16th. Maybe see you there.
And, we have huge news for fans of Joy Williams: Fairy Tale Review Press just negotiated the ebook rights to her novel The Changeling which we will release next month. It is, apparently, one of the most original and alarming fairy-tale books ever written and includes a foreword by Rick Moody. This should be huge and anyone who helps spread the word will be greatly appreciated!
What I Didn’t See + Unicorns! Pegasus! Kittens!
Tags: Fairy Tale Review, free ebooks, Ginn Hale, Karen Joy Fowler, site update blatheringsToday we’re very happy to release the ebook of Karen Joy Fowler’s awesome new collection What I Didn’t See and Other Stories. Karen’s stories are some of the best you’ll read in any genre: science fiction, fiction, historical, alternate history, fantasy. . . . Two of the stories here received Nebula Awards and “The Pelican Bar” received the Shirley Jackson Award. It’s a subtle and stunning collection and I think this might be the first site the ebook is available on (I’m probably wrong!). Hope you enjoy it!
We’ve been working away on a few things trying to see how we can bring lots of presses on without us having to put in more than the occasional afternoon every three or four weeks (come on, it’s publishing, we’ve got tea to sip and deep obscure novels to flash around coffeeshops).
And: we’ve been talking to Blind Eye Books about making 2011 the Year of Ginn Hale and being able to publish something new every month. It will be gobsmacking! All will be revealed later this fall. It will be huge! A rift will form in space time! (At least in yours and ours!)
The new Red Issue of Fairy Tale Review is coming soon. We also need to add Michael’s (et al) Homeless Moon chapbooks. There are more magazines to bring on board. Still working on electronic subscriptions—anyone who has a good fix for this, feel free to email us!
I remembered a story that Kelly and I published a while ago, “Sea, Ship, Mountain, Sky” in Altair, that I doubt will ever end up in any book (besides The Year’s Best Fantasy & Horror) so we’ll probably put it up here as an ebook. That will be an interesting experiment to see if we should do more of that sort of thing. What do you think the price should be?
In the meantime there are Unicorns! Pegasus! Kittens! What does it mean? I have no idea! But you should go here (check out this url: http://unicornpegasuskitten.com!) and download the DRM-free completely free ebook with stories from Wil Wheaton, John Scalzi, Cat Valente, Rachel Swirsky, and many others. The book is free but please consider making a donation as it’s a fundraiser for the benefit of the Michigan/Indiana affiliate of the Lupus Alliance of America. You can also donate and get a tax receipt for it here on Gretchen Schafer’s donation page.
