Annclaire Livoti

A great review from Publishers Weekly!

2009-10-31T23:27:16Z

Turns out Publishers Weekly reviewed Sword and Sorceress 24, and gave it a lovely review! I'll, uh, highlight the bit that made me dance around the room. *grin*

Marion Zimmer Bradley's Sword and Sorceress XXIV Edited by Elisabeth Waters. Norilana (www.norilana.com), $12.95 paper (318p) ISBN 978-1-60762-048-8

Waters ably continues the feminist anthology series founded by Bradley (1930–1999) to showcase short-form fantasy with a wide variety of heroic female characters. Of the 17 stories featured, standout selections include “A Curious Case” by Annclaire Livoti, a literary gem of a paranormal fantasy that pits a magic-practicing PI against a serial killer targeting succubae, and Julia H. West's “Soul Walls,” which brilliantly fuses magic, art and Native American mysticism. A disorganized wizard and his unhappy wife are at the heart of the charming “Merlin's Clutter” by Helen E. Davis, and a princess solves the mystery of her father's murder through a magical tapestry in Brenta Blevins's “Material Witness.” Though some of the selections are less than stellar, fantasy fans looking for original stories will find much to enjoy.

A literary gem!

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Book Meme

2009-08-26T02:03:14Z

Each quote is an epigraph. One contains the title. Arrange them and post your results and ask any who read what they think the book is about.

Title: Breaking God's Windows

(from the Jewish proverb: "If God lived on earth, people would break his windows.")

Opening epigraph: “Of course, I want to
save the world, she said,
but I was hoping to do it
from the comfort
of my regular life.”
~ “Regular Life” by Brian Andreas

Chapter One: “If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.” (George Bernard Shaw)

Chapter Two: "Your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions." (Joel 2:28)

Chapter Three: "Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it." (Christopher Morley)

Chapter Four: "Though I am not naturally honest, I am so sometimes by chance." (William Shakespeare)

Chapter Five: "In ev'ry grave make room, make room!
The world's at an end, and we come, we come." (Sir William Davenant)

Chapter Six: "I see the better way, and approve it; I follow the worse." (Ovid)

Chapter Seven: "He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare,
And he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere." (Ali ibn-Abi-Talib)

Chapter Eight: "The more alternatives, the more difficult the choice." (Abbe D'Allainval)

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missmadelynmack @ 2009-05-23T14:40:00

2009-05-23T18:42:28Z

With the acceptance of "A Curious Case" for publication in Sword and Sorceress 24, I figured I should create a personal journal to talk about my stories and any other future sales.

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