“CORVIDAE” & “SCARECROW”
EDITED BY RHONDA PARRISH
Alpena, MI (April 30, 2015) – World Weaver Press (Eileen Wiedbrauk, Editor-in-Chief) has announced the anthologies Corvidae and Scarecrow, volumes two and three of Rhonda Parrish’s Magical Menageries, will be available in trade paperback and ebook Tuesday, July 7 and Tuesday, August 4, 2015 respectively.
Praise for Fae, Rhonda Parrish’s Magical Menageries, Volume 1:
“Seventeen tales... range in feel from horror to upbeat tales about homes where things go right, and are set everywhere from the modern day to mythical fantasy pasts. The best of these stories evoke things from real life – loves and values – and show characters making hard choices that reveal who they are and what they’re made of."
— Tangent
“Delightfully refreshing! I should have known that editor Parrish (who also edits the cutting edge horror zine, Niteblade) would want to offer something quite unique. I found it difficult to stop reading as one story ended and another began – all fantastic work by gifted writers. Not for the faint of heart, by any means.”
— Marge Simon, multiple Bram Stoker® winner
“There’s no Disney-esque flutter and glitter to be found here — but there are chills and thrills aplenty.”
— Mike Allen, author of Unseaming and editor of Clockwork Phoenix
— Kate Wolford, editor of Beyond the Glass Slipper, editor and publisher of Enchanted Conversation: A Fairy Tale Magazine
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Corvidae
Associated with life and death, disease and luck, corvids have long captured mankind’s attention, showing up in mythology as the companions or manifestations of deities, and starring in stories from Aesop to Poe and beyond. In Corvidae birds are born of blood and pain, trickster ravens live up to their names, magpies take human form, blue jays battle evil forces, and choughs become prisoners of war. These stories will take you to the Great War, research facilities, frozen mountaintops, steam-powered worlds, remote forest homes, and deep into fairy tales. One thing is for certain, after reading this anthology, you’ll never look the same way at the corvid outside your window.
Featuring works by Jane Yolen, Mike Allen, C.S.E. Cooney, M.L.D. Curelas, Tim Deal, Megan Engelhardt, Megan Fennell, Adria Laycraft, Kat Otis, Michael S. Pack, Sara Puls, Michael M. Rader, Mark Rapacz, Angela Slatter, Laura VanArendonk Baugh, and Leslie Van Zwol.
Scarecrow
Hay-men, mommets, tattie bogles, kakashi, tao-tao—whether formed of straw or other materials, the tradition of scarecrows is pervasive in farming cultures around the world. The scarecrow serves as decoy, proxy, and effigy—human but not human. We create them in our image and ask them to protect our crops and by extension our very survival, but we refrain from giving them the things a creation might crave—souls, brains, free-will, love. In Scarecrow, fifteen authors of speculative fiction explore what such creatures might do to gain the things they need or, more dangerously, think they want. Within these pages, ancient enemies join together to destroy a mad mommet, a scarecrow who is a crow protects solar fields and stores long-lost family secrets, a woman falls in love with a scarecrow, and another becomes one. Encounter scarecrows made of straw, imagination, memory, and robotics while being spirited to Oz, mythological Japan, other planets, and a neighbor’s back garden. After experiencing this book, you’ll never look at a hay-man the same.
Featuring all new work by Jane Yolen, Andrew Bud Adams, Laura Blackwood, Amanda Block, Scott Burtness, Amanda C. Davis, Megan Fennell, Kim Goldberg, Katherine Marzinsky, Craig Pay, Sara Puls, Holly Schofield, Virginia Carraway Stark, Laura VanArendonk Baugh, and Kristina Wojtaszek.
Corvidae and Scarecrow will be available in trade paperback and ebook via Amazon.com, Barnesandnoble.com, Kobo.com, WorldWeaverPress.com, and other online retailers, and for wholesale through Ingram. You can also find Corvidae and Scarecrow on Goodreads.
Rhonda Parrish is a master procrastinator and nap connoisseur but despite that she somehow manages a full professional life. She has been the publisher and editor-in-chief of Niteblade Magazine for over five years now (which is like 25 years in internet time) and is the editor of the benefit anthology Metastasis, as well as the World Weaver Press anthologies Fae, Scarecrow, and Corvidae. In addition, Rhonda is a writer whose work has been included or is forthcoming in dozens of publications including Tesseracts 17: Speculating Canada from Coast to Coast and Imaginarium: The Best Canadian Speculative Writing. Her website, updated weekly, is at rhondaparrish.com.
World Weaver Press is an independently owned publisher of fantasy, paranormal, and science fiction. We believe in great storytelling.
Author
Name:
Jane Yolen
Website
Address:
www.janeyolen.com
Social
Media Links:
Twitter: @janeyolen
Facebook: Jane Yolen
What
is it about corvids that inspired you to write about them?
We are a family of birders, and
corvids are among the smartest (and sassiest) of birds.
Was
there one corvid characteristic you wanted to highlight more than others?
Their knowingness.
Do you think you were successful?
I
can only hope. . . .
If
you were a corvid, what would you build your nest out of?
Coins and bottlecaps and peacock
feathers.
What’s
your favourite ‘shiny’ thing?
My earring collection.
If
you have work in both anthologies, which came first? The corvid or the
scarecrow?
Corvid first.
Author
Name:
Kat Otis
Website
Address:
www.katotis.com
Social
Media Links:
Twitter: @kat_otis
Was
there one corvid characteristic you wanted to highlight more than others? Do
you think you were successful?
The characteristic I wanted to
highlight the most was corvid intelligence.
When I was trying to decide what kind of corvid to write about, I
started by browsing bird websites and quickly fell into a research pit of
corvid videos where they showed amazing levels of intelligence and tool
use. Obviously the only proper response
was to elevate the corvidae as a group to be as sentient as humans and... um...
leviathans and frost giants. I sure hope
I was successful, as the story makes very little sense without it!
If
you were a covid, what would you build your nest out of?
If I had to live in a nest, it
would be a giant bean bag. Actually,
sophmore year of college my roommate and I put a bean bag in a corner of our
tiny dorm room, for an oft-visiting friend of ours, and called it her nest. So... I guess I sort of already have built a
nest out of a bean bag ;)
What’s
your favourite ‘shiny’ thing?
Shiny new ideas, of course! For example, I was just working on my latest
shiny new idea, a steampunk piece with exploding airships, and- OH NEW SHINY
NEW IDEA GOTTA GO LATERS!
Author
Name:
Angela Slatter
Website
Address:
http://www.angelaslatter.com/
Social
Media Links:
Twitter: @AngelaSlatter
Facebook: Angela Slatter
(Author)
What
is it about corvids that inspired you to write about them?
I think it’s the sheer wealth of
lore behind them: they’re thieves; they’re clever and sly; they cross many
mythologies; they’re quite lovely-looking (what’s not to love about black
feathers?); they can be sinister and clownish at the same time.
If
you were a covid, what would you build your nest out of?
The pages of books, so I’d be
comfy and have something to read.
What’s
your favourite ‘shiny’ thing?
The various rings I’ve inherited
from aunts over the years because (a) shiny-shiny, and (b) they have a family
and emotional connection for me. I’ve got an emerald and diamond one of which
I’m especially fond.
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