Oracle Gretel

[asakiyume]

Julia Rios has written a charming, funny, beautiful retelling of Oracle Gretel, with Hansel-the-Cat and tarot cards and a ouija board and silver shoes to take you where you need to go. It's lovely! AND, she has gotten Erik Amundsen to illustrate it. His stylized figures convey so much--I love his art style (he did this icon of M--, from my pen pal novel).

And then, on top of writing a wonderful story and getting great illustrations for it, she picked out beautiful end papers and covers for it--no two the same--and hand bound each chapbook. She read from this at WisCon, and the chapbooks were available for sale there. I don't know how many she has left, but if you know her, and if you don't have a copy, you might like to enquire! She may have them available at Readercon next month, if they're not all gone by then.

Comments

[sartorias.livejournal.com]

Augh! I need to write to her to save one for when I come!!!

this is also Erik's art

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

Oh do! And save one maybe for rachelmanija, because I think she'd like it a lot too. Gay protagonist ♥

Re: this is also Erik's art

[sartorias.livejournal.com]

Going to do that Now.

[mnfaure.livejournal.com]

Lovely style and interesting-sounding story. :D

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

It's delightful! If my brain doesn't fail me (maybe I can do that revolutionary thing of *making a note*), I will get an extra copy at Readercon and send it to you.

[mnfaure.livejournal.com]

Even if you don't remember, I feel honored and blessed that it occurred to you to get me a copy.

[alotus-poetry.livejournal.com]

This sounds interesting. You always find such delightful stuff! :)