Elephant’s Breath & London Smoke — Review from Jonquil Serpyllum

In our daily feed from Google Alerts, we discovered this favourable review of Deb Salisbury’s Elephant’s Breath & London Smoke, and thought we’d share it with you. Elephant’s Breath and London Smoke: Historic Colour Names, Definitions, & Uses. Edited by Deb Salisbury, Five Rivers, Neustadt, Ontario, Canada, 2009, ISBN 978-0-9739278-2-5, $32.95. To begin with, this book is fun. Just skimming the pages leads you to treasures like “wine yellow”, “the pale and doubtful shade of…

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Mar 2010

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Stephens demonstrates mastery of distopian/strange fiction

A reader review of And the Angels Sang appeared last week on LibraryThing, which was cross-posted to Amazon.com. We thought we’d share. Lorina Stephens demonstrates mastery of distopian/strange fiction, sci-fi, and fantasy in this recent seventeen story anthology. Although many pieces are previously published, shorter unpublished works such as ‘Protector’, ‘The Gift’, and ‘Zero Mile’ are captivating looks at phenomena just on the edge of our current reality – while longer pieces such as the…

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Jan 2010

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Another great review for Shadow Song

Reprinted from Goodreads. Lorina Stephens’ Shadow Song is a part-fantasy historical drama/love story, charting the, for lack of a better word, coming-of-age of Danielle Michelle Fleming. The daughter of a beautiful French aristocrat and an English gentleman, and the owner of a gift that European culture/traditions forbids, Danielle is, at the beginning of the novel, feeling her privileged lifestyle slip away, replaced with bitter poverty. The majority of the novel is set in Upper Canada,…

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Dec 2009

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From Mountains of Ice, Review by Sara Messina

From Sara Messina, reviewer at Mind Fog Reviews. Unlike many fantasy stories, Lorina Stephens’ From Mountains of Ice tells more than just a single narrative centering around a hero or group of adventurers in a magical world. Stephens tells the stories of Simare, an Italian country struggling to keep its simple rustic way of life free from the encroachment of larger countries and a crown’s tyranny. The understanding of cultural nuances serves as a foundation…

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Nov 2009

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Review: Finding Creatures & other stories

The cover of C. June Wolf’s collection of speculative shorts was enough to snare my attention, although the title supported that dynamic image. Then when I saw the man himself, Charles de Lint, had given his unequivocal support to the publication, I knew I would put aside everything else on my reading mountain. It was an excellent decision. There are fifteen stories that make up this eclectic collection, ranging from pure speculative, science fiction, fantasy…

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Oct 2009

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