Hey, wanna win a hardcover copy of A MISFORTUNE OF LAKE MONSTERS? Brandie June, author of Goldspun & Curse Undone, interviewed me & there's a giveaway! Go enter here: https://gleam.io/t2rHM/nicole-m-wolverton
Hey, it involves something I describe as smelling like unwashed bare feet that have been running through a forest for about two weeks in the middle of summer...and which I would willingly eat.
This time, I write briefly about the provenance and transmission of the folktales and legends we know so well, and how I believe that the great age and broad distribution of the stories obligates us to treat the old stories with the greatest respect.
Day 12 #Bookstadon challenge: Choose 20 #books that greatly influenced you. One #book per day, for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, just covers*
(I've already been doing this over on Bluesky and am several days in, so I'm going to do my best to not get mixed up on the days I'm on 😆) @bookstadon#horror@horrorbooks
*I read these simultaneously while staying w/ an Aunt for the summer. I genuinely can't remember which I started first & both massively impacted me.
Day 11 #Bookstadon challenge: Choose 20 #books that greatly influenced you. One #book per day, for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, just covers
(I've already been doing this over on Bluesky and am several days in, so I'm going to do my best to not get mixed up on the days I'm on 😆) @bookstadon#horror@horrorbooks
Day 10 #Bookstadon challenge: Choose 20 #books that greatly influenced you. One #book per day, for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, just covers
(I've already been doing this over on Bluesky and am several days in, so I'm going to do my best to not get mixed up on the days I'm on 😆) @bookstadon#horror@horrorbooks
Day 9 #Bookstadon challenge: Choose 20 #books that greatly influenced you. One #book per day, for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, just covers
(I've already been doing this over on Bluesky and am several days in, so I'm going to do my best to not get mixed up on the days I'm on 😆) @bookstadon#horror@horrorbooks
Day 8 #Bookstadon challenge: Choose 20 #books that greatly influenced you. One #book per day, for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, just covers
(I've already been doing this over on Bluesky and am several days in, so I'm going to do my best to not get mixed up on the days I'm on 😆) @bookstadon#horror@horrorbooks
Day 5 #Bookstadon challenge: Choose 20 #books that greatly influenced you. One #book per day, for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, just covers
(I've already been doing this over on Bluesky and am several days in, so I'm going to do my best to not get mixed up on the days I'm on 😆) @bookstadon#horror@horrorbooks
Day 1 #Bookstadon challenge: Choose 20 #books that greatly influenced you. One #book per day, for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, just covers
(I've already been doing this over on Bluesky and am several days in, so I'm going to do my best to not get mixed up on the days I'm on 😆) #horror@horrorbooks@bookstadon
Collect ARCs? Like debut YA horror that's fun and kind of Stranger Things-esque? Maybe go sign up for my monthly author newsletter at nicolewolverton.com -- because at the end of this month I'll be randomly choosing one lucky newsletter subscriber to receive this box (no pollen from yard included, I swear!).
Read as a whole body of work (which has taken me many months) Gerard Manley Hopkins’s poetry is a tragic and audacious testament to an extraordinary creative spirit. #gerardmanleyhopkins#poetry#books#bookstadon@bookstadon
I finished Olivia Atwater’s The Witchwood Knot this evening and it was just very delightful to be back within her magical human faerie world again. I’m pleased there will be more books in this series.
I’ve been enjoying a lot of faerie / fae / fair folk books lately - another one was heather fawcett’s emily wilde's encyclopaedia of faeries.
Hey, #Philly: maybe put this event on your calendar! I'll be talking to Sal Goldenberg on May 3 at A Novel Idea on Passyunk Avenue about her new book The Last Phi Hunter, asking her questions about bookcraft (including Thai folklore and ghosts) and publishing. I'd love to see you there!
So I'm still obsessed with Arboreality - and this review by Dana McFarland in The British Columbia Review really captures what I loved about this book. I don't always love reading book reviews, but this one is great. https://thebcreview.ca/2024/04/04/2122-mcfarland-campbell/
Let the official preorder campaign begin: anovelideaphilly.com/lakemonsters/
If you preordered elsewhere or request your local library buy a copy, you can still get in on the bookmark! Request a bookmark with proof of purchase or library request here: shorturl.at/euPR6
Also, I'm so relieved that this day is finally here. It's 3 months until the book comes out--yay!
I finished Cursed Cocktails by S.L. Rowland last night and it was a nice mostly low-stress #cozyfantasy akin to the style of Bookshops & Bonedust by Travis Baldree.
The style of the warrior finding community after war/adventure, set in a magical land of elves and humans and dwarves.
Not in a bad way - it's still a fresh angle, you've got a blood mage, and monsters, and friends and conviviality. #bookstadon@bookstadon
@bookstadon I read A Fellowship of Bakers & Magic by J. Penner and it was a vastly different cozy fantasy than the Baldree books, but still mostly low stress cozy high fantasy.
I realize this style of book is not for everyone, but I wonder if anyone has any other recommendations in the vicinity of these books? #bookstadon