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The Newtown Review of Books: The Bitterwood Bible
Lisa’s photo
Lou Murphy has reviewed The Bitterwood Bible and Other Recountings for The Newtown Review of Books and it is quite, quite humbling.
“The Bitterwood Bible is a masterful offering of haunting stories that traverse the bounds of
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Reminder: Bitterwood Giveaway on Goodreads
Just a quick reminder that we’re giving away a copy of The Bitterwood Bible and Other Recountings on Goodreads – go here and enter.
Another Bitterwood Bible Giveaway!
Lisa’s photo
To mark Bitterwood’s shortlisting for the World Fantasy Awards, Tartarus Press and I are celebrating by giving away another copy of the increasingly rare limited edition hardcover of The Bitterwood Bible and Other Recountings (we’re down to roughly the last one hundred copies), with illustrations by
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Of Sorrow and Such cover reveal
The things that happen on the other side of the world while you’re fast asleep! Tor.com revealed the cover for my novella Of Sorrow and Such. The artwork is by the wonderful Anna and
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The Bitterwood Posts: Spells for Coming Forth by Daylight
This is my last Bitterwood Post – I’m a little sad now.
The title for this story came when I was visiting an Ancient Egyptian exhibition at the Queensland Museum with my mother and sister. One of the guide notes on
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The Bitterwood Posts: By the Weeping Gate
This story first appeared in Stephen Jones’ Fearie Tales: Stories of the Grimm and Gruesome (Jo Fletcher Books). The title came from nowhere; I was thinking about pirates and ports, bordellos and brides – as you do – and the
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The Bitterwood Posts: Terrible As An Army with Banners
Kathleen’s final cover art
This is the story that always make me cry, so I can never read it out anywhere or I’ll end up as a snotty, blubbering mess. It’s a mix of letters and diary entries; it
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The Bitterwood Posts: The Bitterwood Bible
Kathleen’s art
“The Bitterwood Bible” was always going to be an important story in this collection because it tells the history of the actual Bitterwood Bible and Murciana who made it. I’d given a lot of thought
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The Bitterwood Posts: Now, All Pirates are Gone
Art by Kathleen Jennings
In Sourdough and Other Stories, there is a tale called “The Navigator”, about ships and sirens and men with wings who act as navigators for said ships. There is a nameless narrator who may or
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The Bitterwood Posts: By My Voice I Shall Be Known
Sketches by Kathleen Jennings for By My Voice I Shall Be Known
In “By My Voice I Shall Be Known” I wanted to combine elements that contained echoes
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