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Norilana Books is proud to present Sky Whales and Other Wonders edited by Vera Nazarian, an exciting new anthology of cutting-edge literature of the fantastic to awaken your sense of wonder . . .


Sky Whales and Other Wonders edited by Vera Nazarian




". . . intriguingly off-kilter fantasy stories where the unexpected doesn't so much jump out in the reader's path as subtly peek around corners."

— Publishers Weekly

". . . really colorful central ideas. It's a solid book throughout."

— Rich Horton, Locus


Featuring stories of wonder by Tanith Lee, Anna Tambour, Erzebet YellowBoy, Linda J. Dunn, Sonya Taaffe, Lisa Silverthorne, JoSelle Vanderhooft, Mary A. Turzillo, Mike Allen, John Grant, and Robert Brandt.


Sky Whales and Other Wonders edited by Vera Nazarian
Norilana Books Fantasy
December 15, 2009
Trade Paperback
Retail Price: $9.95 USD - 7.00 GBP
ISBN-13: 978-1-60762-055-6
ISBN-10: 1-60762-055-3
208 pages

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Norilana Books is a Los Angeles-based new independent publisher, owned and operated by Vera Nazarian since 2006. With over 250 books in print, Norilana Books specializes in beautifully packaged hardcover and trade paperback classics of world literature, quality fantasy, science fiction, romance and women's fiction, and young adult titles. For more information visit http://www.norilana.com/

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Reflection's Edge thoughtfully reviews, in an interesting "evolution of geek culture" context, the intense poetry memoir The Memory Palace by JoSelle Vanderhooft (upstart_crow):

"The Memory Palace says the most about genre by not emphasizing its author's genre background—by treating its genre influences as neither more nor less important than Vanderhooft's other cultural experiences. It is remarkable simply by the fact of its existence; in some other years, Vanderhooft would be barred from writing anything so personal, so literary, and so devoid of dragons." —Romie Stott, Reflection's Edge

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Fantasy author Paul Genesse does a fantastic and powerful review of the intense poetry memoir The Memory Palace by JoSelle Vanderhooft (upstart_crow):

"She might be a bisexual lapsed Catholic with emotional problems, but she has balls of pure steel, and the determination to reach for her dreams no matter what tragedy or challenge befalls her. It’s never easy for her, but why should it be? Life sucks sometimes, but do you let it grind you into dust or do you become mud and stick to life’s boots? Like the rest of us, JoSelle does a little of both."

and:

"The story of her life is mine now, and no one will read it exactly like I did. There is little doubt in my mind that when you finish reading, the work will simmer in your veins like it’s simmering in mine now."

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Structured around the Renaissance mnemonic device of a building with rooms populated by thoughts and objects, The Memory Palace is a lucid dream, a remarkably powerful memoir, and a fantasy.

Norilana Books is proud to present The Memory Palace, a significant poetry collection by JoSelle Vanderhooft, dealing with the raw themes of youth, pain, the Catholic faith, and the challenges of growing up gay.


The Memory Palace by JoSelle Vanderhooft




"Inside The Memory Palace, JoSelle Vanderhooft constructs a painfully honest memoir in free verse, detailing one talented young woman's odyssey past the monsters of mental illness, through the brutal clash between faith and sexuality, always haunted by the terrible enigma of a father's suicide—yet these traumas are counterbalanced by earnest hope and the small, sweet moments life grants to fighters and survivors. Her eloquent and eminently readable story will resonate with any one who's ever found themselves an alien in their own world, peering in at society from the outside."

—Mike Allen, three-time Rhysling Award winner and editor of Mythic Delirium


The Memory Palace by JoSelle Vanderhooft
Curiosities (an imprint of Norilana Books)
January 15, 2009
Trade Hardcover
Retail Price:
$21.95 USD - £17.00 GBP
ISBN-13: 978-1-934648-87-2
ISBN-10: 1-934648-87-6
164 pages

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Norilana Books is a Los Angeles-based new independent publisher, owned and operated by Vera Nazarian since 2006. With over 210 books in print, Norilana Books specializes in beautifully packaged hardcover and trade paperback classics of world literature, quality fantasy, science fiction, romance and women's fiction, and young adult titles. For more information visit http://www.norilana.com/

Contact:

Vera Nazarian, Publisher
Norilana Books, P.O. Box 2188, Winnetka, CA 91396
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Catalog of Books in Print: http://www.norilana.com/norilana-catalog.htm
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The Memory Palace by JoSelle Vanderhooft upstart_crow

A Poetry Memoir

Coming January 15, 2009 from Curiosities.

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Norilana Books has acquired a striking poetry collection The Memory Palace by critically acclaimed poet and author JoSelle Vanderhooft (upstart_crow), a poetic memoir dealing with the raw themes of adolescence, pain, and the challenges of growing up gay, structured around the Renaissance mnemonic device of a building with rooms populated by thoughts and objects. The title is scheduled for a trade hardcover release from the Curiosities imprint in January 2009.

JoSelle Vanderhooft is the author of poetry collections The Minotaur's Last Letter to His Mother (Ash Phoenix), the 2007 Stoker-nominated Ossuary (Sam's Dot Publishing), Desert Songs (Cross-Cultural Communications, 2008), Tales Twice Told (Sam's Dot Publishing, 2008), Fathers, Daughters, Ghosts and Monsters (VanZeno Press, forthcoming) and Death Masks (Papaveria Press, 2008), the novels The Tale of the Miller's Daughter (Papaveria Press) and Owl Skin (Papaveria Press, 2008) and a collection of short stories from Drollerie Press to be released in 2008.

Her poetry and fiction has appeared online and in print in a number of publications, including Cabinet des Fees, Star*Line, Mythic Delirium, Mythic, Jabberwocky, Helix, The Seventh Quarry and several others. An assistant editor of a newspaper by day, she lives in Salt Lake City, Utah.

Official website: http://www.joselle-vanderhooft.com/

Norilana Books is a Los Angeles-based new independent publisher, owned and operated by Vera Nazarian since 2006. With over 150 books in print, Norilana Books specializes in beautifully packaged hardcover and trade paperback classics of world literature, quality fantasy, science fiction, romance and women's fiction, and young adult titles. For more information visit http://www.norilana.com/

Contact:

Vera Nazarian, Publisher
Norilana Books, P.O. Box 2188, Winnetka, CA 91396
service (at) norilana.com - http://www.norilana.com/
Catalog of Books in Print: http://www.norilana.com/norilana-catalog.htm
Blog: http://norilanabooks.livejournal.com/