New Releases by Lisa Tuttle

The award-winning author of The Mysteries returns with another captivating novel in which modern-day enigmas and age-old myths come together to bear spellbinding fruit. Nestled on the coast of Scotland, Appleton was once famous for its apples. Now, though the orchards are long gone, locals still dream of the town’s glory days, when good luck seemed a way of life. And outsiders are still drawn to the charming village, including three very different American women. . . . Enchanted by Appleton’s famously ornate library, divorcée Kathleen Mullaroy has left her cosmopolitan job to start anew as the town’s head librarian. . . . Widowed Nell Westray hopes for a quiet life in the place she and her husband spent their happiest moments. . . . And young Ashley Kaldis has come to find her roots. But when a sudden landslide cuts Appleton off from the wider world—and the usual constraints of reality—the village reveals itself to be an extraordinary place, inhabited by legendary beings and secret rooms. Most unexpected is a handsome stranger who will draw all three women into an Otherworld where, as in Eden, the bite of a single apple can alter the course of reality . . . if only one of them will believe.

Lisa Tuttle begins by looking at the different kinds of novels in the science and fantasy fiction genres. She then moves on to look at ideas, word-building, language, structure, writing for children, co-authoring, short stories, and finding an agent. This edition advises on self-publishing and on-line publishing.

So schön das blaugrüne Cover mit den schwerelos dahingleitenden Flugmenschen anzusehen ist, so träumerisch leicht liest sich dieser FantasyRoman über das in 3 Novellen erzählte Leben der Fliegerin Maris. Auf Windhaven, einem Wasserplaneten mit vielen Inseln, leben die Landgebundenen und die Flieger. Aufgrund alter Traditionen wird Maris der Traum vom Fliegen verwehrt. Doch sie kämpft um ihre Flügel. Durch die Gründung von FlugAkademien will sie den nichtprivilegierten Landgebundenen den Aufstieg in die Fliegergilde ermöglichen. Nach weiteren Auseinandersetzungen gelingt der alternden Maris, die nach einer erfüllten Flugkarriere nicht mehr fliegen kann, im gemeinsamen Kampf gegen einen Inseltyrannen die Annäherung der verfeindeten Gruppen. Dass Fantasyromane sich nicht immer über mehrere Bände erstrecken und mit Magiern, Elfen und Gnomen aufwarten müssen, beweist Martins lesenswertes Buch. Allen Bibliotheken empfohlen.

Collaborative response in an artists'' book format to the letters of Anna Matilda Page King to her family (written between 1817 to 1859) from "Retreat", her St. Simons Island, Georgia plantation.