Catherynne Valente’s writing has been compared to that of Lewis Carroll and Neil Gaiman, to name a few, in a review of The Girl Who Raced Fairyland All the Way Home, the […]
Maine’s “Lewis Carroll”-Catherynne Valente-Takes Fifth Fairyland on Tour
When carpal tunnel strikes a writer: Cat Valente shares her pain
As someone who writes extensively on a keyboard and who has experienced the numbness, buzzing, and pain of early phases of carpal tunnel syndrome, I still can’t imagine how advanced stages feel. […]
The Girl Who Soared Over Fairyland and Cut the Moon in Two: Cat Valente
Peaks Island author Catherynne Valente has just published “The Girl Who Soared Over Fairyland and Cut the Moon in Two,” her third in a five-part YA fantasy series that has placed her […]
Valente and Nash Soar in Best Books of 2012 Amazon List
A little over a month ago, I crowed that two island authors launched books in the same week – Scott Nash with his High Skies Adventures of Blue Jay the Pirate and […]
Two island authors launch books this week
Islanders seem to be launching books as often as they launch boats these days. It’s a phenomenal literary week here on Peaks Island as both Scott Nash and Catherynne Valente celebrate and […]
Island Authors Featured at Bangor Book Festival
One of the advantages of living on an island is that we all funnel onto our sturdy ferry and cross the harbor together for a full twenty minutes (each way), a period […]
The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland: Released Today
We need look no farther than Ana Juan‘s illustration of the twelve-year-old girl named September and the Wyvern in chains to know that Cat Valente‘s newest novel offers something both classic and […]
Story of a Place That Never Was: Valente Reads from “The Habitation of the Blessed”
Island author Catherynne M. Valente, a Hugo Award and World Fantasy Award Nominee, treats us to another new novel (she introduced Palimpsest last year) at her Longfellow Books reading on November 18th. […]
Awards Shower Island Authors
If writers move to an island like Peaks Island for the quiet and retreat that protects and feeds their creative work, then they also need to learn how to hide. Hint: that […]
Circumnavigating-the-Blogosphere Workshop
Are you an author, artisan, or small business owner who wants to manage your virtual presence on that vast real estate, the internet? Do you often feel you’re awash in a digital […]
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