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Novel Hopes

The second issue of the Fairy Tale Review arrived the other day and I just got a chance to look it over. It contains lots of excellent-looking stuff and THE FIRST CHAPTER OF A NOVEL BY STACEY RICHTER. The novel is apparently called Fairyland and the portion included is so fine it will blow your head off. And, yet, there is no mention of this novel anywhere on the web or reference to if it’s finished, when it might surface, etc.

And now I want to read it very badly. Anyone have any insider scoop on this one?

See also: My review of the first issue of FTR.

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From Beyond the Grave!

Did y’all know that Mark Twain dictated a post-mortem novel and two short stories by Ouija board to a lady in Missouri between 1915 and 1917? Me neither. Jason Offutt at From the Shadows has the story:

Emily Grant Hutchings, a struggling novelist, teacher and writer for St. Louis newspapers, claimed Twain dictated his last novel and two short stories – “Daughter of Mars” and “Up the Furrow to Fortune” – to her one letter at a time between 1915 and 1917 through a Ouija board.

The book, “Jap Herron,” was published by Mitchell Kennerley in 1917 as “a novel written from the Ouija board – Mark Twain via Emily Grant Hutchings.” Harper & Brothers, owners of the copyright on the pen name “Mark Twain,” sued Kennerley in 1918.

You can find a PDF of the novel here. (Via the one and only Andy Duncan, who’s on a roll this week.)

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(Semi)Frugal Night Before Shopping

Twas the night before Christmas Eve and all through the house … you could hear me complaining about Lush’s overpriced and underwhelming shipping options. After finally deciding I couldn’t bear to pay so much in shipping in order to get a Godiva solid shampoo (and conditioner) bar in time to take to Vermont (less stuff! less stuff to cart to dorm showers!), I idly started googling for alternatives. It turns out that Amazon also sells Lush products — and with far better shipping rates and times (in theory anyway on the times — we’ll see). I even had a little Amazon gift cert laying about, so I’m practically a paragon of virtue over here.

Anyway, one thing they don’t sell on Amazon are the solid shampoo _tins_. I’m sure I can manage a workaround, but on the off chance someone has an extra and wants to mail it to me in the next couple of weeks (anytime before Jan. 6), well, you’d be the awesomest of all time. And I’d owe you a drink. Drop me an email if you need the address; I’d pay shipping, of course.

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