Catherynne M. Valente sold A Guide to Folktales in Fragile Dialects to Vera Nazarian’s Norilana Books. The book will be a “collection of poetry and poetic prose on mythological and folkloric themes,” and will be published in both hardcover and trade paperback as the lead title of Norilana’s Curiosities Imprint in December 2007.
Catherynne M. Valente is the author of The Orphan’s Tales (for which she received the 2007 Tiptree Award), The Labyrinth, The Grass-Cutting Sword, and Yume No Hon: The Book of Dreams, as well as volumes of scholarly criticism and of poetry on classical themes. Her web site is www.catherynnemvalente.com.