Mike Allen writes to let us know that Erzebet YellowBoy‘s Papaveria Press has just released two new little books.
Jack o’ the Hills by C.S.E. Cooney contains “Stone Shoes” and “Oubliette’s Egg”. The publisher offers this description of the book: “Jack Yap once had his mouth sewn shut for talking too much. His brother Pudding has to wear stone shoes or he’ll just wander off. Will little obstacles like these keep the boys out of trouble? Not for the twinkling of an eye. There is magic in the hills, shapechangers and monsters, and Jack Yap has a hankering to meet them all and maybe kill a few. What he and Pudding find in the hills, however, changes both their lives, taking them out of the country and into the cruel and wonderful world, where witches and princesses await. Sometimes they are even the same person.”
The Winter Triptych by Nicole Kornher-Stace is “a story plucked from a tapestry’s thread. In one panel Liese is a scullery maid working in Queenskeep, where tragedy and treason have ruled for one hundred years. In the night, she chases ghosts up a winding stair. There, in another, Isele is a traitor’s hope, and here a huntsman seeks to unwind them from a curse’s knot. The panels flow together as the story unfolds, until ghosts and curses collide at the top of the Keep.”
Papaveria “deals primarily in very small or miniature handbound editions and trade paperbacks, seeking out poetry and prose from the fields of fantasy, fairy tales and myth.” In addition to physical books, they offer fiction and poetry online by those authors whose work we have published or intend to publish.