Snow White Learns Witchcraft by Theodora Goss, a new collection of stories and poems by the author of The Strange Case of the Alchemist’s Daughter, will be the next release from Mythic Delirium Books, available everywhere Feb. 5, 2019.

Snow White Learns Witchcraft

by Theodora Goss

Introduction by Jane Yolen

Scheduled for release Feb. 5, 2019

ISBN 978-1-7326440-0-7 | $15.95 | 224 pages

 

Available for pre-order (so far) at the following links:

 

Paperback: Amazon | Amazon UK | Amazon DE | Amazon FR
Barnes & Noble | Indiebound

Ebook: Amazon | Amazon UK | Amazon CA | Amazon FR | Amazon DE
Amazon AU | Nook | iBooks | Kobo | Google Play | Weightless Books

 

You can also pre-order directly through Mythic Delirium Books.

Mythic Delirium Books is proud to present a new collection of stories and poetry from World Fantasy Award, Locus Award and Rhysling Award winner Theodora Goss, author of the acclaimed Victorian fantasy novels The Strange Case of the Alchemist’s Daughter and European Travel for the Monstrous Gentlewoman.

Just yesterday, Variety broke the news that the CW is developing The Strange Case of the Alchemist’s Daughter for television. We want to sincerely congratulation Dora and wish her luck that this project comes to full fruition. Needless to say, we’re thrilled to be releasing her next book into the publishing wilds.

Of course, we’re thrilled to be working with Goss regardless, as she has a history with Mythic Delirium that goes all the way back to 2003, when we published her Rhysling Award-wining prose poem “Octavia Is Lost in the Hall of Masks.”

It’s also a pleasure to once again work with Caldecott Medal-winning author Jane Yolen, whose poetry we published frequently in Mythic Delirium magazine, this time setting the stage for Goss’s creations with a charming introduction.

And, we’re also delighted beyond words to have a cover illustration from Chesley Award-winning illustrator Ruth Sanderson. A fun bit of trivia: Goss modeled for the cover.

About the book

A young woman hunts for her wayward shadow at the school where she first learned magic—while another faces a test she never studied for as ice envelopes the world. The tasks assigned a bookish boy lead him to fateful encounters with lizards, owls, trolls and a feisty, sarcastic cat. A bear wedding is cause for celebration, the spinning wheel and the tower in the briar hedge get to tell their own stories, and a kitchenmaid finds out that a lost princess is more than she seems. The sea witch reveals what she hoped to gain when she took the mermaid’s voice. A wiser Snow White sets out to craft herself a new tale.

In these eight stories and twenty-three poems, Goss retells and recasts fairy tales by Charles Perrault, the Brothers Grimm, Hans Christian Andersen, and Oscar Wilde. Sometimes harrowing, sometimes hilarious, always lyrical, the works gathered in Snow White Learns Witchcraft re-center and empower the women at the heart of these timeless narratives.

Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America Grand Master Jane Yolen, in her introduction, proclaims that Goss “transposes, transforms, and transcends times, eras, and old tales with ease. But also there is a core of tough magic that runs through all her pieces like a river through Faerie . . . I am ready to reread some of my new favorites.”

Forthcoming in trade paperback, distributed through Ingram, as well as in e-book editions.

At present, review copies can be requested through NetGalley or directly from the publisher.

Cover art by Ruth Sanderson, goldenwoodstudio.com

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