Member: pinkparkagirl

Arrrr, I didn't put the link in

Http://www.rathascourage.com

Weird thought for the day:

"Ratha was talking like a pirate (Arrr) before there were even pirates."

Yarrr!

CB

posted by rathacat at 8:31 pm (EST) on Sep 8, 2007

Hi Pinkparkagirl,

If you want to thank the person responsible for getting the Ratha series back in print, it's Viking-Penguin Firebird editor Sharyn November at http://www.sharyn.org. She contacted me and asked if I'd be interested in writing another Ratha novel. I said, "Does a clan cat do what in the woods? Of course!" and the rest is history. The result was Ratha's Courage and the reprint paperbacks.

Actually, if you want to see the person most responsible for Ratha's return, look in the mirror. Ratha is alive because you and other readers like you kept her in your hearts.

If the Ratha series reprints do well, Sharyn will buy reprint rights to Tomorrow's Sphinx. I'm doing all I can to let folks know the series is back. Spread the word and thanks.

Here's a link to my website. I did it myself, so let me know what you think. I emphasized content rather than format and I think it works.

The books are on Amazon. Do you need a link?

CB

posted by rathacat at 8:27 pm (EST) on Sep 8, 2007

Hi, I'm steadily cataloging my collection, and added a book called Return to Strawberry Roam. I see you have it!! This is an old children's book about a mouse and a squirrel that run away to the country together from the city, set up a life together and make all kinds of animal friends. There's a sequel to it called Yo-Ho for Strawberry Roam about their further adventures in the countryside. The books were given to my mother as a child in the early 50s, and she passed them onto me as a child. I've never been able to find anyone who has the books or knows anything about them. They are precious books to me.

Anyway, I was interested to stumble across you and your collection---I'm also very interested in books about animals, although I don't have that many. However, I DO have a collection of short stories by the great Irish writer Liam O'Flaherty (Collected Stories, I'll catalog it next), in which the stories are almost exclusively about animals, from the animal's point of view. Amazing, often heartbreaking stories.

Also, we live fairly close! I'm in Guildhall, Vermont, over in the Northeast Kingdom.

Do you have some particular recommendations for animal/anthropomorphic stories? Thanks, Laura Wilson elle.wilson@yahoo.com

posted by elle.wilson at 6:41 am (EST) on Apr 22, 2007

Thanks. There was a talking cat in one Kull story, that I can think of, but that was a fake. :)

Barbarian warriors and such don't usually run around with parrots, either. :)

posted by bluetyson at 9:29 pm (EST) on Apr 16, 2007

Hi ppg,

I am browsing, and I come across the Empire Princess series by Graham Diamond. Is this sword and sorcery, or is she just a straight adventurer type of character?

Thanks very much,

bt

posted by bluetyson at 5:46 am (EST) on Apr 4, 2007