Imaginator Press to Publish Ratha's Courage: Book 5 of the Named
Sheila Ruth of Imaginator Press and Clare Bell, author of the Named series, have signed an agreement to publish a print edition of Ratha's Courage. Sheila also co-administers Wands and Worlds, a well-known teenage fantasy fiction fan site ( www.wandsandworlds.com). Agent Richard Curtis helped arrange the agreement. For more information and Sheila's announcement on WW, please see:
Author interview webcast every Friday evening - see (way) below for more info.
Ratha's Courage Lives!
Ratha's Courage Update
Another change (apologies)
Ratha's Courage is now scheduled to appear as a Baen Books/E-Reads selection for April, to be released on April 1, 2008. Http://www.baen/com. Hopefully this is real (and no foolin' this time)
Viking-Penguin decided to cancel their hardcover and apparently didn't tell Amazon. They also did not respond to my queries about what was happening with the book. The only notification I got was a series of short emails. For that reason, my agent and I decided to move the book to another publisher.
It has taken a bit of time to make all the arrangements, but things are sufficiently in place so that I can now make this announcement.
This has been a difficult interval for me, as you can probably imagine. Instead of crawling into a black hole after I got the cancellation email, I decided to continue publicizing the reprints and working with Richard Curtis to get Courage published. I was determined, and still am, to make sure that everyone who wants a copy of Ratha's Courage can get one.
Firebird Books is still handling the reprints and they have plenty in their warehouse. E-Reads will be doing a promotion that will launch Courage. I know it was hard to wait, but E-Reads has acted very rapidly to get everything set up.
I deeply appreciate your loyalty, patience and understanding during this time.
Because of you, hope burns brighter, both for me and the Named.
May you get your heart's desire and find delight.
Clare
Webcast interview with author premieres this Friday!
The original Fantasia, Sleeping Beauty (who could ever forget the evil queen/dragon Maleficent?), the equally unforgettable '2001', Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion,the Witch and the Wardrobe, Lord of the Rings, Cars, Over the Hedge, Dinosaur, Ice Age (gotta love Diego, the sabercat) , Ice Age 2: The Meltdown, Over the Hedge, and the Serenity Movie. I also enjoy the video cartoon adaptation of Ratha's Creature made by CBS Storybreak and aired in 1987. Here's a clip from that cartoon. Ratha's Creature Storybreak video clip ........
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Old shows from the 60's, 70's and 80's, including The Man from U.N.C.L.E., the original Star Trek, ST: The Next Generation I don't watch much TV now, but exceptions are the Taken series and FireFly (Serenity). Oh yes, and Farscape!
Author of "Ratha's Creature" and sequels. Also new novel, "Ratha's Courage" The old and new books are being re-issued by Viking-Penguin Firebird Books in Spring 2007.
Many Ratha series readers have suggested that the series would make a great movie or sequence of movies. It's got big cats, a prehistoric setting, scientific extrapolation, a good story, nifty characters, etc.
There are also a lot of big and little cat-lovers, both kids and adults, who haven't had a really good cat-fantasy movie in a long time.
IF you'd like to help make this happen (you are a film-maker or work in the industry), please contact me via MySpace.
For an idea of Ratha's potential, see the clip below from the 20-minute CBS Storybreak episode made in 1985-87. With today's digital animation technology, such a film could be spectacular. Think of Aslan the Lion from The Chronicles of Narnia.
The Basics About Me:
I write Y/A science fiction/fantasy and am best known for the Ratha series about a clan of prehistoric sentient big cats.
My latest novel is Ratha's Courage, due out in E-Book form from Baen Books/E-Reads website www.baen.com on 4/1/08 and later in print form in 2008.
The first book in the series, Ratha's Creature (1983), appeared as a hardcover from Atheneum-Argo, edited by the legendary Margaret K. McElderry. It received a number of awards, including the International Reading Association's 1983 Children's Choice Award and the PEN Los Angeles Award.
Viking-Penguin is re-issuing Ratha's Creature and its original sequels, Clan Ground, Ratha and Thistle-Chaser, and Ratha's Challenge as paperbacks in the FireBird Books line, edited by Sharyn November.
Sharyn is well-known for her work over the Internet with teenage readers. Even though the Ratha series went out of print, it remained alive in the hearts of many who had read it as teenagers.
It also remained live on the Internet, with Ratha fans setting up websites,doing artwork and emailing each other about the series and the characters. It is because of these folks that I wrote the new Ratha's Courage and Viking is re-issuing the originals.
Other works that I hope will come back into print include Tomorrow's Sphinx (cheetahs and Tutankhamen), People of the Sky (Pueblo Indians, an old DC-3 aircraft, flying creatures, weird biology) and the Jaguar Princess (Olmec were-jaguar woman in Aztec Mexico).
Our not-favorite tabloid not-news network does it again.
Don't watch Fox, don't buy from it's advertisers.
They shouldn't call it "Fox". I like foxes and this is an insult to a nice critter.
我想認識： People I wish I could have met:
Olaf Stapledon, C.S. Lewis, JRR Tolkien, Arthur C. Clarke, Joy Adamson, Steven J. Gould, President John F. Kennedy.
People I would like to meet:
All the people who read and loved the Ratha books and who asked for them to come back into print.
I'd like to hear from all the people on MySpace who are Ratha fans.
Mauricio Anton, the incredibly talented Spanish artist who did who did the illustrations for The Big Cats and Their Fossil Relatives.
Former VP Al Gore, Keith Olberman, Jane Goodall, Senator Barbara Boxer, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, David McCallum, Leonard Nimoy,
Fictional people/animals I would love to meet:
Aslan the Lion, from the Chronicles of Narnia
Mr. Spock, from Star Trek.
Captain Picard from ST: Next Generation.
Allan Quatermain, Captain Nemo and Mina Harker, from The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen.
Claudius, from the TV series I, Claudius.
Illya Kuryakin, from The Man from UNCLE.
Herbie, the Volkswagen, from the Disney Herbie movies
I'd like to invite you and all your friends to check out (and hopefully subscribe to) my blog concerning the launch of my new novel, Child Finder. My book has already received some great reviews before its official release on June 9th. It is a mystery/suspense thriller -- and is only the first in a trilogy I am contracted to write.
Click here to access my blog where I will post information about the book's availability as well as signing events. Also, be sure to check out my novel's website (www.childfinder.us) for more detailed information about the story, my background, and publication schedules.
Hey there! Just wanted to let you know that I now have a DeviantArt account. So you can see upcoming book covers and teasers to my novels here
BTW, I sent you a copy of Akhetaten's Gates, signed of course. I also sent a copy of Ratha's Creature and Tomorrow's Sphinx for you to sign. When you get a chance, lemme know if you got them [or when you get them] so I don't have to strangle a postman LOL.
Happy Holidays! Hope you’re enjoying the season so far. Seems it has been quite some time since I spent some time on Myspace. I have been busy altering my website at www. tonycowger. com to reflect my newest efforts in the freelance and ghost writing markets and focus less on my own novel. Anyway, I hope the rest of your year is wonderful and that the new year holds all the abundance you want. If you or someone you know is in need of some writing help please send them my way at www. tonycowger. com. (For any help I receive from my Myspace friends I am offering a 10% finders fee to say thank you for helping out a friend so be sure to write and let me know in case your friend forgets to tell me. If you hire me yourself, that 10% would be taken off what you pay so, either way, you win.) I have experience in writing sales ads/presentations, non-fiction and, of course, fiction. Thanks and happy holidays!
Hello, thanks for the add a reader and owner of a small 2nd handbookstore in Haaksbergen, the Netherlands .... (just a picture I liked, not my store, tears)
Hey, thank you for giving me a little space in your space. Summers almost over, but maybe you can lay out by the pool one more time, at least here in Texas you could, and you might want to pick up my new book, The Second Virgin Birth. It's a great read.
Regardless of what you do, just remember this: Good friends don't let you do stupid things......alone!
Hey There! How was your summer. I can’t believe it’s September can you? What’s new and exciting in your neck of the woods? Wishing you a prosperous fall. Talk to you soon.
Happy birthday, Clare!!! Tuxedo Cat and I are blessed indeed to have such a wonderful, talented, creative and socially like-minded friend in you. Courage is simply awesome and I am sure that 2008 will bring about many more good things for you, Ratha and The Named.
Very best,
:)Steve S-N & Tuxedo Cat (Tuxedo Cat is now an honorary member of The Named as decreed by the clan leader!!!)
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