I know, i know...

[tabaqui]

but this is so cool!
There's an author out there called Zilpha Keatly Snyder.
She writes childrens books. Or, rather, she writes wonderful BOOKS that can be for children or adults.

A lot of her books are out of print, but some have just recently been re-printed.
I wrote her literally YEARS ago, asking about this - and two days ago i got a reply! She had replied at the time with a negative answer, but now, years later, she's saved address and wrote back!

So very cool.
:)

Dear reader,

I am sending you this email because at one time you wrote me a very
nice letter thanking me for my book, The Changeling, and asking when it
would be back in print. I have saved dozens of these letters and now I
am writing this email to all of you inform you that the book has just
been reprinted by iUniverse under special arrangements with the
Authors' Guild.

The reprint is a high-quality paperback with all the original
illustrations and is available through iuniverse.com as well as
Barnesandnoble.com and amazon.com.

I should mention also that another out-of-print book, The Velvet Room,
is now also available through the same outlets and a third, Black and
Blue Magic, will soon be reprinted as well.

Thank you all again for your wonderful letters.

Zilpha Keatley Snyder


And SOMEONE out there sent me a copy of the 'Gormenghast' trilogy... Stand up so i can hug you!!

Comments

[tabaqui]

The Changeling is about Marth and Ivy and magic. Ivy wants to be a dancer, Marth is called 'the mouse'.
I've only read a few of her things - so hard to find! But The Changeling and Black and Blue Magic are two of my favorites.
I'm going to be buying EVERYTHING of hers they're reprinting, for sure!

And i only got a chance to read like, five pages of Gormenghast, and it's so. Freakin'. Cool.
Love it!
I loved the PBS movie they made, loved that Steerpike, but can't wait to read the rest!

[anelith.livejournal.com]

OK, now I'll have to try and remember which one was about the poltergeist. I think there was one about a poltergeist? Or has my memory gone? I do remember reading the one about Ivy wanting to be a dancer, now that you describe it. I read all the ZKS books my library had once upon a time long ago.

Tell me what you think about Gormenghast when you get more into it.

[tabaqui]

Hrmmmm...can't help you. Her books were hard to find even then, and i think the few we got came through Scholastic books.
I'm getting what i can online, slowly but surely.
Yes, update on Gormenghast for sure.