Dear World,
My brain has been muppet-flailing since, well, since Terri Windling reached out and asked me to write poetry in response to Brian Froud’s Green Women paintings.
First of all… TERRI WINDLING.
Second of all… BRIAN FROUD.
Third of all… GREEN WOMEN??? GREEN WOMEN!!! GREEN WOMEN!!!
Reader, I wrote three.
THREE GREEN WOMEN POEMS to THREE OF BRIAN FROUD’S PAINTINGS!
Excuse me, young Dark-Crystal-watching Claire, you have attained GELFLING STATUS, okay? YOU HAVE WINGS NOW.
Anyway, that’s some news I’ve been sitting on. I cannot wait to read the GREEN WORKS of these other authors:
Sharon Blackie, Maria DeBlassie, Carolyn Dunn, Sarah Beth Durst, Amal El-Mohtar, Kate Forsyth, Wendy Froud, Claudine Glot, Theodora Goss, Elizabeth Hand, Frances Hardinge, Joanne Harris, Kat Howard, Angela Mi Young Hur, Ai Jiang, Kathleen Jennings, Alaya Dawn Johnson, T. Kingfisher, Ellen Kushner, Katherine Langrish, Carolyne Larrington, Karen Lord, O.R. Melling, Jeannette Ng, Sofía Rhei, Lisa Schneidau, Delia Sherman, Angela Slatter, Shveta Thakrar, Tiffany Trent, Lisa Tuttle, Catherynne M. Valente, Kris Waldheer, Jo Walton, Kit Whitfield, and Terri Windling HERSELF.
I cannot WAIT for my own copy. BUT I MUST.
BRIAN FROUD’S Green Women comes out on October 6.
Pre-order it here: https://www.abramsbooks.com/product/brian-frouds-green-women_9781419783746/
C.S.E. Cooney 