My Bookshop
If you'd like to buy or order one of my books, it's much quicker to go to your local bookstore. But if time is not an issue and you'd like to purchase books from me so that I can sign them, this is the place to come, if it's a title I currently have in stock. You can use the Paypal buttons in this bookstore to pay by credit card or via Paypal; either way, you don't need a Paypal account. If you wish, you can select a currency other than Canadian.
NOTE: If you'd like me to autograph a book before I send it, let me know (Paypal will give you a comments field in which you can write a message), and tell me to whom, or whether you'd simply like me to sign my name.
MY BOOKS:
THE NEW MOON'S ARMS; (hard cover) $22.00 Cdn plus shipping
Set in the Caribbean on the fictional island of Dolorosse. Calamity, born Chastity, has renamed herself in a way she feels is most fitting. She's a 50-something grandmother whose mother disappeared when she was a teenager and whose father has just passed away as she begins menopause. With this physical change of life comes a return of a special power for finding lost things, something she hasn't been able to do since childhood. A little tingling in the hands then a massive hotflash, and suddenly objects, even whole buildings, lost to her since childhood begin showing up around Calamity.One of the lost things Calamity recovers is a small boy who washes up on the shore outside her house after a rainstorm. She takes this bruised but cheerful 4-year-old under her wing and grows attached to him, a process that awakens all the old memories, frustrations and mysteries around her own mother and father. She'll learn that this young boy's family is the most unusual group she's ever encountered -- and they want their son back. (Grand Central Publishing)
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BROWN GIRL IN THE RING; first novel (trade pbk) $12.00 Cdn. plus shipping.
The musical rhythms of Caribbean voices and the earthy spirit-magic of obeah knit together this unusual fantasy, the first winner of Warner Aspect's First Novel Contest. Toronto in the next century is a "doughnut hole city," its core collapsed into ruinous slums after much of the population left to escape rising urban crime and violence. Those who remain in the Burn are survivors like Ti-Jeanne and her grandmother Mami, who trade herbal cures and spells for necessities, or predators like drug-lord Rudy and the "posse" of men, including Ti-Jeanne's ex-lover Tony, who sell "buff" for him. Outside the Burn, Catherine Uttley, the premier of Ontario, needs a heart transplant and a boost in her approval ratings. To accomplish both, she announces support for a return to voluntary human organ donation, allegedly to prevent the spread of Virus Epsilon, sometimes found in the porcine organs grown for transplant. The heart she needs will have to come from someone in the Burn, and Rudy saddles Tony with the job of finding a donor. Tony has no stomach for the job, however, and goes to Ti-Jeanne and Mami for help, bringing the unpredictable and powerful spirits of Caribbean obeah into play. Though the story sometimes turns too easily on coincidence, Hopkinson's writing is smooth and assured, and her characters lively and believable. She has created a vivid world of urban decay and startling, dangerous magic, where the human heart is both a physical and metaphorical key. (Publishers Weekly)
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MOJO: CONJURE STORIES; fiction anthology edited by Nalo Hopkinson (trade pbk) $10.95 Cdn. plus shipping.
Collects 19 original stories of magic and gods and mortals, set in locales that range from a pre-Civil War plantation to modern Oakland, from Nineteenth-Century England to underground New York City. Contributors range from big names like Steven Barnes, Neil Gaiman, and Barbara Hambly to exciting new authors. (Amazon.com)
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SO LONG BEEN DREAMING: POSTCOLONIAL SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY; fiction anthology co-edited by Uppinder Mehan and Nalo Hopkinson. Cover art by Ho Che Anderson (trade pbk) $15.95 Cdn. plus shipping.
Given that so much sf is concerned with encounters with the other or alien intending domination, the genre and colonialism are, of course, not strangers. Lest postcolonial in the subtitle intimidate, let it be noted that this is a strong anthology that, regardless of thematic concern, showcases authors with some real experience of colonization from all over the world. (Booklist)
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THE SALT ROADS (hard cover) $18.95 Cdn. plus shipping.
...transcends all categories of genre...an epic tale of hardship and struggle that spans the lives of three black women in radically different historical circumstances: Mer, a slave woman living on a brutal plantation on Haiti; Jeanne Duval, a poor dancer who has a lifelong affair with poet Charles Baudelaire; and Meritet, a Nubian prostitute (in fourth Century Alexandria). The individual tales of the women are bound together by Ezili, a goddess who inhabits each of their minds in a quest for self-identity. The Salt Roads contains strong elements of fantasy--a shapeshifter plays a prominent role in one of the storylines, and there are elements of magic throughout--but this is really a book about history and the inherited narratives of the past... The Salt Roads undermines any notion of identity politics, its characters shifting and sliding through the boundaries of race, gender, sex, and social class, and in the process revealing the underlying instability of much of the foundations of Western culture. (Peter Darbyshire for Amazon.com)
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OTHER PEOPLE'S BOOKSMy surroundings are way too cluttered, so I'm also downsizing my collection of books. I've put a number of them up on Amazon.ca for sale, under the seller name logophilia101. To purchase any of them, just click on the link for that book, and it'll lead you right to the logophilia101 listing on Amazon.ca. Prices are listed in Canadian dollars.
Alien Sex: 19 Tales, edited by Datlow, Ellen: $6.50
Best Bisexual Women's Erotica, edited by Bruce, Cara: $10.99
Bisexuality: A Reader and Sourcebook by Geller, Thomas: $5.99
Clay's Ark, by Octavia Butler: $9.99