FEMMES FAE-TALES -- LAST CHANCE TO BUY!!

[The Judge]

I can hardly belive that it's nearly seven years ago that the SFF Sisterhood here on Chrons first got together to produce an anthology of short stories.

This resulted in DISTAFF and five of the nine tales, together with the cover, were longlisted in the British Science Fiction Association Awards, with one splendid story (Sue Boulton's Ab Initio) winning a coveted place in the 2019 Best of British SF anthology.

We followed up that success with a second anthology, FEMMES FAE-TALES, with another nine wonderful stories, this time fantasy; all with female leads, and the tales and the characters themselves were not only fabulous and feisty, but sensuous and sexy -- just like their authors!! There were also plenty of fae present -- good, not-so-good and positively malevolent!

Contributors included Amazon best-sellers, a successful writer in the Rainbow Awards, a professional copy writer, a cover designer, and a BSFA shortlisted editor. The anthology was not only conceived and written by women/non-binary individuals, but was edited, managed and produced by us and our female friends on SFFChronicles. And we snagged the most incredible Introduction from none other than Teresa Edgerton!

But after a long run, we've decided to call it a day and withdraw Femmes Fae-Tales from Amazon at the end of the month. So...

THIS IS YOUR LAST CHANCE TO BUY FEMMES FAE-TALES!!​

If you never got around to buying this marvellous work when it came out, get over to Amazon now and get it done!!

 

[The Judge]

Still want persuading to buy the anthology before the end of the month?

Here's an excellent review by our own @Vince W

'Femmes Fae-Tales' Delves Deeply Into Fae-minine Magic - Incomplete Futures

'Femmes Fae-Tales' Delves Deeply Into Fae-minine Magic by Vincent Waciuk. A review of the 'Femmes Fae-Tales' Anthology.

incompletefutures.com

@The Big Peat did interviews with all of us, and here are three of them to be getting on with: Jo Femme Fae-Tales Interviews: Jo Zebedee Rosie Femme Fae-Tales Interviews: Rosie Oliver and Kerry Femme Fae-Tales Interviews: Kerry Buchanan

He was also kind enough to let me do a guest blog: Guest Post: Finding The Fae by Damaris Browne

as indeed was @thaddeus6th

Guest Blog: Spinning A Good Yarn Again, by Damaris Browne

Back in 2019 I was lucky enough to be involved in the publishing of Distaff , which went where no woman had gone before by being not only am...

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[Teresa Edgerton]

But after a long run, we've decided to call it a day and withdraw Femmes Fae-Tales from Amazon at the end of the month.

But why?

 

[The Judge]

We shan't be getting a third anthology out, and after so many years it seemed a good idea to close the Sisterhood down and wind up the accounts.

And Amazon's rules haven't helped! We couldn't have joint 'owners' of the titles, so poor Jo has been solely responsible for dealing with Amazon from the beginning of Distaff, which has not always been plain sailing. Since she has her own books on sale there, she's not always found it easy to disentangle the figures, which has added to the burden. It's unfair to expect her to continue that responsibility indefinitely and no one else is in a position to take over.

But we'd like to end in a blaze of glory, so do tell everyone to buy the anthology while they still have the chance!!

 

[Teresa Edgerton]

If they don't, they will miss the chance to read some very fine stories!!

 

[Cat's Cradle]

Thanks for the reminder! DISTAFF is wonderful, and I just picked-up FEMMES FAE-TALES at a very good price. I will ask my femme-fatale partner to read the stories with me, some day this spring, CC