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Shape Shifters: Fantasy and Science Fiction Tales About Humans Who Can Change Their Shapes | (1978) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Year's Best Horror Stories: Series XII | (1984) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Great Tales of Fantasy and Science Fiction | (1985) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Moonsinger's Friends: An Anthology in Honor of Andre Norton | (1985) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Dragons & Dreams | (1986) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Year's Best Fantasy Stories 12 | (1986) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Unicorn Treasury: Stories, Poems, and Unicorn Lore | (1988) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
First Annual Collection | (1988) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Demons & Dreams: The Best Fantasy and Horror 1 | (1988) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Dragons and Warrior Daughters | (1989) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Pendragon Chronicles: Heroic Fantasy from the Time of King Arthur | (1989) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Second Annual Collection | (1989) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Third Annual Collection | (1989) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Halloween Poems | (1989) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Year's Best Fantasy 2 / Demons and Dreams | (1990) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Drabble II: Double Century | (1990) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Spells of Enchantment | (1991) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
After the King | (1991) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Fifth Annual Collection | (1992) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Inside the Funhouse | (1992) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
A Wizard's Dozen | (1993) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Snow White, Blood Red | (1993) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Oxford Book of Modern Fairy Tales | (1993) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Ultimate Witch | (1993) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
South From Midnight | (1994) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Am I Blue?: Coming Out from the Silence | (1994) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Xanadu | (1994) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Seventh Annual Collection | (1994) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Black Thorn, White Rose | (1994) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Armless Maiden | (1995) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Angels! | (1995) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Book of Kings | (1995) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Ruby Slippers, Golden Tears | (1995) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Blood Muse | (1995) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Women at War | (1995) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Year's Best Fantasy & Horror: Tenth Annual Collection | (1996) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Starlight 1 | (1996) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Out of the Mold | (1997) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Modern Classics of Fantasy | (1997) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Random House Book of Fantasy Stories | (1997) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Black Swan, White Raven | (1997) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Eleventh Annual Collection | (1998) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
In the Shadow of the Gargoyle | (1998) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Nebula Awards 33 | (1999) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Sherwood | (2000) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Crafty Cat Crimes | (2000) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Ribbiting Tales | (2000) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Black Heart, Ivory Bones | (2000) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Mr. Simonelli or the Fairy Widower | (2000) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Nebula Awards 34 (2000) | (2000) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Mirror, Mirror: Forty Folk Tales for Mothers and Daughters to Share | (2000) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Such a Pretty Face: Tales of Power and Abundance | (2000) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Starlight 3 | (2001) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Fourteenth Annual Collection | (2001) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Mammoth Book of Vampire Stories by Women | (2001) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Writer's Guide to Fantasy Literature | (2002) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Green Man: Tales from the Mythic Forest | (2002) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Fire and Wings: Dragon Tales from East and West | (2002) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Fifteenth Annual Collection | (2002) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
New Skies: An Anthology of Today's Science Fiction | (2003) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Stars: Original Stories Based on the Songs of Janis Ian | (2003) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
New Magics | (2004) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Year's Best Science Fiction and Fantasy for Teens | (2005) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Unexpected | (2005) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Jabberwocky 2 | (2006) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Best New Paranormal Romance | (2006) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Be Careful What You Wish For | (2007) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Coyote Road: Trickster Tales | (2007) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Firebirds Soaring | (2009) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Beastly Bride: Tales of the Animal People | (2009) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Amazing Faces | (2010) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Visitants | (2010) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Happily Ever After | (2011) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
What You Wish For: A Book for Darfur | (2011) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Conclave | (2012) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Witches: Wicked, Wild & Wonderful | (2012) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
After: Nineteen Stories of Apocalypse and Dystopia | (2012) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Where Rockets Burn Through | (2012) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Lightspeed Magazine, Issue 35, April 2013 | (2013) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Oz Reimagined | (2013) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The 2013 Rhysling Anthology | (2013) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Once Upon a Time: New Fairy Tales | (2013) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Beyond the Pale | (2014) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Futuredaze 2: Reprise | (2014) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Mythic Delirium Magazine Issue 1.4 | (2015) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Mermaids and Other Mysteries of the Deep | (2015) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Scarecrow | (2015) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Been There, Done That | (2015) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Mythic Delirium: Volume Two | (2015) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Warrior Women | (2015) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Shoreline of Infinity 3 | (2016) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
One Minute till Bedtime | (2016) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The 2017 Rhysling Anthology | (2017) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Shoreline of Infinity 8½: Edinburgh International Book Festival Special Edition | (2017) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Mad Hatters and March Hares | (2017) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Shoreline of Infinity 11½: Edinburgh International Science Festival Special Edition | (2018) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Nebula Awards 52 (2018) | (2018) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Mammoth Book of Halloween Stories | (2018) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Multiverse: an international anthology of science fiction poetry | (2018) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Thanku | (2019) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Wonderland | (2019) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Coffin Bell Two | (2019) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Edited By | (2020) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Wicked Women: An Anthology of the New England Horror Writers | (2020) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Shadow Atlas: Dark Landscapes of the Americas | (2021) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Reinvented Heart | (2022) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Hitherto Secret Experiments of Marie Curie | (2023) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Heartbeat of the Universe: Poems from Asimov’s Science Fiction and Analog Science Fiction and Fact 2012–2022 | (2024) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Jane Yolen is a published novelist. She is also a story teller, a poet, folklorist, song writer, journalist, and author of children’s books. Jackanory and Merlin became adapted into television series and The Devil’s Arithmetic a television movie in 1999.
Yolen has composed over 300 books throughout her career and received a number of awards and honors for her work. These include the Nebula Award, Caldecott Medal, and more. She has received honorary degrees from universities and colleges as well.
Jane Yolen was born in Manhattan on February 11, 1939. She was the first child of her mother Isabell and her father Will. Her mother gave up working to be home with her when Jane was born. Her father was a journalist that penned columns for local papers.
Her mother also volunteered in her spare time and would write short stories. Her family had daughters and a lack of sons at the time, so the Yolen name was passed on as a middle name so that the last name would go on. When her father got a new job in California working at the movie studios, the family moved there.
Her father would be doing film publicity in Hollywood. However, the family ended up going back to New York before Jane’s brother Steve would be born. Her father also joined the Army fighting in the second world war in England. At the time, the family lived with their grandparents in Virginia in the town of Newport News.
When the war had ended and her father returned, the family decided to move back to New York. They picked up and went to Manhattan to live for some time. Jane attended PS 93 and found that she enjoyed such activities as singing and writing. She also made a friendship with Susan Stamberg, who would go on to be a well known radio presenter.
Jane also showed more promise for writing, making a newspaper along with her sibling in their apartment. She would sell them to customers for a nickel each. Jane would also go on to be accepted to a high school that specialized in music and art. She also went to a summer Camp in Vermont before doing so, her first experience with Quakers.
Eventually her family decided that it was time to move again. They left Manhattan for Westport, Connecticut, where they had more space in a ranch home there. Jane attended school there and upon attending high school joined the choir, played basketball and made captain, joined the school’s paper and became the news editor, and also became vice president of Latin and Spanish club.
Jane graduated high school and decided that she would apply to Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts. She was accepted and attended. Yolen admits that she did not always have the highest grades while she was there. However, during her time, she also composed a poetry book, was the Press Board President, was involved in musicals and acting in shows, writing songs, and ended up graduating in the end.
After that, she moved to New York City and decided to work on writing children’s books. Her first book to be published also came out on her twenty-second birthday. It is titled Pirates in Petticoats. She also edited several books for young adults and adults. She married her husband David Stemple in 1962. He passed away in March of 2006.
Jane is a mother of three children with David and a grandmother to her grandchildren. Jane has written books with Adam Stemple, her son, as well. She currently resides in western Massachusetts right next to Heidi, her daughter, but also goes to her Scottish home in St. Andrews every year to live for four months.
Jane Yolen is the creator and the author of the Great Alta series. This fantasy genre fictional series first kicked off in 1988 with the release of the debut novel in the series. It was quickly followed by the second book, White Jenna. The third book came out slightly later in 1998 and is titled The One-Armed Queen.
Sister Light, Sister Dark is the esteemed first novel in the Great Alta series by acclaimed writer Jane Yolen. If you love interesting fantasy books that have their own worlds to explore, then this is the series and the book for you!
Alta is a great goddess and has decided that she has come up with a unique solution for Earth’s problems. The planet is blessed with forces of light and darkness at the same time. In order to have someone there to rule over them, she decides that she will create two queens.
The queens will be sisters and will be tasked to watch over and rule the light and dark forces of Earth. The goddess brings the queens to life after putting her hair’s golden left side into a plait and then letting it go into the night’s sinkhole. There she draws up a queen from the shadows and places her on the earth. Then she plaits her hair’s right side, the dark side, to draw the light queen out.
Alta puts her next to her sister, the dark queen. She tells them that they are to be sisters, and like images reflecting each other in the glass. When you see the one, you see the other. It is Alta’s wish that they collaborate in harmony, working as opposing yet perfect reflections of the other.
The reader meets Jenna, a young woman that grew up on the mountainside. There she was trained in the warrior arts and learned ancient magic from the women of the mountain. The biggest magic that there ever could be would to be call her sister out from the mirror of light and shadow land.
Skada is her dark sister and exists only in times of shadow or dark. What will happen if she calls her up? Read this book to find out.
White Jenna is the second book in the Great Alta series. The queen of the dark is Skada, while Jenna is the White Queen. Together they are bound, two halves of a whole. Will White Jenna’s arrival threaten the land? Read this sequel to find out!
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