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Bad-Ass Faeries #4
Bad-Ass Faeries: It's Elemental
The Bad-Ass Faeries are back and they are in their Elements! Earth, Air, Fire, Water, Spirit…It’s time to get down to basics, for the fae answer to a natural order.
In L. Jagi Lamplighter’s On Rocky Ground, Mab, Mephisto, and Erasmus go to the mountain to pay a debt, but can they pacify the earth before the mountain comes down around their ears?
In James Chambers’ The Flying Rock, Daniel seeks to give his son and daughter a taste of childhood magic before they grow too old to embrace such things, but the winds blow as they will and he soon wonders will his children even see another day.
In James Daniel Ross’s The Legend of Buck Cooper and the Child of Fire it only takes a spark to start a fire, but what will it take to stop one? Buck Cooper and the brigade must stave off the flames of a war most don’t even realize is being waged.
In N.R. Brown’s Melia’s Best Wave an oceanid decides she’s ready for bigger things, like tackling the deadliest stretch of coastline anywhere. Will she conquer the Mavericks or wipe out for all time?
In Jody Lynn Nye’s Fifteen Percent Marcel Dorner learns it’s best to get into the spirit of things when your literary agent is a filandiere, or more than just your career might not survive…
Joined by Kimberley Long-Ewing, Judi Fleming, Danny Birt, Peter Prellwitz, DL Thurston, James R. Stratton, Patrick Thomas, Bethany Herron, Keith R.A. DeCandido and Lee C. Hillman, these authors make it clear why one doesn’t mess with Mother Nature…or Bad-Ass Faeries.
In L. Jagi Lamplighter’s On Rocky Ground, Mab, Mephisto, and Erasmus go to the mountain to pay a debt, but can they pacify the earth before the mountain comes down around their ears?
In James Chambers’ The Flying Rock, Daniel seeks to give his son and daughter a taste of childhood magic before they grow too old to embrace such things, but the winds blow as they will and he soon wonders will his children even see another day.
In James Daniel Ross’s The Legend of Buck Cooper and the Child of Fire it only takes a spark to start a fire, but what will it take to stop one? Buck Cooper and the brigade must stave off the flames of a war most don’t even realize is being waged.
In N.R. Brown’s Melia’s Best Wave an oceanid decides she’s ready for bigger things, like tackling the deadliest stretch of coastline anywhere. Will she conquer the Mavericks or wipe out for all time?
In Jody Lynn Nye’s Fifteen Percent Marcel Dorner learns it’s best to get into the spirit of things when your literary agent is a filandiere, or more than just your career might not survive…
Joined by Kimberley Long-Ewing, Judi Fleming, Danny Birt, Peter Prellwitz, DL Thurston, James R. Stratton, Patrick Thomas, Bethany Herron, Keith R.A. DeCandido and Lee C. Hillman, these authors make it clear why one doesn’t mess with Mother Nature…or Bad-Ass Faeries.
- GenresFantasy
274 pages, Paperback
First published June 13, 2014
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About the author
Danielle Ackley-McPhail
116 books206 followersAward-winning author, editor, and publisher Danielle Ackley-McPhail has worked both sides of the publishing industry for longer than she cares to admit. In 2014 she joined forces with husband Mike McPhail and friend Greg Schauer to form her own publishing house, eSpec Books (www.especbooks.com).
Her published works include eight novels, Yesterday's Dreams, Tomorrow's Memories, Today’s Promise, The Halfling’s Court, The Redcaps’ Queen, Daire’s Devils, The Play of Light, and Baba Ali and the Clockwork Djinn, written with Day Al-Mohamed. She is also the author of the solo collections Eternal Wanderings, A Legacy of Stars, Consigned to the Sea, Flash in the Can, Transcendence, Between Darkness and Light, The Fox’s Fire, The Kindly One, and the non-fiction writers’ guides The Literary Handyman, More Tips from the Handyman, and LH: Build-A-Book Workshop. She is the senior editor of the Bad-Ass Faeries anthology series, Gaslight & Grimm, Side of Good/Side of Evil, After Punk, and Footprints in the Stars. Her short stories are included in numerous other anthologies and collections.
In addition to her literary acclaim, she crafts and sells original costume horns under the moniker The Hornie Lady Custom Costume Horns, and homemade flavor-infused candied ginger under the brand of Ginger KICK! at literary conventions, on commission, and wholesale.
Danielle lives in New Jersey with her husband and fellow writer, Mike McPhail and four extremely spoiled cats.
Her published works include eight novels, Yesterday's Dreams, Tomorrow's Memories, Today’s Promise, The Halfling’s Court, The Redcaps’ Queen, Daire’s Devils, The Play of Light, and Baba Ali and the Clockwork Djinn, written with Day Al-Mohamed. She is also the author of the solo collections Eternal Wanderings, A Legacy of Stars, Consigned to the Sea, Flash in the Can, Transcendence, Between Darkness and Light, The Fox’s Fire, The Kindly One, and the non-fiction writers’ guides The Literary Handyman, More Tips from the Handyman, and LH: Build-A-Book Workshop. She is the senior editor of the Bad-Ass Faeries anthology series, Gaslight & Grimm, Side of Good/Side of Evil, After Punk, and Footprints in the Stars. Her short stories are included in numerous other anthologies and collections.
In addition to her literary acclaim, she crafts and sells original costume horns under the moniker The Hornie Lady Custom Costume Horns, and homemade flavor-infused candied ginger under the brand of Ginger KICK! at literary conventions, on commission, and wholesale.
Danielle lives in New Jersey with her husband and fellow writer, Mike McPhail and four extremely spoiled cats.
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September 5, 2014
I don’t normally review anthologies, but the Bad-Ass Faeries series is too good to pass up! This time, the Fae are back in BAD-ASS FAERIES: IT'S ELEMENTAL. The stories are sectioned by element – Earth, Air, Fire, Water, and Spirit. These aren’t stories of faeries who happen to use the elements, but of classic Elemental Fae, such as the Undine, Djinn, and Oceanid. A few of my favorites were ‘Looking a Gift Horse’, ‘The Flying Rock’, and ‘Spin, Weave, Measure’. The stories are all very creative and give readers a different look into the Elemental Fae. BAD-ASS FAERIES: IT'S ELEMENTAL is a very good collection and I’d recommend it to all who love the Fae.
May 19, 2014
This being the first Bad-Ass Faeries collection I don't have a story in, I feel free to give it an honest-to-goodness review.
Over the seven years we have been producing the series, I have never seen a stronger group of stories on a more diverse number of topics.
The premise of this collection is elemental faeries. Not just generic fae that happen to work through the elements, but specific fae drawn down from the actual myths and legends of the world...and I do mean the world!
The originality and creativity these authors have shown delights me, from N.R. Brown's surfer-girl oceanid to DL Thurston's fiery lucador. I'm not going to go into great detail as the book contains loads of lovely surprises, but I can tell you that not one story in this book received less than 4 stars from us editors when we were making our final selectons of what made the book.
Over the seven years we have been producing the series, I have never seen a stronger group of stories on a more diverse number of topics.
The premise of this collection is elemental faeries. Not just generic fae that happen to work through the elements, but specific fae drawn down from the actual myths and legends of the world...and I do mean the world!
The originality and creativity these authors have shown delights me, from N.R. Brown's surfer-girl oceanid to DL Thurston's fiery lucador. I'm not going to go into great detail as the book contains loads of lovely surprises, but I can tell you that not one story in this book received less than 4 stars from us editors when we were making our final selectons of what made the book.
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