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WolfSongs: Volume 1
The wolf has long been a source of folklore and mystery, since the dawn of humankind.
Sometimes reviled and feared
Sometimes revered and loved
The wolf's fate has intertwined with our own.
Edited by M.H. Bonham, Science Fiction and Fantasy author and editor, here you will discover that as the dusk fades in the night, you'll hear the wolfsong calling you into stories of the imagination.
Sometimes reviled and feared
Sometimes revered and loved
The wolf's fate has intertwined with our own.
Edited by M.H. Bonham, Science Fiction and Fantasy author and editor, here you will discover that as the dusk fades in the night, you'll hear the wolfsong calling you into stories of the imagination.
- GenresFantasy
208 pages, ebook
First published November 17, 2008
42 people want to read
About the author
M.H. Bonham
49 books62 followersM. H. Bonham is a six-time awarding winning author of seventeen books. She started her career as a rocket scientist and quickly switched to a software engineer and systems administrator, where she insisted that Y2K was just a figure concocted for how much a computer geek can make in one day after convincing the newspapers the world’s computer systems are going to crash.
Taking her money and running, Maggie learned through racing sled dogs, that dogs are a lot like computers (they don’t do anything you want unless you speak their language and can be just as stubborn). She holds the prestigious three-time Red Lantern Award at the American Dog Derby (the oldest sled dog race in North America) and was featured in the Ashton Daily News as the only musher whose ten-dog team chased a Pomeranian into the backyard of the local gossip columnist.
Despite such harrowing experiences, she has braved whiteouts in Wyoming and swamps in Minnesota (as well as the fearsome Idaho Pomeranian) and learned much about dog and wolf behavior. She’s a world-renown expert in canine behavior and training. The publishers of her books include Penguin Putnam, John Wiley and Sons, Barrons Educational Series, TFH, Sterling, Dragon Moon Press and Yard Dog Press. She’s lost count on how many articles she has published in various consumer and trade magazines and websites, but figures it’s over a hundred by now.
M. H. Bonham is the author of Prophecy of Swords and Runestone of Teiwas, both heroic fantasy books in the Swords of Destiny Series published by Yard Dog Press, which share the world with Lachlei. Her work has also appeared in the Four Bubbas of the Apocalypse, Small Bites, Houston, We’ve Got Bubbas, A Time To..., Flush Fiction anthologies, Lorelei Signal, Kidvisions and Tales of the Talisman magazine, and Amazon Shorts.
She writes science fiction, fantasy, and mystery, having taken courses appropriate to a software engineering background such as Anglo Saxon, Latin, and Beowulf. When she’s not racing her geriatric sled dogs, she’s climbing mountains, hiking, and practicing Shotokan Karate (she’s a brown belt) and Ninjitsu. She is currently working on her master’s degree in Liberal Studies. She shares her home at 4000 ft — where most people swear there isn’t any oxygen and you can’t find that altitude on the high altitude directions for cake — with four Malamutes, six Alaskan Huskies, a tortoiseshell cat, deer, elk, foxes, coyotes, mountain lions, bobcats, and bears. Her husband, Larry, indulges her lunacy.
Taking her money and running, Maggie learned through racing sled dogs, that dogs are a lot like computers (they don’t do anything you want unless you speak their language and can be just as stubborn). She holds the prestigious three-time Red Lantern Award at the American Dog Derby (the oldest sled dog race in North America) and was featured in the Ashton Daily News as the only musher whose ten-dog team chased a Pomeranian into the backyard of the local gossip columnist.
Despite such harrowing experiences, she has braved whiteouts in Wyoming and swamps in Minnesota (as well as the fearsome Idaho Pomeranian) and learned much about dog and wolf behavior. She’s a world-renown expert in canine behavior and training. The publishers of her books include Penguin Putnam, John Wiley and Sons, Barrons Educational Series, TFH, Sterling, Dragon Moon Press and Yard Dog Press. She’s lost count on how many articles she has published in various consumer and trade magazines and websites, but figures it’s over a hundred by now.
M. H. Bonham is the author of Prophecy of Swords and Runestone of Teiwas, both heroic fantasy books in the Swords of Destiny Series published by Yard Dog Press, which share the world with Lachlei. Her work has also appeared in the Four Bubbas of the Apocalypse, Small Bites, Houston, We’ve Got Bubbas, A Time To..., Flush Fiction anthologies, Lorelei Signal, Kidvisions and Tales of the Talisman magazine, and Amazon Shorts.
She writes science fiction, fantasy, and mystery, having taken courses appropriate to a software engineering background such as Anglo Saxon, Latin, and Beowulf. When she’s not racing her geriatric sled dogs, she’s climbing mountains, hiking, and practicing Shotokan Karate (she’s a brown belt) and Ninjitsu. She is currently working on her master’s degree in Liberal Studies. She shares her home at 4000 ft — where most people swear there isn’t any oxygen and you can’t find that altitude on the high altitude directions for cake — with four Malamutes, six Alaskan Huskies, a tortoiseshell cat, deer, elk, foxes, coyotes, mountain lions, bobcats, and bears. Her husband, Larry, indulges her lunacy.
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October 13, 2009
The first WolfSongs anthology arguably contains every wolf story you'll ever need. There are love stories, stories of magic and enchantment, scary stories, heart-warming stories, and, most important of all, wolves. Human wolves and wolfy humans. Snow and blood.
Editor M.H. Bonham has brought together no fewer than twenty-two stories of wolves who are human and humans who are wolves. There are werewolves, to be sure--the collection wouldn't be complete without them--but what's on offer here is far more varied than that. Shapeshifters, enchanted beings (or maybe they're cursed) and even people for whom a wolf's life is simply better.
In 'What Large Teeth', S.N. Arly (and isn't that a lovely...pseudonym?) brings us a rewrite of the Little Red Riding Hood story that puts a whole new slant on who's the villain and who's innocent. After all, wolves don't eat people--or do they? Maybe when the conditions are right.
The lovely 'Moonsong and Shadow', by Laura J. Underwood, brings us two eponymous characters who only want to be together. Unfortunately, a curse means one is human by day and wolf by night, and the other, vice versa. Can a solution be found?
The stories in this anthology are to a high standard, with only a few duds, although the editing slips on occasion. Two stand-outs for me were J. Kathleen Cheney's gentle coming-of-age story 'The Bear Girl', which eschews the obvious for a highly-satisfying conclusion, and 'Wolf Dream' by Laura K. Deal. The reluctant Len is called to duty by a white wolf--but is she real or spirit? And does she know his inner heart? The limitations of the short-story form mean the resolution of 'Wolf Dream' is slightly rushed, but it's a story that lingers in the memory.
Anthologies are particularly well-suited to the e-format as the conclusion of each story forms a natural break. I found WolfSongs comfortable and enjoyable reading, and I'm prepared to give the editor a pass on the errors in later stories, egregious though some of them are.
And hey, who could resist that cover art?
Editor M.H. Bonham has brought together no fewer than twenty-two stories of wolves who are human and humans who are wolves. There are werewolves, to be sure--the collection wouldn't be complete without them--but what's on offer here is far more varied than that. Shapeshifters, enchanted beings (or maybe they're cursed) and even people for whom a wolf's life is simply better.
In 'What Large Teeth', S.N. Arly (and isn't that a lovely...pseudonym?) brings us a rewrite of the Little Red Riding Hood story that puts a whole new slant on who's the villain and who's innocent. After all, wolves don't eat people--or do they? Maybe when the conditions are right.
The lovely 'Moonsong and Shadow', by Laura J. Underwood, brings us two eponymous characters who only want to be together. Unfortunately, a curse means one is human by day and wolf by night, and the other, vice versa. Can a solution be found?
The stories in this anthology are to a high standard, with only a few duds, although the editing slips on occasion. Two stand-outs for me were J. Kathleen Cheney's gentle coming-of-age story 'The Bear Girl', which eschews the obvious for a highly-satisfying conclusion, and 'Wolf Dream' by Laura K. Deal. The reluctant Len is called to duty by a white wolf--but is she real or spirit? And does she know his inner heart? The limitations of the short-story form mean the resolution of 'Wolf Dream' is slightly rushed, but it's a story that lingers in the memory.
Anthologies are particularly well-suited to the e-format as the conclusion of each story forms a natural break. I found WolfSongs comfortable and enjoyable reading, and I'm prepared to give the editor a pass on the errors in later stories, egregious though some of them are.
And hey, who could resist that cover art?
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