This is not your average Hoyt book
If indeed there is such a thing as an average Sarah A. Hoyt book
In a moment of …. well, being myself, some years ago, I woke up with the words: The Rain of Frog in my head.
Yes, I know, how could a single frog rain. Well, maybe if I made him very very large? But then wouldn’t he splat? No. Because he was only climbing a ladder maybe five feet, then jumping down, then repeating.
But why would he be doing that?
Suddenly I had an entire story in my head, complete with a very annoyed woman who is watching the frog “rain.” (Look, there are worse ways he could be doing it, right?)
Some weeks later, at a loss for what to write, I wrote another short-short. I no longer remember which one was next, but it might have been the one where the woman opened the door to her almost-ex husband he’s wearing a horse’s head.
From then on, when I was feeling out of sorts, I posted a short story. Some of them I dreamed the night before.
Anyway, for some time now, readers on my blog, and people who stumbled onto the stories from some site where they were looking for fairy tales, begged me to put it out as a book.
For various reasons, but mostly being sick, tired and moving, it took me years to get this published. Heck, it took me months just to enter the edits.
Then I was waiting for a cover (long story.) And then I decided to go proactive and bullied the lovely and obviously kind Caitlin Walsh into making me a cover. (Poor girl.)
Yesterday, the book Odd Magics: Tales for the lost went live on Amazon.
It shall be published in other platforms, etc, but for now, it is up there, and should be available on paper in the next day or so (there was a slight delay?)
Anyway, here it is:
Odd Magics: Tales for the Lost
Odd Magics
This is a very strange collection of fairytales, recast for modern life. In it the prize isn’t always to the fairest, the
magic is rarely to the strongest.
But lonely introverts do find love, women who never gave it a thought find themselves at the center of romance.
Doing what's right will see you to the happily ever after.
And sometimes you have to kiss an accountant to find your prince.
Sarah - I just bought a paperback copy on Amazon yesterday.
It's a fun read! :grin: