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Tuesday, September 8, 2009 7:49:58 PM
Clare L. Bell wrote a blog post titled Ratha's Courage to appear on Fictionwise and Amazon:
Clare L. said, "I got an email from my agent Richard Curtis that Ratha's Courage: the Fifth Book of the Named, has completed processing as an e-book and will be appearing on Fictionwise and Amazon in a few weeks.I haven't been posting much lately, due to weather,..." more
Tuesday, September 8, 2009 7:49:58 PM
Clare L. Bell wrote a blog post titled Courage galloping toward 4/1/08 release:
Clare L. said, "My agent, Richard Curtis, has just confirmed today that everything is on-track.Courage will be released on 4/1/08 as an E-Reads/Baen Books selection.Baen's website is www. baen. com. (Note - you can buy individual titles as well as the..." more
Tuesday, September 8, 2009 7:49:58 PM
Clare L. Bell wrote a blog post titled A Taste of Ratha's Courage:
Clare L. said, "Update 2: The book wasn't up as of 4/3. E-Reads has done the E-Book file, checked it and has sent it to Baen. As well as herding the book to E-publication, I am currently writing the kickoff announcement article that will appear on the E-Reads..." more
Tuesday, September 8, 2009 7:49:57 PM
Clare L. Bell wrote a blog post titled Ratha's Courage E-Released on Baen!:
Clare L. said, "This version is an electronic book, which means you purchase it, then download it into your laptop, Sony reader or other device. On sale now for $6.00. To buy it from Baen Books, you need to get an account, which is free and easy. Here's the..." more
Tuesday, September 8, 2009 7:49:57 PM
Clare L. Bell wrote a blog post titled Ratha's Creatures - What Are the Face-tails?:
Clare L. said, "You meet them in the first few pages of Ratha's Challenge, trumpeting, stamping and flapping their ears. Even a half-grown face-tail is too much for the Named and after the youngster launches the young herder Khushi into a thornbush, Ratha and the..." more
Tuesday, September 8, 2009 7:49:57 PM
Clare L. Bell wrote a blog post titled Ratha Series recommended by Horn Book for Warriors fans:
Clare L. said, "In answer to the parent of a 4th grade Warriors fan, about other books to read,Horn Book Magazine columnist Claire E. Gross recommended the Ratha series as a good follow-on for older Warriors fans.Here's a quote from the May 2008 Ask the Horn Book..." more
Tuesday, September 8, 2009 7:49:57 PM
Clare L. Bell wrote a blog post titled Ratha's Courage now on Fictionwise.com:
Clare L. said, "Hi folks,Ratha's Courage just went up as an E-book on Fictionwise.com. I believe that it will also be updated on Amazon.com, with publisher listed as E-Reads/FictionwiseIt is still on Baen Books Webscriptions .Things are rolling!CB"
Tuesday, September 8, 2009 7:49:57 PM
Clare L. Bell wrote a blog post titled Ratha's Creatures - What Are the Rumblers?:
Clare L. said, "Ratha's Courage introduces several new creatures to the series, including a larger horse called a “striper” and the two “rumblers”, Grunt and Belch. Adopted by the herder Bundi, and his younger friend Mishanti while still small, these..." more
Tuesday, September 8, 2009 7:49:57 PM
Clare L. Bell wrote a blog post titled Ratha Returns with New "Courage", Part 1:
Clare L. said, "by Clare BellRatha, the fire-wielding leader of the Named prehistoric cat clan, has, according to the recent VOYA review of the new Ratha's Courage, “a long and venerable history”. From the now-classic hardcover Ratha's Creature..." more
Tuesday, September 8, 2009 7:49:57 PM
Clare L. Bell wrote a blog post titled Imaginator Press to Publish Print Edition of Ratha's Courage:
Clare L. said, " Sheila Ruth of Imaginator Press and I ( Clare Bell, author of the Named series), have signed an agreement to publish a print edition of Ratha's Courage. Sheila also co-administers Wands and Worlds, a well-known teenage fantasy fiction fan site..." more
Tuesday, September 8, 2009 7:49:57 PM
Clare L. Bell wrote a blog post titled Imaginator Press Paperback of Ratha's Courage:
Clare L. said, "Imaginator Press has been moving very fast to get Ratha's Courage into paperback for the October release date (Yay, Sheila Ruth!). Ratha fans probably noticed that Courage is back up on Amazon for pre-order, which is great. In the process of..." more
Tuesday, September 8, 2009 7:49:57 PM
Clare L. Bell wrote a blog post titled Ratha's Creatures - The Named clan cats:
Clare L. said, "Readers ask if the various creatures in the Ratha series really existed. The answer is yes, they are based on real fossils, but a few have been slightly modified. Keep in mind that I began the series in 1983 and wrote it until the mid 1990's. ..." more
Tuesday, September 8, 2009 7:49:57 PM
Clare L. Bell wrote a blog post titled The 6th Ratha Tale and Brightspirit:
Clare L. said, "The 6th Ratha tale - Idealism and its DiscontentsBack in the days when all was rosy, Courage was written, turned in, eagerly accepted, and the Named Series appeared to be on the verge of a boom that could rival Harry Potter or Warriors, Sharyn..." more
Tuesday, September 8, 2009 7:49:57 PM
Clare L. Bell wrote a blog post titled ClanChirps - Ratha on Twitter:
Clare L. said, "Twitter, according to many Internet experts, is the next hot item for promoting people and their creations, including books. Twitter is a microblogging service that limits posts to 140 characters, thus challenging its users to generate intriguing..." more
Tuesday, September 8, 2009 7:49:57 PM
Clare L. Bell wrote a blog post titled ClanChirps - Ratha on Twitter:
Clare L. said, "Twitter, according to many Internet experts, is the next hot item for promoting people and their creations, including books. Twitter is a microblogging service that limits posts to 140 characters, thus challenging its users to generate intriguing..." more
Tuesday, September 8, 2009 7:49:57 PM
Clare L. Bell wrote a blog post titled Ratha's Courage - Good Stuff Happening:
Clare L. said, "Alien pipe-cleaner critter steals brownies while oblivious author signs Ratha's Courage at Northern California Independent Booksellers Association conference, Oakland, CA, Nov 5, 2008Picture by JC Simmonds of Beagle BayRatha's Courage has been..." more
Tuesday, September 8, 2009 7:49:57 PM
Clare L. Bell wrote a blog post titled The Flaming Torch - My Vote and Yours:
Clare L. said, "Today I will be driving from my home in Patterson to Modesto. I will be carrying my absentee ballot, which I have completed, but did not have time to mail. My destination will be the country voter registration office, where I can hand my sealed..." more
Tuesday, September 8, 2009 7:49:57 PM
Clare L. Bell wrote a blog post titled Solo's Journey by Joy Smith Aiken:
Clare L. said, "A few days ago, to take a break from the laptop, I picked up Solo's Journey. Intending to sample the first few chapters, I found myself drawn in to the story of Solo, a feral kit who loses his mother and has to find his own way in the feral cat..." more
Tuesday, September 8, 2009 7:49:57 PM
Clare L. Bell wrote a blog post titled The Named Are Being Twits Again...:
Clare L. said, "For purposes of fun and silliness, I have given the Named clan cat characters the ability to temporarily teleport from their home in the California Miocene so that they can peek into the human world and remark upon what they see. This, of course is..." more
Tuesday, September 8, 2009 7:49:57 PM
Clare L. Bell wrote a blog post titled Using Children's Nonfiction For Research - See Inside an Aztec Town:
Clare L. said, "For an author, especially when faced with a deadline, a great source for information about nearly everything is the kids non-fiction section in the library. When I was writing my novel, The Jaguar Princess (Tor Books 1993) about ancient Aztec..." more
Tuesday, September 8, 2009 7:49:57 PM
Clare L. Bell wrote a blog post titled Poetry Friday - The Herding Teacher's Name:
Clare L. said, "A little doggerel (or cat-eral) about one of my favorite characters from my Ratha series about intelligent prehistoric cats; Thakur, the clan's herding teacher. It addresses a silly problem with his name. Somewhat inspired by Edward Lear:The..." more
Tuesday, September 8, 2009 7:49:57 PM
Clare L. Bell wrote a blog post titled Alternate Evolution - Cat into pointy-eared humanoid - 1:
Clare L. said, "The idea for the Named began not with a story, but with a sketch. I like to work back and forth between images and written words. In my early 20's, in the mid-to late 1970's, I did a drawing to explore how a pointy-eared alien (such as Star Trek's..." more
Tuesday, September 8, 2009 7:49:57 PM
Clare L. Bell wrote a blog post titled Clan Ground Available Through Amazon "Used and New" Link:
Clare L. said, "Recently the first four books in Ratha series have appeared as Amazon Kindle editions, but at the same time, the Clan Ground paperback edition went out of print. However, we rescued the remaining new paperbacks, so if there is a hole in your Ratha..." more
Tuesday, September 8, 2009 7:49:57 PM
Clare L. Bell wrote a blog post titled Ratha's Island Archive:
Clare L. said, "Updated 4/16/2009 CBThis is an archive page for the Twitter novelette, Ratha's Island. All the #rathafic Twitter posts will be archived here as well as on the Ratha Series Forum.Ratha's Island will start on Twitter March 14 at 12:00 noon, marked by..." more
Saturday, May 8, 2010 11:38:04 AM
Clare L. Bell was just published! Clare L. is the Author of Clan Ground, which was just released in Paperback. Congratulations Clare L.!