Far Horizons: Tales of Sci-Fi, Fantasy and Horror. Issue #13 April 2015 | Page 143

The Feline Queen and other Tales of Myth
and Magic (Wolfsinger Publications, 2011)
Joanne Hall’s first collection of fantasy
stories ranges from the satirical comedy of
The Feline Queen, where a race of cat-women are not quite as the hero anticipates, to
the darkness of To Please the Gods, where a
healer and a priest must join forces to save
their village from a mysterious plague. Here
you will find heroes, with muscles like footballs and brains like peas.  Heroines, whose
mystical gifts may be their salvation, or their
doom.  And ordinary people, from this world
and others, caught up in magic beyond their
understanding. Take a breath, step through
the mirror, and enter the realm of the Feline
Queen.  It’s going to be an extraordinary
journey…
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Joanne Hall lives in Bristol, England, with her partner. She has been writing since she was old enough to
hold a pen, and gave up a sensible (boring) job in insurance to be a full time writer, to the despair of her
mother. She dabbled in music journalism, and enjoys going to gigs and the cinema, and reading.
Her first three novels, which made up the New Kingdom Trilogy, were published by Epress Online. Since
then she has had to move house to make more room for books. Her short stories have been published in
several anthologies, including “Dark Spires” and “Future Bristol”, as well as a number of magazines. A
collection of short stories, “The Feline Queen” was published by Wolfsinger Publications in April 2011,
and her latest novel, “The Art of Forgetting” was published by Kristell Ink in two volumes in 2013 /14,
and the first volume has been longlisted for the 2014 Tiptree Award. With Roz Clarke, she has co-edited
two anthologies, “Colinthology” and “Airship Shape and Bristol Fashion.”
She is also one of the founders of Bristolcon. Her blog can be found at www.hierath.co.uk, and she’s always happy to hear from readers.

CANDLEFIRE
Elvienne was startled awake by the hammering on her
door. No light seeped through the shutters, and when

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she flung a fur around her shoulders and threw wide
the door, the night was as black as a witch’s heart and
the wind whipped her long grey hair against her face.
“Who knocks?” She peered into the rain-lashed dark-