{"id":1250,"date":"2008-10-06T07:56:45","date_gmt":"2008-10-06T11:56:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=1250"},"modified":"2008-10-03T15:12:57","modified_gmt":"2008-10-03T19:12:57","slug":"magic-for-beginners-free-download","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=1250","title":{"rendered":"<I>Magic for Beginners<\/I> Free Download"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/link-97x150.jpg\" alt=\"Cover Art\" title=\"Cover Art\" width=\"97\" height=\"150\" class=\"contentimg\" \/>Kelly Link&#8217;s collection of short stories <I>Magic for Beginners<\/I>&#8211;for which I have never heard anything but praise&#8211;has been made <A HREF-\"http:\/\/lcrw.net\/kellylink\/mfb\/index.htm\">available for download<\/A> on the Jelly Ink Press site.<\/p>\n<p>The title story and <I>The Faery Handbag<\/I> both won Nebula and Locus awards.  (They aren&#8217;t included in the free download for contractual reasons, although you can read <I>The Faery Handbag<\/I> <A HREF=\"http:\/\/lcrw.net\/fictionplus\/link-handbag.htm\">here<\/A>.)<\/p>\n<p>Jelly Ink Press also offers her first collection, <A HREF=\"http:\/\/lcrw.net\/kellylink\/sth\/index.htm\">Stranger Things Happen<\/A>, for free download.  Best of all, both collections are made available under Creative Commons licensing.  So far derivative works include audio versions, short movies, plays, and even a cello version of one of the stories.<\/p>\n<p>If two freebies aren&#8217;t enough Link&#8217;s newest collection, <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Pretty-Monsters-Stories-Kelly-Link\/dp\/0670010901\/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&#038;s=books&#038;tag=shadmano-20&#038;qid=1223060898&#038;sr=8-1\">Pretty Monsters<\/A>, has just been released for sale.<\/p>\n<p><I>(via <A HREF=\"http:\/\/sfscope.com\/\">SF Scope<\/A>)<\/I><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kelly Link&#8217;s collection of short stories Magic for Beginners&#8211;for which I have never heard anything but praise&#8211;has been made available for download on the Jelly Ink Press site. The title story and The Faery Handbag both won Nebula and Locus awards. (They aren&#8217;t included in the free download for contractual reasons, although you can read [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1250"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1250"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1250\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1256,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1250\/revisions\/1256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}