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Children's & young adult fiction & true storiesA Tale of Tinkers, Trolls and Troublemakers
Tale Series Book 3
by Julie Sandilands
This is the third instalment of the ‘Tale’ series of books. Manuscript length: 34,000 Readership: children & young adults Genre: Action/adventure/magic & mythical talesA new adventure, the biggest yet, awaits the three friends, Finn, Ryan and Hawkeye as they seek out a magical crystal pin in the north English countryside. Hurricanes, floods and volcanic eruptions continue to cause chaos for the inhabitants of planet Earth. Can the natural balance be restored before it's too late? The reluctant adventurers, brought back together by the decisive hand of fate are the world’s only hope. A path fraught with danger and double-crossing awaits. Individually, death is inevitable. But together... a delicate veil of possibility flickers in the heavens. The story is mostly set in and around Dufton, a small village nestled in the foothills on the Pennine Way, Cumbria.
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Art & design styles: Conceptual artAugust 2021Sting in the Tale
Art, Hoax, and Provocation
by Antoinette LaFarge
An illustrated survey of artist hoaxes, including impersonations, fabula, cryptoscience, and forgeries, researched and written by an expert “fictive-art” practitioner. The shift from the early information age to our 'infocalypse' era of rampant misinformation has given rise to an art form that probes this confusion, foregrounding wild creativity as a way to reframe assumptions about both fiction and art in contemporary culture. At its center, this “fictive art” (LaFarge’s term) is secured as fact by employing the language and display methods of history and science. Using typically evidentiary objects such as documentary photographs and videos, presumptively historical artifacts and relics, didactics, lectures, events, and expert opinions in technical language, artists create a constellation of manufactured evidence attesting to the artwork’s central narrative. This dissimulation is temporary, with a clear “tell” often surprisingly revealed in a self-outing moment. With all its attendant consequences of mistrust, outrage, and rejection, this genre of art with a sting in its tale is a radical form whose time has come.
