On Sun, 2 Jun 2024 14:25:37 -0000 (UTC),
jdnicoll@panix.com (James
Nicoll) wrote:
In article <v3hunb$3ckvd$2@dont-email.me>,
Michael F. Stemper <michael.stemper@gmail.com> wrote:
On 01/06/2024 12.21, fisherman@deepwater.com wrote:
I very much enjoyed Tara K Harper's Science Fiction Fantasy books
published from the 1900's onward. They can be a bit grim or gritty.
The Cat Scratch series has two books.
It is the Wolfwalker series about which I have a question. The first
book is Wolfwaker published in 1990. Ghost Wolf is supposedly the
seventh or eighth book, possibly published around 2008. It would also
be the second book in the Black Wolf (Nori & Grey Rishte) series.
Does anyone know if the book Ghost Wolf actually exists?
Not according to the ISFDB:
<https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?709>
It does list _Silver Moons, Black Steel_ as having been released in
2001. Is it possible that there was a title change before publication?
Does anyone know what happened to Tara K Harper?
Based on the same page, she's probably still alive. However, the ISFDB >>isn't really the place to go for biographical information beyond the
few bullet points that they give.
I went digging: her Wikipedia entry was deleted, presumably by
one of Wikipedia's energetic deletionists. Her website is gone and
seems to have been last updated about about 20 years ago. I found
a reference on BlueSky to her having moved on from writing. But!
Harper has a Facebook account on which a year ago she said
"Ah, folks, the sequel is written. The 3rd book, which finishes Nori's
story, is in the works. (Payne's story is also in the works.)"
No details on publication.
Hey folks,
Thanks for all the responses.
One page that was helpful, and pondering my same question was this
one:
https://www.sffworld.com/forum/threads/tara-k-harper-does-anyone-have-any-info.29729/
As for the title change possibility my confused synapses cannot recall
if one or more of her books in the Wolfwalker series might have
changed names,without looking at each book, but in any event that is
not the issue with respect to the volume Ghost Wolf. The are page
counts listed and such, but no actual book hard copy or electronic,
seems to have ever definitely been issued. Knowing the breadth of
knowledge in this group, I was hoping that someone might have
additional information.
Anything is possible starting with it was never written, an outline
was created but never fleshed out, it was written but the author was disatisfied with the result, a publusher got control of the rights and
decided not to publish it, the author is arguing over rights with a
publisher, or some other possibility I did not list.
I'll continue to watch for and read any responses, and appreciate the
ones made so far. This is a great group that I do not visit as often
as I would like.
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