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> in Section Other children’s fiction
>> sub-section Sassycat: the Night of the Dead (2005)
AT END OF SUB-Section … invading their territory from a nearby cemetery. INSERT 2 footnotes and 2 citations (a) http://www.scool.scholastic.com.au/schoolzone/toolkit/assets/pdfs/Sassy_Cat.pdf (b) https://www.booktopia.com.au/sassycat-richard-harland/book/9781862916708.html
> in Section Worldshaker, Liberator and Song of the Slums
>> AT END OF FIRST PARAGRAPH … for a substantial advance.
INSERT footnote and citation https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Worldshaker/Richard-Harland/9781416995531
>> AT END OF THIRD PARAGRAPH … published globally by the same publishers as Liberator.
INSERT footnote and citation https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Liberator/Richard-Harland/9781442423343
>> AT END OF FINAL PARAGRAPH … Astor’s relationship with the enigmatic Errol.
INSERT footnote and citation https://www.allenandunwin.com/browse/book/Richard-Harland-Song-of-the-Slums-9781743310052/
> in Section: Shorter works of fiction AFTER … magazines and anthologies in the US, Australia, Canada and France. INSERT 2 footnotes and citations (a) The Internet Speculative Fiction Database (b) AustLit Database, https://www.austlit.edu.au/austlit/search2/page?query=Richard+Harland&token=ywqyncy&facetSampleSize=0&facetValuesSize=0&blendMax=y&count=50&sortBy=date
> in Section Awards AFTER Richard Harland has won the following awards: INSERT 4 footnotes and citations: (a) AustLit database: https://www.austlit.edu.au/austlit/page/A21008?mainTabTemplate=agentAwards (b) The Internet Speculative Fiction Database: https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/eaw.cgi?5718 (c) Aurealis Awards archive: https://aurealisawards.files.wordpress.com/2018/06/aurealis-1995-2017-compiled-lists.pdf (d) <to cover variation in title of Prix Tam Tam Je Bouquine/Prix Tam-tam du Livre Jeunesse> https://www.librarything.com/bookaward/Prix+Tam-tam+du+Livre+de+Jeunesse -- Richard Harland ( talk) 23:30, 1 July 2023 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Richard Harland ( talk • contribs) 05:08, 19 June 2023 (UTC)
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In the introductory paragraph, there's a reference to '15 full-length works of fiction'. Could this be changed to '17'? The evidence is in the rest of the article: by paragraphs -
(2 books) Vicar, Black Crusade (3) Eddon and Vail 'series of three science fiction novels' (3) Heaven and Earth 'trilogy' (4) Wolf Kingdom series - '4 illustrated fantasies' (1) Walter Wants To Be a Werewolf (1) Sassycat (3) Worldshaker, Liberator, Song of Slums I suspect the mistake came from counting the Heaven and Earth trilogy as a single book. -- Richard Harland ( talk) 23:16, 3 July 2023 (UTC)
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Hopefully that's acceptable. It's verbatim after the first sentence, meaning that it counts as an extract, so I'd feel obliged to request permission from Kirkus. (Ironically, they want to prevent publicists dishonestly extracting positive snippets of praise - I'm doing the opposite!) Alternatively, I could rewrite all the same facts of content in a new, equally neutral presentation.
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Following the advice of ARandomName123, I've produced the following content summary for insertion in the Richard Harland Wiki entry, to go after the paragraphs on Worldshaker, Liberator and Song of the Slums and before the paragraph on Shorter Works of Fiction. Although I've used my own words, I've tried to keep it completely objective. I've followed it with a list of sources which, taken together, should provide evidence for all the content facts.
Requested insertion:
Ferren and the Angel
Harland’s latest novel is a dystopian YA Fantasy, the first book in The Ferren Trilogy.
The setting is the far future, when only scattered ruins remain from the civilization of the present. While artificially created beings called ‘Humen’ conduct an endless war against Heaven, descendants of the original human beings have been reduced to a degraded existence, surviving in ignorance in isolated tribes.
Fifteen-year-old Ferren belongs to a tribe called ‘the People’. Like other tribes, the People consider themselves allies of the Humen, but go in fear of them. Especially terrifying are the black-clad Selectors who select one tribal member for ‘military service’ each year.
Ferren’s life changes when he sees a ‘Celestial’ shot down and crashing to the Earth. Unusually bold, he investigates and finds the angel Miriael, semi-conscious and awaiting extinction. Feeling pity for his tribe’s supposed enemy, he feeds her mortal food and thereby ‘corrupts’ her spiritual purity, even as he enables her to live in the terrestrial atmosphere.
From Miriael, Ferren learns truths about the nature of his world. Then, after being temporarily exiled by the People, he ventures into the military-industrial complex of the Humen Camp and learns the truth about ‘military service’. In the end, his relationship with Miriael proves crucial in protecting his tribe through the cataclysmic violence of a great terra-celestial battle.
Ferren and the Angel is a rewritten version of the novel first published in The Heaven and Earth Trilogy over two decades earlier. It came out worldwide from IFWG Publishing International in 2023.
______________________
Evidence for the above can be found in many reviews, interviews and catalogue entries. The reviewers have clearly read the book, the interviewers probably have, and the catalogue entries … well, at least they have a reputation to maintain!
Reviews that include content summaries, e.g.
Independent Book Review
https://independentbookreview.com/2023/08/31/starred-book-review-ferren-and-the-angel/
Kirkus Reviews. Printed review in the September 15, 2023 issue
https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/richard-harland/ferren-and-angel/
MidWest Book Review.
http://www.midwestbookreview.com/mbw/sep_23.htm Scroll down to Diane Donovan’s Bookshelf
ReaderViewsKids
https://www.readerviewskids.com/ferren-and-the-angel-harland/
The Reading Life
https://thereadinglifeblog.com/2023/11/16/ferren-and-the-angel-by-richard-harland-review/
NetGalley Reviews (see content summaries in reviews by Tracy Wood, Morgana L and Jane Barnaby
https://www.netgalley.com/catalog/book/288544
Interviews – here are a couple from the many I’ve done which include some content summary
Paul Semel - answer to first question
https://paulsemel.com/exclusive-interview-ferren-and-the-angel-author-richard-harland/
ReaderViews(Kids) – answer to second question
https://www.readerviewskids.com/meet-the-author-harland-ferren-and-the-angel/
Bookshop, publisher and distributor content summaries
GoodReads
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/137225996-ferren-and-the-angel
Amazon
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BZB4QVHL?ref_=cm_sw_r_cp_ud_dp_8CPPAQVYYP1TTDMH5HBT
Barnes & Noble -
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/ferren-and-the-angel-richard-harland/1006121907?ean=9781922856296
IPG catalogue entry (international distributor)
https://www.ipgbook.com/ferren-and-the-angel-products-9781922856319.php
Thanks,
Richard Harland~~~~~ Richard Harland ( talk) 01:34, 26 February 2024 (UTC)
{{edit COI}}
I'm asking for editorial help - I seem to have asked in the wrong place last time. I'm the subject of this "Richard Harland" article, so I need to avoid COI. But the article is out of date re a very important publication of 6 months ago, and, following advice, I've produced a content description in my own words rather reproducing a content description from Kirkus. However, I have kept it absolutely factual.
The insertion would need to go after the several paragraphs on Worldshaker, Liberator, Song of the Slums, ending "relationship with the enigmatic Verrol" - and before the next section on Shorter Works of Fiction. Hope someone can help me out - the original author of this article has seemingly vanished off the face of the Earth!
______________
Ferren and the Angel
Harland’s latest novel is a dystopian YA Fantasy, the first book in The Ferren Trilogy.
The setting is the far future, when only scattered ruins remain from the civilization of the present. While artificially created beings called ‘Humen’ conduct an endless war against Heaven, descendants of the original human beings have been reduced to a degraded existence, surviving in ignorance in isolated tribes.
Fifteen-year-old Ferren belongs to a tribe called ‘the People’. Like other tribes, the People consider themselves allies of the Humen, but go in fear of them. Especially terrifying are the black-clad Selectors who select one tribal member for ‘military service’ each year.
Ferren’s life changes when he sees a ‘Celestial’ shot down and crashing to the Earth. Unusually bold, he investigates and finds the angel Miriael, semi-conscious and awaiting extinction. Feeling pity for his tribe’s supposed enemy, he feeds her mortal food and thereby ‘corrupts’ her spiritual purity, even as he enables her to live in the terrestrial atmosphere.
From Miriael, Ferren learns truths about the nature of his world. Then, after being temporarily exiled by the People, he ventures into the military-industrial complex of the Humen Camp and learns the truth about ‘military service’. In the end, his relationship with Miriael proves crucial in protecting his tribe through the cataclysmic violence of a great terra-celestial battle.
Ferren and the Angel is a rewritten version of the novel first published in The Heaven and Earth Trilogy over two decades earlier. It came out worldwide from IFWG Publishing International in 2023.
______________________
EVIDENCE for the above can be found in:
Reviews that include content summaries, e.g.
Independent Book Review
https://independentbookreview.com/2023/08/31/starred-book-review-ferren-and-the-angel/
Kirkus Reviews. Printed review in September 15, 2023 issue
https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/richard-harland/ferren-and-angel/
MidWest Book Review.
http://www.midwestbookreview.com/mbw/sep_23.htm (Scroll down to Diane Donovan’s Bookshelf)
ReaderViewsKids
https://www.readerviewskids.com/ferren-and-the-angel-harland/
The Reading Life
https://thereadinglifeblog.com/2023/11/16/ferren-and-the-angel-by-richard-harland-review/
NetGalley Reviews (see content summaries in reviews by Tracy Wood, Morgana L and Jane Barnaby
https://www.netgalley.com/catalog/book/288544
Interviews – here are a couple from the many I’ve done which include some content summary
Paul Semel - answer to first question
https://paulsemel.com/exclusive-interview-ferren-and-the-angel-author-richard-harland/
ReaderViews(Kids) – answer to second question
https://www.readerviewskids.com/meet-the-author-harland-ferren-and-the-angel/
Bookshop, publisher and distributor content summaries
GoodReads
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/137225996-ferren-and-the-angel
Amazon
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BZB4QVHL?ref_=cm_sw_r_cp_ud_dp_8CPPAQVYYP1TTDMH5HBT
Barnes & Noble - https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/ferren-and-the-angel-richard-harland/1006121907?ean=9781922856296
IPG catalogue entry (distributor)
https://www.ipgbook.com/ferren-and-the-angel-products-9781922856319.php
I admit these aren't sources you'd rely on for evaluation, but they're accurate and consistent as regards content description!
Richard Harland Richard Harland ( talk) 04:47, 11 April 2024 (UTC)
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> in Section Other children’s fiction
>> sub-section Sassycat: the Night of the Dead (2005)
AT END OF SUB-Section … invading their territory from a nearby cemetery. INSERT 2 footnotes and 2 citations (a) http://www.scool.scholastic.com.au/schoolzone/toolkit/assets/pdfs/Sassy_Cat.pdf (b) https://www.booktopia.com.au/sassycat-richard-harland/book/9781862916708.html
> in Section Worldshaker, Liberator and Song of the Slums
>> AT END OF FIRST PARAGRAPH … for a substantial advance.
INSERT footnote and citation https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Worldshaker/Richard-Harland/9781416995531
>> AT END OF THIRD PARAGRAPH … published globally by the same publishers as Liberator.
INSERT footnote and citation https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Liberator/Richard-Harland/9781442423343
>> AT END OF FINAL PARAGRAPH … Astor’s relationship with the enigmatic Errol.
INSERT footnote and citation https://www.allenandunwin.com/browse/book/Richard-Harland-Song-of-the-Slums-9781743310052/
> in Section: Shorter works of fiction AFTER … magazines and anthologies in the US, Australia, Canada and France. INSERT 2 footnotes and citations (a) The Internet Speculative Fiction Database (b) AustLit Database, https://www.austlit.edu.au/austlit/search2/page?query=Richard+Harland&token=ywqyncy&facetSampleSize=0&facetValuesSize=0&blendMax=y&count=50&sortBy=date
> in Section Awards AFTER Richard Harland has won the following awards: INSERT 4 footnotes and citations: (a) AustLit database: https://www.austlit.edu.au/austlit/page/A21008?mainTabTemplate=agentAwards (b) The Internet Speculative Fiction Database: https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/eaw.cgi?5718 (c) Aurealis Awards archive: https://aurealisawards.files.wordpress.com/2018/06/aurealis-1995-2017-compiled-lists.pdf (d) <to cover variation in title of Prix Tam Tam Je Bouquine/Prix Tam-tam du Livre Jeunesse> https://www.librarything.com/bookaward/Prix+Tam-tam+du+Livre+de+Jeunesse -- Richard Harland ( talk) 23:30, 1 July 2023 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Richard Harland ( talk • contribs) 05:08, 19 June 2023 (UTC)
Additional references requested
Regards, Spintendo 21:41, 2 July 2023 (UTC)
Notes
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In the introductory paragraph, there's a reference to '15 full-length works of fiction'. Could this be changed to '17'? The evidence is in the rest of the article: by paragraphs -
(2 books) Vicar, Black Crusade (3) Eddon and Vail 'series of three science fiction novels' (3) Heaven and Earth 'trilogy' (4) Wolf Kingdom series - '4 illustrated fantasies' (1) Walter Wants To Be a Werewolf (1) Sassycat (3) Worldshaker, Liberator, Song of Slums I suspect the mistake came from counting the Heaven and Earth trilogy as a single book. -- Richard Harland ( talk) 23:16, 3 July 2023 (UTC)
Edit request implemented Spintendo 01:08, 4 July 2023 (UTC)
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Hopefully that's acceptable. It's verbatim after the first sentence, meaning that it counts as an extract, so I'd feel obliged to request permission from Kirkus. (Ironically, they want to prevent publicists dishonestly extracting positive snippets of praise - I'm doing the opposite!) Alternatively, I could rewrite all the same facts of content in a new, equally neutral presentation.
~~~~ Richard Harland ( talk) 10:58, 23 February 2024 (UTC)
The user below has a request that an edit be made to
Richard Harland. That user has an
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Following the advice of ARandomName123, I've produced the following content summary for insertion in the Richard Harland Wiki entry, to go after the paragraphs on Worldshaker, Liberator and Song of the Slums and before the paragraph on Shorter Works of Fiction. Although I've used my own words, I've tried to keep it completely objective. I've followed it with a list of sources which, taken together, should provide evidence for all the content facts.
Requested insertion:
Ferren and the Angel
Harland’s latest novel is a dystopian YA Fantasy, the first book in The Ferren Trilogy.
The setting is the far future, when only scattered ruins remain from the civilization of the present. While artificially created beings called ‘Humen’ conduct an endless war against Heaven, descendants of the original human beings have been reduced to a degraded existence, surviving in ignorance in isolated tribes.
Fifteen-year-old Ferren belongs to a tribe called ‘the People’. Like other tribes, the People consider themselves allies of the Humen, but go in fear of them. Especially terrifying are the black-clad Selectors who select one tribal member for ‘military service’ each year.
Ferren’s life changes when he sees a ‘Celestial’ shot down and crashing to the Earth. Unusually bold, he investigates and finds the angel Miriael, semi-conscious and awaiting extinction. Feeling pity for his tribe’s supposed enemy, he feeds her mortal food and thereby ‘corrupts’ her spiritual purity, even as he enables her to live in the terrestrial atmosphere.
From Miriael, Ferren learns truths about the nature of his world. Then, after being temporarily exiled by the People, he ventures into the military-industrial complex of the Humen Camp and learns the truth about ‘military service’. In the end, his relationship with Miriael proves crucial in protecting his tribe through the cataclysmic violence of a great terra-celestial battle.
Ferren and the Angel is a rewritten version of the novel first published in The Heaven and Earth Trilogy over two decades earlier. It came out worldwide from IFWG Publishing International in 2023.
______________________
Evidence for the above can be found in many reviews, interviews and catalogue entries. The reviewers have clearly read the book, the interviewers probably have, and the catalogue entries … well, at least they have a reputation to maintain!
Reviews that include content summaries, e.g.
Independent Book Review
https://independentbookreview.com/2023/08/31/starred-book-review-ferren-and-the-angel/
Kirkus Reviews. Printed review in the September 15, 2023 issue
https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/richard-harland/ferren-and-angel/
MidWest Book Review.
http://www.midwestbookreview.com/mbw/sep_23.htm Scroll down to Diane Donovan’s Bookshelf
ReaderViewsKids
https://www.readerviewskids.com/ferren-and-the-angel-harland/
The Reading Life
https://thereadinglifeblog.com/2023/11/16/ferren-and-the-angel-by-richard-harland-review/
NetGalley Reviews (see content summaries in reviews by Tracy Wood, Morgana L and Jane Barnaby
https://www.netgalley.com/catalog/book/288544
Interviews – here are a couple from the many I’ve done which include some content summary
Paul Semel - answer to first question
https://paulsemel.com/exclusive-interview-ferren-and-the-angel-author-richard-harland/
ReaderViews(Kids) – answer to second question
https://www.readerviewskids.com/meet-the-author-harland-ferren-and-the-angel/
Bookshop, publisher and distributor content summaries
GoodReads
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/137225996-ferren-and-the-angel
Amazon
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BZB4QVHL?ref_=cm_sw_r_cp_ud_dp_8CPPAQVYYP1TTDMH5HBT
Barnes & Noble -
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/ferren-and-the-angel-richard-harland/1006121907?ean=9781922856296
IPG catalogue entry (international distributor)
https://www.ipgbook.com/ferren-and-the-angel-products-9781922856319.php
Thanks,
Richard Harland~~~~~ Richard Harland ( talk) 01:34, 26 February 2024 (UTC)
{{edit COI}}
I'm asking for editorial help - I seem to have asked in the wrong place last time. I'm the subject of this "Richard Harland" article, so I need to avoid COI. But the article is out of date re a very important publication of 6 months ago, and, following advice, I've produced a content description in my own words rather reproducing a content description from Kirkus. However, I have kept it absolutely factual.
The insertion would need to go after the several paragraphs on Worldshaker, Liberator, Song of the Slums, ending "relationship with the enigmatic Verrol" - and before the next section on Shorter Works of Fiction. Hope someone can help me out - the original author of this article has seemingly vanished off the face of the Earth!
______________
Ferren and the Angel
Harland’s latest novel is a dystopian YA Fantasy, the first book in The Ferren Trilogy.
The setting is the far future, when only scattered ruins remain from the civilization of the present. While artificially created beings called ‘Humen’ conduct an endless war against Heaven, descendants of the original human beings have been reduced to a degraded existence, surviving in ignorance in isolated tribes.
Fifteen-year-old Ferren belongs to a tribe called ‘the People’. Like other tribes, the People consider themselves allies of the Humen, but go in fear of them. Especially terrifying are the black-clad Selectors who select one tribal member for ‘military service’ each year.
Ferren’s life changes when he sees a ‘Celestial’ shot down and crashing to the Earth. Unusually bold, he investigates and finds the angel Miriael, semi-conscious and awaiting extinction. Feeling pity for his tribe’s supposed enemy, he feeds her mortal food and thereby ‘corrupts’ her spiritual purity, even as he enables her to live in the terrestrial atmosphere.
From Miriael, Ferren learns truths about the nature of his world. Then, after being temporarily exiled by the People, he ventures into the military-industrial complex of the Humen Camp and learns the truth about ‘military service’. In the end, his relationship with Miriael proves crucial in protecting his tribe through the cataclysmic violence of a great terra-celestial battle.
Ferren and the Angel is a rewritten version of the novel first published in The Heaven and Earth Trilogy over two decades earlier. It came out worldwide from IFWG Publishing International in 2023.
______________________
EVIDENCE for the above can be found in:
Reviews that include content summaries, e.g.
Independent Book Review
https://independentbookreview.com/2023/08/31/starred-book-review-ferren-and-the-angel/
Kirkus Reviews. Printed review in September 15, 2023 issue
https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/richard-harland/ferren-and-angel/
MidWest Book Review.
http://www.midwestbookreview.com/mbw/sep_23.htm (Scroll down to Diane Donovan’s Bookshelf)
ReaderViewsKids
https://www.readerviewskids.com/ferren-and-the-angel-harland/
The Reading Life
https://thereadinglifeblog.com/2023/11/16/ferren-and-the-angel-by-richard-harland-review/
NetGalley Reviews (see content summaries in reviews by Tracy Wood, Morgana L and Jane Barnaby
https://www.netgalley.com/catalog/book/288544
Interviews – here are a couple from the many I’ve done which include some content summary
Paul Semel - answer to first question
https://paulsemel.com/exclusive-interview-ferren-and-the-angel-author-richard-harland/
ReaderViews(Kids) – answer to second question
https://www.readerviewskids.com/meet-the-author-harland-ferren-and-the-angel/
Bookshop, publisher and distributor content summaries
GoodReads
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/137225996-ferren-and-the-angel
Amazon
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BZB4QVHL?ref_=cm_sw_r_cp_ud_dp_8CPPAQVYYP1TTDMH5HBT
Barnes & Noble - https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/ferren-and-the-angel-richard-harland/1006121907?ean=9781922856296
IPG catalogue entry (distributor)
https://www.ipgbook.com/ferren-and-the-angel-products-9781922856319.php
I admit these aren't sources you'd rely on for evaluation, but they're accurate and consistent as regards content description!
Richard Harland Richard Harland ( talk) 04:47, 11 April 2024 (UTC)