Promotional price of 99p for Kindle version of Fractious Fairy Tales by Jessica Palmer

As a promotion we have reduced the price of downloading the kindle version of Jessica Palmer's Fractious Fairty Tales to 99p ($1.26 in the States).

Ebook:
amazon.co.uk £0.99
amazon.com $1.26  

The paperback version is, of course, still available, and an absolute steal at:
amazon.co.uk £9.99
amazon.com $12.99

What one reviewer thought of Fractious Fairy Tales:

"Terry Pratchett was renowned for taking familiar tales and converting them into comforting metaphors in the Discworld. That is not the way of Jessica Palmer.
Rather, she takes the crumbling skeletons of childhood fairy stories and fleshes them with satirical icons from the modern world to create a universe that is not Grimm but GRIM.
An author with many genres to her credit, from teen fantasy, through textbooks and cultural analysis. But this collection has more in common with her early horror work, twisted with a warped sense of humour that befits the daughter of a clown.
As with her other recent collection, "Other Visions of Heaven and Hell", you should leave your preconceptions on the coffee table. You will not, and could not, have anticipated this. But you will enjoy it, mostly!"

Also take a look at Jessica Palmer's Other Visions of Heaven and Hell.

Jessica Palmer has had 28 books published, both fiction and nonfiction. Her novels – horror, fantasy and science fiction – were released by Pocket Books in the United States and Scholastic in the United Kingdom. She has written two textbooks about Native American history, which were published by McFarland, and an encyclopedia of natural history released by Harper Collins’ label Element Books and later by Thorson in the UK.
 
Jessica has also written ten science-and-technology manuals on the topics of explosives and radiation. These were distributed globally. It was this work that brought her to Great Britain in 1988.
 
The daughter of a professional clown, Jessica refers to her switch to writing fiction as an exercise in damage limitation. She taught classes and conducted workshops on creative writing and publishing at North Shropshire College in Whitchurch, Stanmore College and the Islington Arts Factory in London.
 
As a journalist, Jessica won awards in New Mexico and Texas for writing features, public service and breaking news – the most recent in 2013. Jessica has also written satirical columns for newspapers, including “A Slice of Life” and “How to Make Love to your Personal Computer.”
 
Her two loves are writing and animals. She started a nonprofit in Kansas for wildlife rescue and has held a wildlife rehabilitation permit since 2002.
 
Other Visions of Heaven and Hell are a series of sometimes inter-related stories about our ideas of Heaven and Hell, sometimes hilarious - sometimes horrific - but always entertaining.

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trade paperback:
Amazon.co.uk £9.99
Amazon.com   $12.99          Barnes & Noble $12.99

ebook:
amazon.co.uk £2.99
amazon.com     $4.30

Proof copy received and approved for Jessica Palmer's Fractious Fairy Tales

We today received our proof copy of Jessica Palmer's latest collection, Fractious Fairy Tales, which we have approved - and which will soon be available either directly from us or from amazon, etc.

Fractious Fairy Tales by Jessica Palmer

We have now requested a proof copy from the printers for Jessica Palmer's new collection of weird short stories, Fractious Fairy Tales, which should see publication before the end of March.

Jessica's previous collection from Parallel Universe Publications was Other Visions of Heaven and Hell.

Women in Horror - Jessica Palmer

Jessica Palmer was born in Chicago, Illinois. Her mother became a professional clown when she was in her teens, leaving Jessica irrevocably altered. She received her degree in nursing and worked in hospitals, starting with medical-surgical units. Eventually, she settled into psychiatric nursing where she got along famously with her patients.

Her medical background presented opportunities to write. In 1976, she was asked to develop a script for educational television, entitled Journey To Nowhere, about the medical aspects of addiction. Later she became a technical writer for the safety and health department at Schlumberger Well Services with an emphasis on explosives and radiation. The job took her to England where she became a British subject.

The fates decreed her combined experiences constituted a hazard to herself and others. Jessica returned to her first love, genre fiction. She wrote her first novel at the age of nine – ninety-nine typewritten pages about her then-hero Max Smart of Get Smart. Altogether, she has had 28 books published in fiction and non-fiction, including university textbooks about Native American history and culture.

Jessica has received numerous awards in journalism, spanning a period from 1980 to 2014. Lullaby, published by Pocket Books, was nominated for the Horror Writers Association's Bram Stoker award in 1991. Now she concentrates on satire. Parallel Universe Publications released her collection of short stories, Other Visions of Heaven and Hell in 2015, and will be publishing her latest collection, Fractious Fairy Tales later this month.  

Women in Horror Month

As it's Women in Horror Month, a reminder of two great books published by Parallel Universe Publications: Jessica Palmer's Other Visions of Heaven and Hell, and Kate Farrell's And Nobody Lived Happily Ever After. A second collection of Jessica's stories, Fractious Fairy Tales, will be published by PUP later this month.

Fractious Fairy Tales by Jessica Palmer due early 2018

 

The first book to be published by Parallel Universe Publications in 2018 will be Jessica Palmer's follow-up to Other Visions of Heaven and Hell, Fractious Fairy Tales. 

Other Visions of Heaven and Hell reviewed by Ezeiyoke Chukwunonso

A fabulous review of Jessica Palmer's collection from Parallel Universe Publications, Other Visions of Heaven and Hell, by Ezeiyoke Chukwunonso.
https://mytrendingstories.com/…/a-review-of-jessica-palmer…/

Other Visions of Heaven and Hell by Jessica Palmer reviewed on the BFS Website

There's yet another great review for a PUP book on the British Fantasy Society website. This time it's the turn of Other Visions of Heaven and Hell by Jessica Palmer.

"With Parallel Universe Publications, readers always get their money’s worth as Jessica has over 20 short stories to interest the discerning horror reader. Some have been published in anthologies such as Last Laugh for Weirdbook #28, Cinderella Revisited, Weirdbook #29 and What the Dickens in Substance."

For the rest of the review follow this link.

Jessica Palmer's Other Visions of Heaven and Hell now available

Jessica Palmer has had 28 books published, both fiction and nonfiction. Her novels – horror, fantasy and science fiction – were released by Pocket Books in the United States and Scholastic in the United Kingdom. She has written two textbooks about Native American history, which were published by McFarland, and an encyclopedia of natural history released by Harper Collins’ label Element Books and later by Thorson in the UK.
Palmer has also written ten science-and-technology manuals on the topics of explosives and radiation. These were distributed globally. It was this work that brought her to Great Britain in 1988.
The daughter of a professional clown, Palmer refers to her switch to writing fiction as an exercise in damage limitation. She taught classes and conducted workshops on creative writing and publishing at North Shropshire College in Whitchurch, Stanmore College and the Islington Arts Factory in London.
As a journalist, Palmer won awards in New Mexico and Texas for writing features, public service and breaking news – the most recent in 2013. Palmer has also written satirical columns for newspapers, including “A Slice of Life” and “How to Make Love to your Personal Computer.”
Her two loves are writing and animals. She started a nonprofit in Kansas for wildlife rescue and has held a wildlife rehabilitation permit since 2002.
Other Visions of Heaven and Hell are a series of sometimes inter-related stories about our ideas of Heaven and Hell, sometimes hilarious - sometimes horrific - but always entertaining.

Contents are:
Devil's Due
The Faithful
And now, a Word from our Sponsor
Heavenly Bodies
On the Wings of a Prayer
Fallen Angel
A Stitch in Time
Infinity
No Good Turn
Leap of Faith
Divine Comedy
Force of Habit
The Gates of Hell
Hell on Wheels
Cinderella Revisited
Last Laugh
Sisters
A Cold Day in Hell
Cheap Shots
What the Dickens
When Hell Freezes Over
Bad Medicine
Wrong Number
A Snowball's Chance
Devil Woman
To Be or Not
The King's Plate
An Afterthought
About the Author

Last Laugh was first published in Weirdbook #28, Autumn 1993, edited by W. Paul Ganley
Cinderella Revisited was first published in Weirdbook #29, Autumn 1995, edited by W. Paul Ganley
What the Dickens was first published in Substance Sept 1995

trade paperback:
Amazon.co.uk £8.99
Amazon.com   $11.99

ebook:
amazon.co.uk £2.99
amazon.com     $4.30

Other Visions of Heaven and Hell - latest update of the cover

Here is a copy of the latest update on the cover for Jessica Palmer's Other Visions of Heaven and Hell.

 

Jessica Palmer's Other Visions of Heaven and Hell

We can now reveal the cover for Parallel Universe's next book, Jessica Palmer's Other Visions of Heaven and Hell, which should be published in April.