You are listening to a Clark's World magazine podcast with your host and narrator Kate Baker.

Greetings to Clark's World Citizens. I hope this third story of the month, August 2012, finds

even well. You know, on my excitement to the last podcast, I didn't actually tell you that there were two

other authors that have written for Clark's World that were nominated for World Fantasy

Awards as well.

And that was our own lovely Cat Valenti which I'm about to read a story

that she has written for you. And congratulations to the you for the cartographer, Wasp, and anarchist bees.

So I'm going to play the guessing game a little bit and I'd like you to settle down for

this podcast because it's 18 pages long and Kat writes these amazingly large

paragraphs so I think you're going to be settling in for probably about an hour

Catherine Valenti's story is titled Fade to White. It's for issue number 71

for August 2012.

Catherine Valenti is the New York Times best-selling author of over a dozen works of fiction

and poetry including Palim'sest. The Orphans Tale Series, Douglas, and the crowdfunded phenomenon,

the girl who circumnavigated Fairyland in a ship of her own making.

She is the winner of the

and Andre Norton Award, the Tiptree Award, the Reesling Award, and the Million Writers Award.

She has been nominated for the Hugo, Locust, and Spectrum Awards,

the Pushcart Prize, and was a finalist for the World Fantasy Award in 2007 and 2009 and 2011.

She lives on an island off the coast of Maine with her partner two dogs and enormous cat.

She can be found at her website at www.

Catherine m Valenti.com and that's C A T H E R Y N N E M V A L E N T.

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