Beware the Little White Rabbit by Shannon Delany

As with all collections of stories by various authors, there is a wild variety of style, quality, and subject matter, but the variety of things done with the basic elements in this baker's dozen of stories is pretty impressive. Another theme running through a lot of the stories is that parents can be perilous, unreliable, sometimes dangerous. The call for entries for this collection seems to have specified that there be a young main character named Alice, a white rabbit, and a fall. It's another childhood classic that I somehow never read, like The Wizard of Oz - just never had a copy, or something.

I hate to admit it – but I've never been entirely enamored of Alice. Oh, so that's why I've been seeing Alice so often lately: it's the 150th anniversary. Previously a teacher, Shannon lives and writes in Upstate New York and enjoys traveling to talk to people about most anything. Martin's Press) launched Jwith Weather Witch, followed by Stormbringer (January 2014), and Thunderstruck (May 2014). Shannon's second series (a steampunk trilogy titled WEATHER WITCH, also with St. Shannon has also debuted with interactive science fiction in her short story ('To Hel and Back') for Spirited: 13 to Haunting Tales (Leap Books) and will make her high fantasy debut with Month 9 Books' charity anthology titled Two and Twenty Dark Tales (October 2012, 'Pieces of Eight'). The first novel in Shannon’s YA paranormal series, 13 to Life, debuted June 22, 2010, and was followed by Secrets and Shadows (February 2011), Bargains and Betrayals (August 2011), Destiny and Deception (February 2012), and the Rivals and Retribution (August 2012). The resulting novel has earned her blurbs from authors she respects most. Focusing on Jess and Pietr’s story of loss, love and dramatic and dangerous changes, Shannon came to better grips with her own struggle. As paranormal as werewolves seem, the grief Shannon used to build Jess’s character is something she personally experienced with the loss of her own mother. She expanded on the cell phone novel version, adding the subplots and characters she didn’t have time to during the contest. Martin’s Press offered her a contract for a series about her 13 to Life characters. In 2008 her greatly abbreviated version of 13 to Life (written in just five weeks) won the grand prize in the first-ever cell phone novel contest in the western world through. She began writing in earnest when her grandmother fell unexpectedly ill during a family vacation. Shannon has written stories since she was a child.

Beware the Little White Rabbit by Shannon Delany