It’s been another wonderful Witch Week here at ECBR, and I’d like to extend a giant thank you to everyone who made it possible: Matt Ryan and Carleton College, for being awesome and also for helping me find photos for my Tam Lin/Blackstock College post The Folio Society and Thomas Dunne Books, for sponsoring the […]
This post is part of Witch Week, an annual celebration of fantasy books and authors. This year’s theme is New Tales from Old, focusing on fiction based in fairy tale, folklore, and myth. For more about Witch Week, see the Master Post. Today, I’m delighted to welcome Australian author Kate Forsyth, who was kind enough […]
This post is part of Witch Week, an annual celebration of fantasy books and authors. This year’s theme is New Tales from Old, focusing on fiction based in fairy tale, folklore, and myth. For more about Witch Week, see the Master Post. For today’s post, I went to one of my favorite sources of Top […]
This post is part of Witch Week, an annual celebration of fantasy books and authors. This year’s theme is New Tales from Old, focusing on fiction based in fairy tale, folklore, and myth. For more about Witch Week, see the Master Post. For today’s Witch Week post, I’m delighted to welcome guest blogger Chris from […]
This is the first post for Witch Week 2015, a celebration of fantasy books and authors. This year’s theme is New Tales from Old, focusing on fiction based in fairy tale, folklore, and myth. For more about Witch Week, see the Master Post. In Tam Lin, Pamela Dean takes her college experience and mixes it […]
…Witch Week, when there is so much magic around in the world that all sorts of peculiar things happen… —Witch Week by Diana Wynne Jones Welcome to the second annual Witch Week, an opportunity to celebrate our favorite fantasy books and authors. This year we’re focusing on the theme New Tales from Old, and I […]
In a little over a week, Witch Week will begin. This magical time between Halloween and Bonfire Night/Guy Fawkes Day was first brought to my attention by Diana Wynne Jones, in her book of the same name. Last year, I thought it would be fun to use this week to celebrate fantasy books and authors, […]
In one month, we’ll be celebrating Witch Week, October 31 to November 5, a chance to read and discuss some of our favorite fantasy books and authors, as well as their sources, influences, and descendants. This year’s theme is New Tales from Old, focusing on fiction that is based on fairy tales, folklore, myths, and […]
Today I’m cheating a bit by focusing my monthly discussion on an upcoming event here at ECBR: Witch Week. From October 31 to November 5, we’ll be celebrating our favorite fantasy books and authors. Last year we focused on the wonderful world of Diana Wynne Jones, and it was a terrific week! This year the […]