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Telling Lies with C.E. Murphy, Author, ‘Wayfinder’


Telling Lies with C.E. Murphy, Author, ‘Wayfinder’

C.E. Murphy is the author of Wayfinder, a paranormal fantasy featuring a woman with the magical ability to detect lies from truth:
Lara Jansen is a truthseeker, gifted—or cursed—with the magical ability to tell honesty from lies. Once she was a tailor in Boston, but now she has crossed from Earth to the Barrow-lands, a Faerie [...]

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Suvudu

An Interview with Dr. Robert Curran, Author and Expert in the Paranormal


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Psychologist Robert Curran is an well-known expert in folklore and the paranormal, who has written dozens of fascinating books on faeries, vampires,werewolves and stranger things. His most recent book is The Ghost Handbook, a study of ghost fiction and possibly ghost fact. When he’s not writing and exploring the dark corners of our world, Dr. Curran works as a community advocate and educator in his native Ireland.

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Take a Look Inside “How to See Faeries” by Brian Froud and John Matthews


Artist Brian Froud and folklorist John Matthews have created a beautiful book that anyone with an interest in the “little people” will enjoy. How to See Faeries is a gorgeously illustrated, full-color tome exploring the world of the fae, featuring pull-slots, pop-up pages and more – all that the reader will need to embark on [...]

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SF & Fantasy

The little changeling and how it grew


The little changeling and how it grew

A simple request for a blog post on changelings turns into an outline for a whole new novel . . .

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Suvudu

Two Books Explore Faeriedom, Light and Dark


As any hapless woodsman, princess or wandering orphan can tell you, dealing with faeries can be dangerous business. Keebler aside, most of the elves you’ll bump into aren’t going to make you cookies…well, unless they make you into cookies. And dwarves? Forget Doc , Grumpy, Sleepy, Sneezy Dopey, Bashful and Happy. You’re more likely [...]

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SF & Fantasy

It Begins With a Whisper | A Guest Blog by Janni Lee Simner


I’m traveling as I write this, and because I’m traveling, I’m listening for stories.

Thief Eyes by Janni Lee Simner
Cover © Random House, Inc.

I hear whispers of them as I look out the windows of the train I’m riding across southern Germany. A ruined villa atop a forested green hill to my right. A row [...]

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SF & Fantasy

Faerie Week: Faerie Art from Your Own Studio


This week has been focused on Faeries. The good and the bad. The new and the old. And everything in between. And it wouldn’t be complete without giving you the chance to make a few faeries of your own.
Worried about your artistic talents? Don’t be.
A few months back we found ourselves holding a [...]

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SF & Fantasy

Faerie Week: Carolyn Turgeon Guest Blog


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So in Godmother: The Secret Cinderella Story, I hadn’t intended to write about fairies at all at the beginning. I wanted to write about Cinderella: glass slippers and castles and rags that transformed into sparkling dresses. Not to mention pain and abuse and all that dark underside in [...]

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SF & Fantasy

ATTENTION ALL FAE: Don’t Mess with Lara Jansen


I think Shakespeare introduced me to faeries.
Not fairies: not the little winged flowery creatures which tend to litter little girls’ possessions, but rather the human-sized, capricious beings who give Bottom a donkey’s head and gleefully wreak havoc on lives, both human and immortal. I was about nine when I first saw A Midsummer Night’s Dream, [...]

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