Sneaking into the last few hours of #FolkloreThursday and finally sharing a bit about the Charms Conference I went to last month at Harvard. It was great: even better, there’s a proposed proceedings volume in the works so you may be able to share some of the exciting things I heard and saw that weekend….
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Out Now: Tarot in Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
My essay “The Unlikely Milliner & The Magician of Threadneedle-Street” has been published in Mythlore: A Journal of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and Mythopoeic Literature. Click the 1st link to read a free PDF; click the 2nd to find information on ordering the issue (you can get it through your library, too). There’s a…
My Schedule @Worldcon75
WorldCon in Helsinki is coming up shockingly soon. Hope to see you there. I’m unlikely to have much time to post while I’m there, but I’m sure to be tweeting. I hope to meet up with a lot of friends I’ve not seen in a while (relatives, too!). My schedule is conveniently grouped for single…
Charcoal Burners, Black Sails & Magic
Admittedly I’ve not left the house since I got here, but don’t let my indolence fool you! I am ready to rise to the opportunity and sure enough, I will be. Thanks to Cailleach’s Herbarium mentioning it on Facebook, I got on the waitlist and now have ticket in hand to attend ‘The Supernatural in…
In New York City
I can’t vouch for the lord‘s whereabouts but this afternoon I head down to the city for the Occult Humanities conference at NYU, which includes a visit to the lovely Katja so that’s a definite plus. I’m sure I will have stories and photos to share upon my return, though be warned that things continue…
The Great Grey Beast
‘The great grey beast February had eaten Harvey Swick alive. Here he was, buried in the belly of that smothering month, wondering if he would ever find his way out through the cold coils that lay between here and Easter. He didn’t think much of his chances…’ It’s rare that those words do not pop…
Out Now: James Bond & Popular Culture
Out now: includes my essay “Flirting with James Bond” about how I developed the Chastity Flame series. read more at the McFarland site, or just click the picture to buy it for yourself, or to send the info to your college or local library! Blurb: The most recognizable fictional spy and one of the longest…
Calling on Heroines
Who are your heroines? The heroines books are apparently out now: at least we contributors have begun receiving our copies. Academic publishers don’t tend to do the same sort of launches that fiction publishers do, so we don’t have the breathless announcements from the publishers on a specific day. Fortunately the editors have taken it…
Glasgow, Day Three AKA Dundee & the Trossachs
We started off from Glasgow, so I guess it counts. We took a windy trip through some of the lower highlands and yes, the famous Loch Lomond. It was incredible as the slideshow will demonstrate; what you don’t see is the cars and one other bus trying to squeeze past our big tour bus (or…
Carnival Playlist
By the time this posts, I should be in Glasgow for the Graphic Novel/BD conference. I hope to meet up with folks I know and folks I don’t yet know at the conference, and with some of my on-line friends who live in town. With luck I’ll get around to some galleries or museums as…