I can’t point to any one book by Madeleine L’Engle as THE “Thunderclap” book for me. Like C. S. Lewis,…
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Myth: A Grave Need
In my recent post Beloved Insignificant, I pondered the importance of so-called “small things”. Flowing seamlessly together with such musings…
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Unicorns: Where Tom Cruise Meets J. K. Rowling
Writing the tale of the Unicorn was, as they say, a horse of a different color. As I described in…
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Here There Be Dragons
Someday, I am going to write a very long thank-you note to Cressida Cowell. For those of you who have…
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This Novel Is Brought to You by Griffins
It all started with a griffin. Love. As I mentioned in my recent post Myth Matters, I have a bit…
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Genre-Bending and Other Daring Endeavors
Who here has seen that all too short-lived Nickelodeon classic Avatar: The Last Airbender? I’m not talking about the 2009…
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On Giant’s Shoulders: The Power of Music in Writing
Music has always been very important to my writing. I finished my first novel, Gatekeeper I: The Finding, in one…
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