The girl who became the greatest wizard of all I first wrote the Worldweavers series as a trilogy published by Harper Collins. It told the story of the girl who…Continue readingHelp me bring back a great series
One of my stories, ‘Color’, has found its way into the nifty new anthology ‘RE-Enchant‘. Just out, RE-Enchant is edited by Vonnie Winslow Crist and Kelly A. Harmon. I appear…Continue readingIt’s re-enchanting
We have a guest today. My friend Joshua Palmatier has a new book out – more than that, it’s the culminating book of a series, and one which completes a…Continue readingThe Big Idea
How Thea Winthrop became the world’s greatest wizard Back in 2002, back when Harry Potter WAS the YA genre – (Number One, and then twenty empty spaces behind it before the…Continue readingGirls can. Girls SHOULD
Fantasy is a lens which sharpens and clarifies the sliver of reality viewed through it. Magic is one of the tools used to accomplish this, and it’s a powerful one.…Continue readingThe Power of Magic
Once upon a time there was a literary phenomenon named Harry Potter. The twenty first century YA and children’s literature has been dominated by this story like no other, with…Continue readingMoving Potterverse
“Things sometimes get transcendent bad, purple prose can transform into ultra violet.” That was one of the more fascinating observations during a well attended Saturday morning panel on Description in…Continue readingWhen purple prose goes bad
The genetic basis of the Were Creatures There is science fiction and there is fantasy, and never the twain shall meet. At least, that is the silly notion adopted by…Continue readingWerewolf DNA
I time travel quite a bit. No, seriously, I do. It’s cheap and you can do it whenever you want, really. So long as you have photographs…. My father, the…Continue readingThe art of time travel
Send to Kindle I’m not sure if this was something that is hard-wired in us or if it is something that we have acquired along the evolutionary path but we…Continue readingBack Door into Magic