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January 25, 2022
Unn, The Deep-Minded
I love it when I’m searching for something fairly mundane and it leads me to a brilliant piece of information. That happened recently when I started reading about Unn, The Deep-Minded in the Laxdæla Saga. She’s also known as Aud …
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September 16, 2021
What happened to my email?
Ever wonder why you haven’t heard from your favorite author? You enjoy their books, and you signed up for their newsletter. Then . . . nothing. You never heard from them. But you probably did – you just didn’t know it. …
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July 12, 2021
Let’s talk pixies!
Where do Pixies come from? First, we need to define the word because in mythology there are many names for the supernatural beings such as sprite, fairy, elves, and all the different variations of them. Technically, pixies originate in Cornwall …
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March 9, 2021
Grace O’Malley
In honor of National Women’s month, each week I’m highlighting a different warrior woman who has inspired my writing. Meet Grace O’Malley—or if you speak Irish with a Connacht dialect, you may recognize her as: Gráinne Ní Mháille, Gráinne O’Malley,…
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February 9, 2021
The Dream of Aengus
The god of love, youth & poetry meets his soul mate There is so much to unpack in this tale! But I’ll come back to that at the end. I’ll also save most of the circumstances surrounding Aengus’s birth for…
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February 3, 2021
Swords and Pearls
There are far too many Celtic tales to make a list of them all, let alone review them. But I’m going to go over a few that interested me, for now. I’m sure I’ll come back and add more as…
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January 26, 2021
Dragon Studies
Palaeobiologist or Dragonologist? I find the study of dragons around the world in myth, history, or archeology entertaining. But a random thought based on some of my earlier research kept bugging me. How does an archeologist know what an animal…
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January 12, 2021
Dragons!
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May 14, 2019
A Wrinkle in Time
I wish I could have had the opportunity to sit down and talk with Madeline L’Engle, author of A Wrinkle In Time. She was a confident woman who held herself to a strong set of guiding principles and an amazing…
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April 25, 2019
This Cursed Flame Blog Tour
Today I’m doing something new and have the great pleasure of hosting the blog tour for This Cursed Flame, by Selina J. Eckert releasing April 27th, 2019. Michaela Bush highlighted this new epic fantasy on her blog, www.tangledupinwriting.com yesterday.…
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