Alex Epstein's Blog, page 10
March 2, 2011
How do you Kindle a Book
Does anyone know what software is needed to make a Kindle eBook? Everyone seems to be doing it. But how?
February 27, 2011
Morgan le Fay, Wicca, and the Morrígan
What was Morgan le Fay's religion? Whom did she worship, and how?
I think it's fairly safe to say she was not a Christian. "Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live" says Exodus, and a badass witch with a direct channel to the old powers of the Earth is exactly what the Israelite elders were worried about.
But Christianity wasn't universal in Britain in her time. As far as I could tell from my research, Arthur flourished around 500AD. That's the date Geoffrey Ashe identifies a British war leader ...
I think it's fairly safe to say she was not a Christian. "Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live" says Exodus, and a badass witch with a direct channel to the old powers of the Earth is exactly what the Israelite elders were worried about.
But Christianity wasn't universal in Britain in her time. As far as I could tell from my research, Arthur flourished around 500AD. That's the date Geoffrey Ashe identifies a British war leader ...
February 22, 2011
Interview about The Circle Cast
And here's a brief interview with me about The Circle Cast...
February 19, 2011
February 12, 2011
Thoughtful
Things I Think About has a lovely review of THE CIRCLE CAST:
It takes a very special book to make me think, "gosh, I really like fantasy novels", but The Circle Cast did it. A well-thought backstory to the life of Arthurian sorceress Morgan le Fay, the novel also provides a fascinating look at medieval Britain and Ireland. It explores the common lives of these two very different cultures in a manner I haven't read before; the characters are real, as is their struggle with day-to-day life...
How Not To Do a YA Cover
Sarah at For Every Young Adult has a pretty awesome and snarky post on the ways YA covers suck and how they don't have to. With embarrassing examples of actually published YA novel covers that should be put out of their emo pseudo-Twilight angsty misery.
Launch Party
If you're in Montreal this evening, swing by my launch party for THE CIRCLE CAST and drink with us.
It's at Réservoir, 9 Duluth East, 7 to 9.
See you there!
February 11, 2011
But it Won't Make You Sleepy
"Epstein's writing is hypnotic." -- From Inderjit Deogun's review of The Circle Cast in CM Magazine.
(CM Magazine is the Canada Review of Materials, published by the Manitoba Library Association.)
(CM Magazine is the Canada Review of Materials, published by the Manitoba Library Association.)
February 7, 2011
LibraryThing
Looks like we're pretty popular on LibraryThing:
TheCircleCast.com
I've put my electronic press kit up as a website. TheCircleCast.com is now live. Tell me what you think!
