I’m older now, and no longer in school, but school stories will always have a place in my heart. Here are nine other schools I'd be happy to attend this fall, if they were real and I were younger: places where students find friendship, adventure, and sometimes even magic. Did I m...
The spaceships that took them to the stars were piloted by the special “magic” of the Romany people. The Romany “Gypsies” have always been mistreated by the people of Earth who never realized their true history and nature. The Gypsies are not actually human. They are the remnant of an...
Despite the 20+ answers in this thread I think most of us would agree that life for 99% of fantasy world inhabitants would be awful. Strip away the royal courts, the fellowships, the magic schools etc and most of the time you're left with a feudalistic world full of peasants that hav...
Metafiction and Superheroes show up the most, with Dragons and Urban Fantasy taking third and fourth. I loved doing any stories with deities, magic schools, and familiars as well. 3. How long did each volume take to create? It took fourteen months to write all five volumes. Each volume ...
Featured Fantasy Books After the Great War that divided the peoples, the kingdoms of men plunged into a Dark Age that lasted 500 hundred years. To heal the lands and restore the light, the great kings decreed that magic and all that is magical, be it creature, man or device, shall be ...
As if that’s not enough, I can’t leave his side without my teleportation magic throwing me straight back into his arms! I dreamed of leaving my small town and traveling, but I never imagined anything like this. I feel like I landed in one of the books I love, with fated mates ...
learn about the tournament’s Relics and Locations, understand the difference between common magic, raw magic, and high magic, and keep track of an endless list of curses and spells. It’s a lot. I’m not usually a fan of character lists or glossaries at the start of books, but here...
Which light-hearted scene did you enjoy the most? Why? Which scene was the most thrilling for you? Otherwise, have any questions, ideas, thoughts? Leave a comment below, and we’ll see how it goes! —Sever June, 2021 15th at 29/30 years of age ...
This essay analyses how magic is presented and how the schools teaching it are structured in three series of children's fantasy literature: J.K. Rowling´s Harry Potter and the Philosopher´s Stone; Tamora Pierce´s Lioness Quartet books; and The Earthsea Trilogy, by Ursula K. Le Guin...
Magic Lives in Girls• Sadee Bee (Kith Books, 2023) Maurs Maundering• Denise Dumars • (Space Cowboy Books, 2023) Mutable Forests• Noah David Roberts (Kith Books, 2023) The Owl Kingdom• Rebecca Marjesdatter (Crumb Fairy Press, 2023) ...