First Issue is Live, as of Right Now!

We’re pleased to be able to announce now that the first issue of Les Bonnes Fees is published! It can be accessed via the “Cover Page” (web based publishing makes the idea of covers a little unclear, but we have one and we like it!). Over the next few days, we’ll be talking ore about [...]

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Spinning Straw into…gold?

From the Christian Science Monitor:
Rumpelstiltskin, the fairy-tale rogue who spun straw into gold, has nothing on Miguel Yacaman and Jorge Gardea-Torresdey.
The two University of Texas researchers have developed a way to draw gold from wheat, alfalfa, or – best of all – oats.
No spinning wheel required. In this day and age, a simple solvent will [...]

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Salman Rushdie, The Enchantress of Florence

I have never been a fan of Salman Rushdie; I find his work too overblown, too in love with itself. But, after an interview about The Enchantress of Florence–a book that sounded like a literary and historical Harry Potter–my interest sparked.
Then, during my escape to an air-conditioned coffee shop this morning (it’s 33 C as [...]

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Neil Gaiman’s “Anansi Boys” discussed on NPR

The Bryant Park Project Book Club on NPR talked about Neil Gaiman’s “Anansi Boys” the other day (link to audio below). Anansi Boys is the tale of “Fat Charlie,” the “mundane” son of a charismatic old n’er-do-well who is also the African trickster god Anansi. When Charlie’s father dies, he is thrust into a [...]

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Fairy Tale Fridays

Peta has her own blog, where she posts and talks about an interesting fairytale approximately each Friday. This week, we have “The Golden Bird” – I’m reposting it for Les Bonnes Fees readers consumption. She is too modest to post this herself, and she wouldn’t let me do it if she knew I was [...]

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Theme related video anyone…?

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Fairy tale clip art!

spent the better part of today marking up pages for Fees. I’ve never liked tweaking code, but a very fun part of making the pages is finding graphics. While trying to find an illustration, or a piece of clip art suitable for Merrie Haskell’s Rampion in the Belltower (more on this soon, and be sure [...]

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Cover Preview

Our cover artist, Rima, has posted a bit about some wonderful looking magazines, along with a note about her work for Les Bonnes Fees — including a picture of the cover-in-progress! Check it out at her page, Into The Hermitage, and post here or to our new LiveJournal community to let us know what you [...]

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