New Les Bonnes Fees Weblog Address

Hello readers!
I am pleased to announce that I have finally run out of excuses and have migrated this weblog over to a version of Word Press located on our main server – at http://les-bonnes-fees.com/wordpress.
What does this mean for you? Very little because, if like most of our readers you get our updates via the RSS [...]

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Contest: Win a signed copy of Gregory Maguire’s new book, A Lion Among Men

The time came for her to die, and she would not die; so perhaps she might waste away, they thought, and she did waste, but not away; and the time came for her to receive final absolution, so they set candles upon her clavicle, but this she would not allow. She blasphemed with gusto, and [...]

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Dear Ms. Andersen…

I’m sitting in a coffee shop dealing with queries and issue placement right now. Strangely enough, it’s quite a relief, and I’m enjoying it. I’m not much of a face-to-face person (I get nervous), but I really like reading letters, even queries, from people I’ve never met, and getting a sense of who they are.
The [...]

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Koschei the Deathless

Another fairy tale mentioned in our interview with Maggie Stiefvater.
There are several tales about Koschei and other wizards who’ve hidden their souls away. For those interested in a more contemporary Koschei tale, check out William Sleator’s The Boy Who Couldn’t Die.
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In a certain kingdom there lived a Prince Ivan. He had three sisters. The first [...]

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Jorinda & Joringel

As per my interview with Maggie Stiefvater, here’s Jorinda and Joringel. Enjoy!
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There was once an old castle in the midst of a large and thick forest, and in it an old woman who was a witch dwelt all alone. In the day-time she changed herself into a cat or a screech-owl, but in the evening [...]

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Interview with Maggie Stiefvater, author of Lament: The Faerie Queen’s Deception

The merciless Macdonwald,
Worthy to be a rebel, for to that
The multiplying villainies of nature
Do swarm upon him, from the Western isles
Of kerns and gallowglasses is supplied…

Macbeth, (1.2.7-11)
Finally, it’s here [alack, alas, the interwebs have been uncooperative today, but Joe says we're working on Mountain Time today] – our interview with Maggie Stiefvater! Listen to [...]

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