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The Offbeat Dialogues 2015: Folklore and the Modern Day

Thea van Diepen

This Year’s Authors and Their Featured Work In order of the pictures above, from left to right: Katharina Gerlach, author of the Treasures Retold series. Elizabeth McCleary, author of New Skin. Krista D. Ball, author of the Spirit Caller series. Rabia Gale, author of Shattered and other books of broken fairy tales. Where and When to Join in The Offbeat Dialogues: Folklore and the Modern Day will be taking place on Sept 11th, 2105 at 10:30am MDT. If you’re not sure when

Hidden in Sealskin Launch Day and Other Upcoming Events

Thea van Diepen

As of yesterday (well, okay, 2am today), Hidden in Sealskin went to the editor. Which means we’re getting close to launch day. What’s launch day? In an ideal world, September 21st. In our world, sometime in September, before the Edmonton Expo (Sept 25-27). Between then and now, there’s still a lot of work for me to do on the book, mostly in the area of formatting. Gotta make that paperback look good, after all. With The Illuminated Heart, I was

The Offbeat Dialogues: Christianity and Speculation

Thea van Diepen

I had the pleasure of hosting this live chat, in which we talked it up it up about fantasy, Christianity in fiction, and the supernatural in fiction. We didn’t always see eye to eye, but we were all able to share ideas, learn from each other, and generally just have a blast. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=naqQ9gfK6uc] The authors featured: Carmen Rane Hudson Emily Casey Mike Duran Stant Litore