The Gift A Nola O’Grady Story by Katharine Kerr One week before my eleventh birthday, my father, Flann O’Grady, took me to visit a friend of his who owned a jewelry shop. Even though I was one of seven children, … Continue reading
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Three Deverry Tales by Katharine Kerr The Bargain The western frontier, 301 A long long time ago, when Deverry men first sailed west to the province they called Elditiña but which we know today as Eldidd, there lived a … Continue reading
Everyone raves about doing research on the Internet. It’s supposed to be easy, which is true; fast, also true; and accurate — but there’s the rub. What is the sound of two “facts” rubbing against each other when they differ? … Continue reading
Before we go any farther in our discussion of using Western magic in fantasy writing, we need to consider an important question: what is the difference between magic and religion? For that matter, is there any difference? The devoutly religious … Continue reading
Last week I pointed out that the various systems of Western magic fall into two rough categories, folk magic on the one hand and on the other, natural philosophy, the attempt on the part of European intellectuals of the Renaissance … Continue reading
One of the things that makes a fantasy story fantasy is the presence of magic. I’m often asked how I “created” the magical system in the Deverry books. At times writers just turning to fantasy have asked me how to … Continue reading
Writers and readers both love to discuss, and maybe argue about, what constitutes “good” prose. From the readers’ points of view, the definition really has to come down to a matter of taste, is the conclusion I usually end up … Continue reading
Recently, I read two novels that left me chewing over the issue of story size. The two novels were Love On The Run by Katharine Kerr and A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness. Both were absorbing, with characters I … Continue reading
I remember quite clearly when I began to write my epic fantasy series, set in the imaginary Celtic country of Deverry and its environs. It was a rainy Washington’s Birthday weekend in February of 1982. The last of its fifteen … Continue reading