I first encountered this water fae in fiction. But folklore is much stranger… Though, to be fair, I couldn’t get my hands on really old sources and had to rely on new folklore books to research this British water faery. I did, however get some information on the Näkki from older sources. Folklore The Fairy …
To help spread the word about the Grumpy Old Trickster Gods anthology, I’m interviewing the authors involved. Today we have E.J. Tedrow, author of Huehuecóyotl and the Dead Irish Hero. What is your story in the Grumpy Old Trickster Gods about? My story is about the Nahuatl trickster god, Huehuecóyotl, and how he deals with …
To help spread the word about the Grumpy Old Trickster Gods anthology, I’m interviewing the authors involved. Today we have Vanessa Wells, author of The (Mostly) Retired God of Mischief. What is your story in the Grumpy Old Trickster Gods about? My story is called The (Mostly) Retired God of Mischief, and it’s about Loki …
It’s the first Wednesday of the month and time for another posting of the Insecure Writer’s Support Group. Last year, I read Joanna Penn’s excellent Productivity for Authors where she recommended writing out everything you have to do in a day (including cooking and eating) and then marking the stuff only you can do (like …
To help spread the word about the Grumpy Old Trickster Gods anthology, I’m interviewing the authors involved. Today we have J Malcolm Stewart, author of Anansi and Robert go to Queens. What is your story in the Grumpy Old Trickster Gods about? My story “Anansi and Robert go to Queens” is a humorous take on …
Episode 32: Power Players of Faerie: Cailleach The folklore of the Cailleach in a nutshell, how I reimagined her for my writing, and her name and title translated into Afrikaans. Written and narrated by Ronel Janse van Vuuren. Copyright 2022 Ronel Janse van Vuuren — All rights reserved. Learn more about the Cailleach here. Get the …
Another April has come and gone. Another A-Z Challenge has been successfully completed. And it’s time to reflect on what worked, what didn’t work, and what bothered me. Though I usually do an A-Z of Faerie, and though I said in last year’s reflection post that I would do it again this year, I decided …
