Once upon a time, they say, there was a girl...there was a boy...there was a person who was in trouble. And this is what she did...and what he did...….

When I was younger, I was in love with everything about the British Isles, from British folklore to Celtic music. That was always where my passions w….

The simple truth is that being a creative artist takes courage; it’s not a job for the faint of heart. It takes courage each and every time you put a….

Magic Realism is not new. The label's new, the specific Latin American form of it is new, its modern popularity is new, but it's been around as long ….

I have a great respect for the academics who are working with the source material. My hat's off to them..

Our lives are our mythic journeys, and our happy endings are still to be won..

The fairy tale journey may look like an outward trek across plains and mountains, through castles and forests, but the actual movement is inward, int….

Filmmaking can be a fine art..

We've always lived in dark times. There has always been a range of human experience from the sublime to the brutal, and stories reflect it. It's no l….

I've only been living in England for the last 10 years, if you don't count my student years..

I'd like to encourage people to please keep reading-and most importantly, to please keep trying new writers. The only way we can bring fresh new mate….

In more recent years, I've become more and more fascinated with the indigenous folklore of this land, Native American folklore, and also Hispanic fol….

Fairy tales were not my escape from reality as a child; rather, they were my reality -- for mine was a world in which good and evil were not abstract….

Once upon a time fairy tales were told to audiences of young and old alike. It is only in the last century that such tales were deemed fit only for s….

There's that old adage about how there's only seven plots in the world and Shakespeare's done them all before..

What I find interesting about folklore is the dialogue it gives us with storytellers from centuries past..

When I started in the business, there was a thing called adult fantasy, but nobody quite knew what it was, and most publishers didn't have an adult f….

I'd had no particular interest in the Southwest at all as a young girl, and I was completely surprised that the desert stole my heart to the extent i….

Why are so many of us enspelled by myths and folk stories in this modern age? Why do we continue to tell the same old tales, over and over again? I t….

We''re all misfits here,” he says, almost proudly. “That's why I started this squat, after all. For people like us, who don't fit in anywhere else. ….

I'm also looking for gems that the average reader might have missed..