Showing posts with label AUTHOR Diana Wynne Jones. Show all posts
Showing posts with label AUTHOR Diana Wynne Jones. Show all posts
27 December 2019

The Oxford and Cambridge Schools of British Fantasy

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From Slate’s interview with Maria Sachiko Cecire, professor at Bard and author of Re-Enchanted: The Rise of Children’s Fantasy Literature...
09 April 2012

Defining a Sequel, for Marketing Purposes

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Godson’s Father James Treadwell’s fantasy novel Advent has been published in Britain, and is getting some fine reviews . He’s still wor...
09 December 2011

Tolkien the Teacher

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Back in early 2010 , I quoted reminiscences about J. R. R. Tolkien at Oxford from Diana Wynne Jones and Susan Cooper , as collected by Leo...
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31 March 2011

Jones on “Birthing a Book”

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The Horn Book just reposted Diana Wynne Jones’s 2004 essay “Birthing a Book,” in which she confesses: I once, when asked to give a talk ab...
29 March 2011

Shifts in Shifting Point of View

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Not so long ago, authors were strongly advised to define their point-of-view character for each novel, or at least for each chapter or scene...
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28 March 2011

Divided by a Common Language under Enchanted Glass

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One consequence of the late craze for British fantasies is that US publishers are much less worried about letting young American readers see...
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26 March 2011

Remembering the Stories of Diana Wynne Jones

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This morning brought news of the death of Diana Wynne Jones . Though she started publishing fantasy novels in the 1970s, they didn’t make a ...
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24 March 2011

Batting for the Cycle

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What comes after trilogy? Christopher Paolini and Random House originally announced his Inheritance books as a trilogy, but writing Brisin...
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29 March 2010

Conflicting Recollections of Prof. Tolkien

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In his book The Wand and the Word: Conversations with Writers of Fantasy , literary scholar Leonard S. Marcus asked a number of established ...
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12 December 2009

Story Museum Tells Half of the Story?

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Fuse #8 offered a link to the Story Museum , devoted to Oxford, England’s rich tradition of children’s literature. The website calls the ci...
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10 November 2008

Jones Conference in Bristol

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Through the Child_Lit email list came an announcement that there will be a scholarly and critical conference on Diana Wynne Jones at the Un...
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23 June 2008

“Some People Are Better for Making It Up as It Goes Along”

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Last week Publishers Weekly ran an interview with Diana Wynne Jones on the occasion of the landing of House of Many Ways , the second seq...
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25 February 2008

Models of Magical Law Enforcement

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My recent return to the world of Artemis Fowl left me thinking about magical law-enforcement. It's widely recommended that fantasy auth...
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13 July 2007

Once More Into the Wild

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Tomorrow at 3:30 Sarah Beth Durst will read at the Worcester Barnes & Noble , so this posting about her book, Into the Wild (previousl...
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12 July 2007

Slimming Down in The Game

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Last October I wrote about how HarperCollins had expanded the heft of Diana Wynne Jones's The Pinhoe Egg with larger than usual type a...
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10 July 2007

What Has She Got in Her Pocketses?

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And the Oz and Ends Award for Best Use of an Inexplicable Trend in Kids' Clothing goes to... The Game , by Diana Wynne Jones. This brief...
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01 February 2007

One Month Away

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Booklist says: Educated at home and sheltered from the world, Hayley has grown up with her unloving grandmother and inaccessible grandfathe...
13 January 2007

Maps, Footnotes, and Other Historians' Fantasies

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There are books on my reading table that together add up to 1,516 pages. Of those pages, over 141 are reference material, including: 12 maps...
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29 December 2006

Barging Through Fantasyland

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The orphan has taken a river barge to the big city, only to discover that its crew are smuggling illicit goods. Escaping from that danger, t...
13 December 2006

Jones's Tough Guide in Trade Paperback

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Penguin boasts: "Now this cult classic is back, and readers can experience Diana Wynne Jones at her very best: incisive, funny, and wil...
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