Alex Epstein's new novel
about Morgan le Fay...
... magic, legends,
history, myth,
and more.
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Starhawk
Eclectic wicca at its most inventive.
Gerald Gardner
Q. How many Gardnerian witches does it take to screw in a lightbulb?
A. That's a secret.
Margot Adler
Author of the influential survey of contemporary Wicca Drawing Down the Moon.
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Butser Ancient Farm
Peter Reynolds runs a recreated Celtic farm, with ancient styles of sheep. The Irish in The Circle Cast would have lived more or less like this..
Ireland in 400 AD
About the time of The Circle Cast.
South Cadbury Castle
A Dark Ages hillfort believed to be the original Camelot.
Camlann
The final battle. A short story.
Camlann Eve
I perpetrated a one-night
live-action
role-playing game set in King Arthur's tent on the eve of the battle of Camlann. It was fun. It was a bit geeky. Who will win the battle?
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Monday, June 7, 2010
I just sent my editor my acknowledgments, but they're worth repeating here, especially because I can put links!This book owes a tremendous debt to my editor, Kim Aippersbach, who helped me take it from a loose and self-indulgent attempt at literature to the much punchier story it is now; and to my publisher, Michael Katz, who had faith enough to publish it.
Emma Bull and Will Shetterly, and the other members of the Sacred Flying House, gave me many more wise words of advice early in the book’s journey.
This book comes out of my love for E. B. White’s Once and Future King, which my father read to me when I was a boy, and John Boorman’s film Excalibur, which made Morgan le Fay real to me.My understanding of post-Roman Britain and the history behind King Arthur comes most strongly from Geoffrey Ashe, in particular his Discovery of King Arthur.
A visit to Butser Ancient Farm in Hampshire, England, provided the four-horned sheep and the chimneyless huts. Morgan’s magic comes out of spiritual questing I did many years ago. I want to thank Christine R and the other members of Homecoming for their spiritual gifts.
The Celtic cult of the war goddess, reconstructed in the Din Tagell chapters, comes out of the doctorate research my first wife, Angel Gulermovich, did. Her dissertation, War Goddess: The Morrígan and her Germano-Celtic Counterparts, is pretty cool stuff. You can find it if you hunt around the Internet a bit.
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