Winner of the Awesomesauciest Giveaway

Congratulations, Julia Seymour! 

Sunny  picked your name out of her Cincinnati Reds cap, so you win the well-loved paperback copy of Bertrice Small’s Blaze Wyndham.

E-mail me your mailing address and I’ll send it out Monday!

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Goodbye, Ms. Jones

One of my favorite authors, Diana Wynne Jones, died today.

 I discovered her in my elementary school library, which had her Cristomanci series — Charmed Life was the first one I read.  It wasn’t the last.

When I fell in love with a beautiful animated movie called Howl’s Moving Castle, I didn’t know she’d written the original book, but it didn’t surprise me.  She might have written for a young audience, but she didn’t write down to her readers or pretend that bad things never happen.

The world is better for having had her in it.

Excuse me, please — I’ve got a sudden need for some Sudden Wild Magic.