These past few days, as the blog tour has been reviewing and debating Merlin’s Blade, I have been reminded of Walt Disney’s Sword in the Stone. I don’t know what that tells you about my frame of reference, but there you have it. Merlin’s Blade and Sword in the Stone are vastly dissimilar; any exhaustive…
Month: May 2013
CSFF Blog Tour: Merlin’s Blade
The blind son of the village blacksmith cannot, perhaps, expect too much. Even a conversation with the young, sweet-voiced harpist seems at the outer limits of hope. But hope Merlin does. He even tries. So his troubles begin. But soon enough the wreckage of that long afternoon will shrink into unimportance. Ancient powers are rising…
CSFF Blog Tour: The Myth of Arthur
Say, have you thought what manner of man it is Of whom men say “He could strike giants down”? Or what strong memories over time’s abyss Bore up the pomp of Camelot and the crown. And why one banner all the background fills, Beyond the pageants of so many spears, And by what witchery in…
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Character Profiles: The Spoiled Princess
Gleamdren sulked. She was good at sulking, whether she knew it or not. Her face fell naturally into all the right grooves, letting anyone with eyes know exactly what she thought, which was that the world was not behaving as it ought. What was this fascination with mortal women? First, Rudiobus falling for the glamourized…
Review: The Terrible Speed of Mercy
In his introduction to his biography The Terrible Speed of Mercy, Jonathan Rogers wrote, “The outward constraints that [Flannery] O’Connor accepted and ultimately cultivated made room for an interior world as spacious and various as the heavens themselves.” It’s not surprising, then, that his biography of Flannery O’Connor is a spiritual biography. The Terrible Speed…