MYTHFOLK: My Norfolk VA friend Curtis M. Brooks just tipped me off about this MOST interesting author he recently met in Norfolk, the poet, playwright, and science-fiction & fantasy writer Lea Ann Douglas, who teaches English and Philosophy at Norfolk's Old Dominion University. Ms. Douglas has written a series of stories about a race of "Hidden Folk" sharing our planet with Homo sapiens, the "Sidhe" (from the Gaelic word for "fairies").
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24-7 PRESS: “This book of poems and stories by Shannon Avery is a marriage of poetry, fiction, anthropology and ancient folklore that promises to amaze and mystify.”
HAMPTONROADS.COM: Join Lea Ann Douglas, Shannon Avery, and Sionne for a gala party celebrating the release of the new book The Queen's Rune and Other Tales of the Sidhe.
THE GHENT READER: There’s a storyteller in Ghent. Annie Douglas weaves narratives in the Tolkien tradition and hosts a regular “cruinnaiu,” story-telling circle, in Ghent.Her tales spin forth from her book “The Queen’s Rune and Other Tales of the Sidhe” filled with demigod elves who live in an alternate reality with a story familiar and a language all their own.
CRYPTOMUNDO: If anthropology has a branch called cultural or social anthropology, perhaps the study of hominoids, hominology, has a section that should be called “cultural hominology”?It is always a good exercise to step back from your own work, and view it through another’s eyes.
PERFORMING ARTS PRNEWS:Drawing on the universal themes of myth and following in the tradition of such speculative fiction and fantasy writers as J.R.R. Tolkien, Robert Heinlein, and Frank Herbert, creator of the Dune series, Douglas' Sidhe world illuminates the most fundamental questions about what creates a species and their values.