While back in the beautiful Arizona desert it's already teeming with wildflowers and color, here on the edge of Dartmoor winter is just now loosening its grip. On our morning walks, Tilly and I are savoring the first tender signs of spring....



The Wood Wife:
A mythic novel set in the Sonoran desert of Arizona. This link goes to the US edition; a UK edition is available here; and the new French edition is here. (For those who might be interested, I did a Q-&-A session on the book over on the Good Reads site.)
A Midsummer Night's Faery Tale:
This is the first book in the Old Oak Wood series for children, deeply rooted in the landscape and folklore of Dartmoor. I wrote the story, and the art is by master dollmaker Wendy Froud. The other two volumes are The Winter Child and The Faeries of Spring Cottage.
Snow White, Blood Red:
The first of six anthologies containing fairy tale inspired stories for adult readers. The other volumes are: Black Thorn, White Rose; Ruby Slipper, Golden Tears; Black Swan, White Raven; Silver Birch, Blood Moon; and Black Heart, Ivory Bones.
A Wolf at the Door:
The first of three anthologies containing fairy tale inspired stories for 8-to-12 year old readers. The other two volumes are Swan Sister and Troll's Eye View.
The Green Man:
Tales from the Mythic Forest, for YA readers.
The Faery Reel:
Tales from the Twlight Realm, for YA readers.
The Coyote Road:
Trickster Tales, for YA readers.
The Beastly Bride:
Tales of the Animal People, for YA readers.
Salon Fantastique:
New works of fantasy & mythic fiction for adult readers.
Teeth:
Dark fantasy for YA readers.
Welcome to Bordertown:
The latest volume in a classic Urban Fantasy series for YA readers. (For information on the previous books, visit the Bordertown website.)
Good Faeries, Bad Faeries:
I was the editor and folklore consultant for this wonderful book by Brian Froud.
Mirror, Mirror on the Wall: Women Writers Explore Their Favorite Fairy Tales
Alison Lurie: Don't Tell the Grown-Ups: The Subversive Power of Children's Literature
Barry Lopez: About This Life: Journeys on the Threshold of Memory
Brenda Peterson: Singing to the Sound: Visions of Nature, Animals, & Spirit
Carole G. Silver: Strange and Secret Peoples: Fairies & Victorian Consciousness
Chadwick & de Courtivron: Significant Others: Creativity & Intimate Partnership
David Abram: The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception & Language in a More-Than-Human World
Elizabeth Wanning Harries: Twice upon a Time: Women Writers and the History of the Fairy Tale
Ellen Meloy: The Anthropology of Turquoise: Reflections on Desert, Sea, Stone, and Sky
Francis Spufford: The Child That Books Built: A Life in Reading
Gary Paul Nabhan: The Desert Smells Like Rain: A Naturalist in O'odham Country
Jane Yolen: Touch Magic: Fantasy, Faerie, & Folklore in the Literature of Childhood
Katherine Paterson: Gates of Excellence: On Reading and Writing Books for Children
Lewis Hyde: The Gift: Creativity & the Artist in the Modern World
Linda Hogan: Dwellings: A Spiritual History of the Living World
Marina Warner: From the Beast to the Blonde: On Fairy Tales and Their Tellers
Nancy L. Canepa: Out of the Woods: The Literary Fairy Tale in Italy & France
Terry Tempest Williams: When Women Were Birds: Fifty-four Variations on Voice
Ursula K. Le Guin: The Wave in the Mind: The Writer, the Reader, and the Imagination
Valerie Paradiz: Clever Maids: The Secret History of the Grimm Fairy Tales