https://www.karencushman.com Newbery award-winning author Tue, 31 Aug 2021 16:52:13 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://i0.wp.com/www.karencushman.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/favicon.jpg?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 https://www.karencushman.com 32 32 197177275 https://www.karencushman.com/what-a-fantasy/ Thu, 05 Dec 2013 13:30:00 +0000 https://www.karencushman.com/blog/?p=987 Read more]]> Yes, I have gone public. In my NCTE talk, I announced that I am writing a fantasy, working title Song of the Wise Woman’s Daughter. I trepidatiously read a few passages aloud and no rotten fruit was thrown so I am encouraged. My fantasy has no vampires or zombies. No one dies. The world is not destroyed or even in much danger because the kind of book I like is the kind that celebrates love, embraces compassion, honors intelligence, and ends with hope.  G.K.Chesterton said that fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten. And, may I add, even without magic.

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