Things We Love: Autumn
Welcome to "The Things We Love: Autumn" guide, where enchantment awaits around every corner of this mystical season. As the leaves turn vibrant shades...
An Interview with Alice Hoffman + Excerpt from Magic Lessons
We’re huge fans of Alice Hoffman and Practical Magic here, and we were thrilled to do a whole Practical Magic–themed issue two years ago...
In The Studio with Sarah Sparkles
PHOTOGRAPHY BY STEVE PARKE
Sarah Sparkles is a crystal-loving mermaid in Brooklyn who’s worked on window displays for Bergdorf Goodman for over a decade—and has...
Amelia Jane Murray’s Fae Langour
From the early 1820s until 1829, young Manx artist Amelia Jane Murray (1800–1896) rather obsessively painted fairies—smartly dressed and not overly active tiny creatures, that is, who reclined on feathers and stems and leaves as if they were chaise longues.
The Unicorn Handbook Cover Shoot
Coming up with a cover image for The Unicorn Handbook posed a bit of a challenge. The two previous books in the series, The...
Faerie News: Outlander Autumn Issue
We are enjoying getting to work on our autumn issue -- which is all about Outlander! If you're a fan of the books or...
Motherhood and Magic
“We look at the world
once, in childhood.
The rest is memory.”
—Louise Glück
In the morning, I open the back door with my two-year-old daughter and step...
A Writer’s Cozy Lair
When I set up my very first office, I bought a modern glass-and-steel desk. It seemed clean and orderly. The problem was that I’m...
Glinda the Good Witch
Feature Image:
The Wizard of Oz 1939 MGM film with Billie Burke as Glinda the Good Witch of the North. Pictorial Press Ltd/Alamy Stock Photo
When...
Harvest Moon Thoughts
Here are some thoughts from Najah Lightfoot, from Llewellyn's Spell-A-Day Almanac:
Full Moon Blessings
I can feel it coming. I can feel the energy of the full moon...