Q&A

We wanted to introduce you to Melissa Herold, fantasy author and herbal alchemist, and her debut fantasy novel Heaven’s Silhouette: Iyarri Chronicles Book 1, which...

Rasputina’s formidable back catalog is like an old history library, the tiered kind, with sliding ladders, stained-glass windows, and oiled wood, where gilt-embossed titles...

Joy Shannon is an Irish harpist and vocalist whose 2025 album, In the Forest Singing Sorrowless, is a dreamy, emotional tribute to Tolkien featuring...

We've told you before about glamorous perfumer Cat Marx of Deep Midnight Perfumes, which is now celebrating its ten-year anniversary of conjuring all manner...

Imagine living in a Gothic church turned home! When we read about a family—Anastasiia, Gunther, and their three children—in Maryland doing just that, our...

Rona Berg: Why did you decide to tackle unicorns next, after fairies and mermaids? Carolyn Turgeon: My editor and  I contemplated other creatures (who...

Our friend John Keske, who now runs Deep Midnight Perfumes in the wake of his partner Cat Marx's passing (you can read our past interviews with...

We could not help but notice that one of our favorite artists, Annie Stegg, whose work we’ve featured numerous times on these pages as...

Here's our friend Cat Marx, perfumer extraordinaire at Deep Midnight Perfumes and gorgeous witch, since any autumn missive would be remiss without a discussion of...

We recently caught up with our glamorous friend Cat of Deep Midnight Perfumes who makes blowing on feathers look much more elegant than we could:Here...