Sorry it's been such a long time since our last blog. Christmas was hectic as always with families, food and festivities! We had a great time, although Rosie was busy with lots of copyediting and proofreading work so she was a bit tired! There wasn't much snow where we live - just a light dusting, but we managed to go out and play in it anyway, having mini snowball fights and building a snowman about 30cm tall! Did you have much snow?
We are now getting things together for our upcoming courses: Smuggling Stories and Creating Creatures are the first two weekends, both are at Kilve Court in Somerset. Check out http://www.kilvecourt.org/ for more info.
Our next newsletter is underway, we have changed the title and format to make it more magazine-like, so let us know if you'd like to be on the mailing list (email us at creativecreatures@hotmail.co.uk), we'll put more info up when it's ready. We'll also let you know the winner of our last competition whose work will be published in the new magazine.
On another note I've just finished reading a good book - Knife by R J Anderson (Orchard 2009), which came out last January. I got very hooked into the story of Bryony, a fairy with attitude who knows there's something wrong with the way her people are living, but she's not sure how to fix it. Dare she approach the dangerous human house to find herself a weapon, and risk the wrath of Queen Amaryllis? Of course she will! And it leads to discoveries about fairy history that she would have never believed possible! I thought the character of Bryony was really good - I wanted to travel with her as she was adventurous, but she was also realistic because she wasn't perfect! The only problem I had with the story was the ending - I wanted to know a bit more about what was going to happen next, but I've just found out that the sequel came out a couple of weeks ago (titled Rebel) so I shall have to get hold of a copy! If you'd like to see more about the book and R J Anderson, see her website: http://www.rj-anderson.com/.
Well that's all for now! Hope to see you all soon - check out the upcoming courses page of our website (here) if you'd like to know where you can come and work with us!
Bye,
Jennifer x
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