Testing! Testing!
I want to let you all know I have a new website Please check it out! Lots of good stuff including a page where Maeve Speaks! Maeve and I will […]
MAEVE SPEAKS
My name is Maeve. It rhymes with brave, cave, wave. (I am not going to go through all the rhyming possibilities; some are not as flattering.) I am not going […]
Red-Robed Priestess wins award!
The Red-Robed Priestess, the fourth and final installment of The Maeve Chronicles, wins The Association for the Study of Women and Mythology’s 2012 Sarasvati Award for Fiction! “In making their […]
…Red, Magdalen, Maeve Rhuad
lying naked on a warm February night outside under a full moon, ripe for conception: then twenty year’s labor to bring your story forth you are still with me, and […]
A Childhood in Narnia
An interview with Elizabeth Cunningham, author of The Maeve Chronicles The recent release of Andrew Adamson’s blockbuster film, The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, is […]
Fact, Fiction & Truth: the perils and joys of writing religious fiction
“You cannot make God a fairytale!” declared the woman in the second row, her face blotchy with outrage. “The Blessed Mother and Mary Magdalen are holy people. They would never […]
Pilgrimage To Magdalen Country
In March, 2004 I made a pilgrimage to Magdalen country in the South of France as part of my research for The Way of the Dove, volume 3. The stories […]
In Search of Real Gardens: A Novelist’s Onsite Research
“A fairytale is an imaginary garden with real toads in it.” I don’t know the source of this quotation, but I take it as my starting point for this account, […]
Why a Celtic Mary Magdalen?
I am not Irish. That is why I am writing this essay: to explain how someone who is not Irish can be captivated by the Irish spirit. Of course, it […]
Did You Have to Make Her a Prostitute? Archetype vs. Stereotype
The Big Question: Did you have to make her a prostitute? Isn’t the traditional depiction of her as a prostitute just perpetuating a patriarchal virgin/whore stereotype with women divided and […]