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This week's pick: Glass and Feathers I know that I’ve been pushing the subscription angle very hard, You’ll find the info on subscribing for this year here. So I hope you’ll subscribe if you haven’t already.

Here’s a link to a map that gives an overview. I use the Almanac because it is right 80 percent of the time in weather forecasting. Since this is a place for folklore as well as fairy tales, here’s a link to folklore on how to spot a (I could not find the artist for the Jack Frost image, but it’s perfect for this post, so I used it.)

Armstrong’s newest installment in her mystery series finds Ruby visiting Manhurst Castle with her octogenarian Owens has brought her to the borders of Scotland under false pretenses. I loved both The Curse of Penryth Hall  and The Secret of the Three Fates , and I can’t wait to read You can find it here . her at https://kellyjarviswriter.com/

This is a solid group of stories overall, but I did have favorites, including “The Knight of the Gillyflower I also loved “The Magic Stove,” because it’s told from the point of view of the stove, and I love that I didn’t love every story, of course, because that’s the nature of such collections. And, while there are stories I didn’t love, there isn’t a true dud in the collection. I will definitely be on the lookout for other work by Sherwood.

I like mine with a lump of crumbly cheese (a suggestion I got from the All Creatures Great and Small And I get it. I know the jokes about fruitcake. I might have another convert on my hands! But if you use dates, I don’t recommend simmering them in the orange juice. I usually make 12 muffins and make fruitcake with the remaining batter.)

I genuinely love her work, especially “Moonrise” and “Moon Maiden.” If Zazzle isn’t your thing, then please check out our shop here on this site. The pictures you see here are for sale in our shop as digital downloads and are featured on Zazzle merchandise I hope you find something that enchants you! Kate

So I was sad when the Queen died, and the events surrounding her death brought me back to reading—as I love reading actual history but especially love historical novels. I first discovered them in the book Katherine, by Anya Seton, and I’ve never looked back. To find her books, just check out her Goodreads page. I hope you’ll find this recommendation useful in this time of historical change in the UK.

When I was the baker and the butcher’s daughter I never once visited the forest where lost princes or When I was my parents’ child, I shied away from the city, with its dubious characters and roaring automobiles After watching me work with gimlet gaze, she left me a book, although I told her I could knead dough I dressed my blisters in natural salve and gauze, my scratches I smeared with honey. I stepped farther into the pharmacopoetic altar, the witch welcoming me inside her herbaceous citadel

Although I was less interested in the alien and apocalyptic poems, I delighted in her series of fairy I gasped and laughed at her simple but powerful rendition of “Goldilocks and the Three Bears” which reads In one of my favorites, “A Better World”, Sng writes “I cast a magic spell / To manifest my grief / Creating You can pre-order a copy of the book HERE. She lives, happily ever after, with her husband and three sons in a house filled with fairy tale books

But I walk more coldly, tuck my dreams back (I carry them, sure they can’t carry me) too bright for marking I’ve such a power of formality that I must wield and yield to, so tell, Sun who begs the honor of my presence, what use have I for joy, for endless dance? flitting, but not to death, not petrified— one can move and yet not vanish—can change— for all my frowns, I Her poetry has appeared in Songs of Eretz, Octavos, and Sylvia Magazine.

This week's pick: THE BLACK FORAGER Here’s the first of what I hope will be many of “Kate’s Picks.” I was raised to shop and to consume with care and intuition (thanks Mom!) , and I greatly enjoy sharing my finds. “For those not familiar with the term, Nelson says foraging is essentially ‘a very fun way to say, I eat plants that do not belong to me and I teach other people how to do the same thing.’”

In order to protect her sisters from bad marriages and find her happily-ever-after with the man she loves Trent examines lesser known tales in her work, following her Twelve Dancing Princesses inspired novel I loved this book! You can find it here . Her first novella, Selkie Moon , comes out in 2025. her at https://kellyjarviswriter.com/