I drew diamonds this week, which means I read a fairy tale from Andrew Lang’s Rainbow Fairy Books. This one appears in the Brown Fairy Book, which isn’t very rainbowy, but there are only seven rainbow colors and twelve volumes. In fact, Dover, the press…

Today, I share a sample from one of the stories in SHIFTY: TALES FROM THE WORLD OF SAGE, the companion book to my fantasy trilogy. In this snippet, a town invites a troupe of traveling players to come by night to negotiate an appearance. The…