Mark Chadbourn, author of the
Age of Misrule trilogy that begins with
World's End,
is guest-blogging at Amazon's
Omnivoracious, courtesy of the amazing Jeff Vandermeer. His first post,
THE INVISIBLE HAND OF THE GODS OF WRITING, is up now. It begins:
"When the author and poet Robert Graves embarked on a study of ancient myth, he found an unsettling world opening up to him. The work in question,
The White Goddess, proposed the existence of a long-forgotten cult dedicated to a moon goddess who was the root of most pre-Christian religions--Greek, Phoenician, Celtic, Roman, Scandinavian Hindu, even African...."
You'll have to
go here for the rest. Meanwhile, I have several similar stories from when I wrote a script with a partner in my Hollywood days. The script was about a Vatican conspiracy of collosal proportions (this several years before Dan Brown), and I know firsthand that Joe Straczynski experienced a lot of odd coincidences when he wrote
Babylon 5, which was also based on Celtic myth. Hmmm....
appeared in the Best of the Year lists of Locus magazine critic Paul Witcover, SteveReads, Fantasy Book Critic Cindy’s best of 2009 list, and Fantasyliterature.com.
of
Misrule
trilogy was called out in the Best of 2009 lists of Rob Will Review, Fantasy Book Critic Cindy’s list, and Nethspace. Not bad, no?
