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I'm delighted to have been invited to participate in a blog series by Elizabeth Lefebvre on the theme of books with magic in Regency-era settings. The posts will be coming out over March and April and will feature authors like Stephanie Burgis, Caroline Stevermer, Mary Robinette Kowal, Zen Cho, Marissa Doyle, Galen Beckett, and Beth Deitchman, in addition to yours truly. (I've read books by three of them and definitely have the others on my radar.) I'll be interested to see whether my books are the only ones discussed that technically fall outside of England, but I happily claim the genre given how strongly Regency literature (both original and modern) influenced the look-and-feel of the Alpennia novels.

And because it's Saint David's day -- the patron saint of Wales -- I thought I'd include a periodic reminder that I've written some fiction inspired by medieval Welsh literature. There's my lesbians-in-the-Mabinogi story "Hoywverch" published in text and audio by Podcastle.org, and a rather snarkily feminist take on the Welsh Arthurian mythos, "The Treasures of Britain", included in the Mike Ashley anthology Chronicles of the Holy Grail.