“I am definitely putting McQuerry’s books on this list. I got a chance to look through her newest, Traveler’s Market, before the workshop. It has gorgeous illustrations, and the few paragraphs I read as I flipped through were engaging and well done. I’m really looking forward to reading this, right after I read the first book in the series, Wolfproof.  (These stories include green men and the Wild Hunt and all sorts of wonderful mythic elements–I think they’re going to be fabulous!)…” read more

“What the best stories awaken in us is yearning and recognition, yearning for something longer ago, further away or yet about to be. Recognition of something we have never met, but have always known.”