Heroic Dreams - All Things Medieval

eek… This is the question I had to google this morning! Seriously, I couldn’t remember her name!

 Anyway, On my hit list of things to do is write an article about the most influential women writers of epic fantasy so this morning I decided I had put it off long enough and started writing it.

It is a subject that can literally take up a whole book but to get myself to tackle the project I resolved to just pick five writers that I thought could show a nice flow of development over the past century or so.

 Anyway, the article is complete and I will be posting it to one of my websites. I will post a link to it in a future post so you can check it out.

Now, back to the author of the Harry Potter phenomenon

I have to confess that I only read the first book (when it came out) so that was quite a few years ago and I enjoyed it, but it wasn’t my cup of tea (excuse the british pun).

And even though I am not a big fan I really do have to tip my hat to Ms. Rowling for what she has done for  Epic Fantasy. She has introduced it to the world and a whole generation of children! What more can a fan of epic fantasy ask for? I am sure that she is the primary influence behind some young writers that will some day take the world by storm with their books. It’s an almost magical thing! <- I couldn’t resist that pun!

And the threads between her writing and the writers that have come before her are clear. She openly credits some of the other writers in my essay as an influence in her own writing. As she should. Did you know that Ursula K LeGuin wrote a book in the sixties about a young boy with hidden magical abilities who goes off to wizard school?

And how the heck could I forget who wrote Harry Potter? Have I been living under a rock this past decade? Well, I guess I really need to have somebody open the portcullis and let me out of my castle keep. It’s getting quite stuffy in here.

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