May 2012
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Sixteenth stop on the DWJ blog tour -- YALSA's... →
Librarian Julie Bartel reflects on DWJ for YALSA’s blog, The Hub.
“Diana Wynne Jones contributed so much to my own personal mythosphere it’s sometimes hard for me to remember which parts are me and which parts I borrowed from her. She’s definitely not gone.”
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Tribute: By Singing Light →
Maureen talks about her extreme DWJ love.
“The worlds of her imagination are so rich and vivid that it’s hard for me not to believe that they do exist, somewhere.”
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DWJ on writing →
This comes from Reflections, which Greenwillow will publish this autumn. (Yes — the earlier post showed the UK cover; their edition is coming out imminently.)
“If there is one thing I have learned, it is that you must have at least some emotional connection with every soul who figures in a story. You may like them, love them, find them disgusting, or hate them, but you must react to...
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Fifteenth stop on the DWJ blog tour -- Book Aunt! →
Kate Coombs counts DWJ as one of her top three best children’s fantasy writers, and shares some of her favorite titles, including The Tough Guide to Fantasyland.
“If you’re going to write fantasy, you should read this book. And if you’re a fantasy reader, you should, too.”
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Cathy Butler on the Celebration in Bristol →
Cathy Butler, one of the Celebration’s organizers (and Diana’s last interviewer — a clip was played in Bristol) reflects upon the day.
“In the end, I believe we approached Diana from enough angles that we managed by a process of—not triangulation, perhaps, but polygonization?—to conjure her, if in a fitful way like a Star Wars hologram. It was the kind of...
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Fourteenth stop on the DWJ blog tour -- Tales of... →
Cheryl Mahoney found Diana’s books in bits and pieces, and claimed them as her own.
“It was years more before I ever realized how important Diana Wynne Jones is in children’s fantasy … In a way, I’m glad I didn’t know–because she was “my” author that I happened to stumble on in the silliest of ways.”
April 2012
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Surprise stop on the DWJ blog tour -- Sarah Rees... →
A marvelous, heartfelt tribute from the terrific Sarah Rees Brennan.
“Books can be like a light in a hearth or a beacon welcoming you, something to rush toward. Books like Diana Wynne Jones’s taught me that.”
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Thirteenth stop on the DWJ blog tour -- Chronicles... →
Michelle Raborn meditates on the impact of Diana’s work across time and generations.
“I used to think my experience with Diana Wynne Jones was incredibly personal, unique to me, something I could never publicly share. But as this blog tour has progressed it has become increasingly clear that Diana Wynne Jones transformed many lives.”
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Remembering the Master: A Letter to Diana Wynne... →
I was inspired by Maggie Stiefvater’s post the other day to write the letter I always meant to send while Ms. Jones was still here to read it. She is dearly loved and greatly missed <3
— Kaye
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Tribute: One Incredible Author
The way I discovered Diana Wynne Jones’s work is perhaps a bit unusual. When I was in elementary school, my older brother had a friend who was into anime and Japan and such. She eventually got me hooked on anime, especially the works of Hayao Miyazaki (still one of my favorite directors). It might have been 2004 or maybe 2005 when my mom brought home one of his movies for me,...
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Tribute: Kelly Wood
“Oh, bother.”
My sister and I listened to the Charmed Life book on tape on a trip to Maine, many years ago. I’d already read the book—okay, I’d already read the book about twenty times—but I wanted to share my love with her. Something went wrong in the middle of the trip (I can’t remember now what it was) and we just looked at each other and said...
