Celebrate Diana Wynne Jones!

In 2007, Diana received the World Fantasy Life Achievement Award. Since she wasn’t able to make it (the convention was in the USA), she sent me her speech, which I read at the banquet. Channeling Diana was quite an experience, believe me. — sdn

Bookwitch is a British blogger who had never before read Diana’s work. She started with Reflections (hence the UK cover above) and continued with Earwig and the Witch, and will keep going …

Pat Wrede and Diana met at a convention in 1987, and continued to affect each other’s lives (and writing). This is a tribute written shortly after Diana’s death.

“She looked like the best kind of witch in the world, with bushy black hair down to her shoulders and an infectious grin, a book in one hand and a cigarette in the other.”

tacroy:

so this is a link to a google doc into which i copy/pasted all 88 pages and 28,000 words of notes i took from 2 january to 13 january 2012 when i was at seven stories in newcastle, england looking at diana wynne jones’s papers. the google doc is commentable-on, you don’t have to log in to view it, and there are some nice warnings at the top from me you should read. if you have any questions/comments, you can leave notes on the doc and/or ask me directly. check it out, it is pretty cool and contains notes on things like jones’s journals from when she was 13-15, a ton of unpublished manuscripts, really detailed notes on the chrestomanci manuscripts, and a LOT of stuff about publishing correspondence and jones’s unpublished (mainly) essays.

kahvealti:

Büyücülerin dünyasında dolaşmayı seviyorum. Özellikle kadın yazarların elinden çıkan…

*Yürüyen Şato*‘yla başlayan seri, üçüncü kitap olan *Sihirli Ev*‘le devam ediyor. İkinci kitap *Uçan Şato*‘yu bitirdiğimde Diana Wynne Jones hayattaydı. Şimdiyse değil.

Alice’vari bir başlangıçla…