Hello! It's been a very LONG and snowy winter here on Dartmoor. We've been snowed in, iced in, and now it's all turning to mud. Never mind. The snow drops are out and absolutely beautiful and the birds are saying that spring is definitely almost here.

It's going to be an exciting and very busy next few months for us. Brian and I are beginning a series of book signing appearances both in England and the U.S. Our new project has just been published - well, today I believe, since it's the first of March - and we're very proud of it. The Heart Of Faerie Oracle Deck is a new deck of oracle cards using Brian's paintings and drawings from the World of Faerie book with the addition of at least five new pieces. I've had the honor (and challange) of writing the book that accompanies the deck. It's a beautiful boxed set and I feel that it will be an interesting and easy deck to use and play with. There are of course many ways to use the deck, the most simple and in many ways most effective way being to choose one card a day and let it guide you. I've been trying that and it works for me! Even though I worked with the images constantly while I was writing, it's still a new experience to actually handle the finished deck. I hope, if you use the deck, that you have as much fun with it as we did, putting it together. The faeries are amazing teachers if we can learn to pay attention!

We will be signing in London on Friday, March 26th at Forbidden Planet (from 6-7 pm I believe) and we would love to have the chance to meet any of you who are around London then so come and join us there.

We will then be flying to New York where we will be signing at Books of Wonder (check later for exact date and time) and also where we will be teaching a doll making workshop. I'm lucky enough (and you will be too) to have both Brian and Toby co-teaching with me. You get the whole Froud experience!

Then we go on to Baltimore where we will be guests of honor at RenCon. This will be a new experience for us but we'll be sharing it with our good friends and cohorts, John and Caitlin Matthews. This promises to be a fun and very interesting weekend with great music, lectures and presentations, book signings and of course, terrific shopping! As always, we love to meet people so please don't feel shy about coming up to us to talk.

Then we fly on to Chicago for a book signing (TBA) and later in the month, Toby and I will be back in the Chicago area to teach a workshop there. I'm looking forward to teaching in the Mid West again. I've only taught there once before since I'm almost always on one or the other coast, so Mid-Westerners, this is a good chance to come and join Toby and me for a fun and productive (I DO make you work!) weekend, closer to home!

Just writing all of this makes me see what a busy time we'll be having this March and April (I'm also teaching at our home here on Dartmoor this month) but it's all going to be great fun I'm sure. We're back in the States again in July with more book signings, workshops and appearances. I'll tell you more about that later.

In the mean time - Happy Spring. We wish you all joy and creative energy.

From Brian, Wendy, Elfie , Buster and the Faeries
March 2010

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