The best part of any festival is, of course, the readers—and the other authors!—and it was so cool to meet French fantasy readers and French fantasy authors at Echos & Merveilles ❤️ (Everyone is linked at my IG if you want to find them :)

A look at the Echos & Merveilles festival in France last week! It was so fun to get to chat with French readers—and French fantasy authors!! (And also eat pastries 🥐😛)

There may have been a dinosaur sighting too…

This species is especially gentle, as demonstrated by it not biting this Norwegian author’s hand! ❤️

I spent the day in Toulouse, France yesterday. It was gorgeous ❤️

This is Lilith, another one of the creatures at Halle de la Machine in Toulouse 😍😍 Imagine seeing her make her way through the city to rendez-vous with the Minotaur!

An incredible thing that I saw yesterday in Toulouse! Behold the Minotaur, by La Machine, the incredible French company that make colossal creature machines—You can see the two “machinistes” in orange who are puppeteering it, and the passengers on its back!!

Hey guys! My writing community’s weekly Zoom is open to the public this Sunday for our April book club with author Jenni Howell, whose first novel, Boys With Sharp Teeth, debuted on the NYT bestseller list!!! Come join us at 11am Pacific:
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Next week!!! I’ll be in France for this magical festival Echos et Merveilles, just outside of Toulouse. There will be tons of music, crafts, costumes, food, kids stuff, and an author pavilion full of fantasy writers and books! Come see us ❤️❤️❤️

www.echosetmerveilles.com