News

There’s a lot going on in the wider Ars Magica sphere, so let’s gather it all together.

There’s a new issue of Sub Rosa out. See the details at https://www.facebook.com/subrosamagazine/posts/1387816854760534

CJ, Master of Revels for our tribe, is having an online conference in November called Image From The Wizard Torn. Details at https://www.facebook.com/grandtribunal/posts/4222745867766422

He also has a scenario coming out for Casting the Runes, which is on Kickstarter. It’s set in the world of M R James, and if you’ve hung around GFF for a while you probably love those stories as much as I do.

Magonomia is powering along, but I’m under NDA for my bits in it. See more at https://shewstonepublishing.com/magonomia Basically, though it’s a joy to write for, because the period sources are so rich. Shewstone has started doing a scenario a month on their blog, so check it out.

If you’d like to follow GFF on Spotify, Amazon Music, Audible or Player FM you should find me there in the next day or so.

The transcripts of GFF are back, and are caught up, with the exception of the monster stats, which are about twenty behind. My hope is to have them sorted by Episode 300, which by sheer coincidence is 24 December. The hope is to have a new version of Half-remembered Monsters up for December with all of the new creatures in it.

A lot of my reading at the moment is on Elizabethan stuff, and I used up my backlog of emergency episodes when I let them all free for the COVID lockdown, so I’m going to be a bit more dependent on texts for the next little while. The plan for the months ahead is basically a pattern like this:

• one episode that is a poem by Walter de la Mare with a monster or location in it.
• one episode of me pulling apart a chapter of “The King of Elfland’s Daughter” by Lord Dunsany.
• one episode of Mythic Venice
• one or two miscellaneous weeks (likely placed at third and fifth)

The plan will almost certainly go off the rails when I hit excellent material and go for it instead, but that’s the default state. Even as I’m writing this I’m aware that the Walter de La Mare episodes might be easier to do as fifteen minute blocks of poetry and explanation, not as single poems.

Feedback is always welcome, particularly when I’m suggesting something as ridiculous as Dunsany episodes stretching out until late 2023. (Which is actually exactly what I’m doing, but, hey, people seem to like episodes themed about his work, and this is his masterpiece, so…why not?)

As always, thanks to the Patreons, without whom this would not be possible. If you’d like to support GFF, please see https://www.patreon.com/TimothyFerguson