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Terri Windling

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There are plenty of bad editors who try to impose their own vision on a book. (…) A good novel editor is invisible.


— Terri Windling


#editing #editor #inspirational #reading #writing

A good novel editor is invisible.


— Terri Windling


#good #invisible #novel

I wanted to be a scientist. But I had no math skills.


— Terri Windling


#i #math #scientist #skills #wanted

I divide my time between homes in Arizona and England, six months a year in each place.


— Terri Windling


#between #divide #each #england #homes

I have a great respect for the academics who are working with the source material. My hat's off to them.


— Terri Windling


#great #great respect #hat #i #material

I like Celtic folk music, Native American music, and any kind of early music. There isn't a lot of music that I don't like... except for Show Tunes.


— Terri Windling


#american music #any #celtic #early #except

But for me, really, the written word is always stronger than film.


— Terri Windling


#film #me #really #stronger #than

I was a great fan of Jim Henson.


— Terri Windling


#great #i #jim

I'd had no particular interest in the Southwest at all as a young girl, and I was completely surprised that the desert stole my heart to the extent it did.


— Terri Windling


#desert #did #extent #girl #had

Robert Jordan, whether he's writing with passion or not, I don't know.


— Terri Windling


#jordan #know #passion #robert #whether






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McKillip illustrated by Brian Froud
The Borderland Series New American Library Tor Books Harper Prism 1985 to present: a Young Adult shared-world series featuring the intersection between Elfland and human lands generally populated by teenagers runaways and exiles. She was a contributor to The Oxford Companion to Fairy Tales edited by Jack Zipes. Works


Fiction
"The Green Children" The Armless Maiden Tor Books 1995
The Wood Wife Tor Books 1996 (winner of the Mythopoeic Award)
"The Color of Angels" The Horns of Elfland New American Library 1997
The Raven Queen with Ellen Steiber Random House 1999
The Changeling Random House 1995
The Old Oak Wood Series Simon & Schuster (illustrated by Wendy Froud):

A Midsummer Night's Faery Tale 1999
The Winter Child 2000
The Faeries of Spring Cottage 2001

"Red Rock" Century Magazine 2000
The Moon Wife Tor Books forthcoming 2012
Little Owl Viking forthcoming 2012


Nonfiction
"Surviving Childhood" The Armless Maiden Tor Books 1995
"Transformations" Mirror Mirror on the Wall: Women Writers Explore Their Favorite Fairy Tales (Expanded Edition) Anchor 1998
Co-writer and editor of Brian Froud's Good Faeries/Bad Faeries Simon & Schuster 2000
"On Tolkien and Fairy Stories" Meditations on Middle-Earth St.

As an artist Windling specializes in work inspired by myth folklore and fairy tales. She received the Solstice Award in 2010 which honors "individuals with a significant impact on the speculative fiction field. She was a contributor to The Oxford Companion to Fairy Tales edited by Jack Zipes.

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