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But no one is looking any more and that is hard for a Faerie Queen to bear and Titania has had enough. When Titania stamps her foot, everyone in Faerieland jumps; publicity is what they need. Television, magazines. But that sort of thing is much more the remit of the bad boys of the Unseelie Court, the ones who weave a new kind of magic; the World Wide Web.
Here is Puck re-learning how to fly; Leanne the agent who really is a vampire; Oberon’s Boys playing cards behind the wainscoting; Black Annis, the bag-lady from Hainault, all gathered in a Restoration comedy that is strictly twenty-first century.
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About the author
Maryanne Coleman is the pen name of Carol Trow, wife of M J Trow and mother of Tali Trow. Her own books are fantasy, two so far in a projected trilogy - Goblin Market and Pandemonium - with a third (working title Saturnalia) in the pipeline. As well as writing her own fantasy novels, she co-writes the Marlowe series with her husband - somehow, they never argue and scarily enough when proofing they can never remember who wrote what, which must be a good sign. They have recently completed the first of a series, featuring Victorian detectives Grand and Batchelor - this was a change of pace from the Tudor Marlowes and the timelessness of fantasy, with the gritty back streets of Victorian London and the muddy lanes of Washington DC being the background for this exciting new series.
Carol/Maryanne is a keen gardener, helped (usually unwillingly) by her co-author. Apart from that she likes antique rummaging and reading. However, spare time is in short supply as she is typist and general factotum to Mei so, as she often reminds him, she does twice as much as he does, her own writing and then his too! A good analogy is Ginger Rogers doing everything Fred Astaire did, but backwards. She loves it though and it has to be said that she is pretty spoiled when she is busy and when he goes on his lecture cruises, she gets to go as well, so that's all good!
As well as having a hard-working author for a husband, she has a hard-working author and musician for a son - there seems to be something of a theme going on here. He lives in London with the lovely Nic and he has written a biography of Martin Frobisher, the explorer, as well as collaborating (there definitely is a theme!) with his father. American audiences may know him for his barnstorming bass playing with the fabulous Coal Porters, led by Kentuckian Sid Griffin.
Story telling has always been a passion and the family story goes that her first audience was her great grandmother who, at nearly 100, was found enthralled by the little three year old on her lap, who was approaching the end of her story ... 'And so, the woodcutter broke down the door and found the widow and her eighteen children, dead on the floor.' So, it can be seen that all the elements were there right from the start - the woodcutter (fairy tales) and the crime. It took a while - Carol spent almost 30 years in pathology laboratories before having time to write - but she got there in the end!
