Dark Fantasy Author
Crafting Tales of Eerie Enchantment
“Everything you look at can become a fairy tale and you can get a story from everything you touch.”
“The way to read a fairy tale is to throw yourself in.”
Hello Folk of the Hollow!
So back in the summer, I had stumbled upon the Instagram page of author C.G. Drews and, after browsing for a bit, found their (I’m not 100% sure on the pronouns that this author goes by, so instead of accidentally using the wrong ones I figure it would be okay to stick with ‘they’. I’m also pretty sure the author goes by ‘they / them’ pronouns anyway but again, not positive)
I read about half the book and decided I couldn’t finish it—because this felt more like an autumn book than a summer book! I knew that if I finished it in the summer, it would be forever locked in my mind as a “summer” book, and I wanted this to be one I reached for in the autumn. So I begrudgingly put this one aside until the leaves started changing and the temperature began to drop. When the time came to finally be able to pick up my autumn reading list , this was the first book I went for.
Hi there, Folk of the Hollow!
I have always wanted one of those vintage teddy bears—one of the ones that you might find in your grandmother’s (or great-grandmother’s?) attic from her childhood in the Victorian era. One of those toys that you can see the absolute outpouring of love it received in the shabbiness of its fur and the looseness of its eyes. A real Velveteen Rabbit situation. I thought that maybe, because I was born so late for that kind of thing, I might have to just resign myself to not getting quite the doll I was looking for. Like—I would get a teddy bear, but it wouldn’t be the Winnie-the-Pooh, Velveteen Rabbit kind of teddy bear that I would have wanted.