“Magatama no Sekai” on sale in Japan, Dec. 1

The short stories Ogiwara-sensei blogged about earlier this summer will appear in an anthology entitled Magatama no Sekai: Ogiwara Noriko Dokuhon (The World of Magatama: A Noriko Ogiwara Reader) this December. It includes a talk with Noriko Ogiwara and Nahoko Uehashi, creator of the Moribito series, on Japanese fantasy. More details will be added to …

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Magatama trilogy spin-offs a possibility

According to Ogiwara-sensei’s August 18 blog post, she has been asked to write a collection of short stories branching off of the Magatama trilogy (Dragon Sword and Wind Child, Mirror Sword and Shadow Prince, Usubeni Tennyo). From what she describes, these short stories will be about things that don’t come up in the original novels …

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