http://booksbywomen.org/why-we-love-the-magic-so-much-womens-fiction-and-the-supernatural-by-rachel-dacus/ Thu, 07 Nov 2019 15:19:09 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.3 http://booksbywomen.org/why-we-love-the-magic-so-much-womens-fiction-and-the-supernatural-by-rachel-dacus/#comment-50070 Thu, 07 Nov 2019 15:19:09 +0000 http://booksbywomen.org/?p=28621#comment-50070 I am so sorry for your loss, Rachel. Loss impacts us so profoundly. You said it perfectly, “The impact and power of love never dies.” I agree real life does have magical moments. So glad you bring them to “life” in your writing! BTW, I loved Nancy Drew as a kid, too.

]]> http://booksbywomen.org/why-we-love-the-magic-so-much-womens-fiction-and-the-supernatural-by-rachel-dacus/#comment-50068 Tue, 05 Nov 2019 16:53:46 +0000 http://booksbywomen.org/?p=28621#comment-50068 Thank you, Louise! I can see we’re cut of the same cloth was writers and readers. The liminal spaces and a touch of the supernatural can feel more real. The heart has its own form of reality.

]]> http://booksbywomen.org/why-we-love-the-magic-so-much-womens-fiction-and-the-supernatural-by-rachel-dacus/#comment-50062 Fri, 01 Nov 2019 22:44:25 +0000 http://booksbywomen.org/?p=28621#comment-50062 Magic and that touch of the supernatural in a story make it feel more like a genuine story to me, something I can get immersed in and emerge from transformed by the experience. Depending on the story and its writer, the magical realism can feel more real, more immediate than supposed real life. Excellent piece!

]]> http://booksbywomen.org/why-we-love-the-magic-so-much-womens-fiction-and-the-supernatural-by-rachel-dacus/#comment-50060 Fri, 01 Nov 2019 17:56:50 +0000 http://booksbywomen.org/?p=28621#comment-50060 […] realism novel, The Invisibles. To celebrate, I’ve published an article in the online magazine Women Writers, Women’s Books. It’s about the naturalness of supernatural elements in women’s fiction. Magical […]

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