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rom an unwary author.</p><p id="9ac2">I started out casually chatting about wizard hat linings, then slipped in the killer question:</p><h2 id="e538">I understand that it’s only discarded dragonfly wings that are used. How are they found and collected?</h2><p id="b4d3">Here’s the answer from Kate Russell:</p><blockquote id="c057"><p>I’m afraid that’s a very great secret kept by the Association of Certified Magical Tailors, who guard the knowledge to prevent just any old Tom, Dick or Harriet from making their own un-registered tall pointy hats (as we know that the other key ingredient, magnesium-phosphate, is readily available in capsule form from most High Street pharmacies).</p></blockquote><h2 id="21b6">Drat!</h2><p id="c571">She saw through my cunning subterfuge.</p><p id="971f">However, where there are secrets, there are searchers massing to seek out answers. I don’t know about the rest of you, but I’m off to look for discarded dragonfly wings.</p><h1 id="dff9">Melodie Trudeaux Is All About The Animals</h1><p id="ea2a">That’s why Melodie has homed in on the animal angles of every one of the books she muses on. Melodie Trudeaux is the alter-ego of crime writer, Penny Grubb.</p><div id="a74d" class="link-block"> <a href="https://readmedium.com/my-alter-ego-is-a-childrens-writer-1188c6eb9dec"> <div> <div> <h2>My Alter Ego Is A Children’s Writer</h2> <div><h3>She stopped my criminal career in its tracks — but only temporarily</h3></div> <div><p>medium.com</p></div> </div> <div> <div style="background-image: url(https://miro.readmedium.com/v2/resize:fit:320/1*NQbWkHROdHFlsSz7nbuckg.jpeg)"></div> </div> </div> </a> </div><p id="2c3a">Melodie’s latest, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Horse-Same-Colour-Melodie-Trudeaux-ebook/dp/B09NZJ311F">Horse of the Same Colour</a>…</p><div id="b015" class="link-block"> <a href="https://readmedium.com/horse-of-the-same-colour-7645dde8dc3b">

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Melodie Muses On Dragonfly Wings — And Linings!

Image reproduced with permission from Fantastic Books Publishing

A Bookkeeper’s Guide To Practical Sorcery by Kate Russell is a fantasy adventure suitable for all ages. It doesn’t just track the eventful life of Henry Noble — the boy who wished his life wasn’t quite so boring, then discovered that wishes don’t always come true the way you want them to. It’s more than that.

It says it on the tin

This is a book with spells and secrets, a text of wizardry and magic. Indeed it is — and don’t be too surprised by this, after all, it says it on the tin — a guide to practical sorcery.

Cover reproduced with permission from Fantastic Books Publishing

This is the book that taught me something I never knew about wizards’ hats. Obviously, this headgear is an essential part of a wizard’s wardrobe, I think we all know that, but did you know this about wizards’ hats? They are lined.

Wizards’ hats have linings? Isn’t that amazing? I had never once given that aspect a thought.

And not just any old lining! The thing about these linings is that they are woven from magnesium-phosphate and dragon-fly wings. But before you rush out to collect dragonflies and rummage at the back of the cupboard for magnesium phosphate, bear in mind that the components for something as magical as a wizard’s hat are bound to have rules and rituals around their collection.

As I’ve said before, I’m all about the animals so was asking on behalf of the dragonflies, but I also thought that this was a very cunning question designed to ease a close-guarded secret from an unwary author.

I started out casually chatting about wizard hat linings, then slipped in the killer question:

I understand that it’s only discarded dragonfly wings that are used. How are they found and collected?

Here’s the answer from Kate Russell:

I’m afraid that’s a very great secret kept by the Association of Certified Magical Tailors, who guard the knowledge to prevent just any old Tom, Dick or Harriet from making their own un-registered tall pointy hats (as we know that the other key ingredient, magnesium-phosphate, is readily available in capsule form from most High Street pharmacies).

Drat!

She saw through my cunning subterfuge.

However, where there are secrets, there are searchers massing to seek out answers. I don’t know about the rest of you, but I’m off to look for discarded dragonfly wings.

Melodie Trudeaux Is All About The Animals

That’s why Melodie has homed in on the animal angles of every one of the books she muses on. Melodie Trudeaux is the alter-ego of crime writer, Penny Grubb.

My Alter Ego Is A Children’s Writer

She stopped my criminal career in its tracks — but only temporarily

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Melodie’s latest, Horse of the Same Colour…

A pre-teen fantasy by Melodie Trudeaux

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… is a MABLE 2022 spotlight book along with A Bookkeeper’s Guide To Practical Sorcery. Please come and join Melodie and all the other authors at Fantastic Books Publishing’s