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Thank you.

I can see I have a lot of material to look through. Now I have no excuse not to research my material farther then I had previously. Actually half the fun is doing the research.

Does this look like the book? Celtic Folklore Cooking: Joanne Asala: Amazon.com: Kindle Store Only 10 bucks for the Kindle edition, and the description sounds like what you are describing.

I have read W.B. Yeats who has a lot of minor pieces of folklore. A variety of books on Saint Bridgett, my family name comes from her. Bits and pieces I remember from my childhood stories, but I could not tell you who wrote what. That is why I would like to dig more information up. Thanks for...

Ah I see my good friend "Procrastination" lives here as well. In part why I came here was to get past the influence of him, he has been a weight on my life for a good many years now.

I am slowly working on a novel that includes bits of Irish folklore. I have dug around and found quite a bit of information. However I would love to hear of additional sources that I might have overlooked.

I felt the first four books were the best, as far as I read. I quit at about book eight. I felt like the story was really starting to just drag on forever. I hope at some point in time I go back and finish the series though. Even when I was getting bored by book eight I still enjoyed it. (I know...

I do beta reading and this is more important to me than the genre I am reading. I do have a couple types of work that I despise and refuse to read, but if it is a pretty clean draft I like most anything. In some ways my opinion is contrary to the one that suggested finding a reader who loves...

In general I would agree with this. However the exception would be a short poem, or part of a poem would catch my eye. While I love Tolkien I know that I would never accept his slow pace from a new author. That actually raises the possibility of using a poem that moves quickly, and is easy to...

My user name and my real life name are one and the same, Randy. I have been wanting to look into this community for some time, but school and other activities have kept me to busy. With summer here I want to get more serious with my writing and I look forward to hearing others thoughts on the...