https://www.merriehaskell.com/overview daily 1.0 2025-06-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61b0e97d6bdea247764e5797/f6d7671c-92dc-4b2f-bb7c-aa1d04b2c549/cbt.jpg Merrie Haskell, Author Book cover of The Castle Behind Thorns by Merrie Haskell. A boy holding a blacksmith hammer faces broken castle doors, from which comes a warm yellow glow. The castle is cracked and large chains connect the two halves like garlands. Thorns creep in through the cracks and open doors. Two stone saint icons stand beside the doors. Pull-quote from Rae Carson, author of the Girl of Fire and Thorns Trilogy: "Graceful and enchanting fantasy." The title of the book has a stony texture with small thorn-like protrusions and serifs on the letters. The cover artist is Kevin Keele and the cover designer is Joel Tippie. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61b0e97d6bdea247764e5797/e5428d9e-2582-4dfc-809a-89a2523f69db/words.jpg Merrie Haskell, Author black words on a white background, which state: Merrie Haskell writes for children and adults. Her novel, HANDBOOK FOR DRAGON SLAYERS, won the Schneider Family Book Award in 2014. Her books have been Junior Library Guild Selections and nominees for the Mythopoeic Fantasy Awardfor Children’s Literature. Her short fiction (for adults) has appeared in NATURE, ASIMOV’S, and other magazines. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61b0e97d6bdea247764e5797/00c310d4-187a-4c06-9d8b-23d52cb12013/mh700-x-500.jpg Merrie Haskell, Author picture of a middle-aged white woman with brown hair, smiling and squinting, wearing a blue shirt, and standing in front of green grass and a blue sky and lake https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61b0e97d6bdea247764e5797/0c5f1b67-4915-4a46-9f0e-b85fc7ed193d/HandbookDragon-500-x-758.jpg Merrie Haskell, Author The cover of the book HANDBOOK FOR DRAGON SLAYERS by Merrie Haskell. An illustration of a girl on horseback at sunset at the edge of a cliff. There is a dragon flying in the distance. The scene is framed on the left and right by two trees clinging to the cliff's edge. A small waterfall, as though from a creek, flows over the edge of the cliff. The darkness of the cliff creates a bottom frame. The book title almost creates a top frame and is in a flourishy, antiquated font over the sky, similar to early printing presses (that would be anachronistic to the era of the book). The letters are purple. The author's name is in white at the very bottom. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61b0e97d6bdea247764e5797/1681210263143-Y8K46VFJQRPAJD2HTZ68/The+Roman+and+the+Regency+1-1.jpg Merrie Haskell, Author audiobook style cover (square) in an illustrated, Art Nouveau style of "The Roman and the Regency" with the author's name at the bottom, Merrie Haskell. A man with tan skin, brown curly hair, a large nose, wearing leather Roman armor and a red cloak, stands attentively next to a seated white woman with dark brown curly hair. The woman wears a classical style Regency-waisted white dress with a red shawl and a blue hat in the style of a "casque a la minerve" (reminescent of Minerva's helmet in shape). Her hair is up in a Regency style, and her hat and hair both have a red rose. Both figures are before a stylized Roman column with owls carved at the top, and an Art Nouveau-style background of the Roman baths of Bath, England, surrounded by laurel leaves. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61b0e97d6bdea247764e5797/f8559121-c844-47fc-b966-9ee221403ad5/PrincessCurse-500-x-756.jpg Merrie Haskell, Author book cover for THE PRINCESS CURSE by Merrie Haskell. A young girl, pale-skinned with dark brown hair and eyes, stares out at the viewer with a calm, determined expression, holding a basket of green plants in a tight, overhand grip. Behind her is a forest of teal and blue trees with ruby leaves. She is backlit by an ethereal light. Her clothes are somewhat medieval, with arm bracers, a laced bodice, and a white chemise under a blue dress. Her hair is shoulder length and blowing slightly to the right in the wind. The title of the book hangs above her head in a rounded font. The letters are purple, and the three words of the title are stacked atop one another. The first word (the) uses the smallest letters, while Princess is larger, and Curse is in the largest letters. However, "Princess" remains the longest word, length-wise. The author's name is in small white letters at the top of cover. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61b0e97d6bdea247764e5797/7b6004db-42f0-4b72-9c02-f71842039dd6/BCS-Sept2020.jpg Merrie Haskell, Author Cover for Beneath Ceaseless Skies, An Online Magazine of Literary Adventure Fantasy. A fantasy colossus statue overlooks a small sailing vessel. Authors listed include K.J. Parker, Richard Parks, Merrie Haskell, and R.Z. Held. The title and subtitle are listed on the left upper quadrant of the cover, and the authors are placed opposite on the lower left. 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