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Mary Shaffer

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in Staples, MN, The United States

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https://wickandarrow.com

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Fantasy, Fiction, Spirituality

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C.S. Lewis, George Macdonald, Kate DiCamillo, Jacques Maritain, Diana ...more

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Mary Shaffer is the author of Wick and Arrow, a folkloric fantasy inspired by "The Snow Queen."

The daughter of a visual artist and a high school English teacher, Mary grew up in a hundred-year-old farmhouse in rural Minnesota. Now she lives in a hundred-year-old house in rural Wisconsin with her cat Sebastian, named for the maddeningly charming character from Brideshead Revisited.

Mary earned a B.A. in Interdisciplinary Fine Arts with an Emphasis in Theatre at St. Olaf College. She also holds a Masters of Arts in Theology from the St. Paul Seminary School of Divinity. In addition to being cofounder and artistic director of Missed the Boat Theatre, she is a spiritual director and teacher on the interior life.

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Wick and Arrow

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Books that Belong on a Shelf with Wick and Arrow

People often ask me what Wick and Arrow is like. (Narnia? LOTR? Harry Potter?) It's hard to answer because Wick and Arrow doesn't have one primary influence. Just for fun, I put together a list of books that belong on the same shelf as Wick and Arrow... for very different reasons. Some of these could be called inspirations or influences for my book. Some are for children. Some are for chil

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