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Michael D. McCartney

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Mike is the creator of Carmarthen Hall and a whole new world of Thaumaturgy.

Mike received his BA from Moravian University, his MA in English Literature from Middlebury’s Bread Loaf School of English, and he has studied as an independent scholar at the Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies in Oxford and the Oxford Centre for Fantasy. For many years, he taught at the Maine School of Science and Mathematics, one of the top public schools in America. While there, he was a Semifinalist for Maine State Teacher of the Year, served as Chair of English and Performing Arts, and was a frequent guest speaker around Maine, including addressing pre-service teachers at the University of Maine. He has been published in Independent Teacher Magazine a
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"How Oxford escaped the Blitz and World War II unscathed has, historically, been a big question mark. But in Michael D. McCartney’s “A Subtler Magic,” thaumaturgy—or magic, as we’d call it—had more than something to do with it. And the powers at work " Read more of this review »
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