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Countdown to All Souls Con – Our Favorite Things about the All Souls Trilogy – Day Twenty-Eight – All Souls Witchy Women

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Joanna Kosinska

On Day Twenty-Eight, we celebrate All Souls Witchy Women, the latest podcast to emerge in the All Souls fandom. Nikki, Janet, and Ashley came to the AST by way of Outlander — and they’re here to stay! These three witchy souls take a novel approach to the AST — they talk about big themes with every episode (fatherhood! motherhood! magic!) and tackle them with warmth and good humor. We’re excited to meet them at All Souls Con and welcome them to the #ladypodsquad.

Have you listened to All Souls Witchy Women? What do you love about them? We can’t wait to hear about it on our Facebook page, the Chamomile & Clove Clovers.

Have a nomination for our countdown list? E-mail us at chamomileandclovecast@gmail.com, send us a message via Twitter @chamomilenclove, or send us a Facebook message!

There are still online passes available for All Souls Con 2018. Buy a pass and you’ll see us present on Friday, August 10 with the lovely Jennifer Covel!

We can’t wait to see you,

Cait and Jen

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Countdown to All Souls Con – Our Favorite Things about the All Souls Trilogy – Day Twenty-Seven – The Tenth Knot

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Paul Gilmore

As we approach the Con and the end of our countdown, it’s time to give credit where credit is due in other parts of the All Souls fandom.

The Tenth Knot is an incredible repository of information about the All Souls Trilogy and the fandom writ large — they create calendars for real-time reading, provide fun download items, write unofficial guides to places in the All Souls universe (Oxford! London! New Haven!), and connect All Souls fans from around the world to content, creators, and merchandise they love. We’re grateful for their support and look forward to seeing them at the con.

How did you discover the Tenth Knot?

Have a nomination for our countdown list? E-mail us at chamomileandclovecast@gmail.com, send us a message via Twitter @chamomilenclove, or send us a Facebook message!

There are still online passes available for All Souls Con 2018. Buy a pass and you’ll see us present on Friday, August 10 with the lovely Jennifer Covel!

We can’t wait to see you,

Cait and Jen

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Countdown to All Souls Con – Our Favorite Things about the All Souls Trilogy – Day Twenty-Six – The Romance

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Okay, okay, okay. Jen and I fancy ourselves intellectuals with intelligent things to say about prose and structure and conflict and character. We are also humans with beating hearts.

All of this goes to say that, on Day Twenty-Six (!!), we’d like to celebrate the wonderful, toe-tingling, butterfly-belly-inducing romance of the All Souls Trilogy. We are HERE for dinner in Matthew’s rooms and tiny notes left in books and the way Marcus looks at Phoebe’s legs and, well, the tug and rasp of Diana and Matthew’s wedding night (HEYYYYOOO). We can enjoy talking about Big Ideas and still think that a great romance does important things for the soul. Whenever Cait needs a good case of the shivers, all she has to do is read the dinner scenes from ADOW. Sigh. Swoon. Smile.

What’s your favorite romantic moment in the All Souls universe? Which moment are you most excited to see on-screen? Come gush about it on our Facebook page, the Chamomile & Clove Clovers.

Have a nomination for our countdown list? E-mail us at chamomileandclovecast@gmail.com, send us a message via Twitter @chamomilenclove, or send us a Facebook message!

There are still online passes available for All Souls Con 2018. Buy a pass and you’ll see us present on Friday, August 10 with the lovely Jennifer Covel!

We can’t wait to see you,

Cait and Jen

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Countdown to All Souls Con – Our Favorite Things about the All Souls Trilogy – Day Twenty-Five – The World-Building

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Vadim Sherbakov

We really can’t say enough about the beauty of the world-building in the All Souls Trilogy. For Day Twenty-Five, it’s worth acknowledging how much work goes into creating a dynamic, colorful, coherent world for your characters to inhabit. We love the All Souls Trilogy for so many reasons — but one of them is definitely that it has such an incredibly strong and solid sense of place. The opening of a Discovery of Witches places you firmly, deeply, and beautifully in the midst of a melancholy, mysterious autumn in Oxford. Shadow of Night takes you deep into the magical world of 16th century England, full of witches, wearhs, and firedrakes. Book of Life conjures steamy summers in upstate New York, the sophisticated townhouses of London, and the sultry shadows of New Orleans. The genius of the All Souls Trilogy is the layering of the magical onto the practical — the definition of good genre fantasy.

Where would you fit in the All Souls Trilogy? Which place or community speaks to you the most?

We can’t wait to hear about it on our Facebook page, the Chamomile & Clove Clovers.

Have a nomination for our countdown list? E-mail us at chamomileandclovecast@gmail.com, send us a message via Twitter @chamomilenclove, or send us a Facebook message!

There are still online passes available for All Souls Con 2018. Buy a pass and you’ll see us present on Friday, August 10 with the lovely Jennifer Covel!

We can’t wait to see you,

Cait and Jen

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Countdown to All Souls Con – Our Favorite Things about the All Souls Trilogy – Day Twenty-Four – The Historical Detail

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Naomi Suzuki

On Day Twenty-Four, we raise our glasses to Deb Harkness’s incredible sense of historical detail. As Deb often says, she doesn’t make anything up if she can help it; her work shows an unbelievable dedication to accuracy and completeness. Whether we’re talking about appropriate dress in Elizabeth’s England or how to travel to 16th century Prague, we know that we’re in excellent, careful hands. We adore the love with which Deb talks about her favorite eras and objects — even if that means that we give her a bit of a hard time re: her fascination with the decorative arts (see: Episode 7 – Izzy-boo). She can tell us about chairs anytime.

What is your favorite aspect of the All Souls Trilogy as historical fiction?

Come and tell us about it on our Facebook page, the Chamomile & Clove Clovers.

Have a nomination for our countdown list? E-mail us at chamomileandclovecast@gmail.com, send us a message via Twitter @chamomilenclove, or send us a Facebook message!

There are still online passes available for All Souls Con 2018. Buy a pass and you’ll see us present on Friday, August 10 with the lovely Jennifer Covel!

We can’t wait to see you,

Cait and Jen