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Crossing The Realms

Crossing the Realms is a sister project exploring fantasy through leadership theory and character analysis. Podcast. Newsletter. Database. We're not sure what we're building — but we're onto something.

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GRV401: Fantasy in a Lab Coat — A Gut Reaction to Frankenstein

Reading ahead into Gothic, Romantic & Victorian.

FLO101: Eight Fantasy Clusters and What's Missing (Part 4)

Wrapping up the Cambridge Companion with Part III: eight fantasy sub-genres, the theory behind each, and connections to books on my shelf.

Rhysand Has Been Eating Last Centuries (Simon Sinek 🤝 Sarah J. Maas)

The Night Court Runs on Servant Leadership

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FLO101: Eight Lenses for Reading Fantasy (Part 3) Reading The Cambridge Companion to Fantasy Literature

Heads up: this post has a lot of tables.

Fear & Leadership in Fourth Wing: Violet Sorrengail Feels It Anyway

Crossing the Realms pairs Susan Jeffers' Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway with the most unlikely dragon rider in fantasy — Violet Sorrengail from Rebecca Yarros' Empyrean series.

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🎙️ Get Obsessed Before You Run Out of Somedays

259 books cataloged. A curriculum from Beowulf to now. We're back.

Get Obsessed Before You Run Out of Somedays

⚠️ SPOILERS: Light for Between These Broken Hearts and The Flame and the Warren

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Fantasy vs. Leadership Books: Why Fiction Is the Better Teacher (Or is it?)

Crossing the Realms explores why fantasy stories like Fourth Wing, The Witcher, and A Court of Thorns and Roses teach leadership skills better than bestselling business books.

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FLO101: How Fantasy Became a Genre (Part 1) Reading The Cambridge Companion to Fantasy Literature

Gut Reaction

FLO101: On Fairy-Stories by J.R.R. Tolkien

Fantasy Literature Orientation 101 (FLO101): On Fairy-Stories by J.R.R. Tolkien - 1938