Podcastle, Episode 944 for Tuesday the 19th of May, 2026.

Mail Order Magic by Stephanie Burgess.

Read by Tina Connolly and produced by Wilson Fowley.

Rated G.

Good morning, good day, good afternoon and good evening and welcome to Podcastle, the Flying

Castle of Fantasy Fiction.

I'm your host, Matt Dovey, and it is my pleasure to present a Dream Team powerhouse of an episode.

The story is Mail Order Magic, written by the excellent Stephanie Burgess, and it's narrated

for us and you by the incomparable Tina Connolly.

This story was first published in the Sunday morning transport March

2025. Stephanie Burgess grew up in Michigan where this story is set but now

lives in Wales surrounded by mountains, castles and coffee shops. She writes

sparkling fantasy rom-coms including her USA Today best-selling Queens of Villany trilogy,

and also fun MG fantasy novels, including The Dragon with a Chocolate's Heart.

She's had over 40 short stories published in various magazines and anthologies,

and many of them are included in her collection, Touchstones.

You can find excerpts from all of her novels and novellas and links to many of her short

stories at her website, Stephanie Burgess.com. Tina Connolly is the author of the Iron Skin and

Seriously Wicked series, the collection on the eyeball floor and the official Choose Your Own Adventure,

Glitterpony Farm.

She has been a finalist for the Hugo, Nebula and World Fantasy Awards.

She co-hosts EscapePod, narrates for beneath ceaseless skies and all the Escape Artis podcasts and intermittently runs the Flash Fiction podcast Toasted Cake.

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