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Monthly Archives: August 2016
Bookshelf: The Wrong Side of Magic
Not many magical adventures begin with a sick cat. Hudson’s sister Bonnie adopts a stray kitten that turns out to be poorly. Hudson dutifully offers ten dollars to help pay for a trip to the vet. When that turns out … Continue reading
Witchy Eye: The First Map
I just dug this out of a box today. As epic fantasy novels are wont to do, WITCHY EYE started with a map. My son was being homeschooled at the time and his curriculum included this folding, laminated … Continue reading
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Tagged Baen, Dwarfs, Elves, Epic Fantasy, Home Schooling, Toni Weisskopf, Trolls, Witchy Eye
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A Soldier’s Memories
“I have been deceived,” Bill whispered. “I thought the Dutch were great churchgoers.” “Oh, yes?” “Yes. I held the wall in Mobile with a crusty old Dutch sergeant named Harmonszoon. He named his gun Old Mortality, and he sat up … Continue reading
Bookshelf: The Never Prayer
Lena’s parents are dead, gunned down in the act of trying to help a stranded motorist. She lives for her younger brother Jozey, and most of the time things go all right. At school, Lena manages to walk the line … Continue reading
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Tagged Aaron Michael Ritchey, Angels, Demons, The Never Prayer, YA
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Bookshelf: Dispocalypse
Five hundred years after a nuclear war, the American northeast is an area called the Forbidding. Ruled by the evil Lord Tan, the Forbidding regularly sends stalkers (eyeless, toxin-spitting former humans), werebits (perhaps a Monty Python nod — like rabbits, … Continue reading
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Tagged Dispocalypse, Dystopian, Michael A. Rothman, Shannara, Terry Brooks, YA
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Bookshelf: Taliesin
Country music songwriters know this important fact about writing: you lead your readers to access the universal by bringing to vivid life the particular. The details matter, the small stories resonate, even — maybe especially — in this era of … Continue reading
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Tagged Country Music, Joseph Smith, Michael R. Collings, Mormonism, Sonnets, Taliesin
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On the Place d’Armes
The statue around which all this sweating, exerting, exhorting humanity swarmed was colossal. Rising from a square marble platform, it depicted two mustachioed men on horseback, each armed with a long pistol. One horse reared as its rider sighted and … Continue reading
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Tagged Andrew Jackson, Jean and Pierre Lafitte, New Orleans, Witchy Eye
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