The holidays are just around the corner and if you’re looking for gift ideas for fantasy book lovers, I have a few suggestions. Here are 10 gifts that anyone, especially readers, will love. 1. Art Bet you thought I was going to say books. We’ll get to that later. Art, especially of forests, and fantasy […]
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If you ever watch 1960 sitcoms you may notice some television characters have theme music that plays when they enter a scene. For example, in The Beverly Hillbillies (a comedy classic) whenever the beautiful Ellie May Clampett enters the room a light, almost angelic melody is played. In other series, somber or dramatic music plays
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Last month, we found Dunstan, a boy studying to become a monk, lost in a spooky forest. Fleeing a bizarre creature, he falls into a stream and is swept away by the current. The drowning boy is shocked when the purple creature he saw before rushes to save him. And now, part 2 of The
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One of the unique creatures found in medieval bestiaries is the loatron. The loatron is believed to have roamed western Europe during the early middle ages, although an ancient Grecian jar with a loatron painted on it has been unearthed in the ruins of the Acropolis. The loatron is a mythical animal described as a
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Yay, it’s Friday! This week I discovered the joy (and hard work) of making character chart memes like the ones on Twitter. I plugged my own book characters from SARGON THE NOT SO GREAT into several templates and gave myself a giggle. It was fun imagining my medieval characters responding to modern situations like getting
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Dunstan pressed his back against the trunk of the tree. What was it? Did it hear him? He waited, heart pounding. A slurping, chewing sound came from the bushes. The young oblate from the monastery peeked around the tree. Did that branch move? He froze. Twigs crunched and snapped as if stomped by a large
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I like witty quotations. When I find one at the beginning of a book, it’s like looking at someone’s front door, it leads me into what I’m reading. A door with peeling paint and a broken screen door tells me about the house I’m entering. While a freshly painted door with a floral wreath prepares
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In my first Enda novel, the main character is a young loatron named Sargon. He is teased and called Sargon the not-so-great. This may refer to King Sargon of Akkad, also known as Sargon the Great, who ruled most of ancient Mesopotamia. Why was this loatron named Sargon and not Cairn after his father? After
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Welcome Readers, I’m so excited and a little nervous as my first book, Sargon the Not So Great, will release next year. Who would have thought long ago when my daughter brought me a picture she drew that it would turn into a story, and eventually a novel? Not me. But here I am years later
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