There once was a boring dull Dragon Whose mouth creatures wished had a gag on. For all of her tales were of polishing scales, And, oh, how long they would drag on!
Here is a leaf you wouldn’t see in the Woods Beyond the Wood. Spring and Fall don’t happen there and really never should. Only Winter and Summer and nothing in between, white to green and green to white is all that’s ever seen.
The lavender witch does like to fly on this broom day or night across the sky. Above Orrun Mountain or the Wide Great Sea, her cackle is spilled with a measure of glee.
Here are Hansel and Gretel gazing at the tasty cottage in the dark forest. Kay Nielsen made this wonderful picture. He was a Danish illustrator of folk and fairy tales in the first half of the 20th century. The Hansel and Gretel witch is an important character in my story, The Carven Flute. She’s waiting […]
In the Woods Beyond the Wood, where Bekka travels in THE WOODLOCK, there are only two seasons, summer and winter. The transition from summer to winter and winter to summer lasts but a few moments. The riot of summer color on flowers, stems, hedges, trees, branches, leaves, roots, fades to winter white. The winter white […]
Here is Georges Perec, the great French experimental writer. Here is Riffle Sike, one of the water wizard brothers from THE WOODLOCK. I couldn’t have found a better model for a water wizard than Georges Perec.
Here comes The Woodlock, Book Four of The Bekka Chronicles. She will be available to be purchased and read about starting next week from Wild Child Publishing at http://www.wildchildpublishing.com
In THE WOODLOCK, Book Four of The Bekka Chronicles, a time-traveling shapeshiftress named Shendra Nenas appears. Why would I name a character Shendra Nenas? To honor that fellow above, a famous writer of fairy tales. I simply took his first and last names, tossed the letters around a bit, and got Shendra Nenas. Hans Andersen […]
This is what you see when you sit and look out from the mouth of Dodden’s cave on the island of Jom. I made this little painting when I was working on the story called DODDEN OF JOM. Although it takes place after the last of The Bekka Chronicles, Bekka does appear and take part […]
The third chronicler is, of course, Bekka of Thorns. The rough sketch of her below is how I imagined she looked at the outset of her first adventure, published by Wild Child Publishing as BEKKA OF THORNS. On the terrific RAKARA cover over there to the right, that’s Bekka several years later as imagined by […]
