That book right there turned me into a voracious reader. A boy drops his line into a little pool and imagines all of the fantastic fish he might catch. That’s it, simple and wonderful. I am still a fan. Around the same time I was captivated by THE 500 HATS OF BARTHOLOMEW CUBBINS, a Dr. […]
Gnomes, ogres, trolls, mermaids and giants roam these books. Andrew Lang collected the tales and brought them out over the years in his color specific Fairy Books. The one in the middle up there, The Yellow Fairy Book, is a new version of the one I read and reread as a child. The copy I […]
Here is Mr. C. L. Dodgson, better known as Lewis Carroll. In my story ZOM FALBU, I pay homage with anagrams to Mr. Dodgson and Mr. Baum, dreamer of Oz. Zom Falbu, the time-traveling shapeshiftress, is an anagram of L. F. Baum Oz. Scong Lodd, time-traveling shapeshifter, is an anagram of C. L. Dodgson. There […]
The creator of Oz, L. Frank Baum, greatly influenced me in my approach to writing The Bekka Chronicles. As a child I read all of them, dreaming myself into Oz. Mr. Baum’s tales share characters from one story to the next, and yet each book is complete in itself with a beginning, middle and end. […]
There was an odd man with a beard who had twenty siblings – how weird It’s no wonder that he spouted nonsense for free That artistic odd man with a beard Homage is paid to Edward Lear in RAKARA, Book Three of The Bekka Chronicles. There is an anagram of his name to be found […]
