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Category: Gates To Faerie

  • Excerpt from Gifts Of The Mother

    Excerpt from Gifts Of The Mother

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    Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BSLPC8GQ Books2Read: https://books2read.com/b/mqeV66 Chapter Two The tank was an open area separated into cells by bars and not much else. Each had four bunks attached to the ‘walls’ two sets each of above and below. There were already three occupied bunks so I simply climbed into the fourth, the upper bunk on the right,…

  • Excerpt from The Gates To Faerie

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    Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07QBDL8QK Books2Read: https://books2read.com/b/47xV9N Prologue: I was fourteen the first time I saw someone vanish. It was a girl, of course. I remember her as being tall and thin, her skin the rich dark brown of fertile soil, with tightly curled black hair, falling in clumps to her shoulders. Her bathing suit was lighter brown,…

  • Setting: The Gates To Faerie

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    Gates to Faerie is an urban fantasy setting. On one side is us, the Earth we know. On the other is an unknown parallel Earth inhabited by others, beings which are not quite human. In between, are Gates consecrated by various beings which have some aspect of divinity in their nature. Think of them as…

  • The Elves in Gates to Faerie

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    Their ancestors were human once – humans who lost a war and were enslaved by the Elemental Lords, their genetic structure twisted into knots to the point where they have trouble breeding, even with each other. They are largely dependent upon the blessings of The Mother, an Earth goddess who has given them a fertility…

  • My Published Works and the Series Order

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    Set in The Empire of Humanity Rediscovery Series (complete)The Man From EmpireA Guardian From EarthEmpire and EarthWorking The Trenches Preparations For War (complete)Preparing The GroundBuilding The PeopleSetting The BoardMoving The Pieces Politics of Empire (complete)The Invention of MotherhoodThe Price of PowerEnd of ChildhoodMeasure of Adulthood Set in the Connected Realms: (multiple worlds fantasy)The Fountains of…

  • The Gates To Faerie – 5 stars from a major reviewer!

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    Amazon review Goodreads review “A Fast-Paced & Absorbing Sci-Fi Murder Mystery!Overview: Mark Jackson’s wife, Diane, left him seven years ago, but now she’s back, and looking better than ever, claiming a cult that cured her cancer is now trying to kill her. It’s bad enough that Mark is instantly falling for Diane all over again,…

  • Character Interview: Zebulon Kyle from The Gates To Faerie

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    Zebulon Kyle. Most folks call me Ol’ Zeb. 2.Tell us where and when were you born. I was born in South Carolina, on an Indigo plantation near Charleston. I couldn’ tell ya what year but I ‘member people talking about Old Hick’ry Jackson when I was a young-un. In pretty good shape for someone of…

  • Gates of Faerie Intro

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    This is the prelude to The Gates To Faerie, an urban fantasy crossover world I was fourteen the first time I saw someone vanish. It was a girl, of course. I remember her as being tall and thin, her skin the rich dark brown of fertile soil, with tightly curled black hair, falling in clumps…