About the Fantasy Worlds of Lita Burke

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  • A Job for Archy

    Archy is the newest denizen of Castle Lita in the Northern Realms. He is a bird-shaped sentient clockwork flying toaster with a corkscrew-type ornithopter propeller. Lita leaned over the desk in her workshop, sorting an untidy pile of unpublished Clockpunk Wizard arcana. Archy perched on a metal swivel-arm tray table attached to the side of…

  • Bestiarum Vocabulum: Fabulist

    The Bestiarum Vocabulum is the wizard’s encyclopedia of faerie beasties and mundane crossovers living in the lake and forest near Lita’s castle. fabulist [ˈfæbjʊlɪst] noun, c.1585–95; < MF fabuliste, equivalent to < fābul (a) fable + -iste -ist; also storyteller, writer, or author Denizen of the Clockpunk Wizard world. A human person who invents or recounts fables and stories. Their magic is…

  • Sir Bright’s Startling Clockwork Automata Gift

    Lita’s rush through the rainstorm had soaked her clothes. She stepped aboard the one-person bulbous transport that would carry her to Sir Bright, who waited on the nearby lighter-than-air purple whale airship with a grove of trees growing on its back. She had snagged a fluffy towel from a stack by the door, dried her…

  • The Belfry with Outrageous Clockpunk Wizard Yarns

    In her castle in the Northern Realms, Lita climbed the creaky belfry tower stairs to the Clockpunk Wizard workshop. Stacks of tidy manuscripts filled the shelves above the scarred wooden worktable nestled against the far wall. On the otherwise bare tabletop perched a message scroll wrapped with a silver coiled ribbon that looked like a…

  • Lita’s Literary Skeletons

    After returning to her castle in the Northern Realms and setting the library to rights, Lita stood before the many bookcases that held the words of others. Tap, tap, and tap went her restless foot against the fresh-swept floorboards. She had planted fists on her hips. A puff of breath cleared a tickling strand off…

  • The Key to Reawakening

    Ten winters have slipped away since I last dipped my quill into the well of my fantasy worlds. My dreams became shadows. My mind transformed into a darksome vault, locked tight against the light of inspiration. In my despair, my thoughts wandered through a wasteland of endless heaths, seeing only the ghosts of half-finished chapters…

  • Dreadful Poetry Book Launch Party Ends

    Thank you for stopping by, Gentle Reader, and joining us aboard Wizard Kadmeion’s airship here at the zeppelin yards near Lita’s castle in the northern realms. Previously: We had so much fun today during the Dreadful Poetry book launch party, hobnobbing with the wizards and talking with the naughty woodland fairies that made us blush.…

  • The Dreadful Poetry Cake

    During the Dreadful Poetry book launch party, Sir Bright asks us to join him and view the buffet table. He prepared a special cake for the occasion. We admire the confection, and chat a bit with him. Previously: Welcome to the Dreadful Poetry Book Release Party Searching for Auntie Em in Dreadful Poetry Brighton M’Choakenchilde…

  • Searching for Auntie Em in Dreadful Poetry

    Wizard Kadmeion has just brought his Auntie Em over to say hello to us at the Dreadful Poetry book release party. Previously: Welcome to the Dreadful Poetry Book Release Party Wizard Kadmeion’s aunt, Sorceress Emily (“Em”), is a renowned magical horticulture practitioner. Her specialty is growing root vegetables into human shapes. Magicians seek out her…

  • Welcome to the Dreadful Poetry Book Release Party

    Watch your step on the gangplank as you come aboard Wizard Kadmeion’s airship. Glad You Came Love your beautiful hair and outfit, my dear. Is that big purple and white flower on your dress enchanted? Oh, it giggles, and smells like good luck. Yes then, it’s the perfect thing to wear today to the wizard’s…