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Continue reading →: Enter Here for MadnessNot all enchantments are fairy glitter and unicorns. In some fantasy worlds, it is always half past dark and Halloween time. Today is Samhain. Let the screams begin. Every October, the Autumn People come to town in a field near Lita’s castle. First we hear screaming train whistles in the…
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Continue reading →: Review: Doctor SleepDoctor Sleep by Stephen King is a supernatural thriller about a recovering alcoholic, Dan Torrance, and his fight to save a young girl named Abra Stone from a group of RV-hauling vampires that eat the paranormal powers of children. Dan began his fight with malevolent spirits at the age of…
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Continue reading →: Dramatis Personæ: SumerThe Dramatis Personæ is the roster of conjurers and sentient magical creatures staying in the many rooms, grottos, and byways of Lita’s castle. Here is the guest book for the Enchanters of Sye Tower. Sumer [ˈsu mər] proper noun, c.3300 BC; Sumerian < Akkadian; also Sumernor’mylnburne Profession: Ghost Race: Human,…
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Continue reading →: Review: The Blue AmaryllisThe Blue Amaryllis by Sonia De Leon is a contemporary romance about Leia, a young woman who flees into the Amazon rainforest to heal her grief. Chicago native Leia is heartbroken from the recent death of her mother. Her college professor invites Leia to visit the Amazon Matis tribe. Each backcountry…
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Continue reading →: Necronomicon Enchanter: Alternate EssenceWithin the pages of the Necronomicon Enchanter book in Lita’s library, the curious may learn the Enchanters’ magical matters. Beware, for the knowledge might drive the reader mad with bitter desire and luscious regret. Previously: Magical Chaos Theory and Old Forest Enchanters’ Magical Discipline Essence Kiss Five Schools Uslar Rings…
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Continue reading →: Necronomicon Enchanter: Sye’s Magic TodayWithin the pages of the Necronomicon Enchanter book in Lita’s library, the curious may learn the Enchanters’ magical matters. Beware, for the knowledge might drive the reader mad with bitter desire and luscious regret. Previously: Magical Chaos Theory and Old Forest Enchanters’ Magical Discipline Essence Kiss Five Schools Uslar Rings…
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Continue reading →: Review: The Guardian of Secrets: And Her Deathly PactThe Guardian of Secrets: And Her Deathly Pact by Jana Petken is a family saga detailing the lives of María Martinéz de Amo’s kin. Told through a series of narratives from her family’s journals, María’s story spans two generations. As all properly told stories should go, the tale starts at…
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Continue reading →: Bestiarum Vocabulum: Carnivorous EelThe Bestiarum Vocabulum is the wizard’s encyclopedia of faerie beasties and mundane crossovers living in the lake and forest near Lita’s castle. carnivorous eel [kahr ‘niv er uh s ēl] noun, c. 1650; < L carnivorus, c. 1000; ME ele, OE ēl, ǣl; also ribbon fish. Denizen of the Clockpunk…
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Continue reading →: Review: The Dark DaysThe Dark Days: End of the World – Episode 1 by Ginger Gelsheimer and Taylor Anderson is a YA thriller about teen Claudia Sheeplord and the end of the world via asteroid. Claudia has been skeptical about the blather over the past month about the killer asteroid that will slam…
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Continue reading →: Ephraim’s Elevator PitchAll sorts of odd things happen at Lita’s castle. Even a trip on a mundane lift turns magical when a sorceress goes along for the ride. The fun of fantasy worlds is that anyone can turn the mundane into the fantastic. Consider the magic of elevators. You enter the box…
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Enchanters of Sye Books
A retired Enchanter battles a powerful magician to keep a dangerous spell book from falling into the wrong hands.
A magical oddities dealer hides her kidnapped husband’s dangerous spell book.
Clockpunk Wizard Books
A dog flees his cruel master, befriends a wizard, and discovers his shapeshifting magic.
A wizard seeks a magical thingummy to free his kidnapped familiar.
A wizard faces a dangerous journey to Sir Death’s castle to win a powerful spell book for a love-starved dragon.
A wizard and Lady Luck’s young daughter discover the cause of a mysterious unicorn illness.
An elf prince’s son teams up with a disgraced wizardling to clear their names with the Magic Guild.
Fantasy Worlds
Evil Circus is a dark carnival filled madness, magic, and grinning clowns.
Steampunk London is a Victorian-styled world powered by steam engines.
Floating Lands are an eerie place of unexpected lighter-than-air denizens and islands in the sky.
Film Noir is a dreary, crime fiction world filled with down-and-out heroes, cynicism and vice.
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