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Continue reading →: Care of a Fey-Folk Fairy (Part 2)Here is more about Tinker Bell’s naughtier cousins—the fairies flitting about in the woodlands near Lita’s castle. This post is the second of two (go here to see the previous one) with tips on how to care for fey-folk. Last time, Gentle Reader learned the practical aspects of fairy care. Today’s topics…
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Continue reading →: Care of a Fey-Folk Fairy (Part 1)Meet Tinker Bell’s naughtier cousins—the fairies flitting about in the woodlands near Lita’s castle. Today, Lita talks about the worldly fairies that go with Kadmeion on his wizard-for-hire adventures. These wee magicians fly in, lavish their wizard with effervescent pixie dust, and give him spicy relationship advice. Despite the frivolity,…
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Continue reading →: Bestiarum Vocabulum: DragonThe Bestiarum Vocabulum is the wizard’s encyclopedia of faerie beasties and mundane crossovers living in the lake and forest near Lita’s castle. dragon [drag-uh n] noun, 1175–1225; ME < Old Fr < L dracōn < Gr dracon; also fire lizard. Denizen of the Clockpunk Wizard world. A four-legged winged magician,…
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Continue reading →: Bestiarum Vocabulum: DemonThe Bestiarum Vocabulum is the wizard’s encyclopedia of faerie beasties and mundane crossovers living in the lake and forest near Lita’s castle. demon [dee-muh n] noun, 1350–1400; ME < L daemonium < Gr daimónion; also minor demon and daemon. Denizen of the Clockpunk Wizard world. An imp-sized spirit that lives…
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Continue reading →: Through the Eyes of Spell CastersLita talks about time today, by way of the Enchanters of Sye world. Sye is a diverse and multi-faceted magical world. It entwines storylines about magicians, Enchanters, and Magic Guild workers. The reader plunges into a deep magical well and loses track of time. What of time flow in a story? How…
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Continue reading →: Halfway: Glitter PoniesWelcome to Lita’s castle here in the Northern Realms. Step into her magical laboratory and see what’s on the slab. Lita has reached the midpoint of the draft for the next story, Glitter Ponies. In this Clockpunk Wizard tale, Lady Luck’s young daughter helps Wizard Kadmeion discover the cause of a…
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Continue reading →: SciomancersGentle Reader travels to the Enchanters of Sye world today. We stop by the Old Burial Yard in the northeast side of Isor Town and visit one of the Church’s offices–the magical custodians of Sye’s ghosts. The Church’s specialty magicians for crypt and ghost spells are Sciomancers. They call ghosts at will,…
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Continue reading →: Key to Personal EnchantmentsGentle Reader visits the Enchanters of Sye today. Lita takes you to the sorceresses’ library at the Magic Guild. See all these ancestry books? Peek inside this one. Here are the names of magicians, long dead. Why so many names for just one person? Lita explains. Magical power lurks in…
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Continue reading →: Review: The Girl Who Sang with WhalesThe Girl Who Sang with Whales, IsleSong Book 1 by Marc Secchia, is an epic YA fantasy about a young woman named Zhisu and her coming of age story in a sea-faring world. Zhisu lives with her mother on the outermost tiny island of their atoll group. On the far…
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Continue reading →: Ghosts AbideLita takes Gentle Reader on a cemetery tour in the Enchanters of Sye world today. Ghosts walk in Sye, and specialty magicians called Sciomancers weave spells to lure, house, and speak with the specters. Although the Church’s head magician, His Divine, banned the practice, a talented Sciomancer can call a spirit from the Fields…
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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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