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Continue reading →: Guild Matters Sye: Bird-of-ParadiseThe Guild Matters Sye book whispers the arcane secrets of the Magic Workers and Merchant guilds. The Bird-of-Paradise Flower resembles a dragonette in flight. Wild blooms are blue, orange, and white. The plants grow in the warm and sunny coastal regions of Sye. Maji’kers (Magic Guild mages) who keep dragonettes…
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Continue reading →: Bestiarum Vocabulum: NymphThe Bestiarum Vocabulum is the wizard’s encyclopedia of faerie beasties and mundane crossovers living in the lake and forest near Lita’s castle. nymph [nimf] noun, c.1350; ME nimphe < L nympha < Gr nýmphē bride; also water demon, wood demon, or air demon. Denizen of the Clockpunk Wizard world. A class…
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Continue reading →: Review: The Secret of ExcaliburThe Secret of Excalibur by Sahara Foley is a fantasy about a modern-day young man named Arthur Merlin, who struggles with mastering his phenomenal psychic powers. After a head injury that gave him incredible psychic abilities like pyrokinesis, astral projection, telekinesis, and resistance to nuclear explosions, Arthur is finding his…
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Continue reading →: Disregard That Bump in the NightLita takes Gentle Reader on a visit to fantasy’s scary cousins: Paranormal, Horror, Suspense, and Thriller. Authors’ Cave presents its scary side in the March 2015 Horror/Paranormal/Mystery eZine. For these stories, it is always ten past midnight on Halloween. Meet disturbing children, live next door to that nice neighbor that…
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Continue reading →: Try a Spell to Play With Her HairLita takes Gentle Reader to the world of Clockpunk Wizard today, with an excerpt from her story, Old Bony Blue Eyes. Young Wizard Kadmeion, his assistant Sir Bright, and their three wee fairies are travelling on the wizard’s airship through a region called the Water Pearls. These floating globes of seawater…
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Continue reading →: Book of the Dead: Marriage Ring SpellsThe Book of the Dead explains the nature of Church magic in the Enchanters of Sye world. marriage ring [mar ij ring] noun, c.1400; Anglo-Fr marier to marry < ME marriage; c.900; Ger ringen < ONor hringja < OE hringan < ME ringen; also love rings Physical: Metal charm consisting…
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Continue reading →: Review: Alien Nightmares: Screen Memories of UFO Alien AbductionsAlien Nightmares: Screen Memories of UFO Alien Abductions by Sharon Delarose is a nonfiction book about alien abduction that describes dream imagery and memories about visiting extraterrestrials. This nonfiction book recounts the contents of a woman’s lifelong dream journal. It details her experiences with repeated alien kidnappings. The book presents…
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Continue reading →: Dramatis Personæ: FurgoThe 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 an entry in the guest book for the Clockpunk Wizard Wing. Furgo [fər ɡō] proper noun, c.1400; Sanskrit pāti < Greek pōma < Old High…
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Continue reading →: Studies in Phrenology and Obscure LanguagesLita takes Gentle Reader to the Clockpunk Wizard world today, with an excerpt from Ephraim’s Curious Device. Young Wizard Kadmeion, and his half-elf assistant Sir Bright, have received a coded map. They must read the bespelled map, follow the decoded clues to a magical thingummy made by Wizard Ephraim, and…
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Continue reading →: Bestiarum Vocabulum: GoonThe Bestiarum Vocabulum is the wizard’s encyclopedia of faerie beasties and mundane crossovers living in the lake and forest near Lita’s castle. goon [gün] noun, c.1580; < L gonia < Gr goneia and gon(e) meaning “that which is borne”; from gony “simpleton” used by sailors for the albatross and similar…
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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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