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Spurred on by a Dragon
I narrowly escape with my life when an angry dragon nearly roasts me. What possibly could have provoked the dreadful creature?
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Connecting with my muse
I was taking a break, connecting with my muse I called it, when the castle was rocked by an explosion. Elves… don’t let them anywhere near magic.
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Grimmon’s New Book Covers
There’s a bone-aching chill in the air as I stare at the landscape over the battlements of Castle Silverhill. It isn’t a pleasant sight, what with a blood moon coating the surrounding dunes in crimson and burnishing the still surface of the moat gently eroding the castle’s foundations. I don’t like the look of the…
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The Chronicles Map
A cold wind gusts out of the night and whistles along the battlements of Castle Silverhill. It spatters icy raindrops against the leaded windows and sets them rattling in their casements. Tentacles of grey mist ooze from the moat and drift around the keep, probing the ancient stones for cracks and crevices, openings it can…
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Demons, Hollow Worlds and Suns
I’m lying awake in bed, unable to get to sleep. It’s those graveyard hours, the wee hours after midnight when the veil between worlds grows thin. Sharp, blood-encrusted claws of demons are scratching at the window and a long, pale arm, bony fingers tipped with cracked, yellow nails, reaches out from under my bed. Cold…
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Magic – Mundane or Mysterious?
When I’m writing stories in my Hollow series, I try to make some of the magic used in Hollow pretty much run of the mill as far as the locals are concerned. It’s kind of like we are today with electricity. We take it for granted that we can plug in a lamp, or a…
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