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I live in Alaska -- born, raised, traveled, but this is home and a grand adventure like none other. Where else can you live in a modern city with real wilderness less than an hour away? We eat free-range meat, wild salmon, and blueberries we pick ourselves. When we hike to our cabin site we carry guns just in case we encounter the resident grizzly bear. No, we don't shoot him, but we are teaching him that gunfire is LOUD!

Alaskans are readers -- long winters and isolation, don't you know -- and I started writing down the stories that were running in my head when I was 12. I tried to be a journalist once, but reporters in Alaska starve, so now I have a real job and just write fiction. Much more fun, anyway!

The Willow Branch - Book 1 is be part of a series, which is mostly written, but undergoing a major rewrite at the moment. Book 1 is under reconstruction, so the second half of the book may not be entirely consistent with the first half, but "watch this space" is definitely applicable.. I'm still looking for feedback as I am here to improve my craft and my book.

Besides here, I can be reached at aurora-watcher@hotmail.com.

favourite books

I read a lot, so it's easier to list authors than books ...

The Bible
Shakespeare
Willa Cather
Robert Frost
Robert Heinlein
Zena Henderson
Katharine Kerr
Stephen Lawhead
CS Lewis
JRR Tolkein
Kate Eliot
Thomas Paine
Madeleine L'Engle
Barbara Michaels/Elizabeth Perkins
Robert Jordan
Ravi Zacharias
Thomas Sowell
Robert Service
Joe Vogler
Dermot and Terrance Cole
... and many more

Current engrossing read(s) -- Can Man Live without God? by Ravi Zacharias

Next planned (re)read - A Space Triology by CS Lewis

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The Willow Branch - Book 1

Lela Markham

A half-breed healer must mend a fractured kingdom and bring two enemy races together before a greater enemy destroys them both.


Death took Prince Maryn by surprise, leaving Celdrya to tear itself apart. A century later an army amasses against the warring remains of the kingdom as prophesy sends a half-elven healer on a journey to find the nameless True King. Padraig lacks the power to put the True King on the throne, yet compelled by forces greater than himself, Padraig contends with dark mages, Celtic goddesses, human factions and the ancient animosities of two peoples while seeking a myth. With all that distraction, a man might meet the True King and not recognize him.

 

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I wrote 4 days ago

Don, I've read two chapters. You've got an interesting screenplay going here. I'm not really qualified to comment stylistically on screenplays as I've never studied them or written one. If this is meant to be a screenplay, then great. If you're trying for entertaining and instructional fiction, howe... view book

I wrote 8 days ago

Hi, Bradley. I ran across your book a while ago because you updated it just after I updated mine, so I moved it to my WL and now I'm checking it out. Your short pitch is excellent! There is no reason to repeat the same in the long pitch. Just go to Glenn. It makes for a very short long pitch, whi... view book

I wrote 8 days ago

Hi, Mark! You asked for a read-swap, so I'm checking out Chapter 1. The manuscript is well-edited and I like the Spanish phrases. Your descriptions are evocative. I bought into Angel's confusion at finding himself on the beach. His lack of feeling is a harbinger of his future, I'm sure. Rod may be a... view book

I wrote 8 days ago

Hi, Adam. Your short pitch got my attention a while back and I liked your long pitch, and now FINALLY I'm reading your first chapter. There are some tense issues that need to be addressed. You need to stay in the past or the present in the same paragraph. Otherwise, your writing is very good and you... view book

I wrote 8 days ago

Chapter 30 -- well-written, clean writing. When I was 17-18, my hometown had a serial killer operating. He killed five women, one an 11-year-old girl. My brother knew of the families at the time and I became friends with the parents and daughter of another victim later. So I came to this scene in Mi... view book

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