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 Cover Artist: Tiger Matthews The Unhewn Stone Available from: MuseItUp Bookstore Amazon Kindle Smashwords Omnilit Barnes & Noble YA Medieval Fantasy .Fighting legends in the Middle Ages is a dangerous game, even for the modern young magician known as the Chosen One The Unhewn Stone is a story of hidden identity, about a modern day Swiss boy who travels back to 1307AD and tries to prevent the Wilhelm Tell legend from happening. He has three goals:
As Üserwäälti, the Chosen One, he is hurtled into a violent era where alchemy, magic and religion collide. Facing his own demons and those of medieval Switzerland, he discovers a wonderful truth, but needs more than his superior knowledge to equip him for survival in the medieval world; a shape-shifting sibyl and an evil knight are determined he will never leave the 14th century alive.  
'The Unhewn Stone' cover (cover artist Tiger Matthews) placed 2nd in the
October Alternative Reads Cover Contest. 
2011 Awards for
The Unhewn Stone |
Book Video of The Unhewn Stone
Book Trailer Video -3rd Place - in the December You Gotta Read Video Contest, 2011. Created by Mark Laharnar
The Wilhelm Tell legend centres around Bürglen, Altdorf, Lake Luzern and Küssnacht, in central Switzerland. This is the setting for my novel. A beautiful area to visit. The legend and this winter wonderland are important aspects of The Unhewn Stone.
Hey, this is magic! Watch Janine Wipfli in Altdorf, Switzerland, singing Dani Häusler’s ‘Wavin' Flag’ |
HAPPINESS GUARANTEED - short story
Cover Designer Tiger Matthews
Her grandfather spoke of a time when sunlight shone on everyone, but he'd been a storyteller, a bad influence.
Bianca, a beautiful Epicurean Supremo from a privileged futuristic society has a flaw which, if discovered and reported to the Rulers, will threaten her life and that of the man she loves. Unable to pinpoint the cause she tries to hide her anxiety until an ingenious birthday present from her husband provides a respite. Now, on her thirty-third birthday, her primitive behaviour and thought patterns return; stronger and more dangerous.
This short story is a mainstream futuristic cameo covering the birthday of Bianca, an Epicurean Supremo. The first version was published as Bianca's Birthday Present in the Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine (ASIM) in 2003. Issue 5
BILLY THE BONSAI BULL - short story
Cover Artist Kaytalin Platt
Bonsai Billy needs a miracle or this sad, lonely, little white bull will die.
Billy is a stubborn, orphaned calf who is losing the battle to survive. Hope revives in an unexpected way, through the milk bottle he detests, and brings him a sense of belonging. However, it takes more than a place in the pecking order for this little white bull to thrive. It takes a miracle.
Billy the Bonsai Bull is a children's short
chapter book about an orphan calf's struggle to survive through grief,
rejection and bullying.
In frustration, the farmer's wife
declares, "The trouble is, he knows he's a
cow."
Available - From MuseItUp Publishing
Amazon Kindle
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Omnilit
A SUMMER SQUALL - Short Story
Cover Designer Marion Sipe
Readers, have you ever wondered what it's like to live inside a writer's head or how stories come to be?
Writers, have you ever suffered from writer's block?
This Action/Adventure shares a bit of both.
4,220 words.
A writer, desperate to meet a deadline, struggles with writers’block. Drawing on the five senses for inspiration, she is swept out of her depth when she tries to rescue a shipwrecked child. She rushes in, ill- equipped for the challenge and unprepared for the ensuing
revelation.
Available from MuseItUp from March 1st 2013.
then
Amazon
Barnes & Noble
Smashwords
Writers, have you ever suffered from writer's block?
This Action/Adventure shares a bit of both.
4,220 words.
A writer, desperate to meet a deadline, struggles with writers’block. Drawing on the five senses for inspiration, she is swept out of her depth when she tries to rescue a shipwrecked child. She rushes in, ill- equipped for the challenge and unprepared for the ensuing
revelation.
Available from MuseItUp from March 1st 2013.
then
Amazon
Barnes & Noble
Smashwords
