The Magik Scarf cover reveal!

The Magik Scarf cover reveal!

The Magik Scarf cover reveal!

coming September 22, 2023 (Hobbit Day-if you know you know!) Book Blurb: Sixteen-year-old Alyssa Chance Oh had been called many things. Magician, sorcerer’s apprentice, even witch. But nothing had prepared her for being called a failure. After botching her first solo spell, where she only partially reanimates her grandfather into a voice in a toy jack-in-the-box, Alyssa has to set out to find and return a gryphon king’s magik scarf or else he will do something unspeakable to her grandmother. But that sneaky scarf is not where the king said it was, and now the only way to get to

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Reading the Professor’s letters

Reading the Professor’s letters

As some of you may already know, I have been reading (with great joy) from The Letters of J. R. R. Tolkien. His letters to family and friends and agents and publishers has been such a grand look-inside to a master’s writing life. Highly, recommend it. Also, as I read, I find that he penned many short stories and novelettes that filled the publishers’ book lists while he wrote the next book in his Lord of the Ring series. One such book is this one. Written for children ages 2-6. If you are a collector, as I am, you might

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