Rewritten: The War of The Kingdoms

How much can change in an instant?

The last day of filming the low budget show “The War of the Kingdoms” is finally here, and the actors are all ready for a long-awaited break from filming. What they aren’t ready for is the veil between fiction and reality shattering as a sorceress transports them to the very world their show portrays, North Mildor. They quickly learn the world is just like the show—and the war between kingdoms is very much real.

A war they find themselves right in the middle of.

With the portal to their world closed, and no way to get back, all they can do is hope to survive.

As battles rage around them, they’re forced to stop acting and start living. With the help of some powerful allies, they unearth the secrets of Noth Mildor’s magic and become who the sorceress always knew them to be. Only time will tell if it will be enough to protect themselves from the looming darkness that approaches.

Vampire Fly

It begins with an ordinary horsefly biting Samantha Moon in her garden—except Sam isn’t exactly ordinary. She’s an energy vampire, and her cold, supernatural blood does something very strange to the hungry insect.

Soon the fly feels faster, stronger, smarter, with a gnawing new hunger for blood. As her instincts warp and evolve, she fights for survival against a spider’s web, her own primal needs, and the creeping awareness of what she is becoming.

Vampire Fly is a weird, darkly atmospheric, and surprisingly moving tale that turns the natural world on its head—told from the point of view of a bloodsucking insect that may have just become the world’s tiniest vampire.

Death Spiral

A different sort of Scottish diaspora…

Sam’s used to being an exile. First with the bad luck to fall into a fantasy world as a kid and second with the worse luck to get punted back to Glasgow with no hope of return.

A decade later, haunted by the memory of magic and his lost love worlds away, his coping mechanism has always been to smash things for a living, drink with his best mate, rinse, and repeat. But when a whisper of familiar magic weaves into his Earth life unexpectedly and leads him to a rift to a strange world, Sam seizes his one chance to make it home: dive into the unknown and claw his way through every monster the outer realms put between him and his long-lost soulmate.

Welcome to the universe’s arena, where no one cares if you live or die…

Sam has the muscle memory to work magic, but the outer realms have hardly more spirit than Earth, and progress is hard won. Especially with a baffling creature companion who chooses to treat Sam like a pet.

For the first time in his adult life, Sam has a shot to win back everything he once lost to fate. But for him to stand a chance, he’ll have to brave the spirit-scarce realms at the edge of all known worlds: the Death Spiral.
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Or So It Seems

Book One of The Seekers For Truth Trilogy. Presenting the Universe as you have never seen it before! Meet Paul Peterson, a man whose life is a spiritual odyssey, even at its lowest ebb. As we first meet Mr. Peterson, he is in the midst of a personal crisis of humorous dimensions, being dragged reluctantly towards an oversized couch by a wine-emboldened, faded beauty named Allison Pratt. As a former member of The Seekers For Truth, a school of spiritual self development, Peterson holds a mystical view of the universe through which he examines the chain of events that have brought him to this absurdly humorous personal crisis. A crisis no doubt brought about by Peterson’s estrangement from the Seekers For Truth and his distance from their panoply of spiritual practices, many with comic names clearly meant to offer their students a mnemonic lifeline in moments of spiritual need. The novel follows Peterson’s Do-It-Yourself Workshop, a spiritual, self-examination that takes him back and forth in time to help search out the lessons he is meant to learn from this unusual and entertaining odyssey. Along the way, he is joined by a Hindu Holy Man known as The Bapucharya. Greatly amused by Peterson’s life challenges, the irrepressible Bapucharya plays both Greek Chorus and Sancho Panza to Mr. Peterson’s comically tragic hero. It is Peterson’s search for answers to the mysteries of his life that this fantastic tale speeds us through, with a conclusion as startling as it is supremely fitting. You have never read a novel like this. And that is a promise!

The Bird and the Sword

Swallow, daughter, pull them in, those words that sit upon your lips. Lock them deep inside your soul, hide them ‘til they’ve time to grow. Close your mouth upon the power, curse not, cure not, ‘til the hour. You won’t speak and you won’t tell, you won’t call on heaven or hell. You will learn and you will thrive. Silence, daughter. Stay alive. The day my mother was killed, she told my father I wouldn’t speak again, and she told him if I died, he would die too. Then she predicted the king would sell his soul and lose his son to the sky. My father has a claim to the throne, and he is waiting in the shadows for all of my mother’s words to come to pass. He wants desperately to be king, and I just want to be free. But freedom will require escape, and I’m a prisoner of my mother’s curse and my father’s greed. I can’t speak or make a sound, and I can’t wield a sword or beguile a king. In a land purged of enchantment, love might be the only magic left, and who could ever love . . . a bird?