SHAKESPEARE AT POOH CORNER
A tale of myth and whimsy interwoven with authentic history in which the changeling disappearance of Edward de Vere known to posterity by his pseudonym William Shakespeare, and the changeling birth of Lila Swann, an abandoned child hiding inside a beloved children’s book, meet 400 years apart in a Bermuda triangle of enchanted forests: Christopher Robin’s Hundred-Acre-Wood, the fanciful realm of Shakespeare’s ‘Midsummer Night’s Dream’, and ‘Otherwhere’, Lila’s fanciful sanctuary populated by the characters from ‘House at Pooh Corner’.
‘VIOLET SEABORN’S UNFINISHED SOUL’
When Violet Seaborn, a mystical infant, washes ashore from a shipwreck in 1901 to reunite with Sam Watts, her beloved from a past life, she enters the numinous world of an isolated village in the Scottish Highlands ruled by the covert descendants of a thriving goddess culture concealed in the shadow of a strict domineering catholic convent. Violet is initiated into the wisewomen’s clan dedicated to serving Epona, their local Water Horse, the beloved namesake of the Celtic goddess of horses, ponies, and donkeys.
And when Violet and Sam are estranged by their premature deaths in the Spanish flu epidemic of 1918, Sam reincarnates in 1953. But the childhood sweethearts are estranged when Violet’s soul fragments while spontaneously transmigrating to the Covid-19 pandemic of 2018 where she is obligated to sacrifice her advanced mystical powers to Daisy Sinclair, an elderly victim of the virus lying dispirited and comatose on life-support.
After discovering their shared past life’s traumatic connection, Violet, trapped in Daisy’s newly revitalized body, explores the brutal memories of the desecrated shrines of her ancestor’s prehistoric culture from Viking raids and the ongoing spiritual and physical violence of fear-based paternal religion. Violet renews her vow to serve Portmatilloch’s ailing nature spirit, but to restore the Water Horse’s lifeforce, extricate herself from Daisy’s growing possessive nature, and be reunited with Sam, Violet must accept a sacred mission to salvage a threatened prehistoric culture, reinstate the souls of several lost ancestors including her own and reclaim her mismatched body and soul by completing series of punishing trials to recover the waning consciousness of the earth that will enable Epona to survive the overwhelming pressures of immortality.
AN OLD SOUL & AN OLD WOMAN JOIN FORCES TO RESTORE THE IMMORTAL SOUL OF SCOTLAND.
A PICTURE ISN’T ‘WORTH A THOUSAND WORDS’… IT HIDES A THOUSAND SECRETS
In order to reclaim her true identity, the embittered spirit of the ‘Mona Lisa’, trapped in her portrait for 500 years, must join forces with an autistic boy and his troubled mother.
THE ‘MONA LISA’ MAY BE PRICELESS…
NOW SHE MUST BECOME A WOMAN WORTH SAVING
‘ADORATION- LOVING BOTTICELLI’ by V KNOX
Adoration – loving Botticelli is a love story between Sandro Botticelli and a retired woman art history professor who is drawn into his 1475 painting The Adoration of the Magi. The painting in the Ufizzi gallery of Florence has the double-supernatural effect of a time portal and a fountain of youth. * inspired by Colleen McCullough’s ‘The Thorn Birds’ – a dramatic love story of the challenges and the perils of May December romances.
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‘WOO WOO – the posthumous love story of Miss Emily Carr’
DEATH MAKES THE HEART GROW FONDER
The Artist Emily Carr, eccentric icon, and iconic spinster, comes to her senses sixty-seven years after her death and calls down the energy of her animal totem, Woo the monkey, to rekindle the love of a rejected suitor – a fanciful tale inspired by Emily Carr’s memoirs.
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THE BEDE TRILOGY
BEDE HALL IS ALIVE, BUT ALL IS NOT WELL
– a MIDDLE-GRADE TIME-SLIP ADVENTURE
Venture into Bede, and welcome. But remember… once through the portal, you may have to stay!
A disgruntled stately home convinces a pair of telepathic twins to save it from being sold to unscrupulous developers in order to fulfill an ancient prophecy, rescue its resident ghost, and save the planet.
Twelve-year-old twins, Kit (a keen boy-scientist) and Bash (a girl with a natural ‘green thumb’ and a flair for elaborate words) are excited to be moving from a noisy city to Bede Hall, their eccentric grandmother’s crumbling stately home, set in the sleepy English countryside.
With all that’s gone horribly wrong for a year, moving to a grand old mansion promises an adventure of endless exploration and freedom. Bash can create the garden of her dreams and Kit has an abandoned space to set up his own laboratory.
Instead, they stumble upon a portal to the future with three disturbing secrets, begin to untangle the supernatural history of Bede – a village as bizarre as their grandmother’s magic snow globe, and meet some unexpected life-forms who appear to be as haunted as the ghost of Bede Hall – a hapless young girl trapped in the attic’s ‘wintry room’.
In order to save the planet, the twins must navigate a maze of time portals to unravel an age-old mystery. The answers lie in Ancient Egypt, but only time will surrender its hidden knowledge, and according to their grandmother’s old hourglass, time is running out.
the BEDE SERIES
A story of YOUNG LOVE… OLD SOULS
A girl with extrasensory abilities falls in love with a boy in a 500-year-old painting and strives to find their true place in the world with the family she senses in dreams.
AI = AUTISTIC INTELLIGENCE… ‘STATE OF THE ART’ TIME TRAVEL JUST BECAME TRANSCENDENTAL
book one of two
the BEDE SERIES
A story of YOUNG LOVE… OLD SOULS
A girl with extrasensory abilities falls in love with a boy in a 500-year-old painting and strives to find their true place in the world with the family she senses in dreams.
AI = AUTISTIC INTELLIGENCE… ‘STATE OF THE ART’ TIME TRAVEL JUST BECAME TRANSCENDENTAL
*book two of two
A woman savant must experience her next life as a time-traveler to recover the missing paintings of Leonardo da Vinci and reunite with her lost love
Delphi Sharpe’s flashbacks of fifteenth-century Florence are as real as the harsh institutions where she grew up, diagnosed as an autistic savant. After being liberated by a ruthless art collector, due to her psychic ability to speak with paintings, she lives in two worlds: an alternate reality where renaissance paintings communicate with her through mental telepathy, and the real world where she works authenticating and restoring paintings.
When Delphi meets her next incarnation, time-traveler Cherry White, after an untimely near-death experience, she’s been ‘nearly’ dead for fifty-two years. Now, Delphi exists between worlds, forced to watch the life she should have had unfold, including her romance with a young man she met in a five-hundred year-old painting.
Reincarnated, reinvented, and unfinished, two ‘art-whisperers’ must struggle against their conflicting goals to mine the distant past for sentient paintings willing to divulge their secrets to discover their shared lost identity and answer the question, will it take two lives to make one woman?
Fate separates a pair of child passengers on Titanic, not only from reaching their destination, but their destiny. Reincarnation and finding a pair of lost shoes may be their only chance to stay together. – LITERARY FICTION / MAGICAL REALISM / paranormal romance. For more information visit the blog
‘I WAS THERE’ – the art of time travel – an epic poem of an imagination in transit.
‘TIME FALLS LIKE SNOW’ – a Y/A time-slip adventure *book two of ‘The Bede Series’. Bede Hall, a sentient building with a timely past, harbors further disturbing phenomenon. The secrets of Bede Hall continue with the sixteen-year-old twins working in league with a team of ghosts and ‘twice-borns’ who have been monitoring the time portal’s secrets for hundreds of years. It falls to Bede Hall’s time corridors, the Great Sphinx of Egypt, the rules of twindom, the magic power of nine, and a team of teenagers with several otherworldly allies to save earth from an alien curse. The ‘Twinters’ have six years to try in a landscape where history is positively ancestral.
‘TOMORROW AGAIN’, book 3 of ‘The Bede Series’,is a magical realism time-slip adventure written in literary prose for ‘middle-grade and Y/A fans’ of all ages.
When their telepathic link is severed, teenagers Kit and his twin sister Bash, newly separated by 3,000 miles and 3,000 years,must overcome their personal differences between metaphysics and science to fight an ancient curse. Book 3 of ‘The Bede Trilogy’,is a magical realism time-slip adventure written in literary prose for ‘middle-grade and Y/A fans’ of all ages.
After being reunited with her family, Snow, the child ghost of Bede Hall, retreats into her subconscious to escape the terrifying possibility of haunting Bede Hall forever. In order to save herself, Snow must battle her way through memory loss, dream her way through time to reclaim her lost memories, make peace with a past life, and discover if reincarnation is a viable alternative to a fate worse than death.
Maybe nothing comes from out of the blue… maybe everything does!
the ‘STAND-ALONE-PREQUEL-SEQUEL-SUMMARY’ to the BEDE SERIES
A star-crossed woman
haunted by a lucid dream
is aided by the ghost of a dog
whose unwavering loyalty
to her master, Leonardo da Vinci,
transcends death
Veronica Knox 
Amazing.
Thanks Rauni. If an author has to hear only one word about their craft, yours is a great one.
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