Category Archives: mythology

CURIOUSER & CURIOUSER

The ‘St. Albans’ portrait of Edward de Vere by Marcus Gheeraedts Enter a new ‘Corner’ where Eeyore is king, and Pooh and Shakespeare navigate a forest labyrinth haunted by old ghosts faced with new challenges – a fanciful read with … Continue reading

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THREE TIMES A STORY

In 1550a boy wonder is born in the English countrysideof Hedingham in Essex who changed the worldbut lost his soul. In 1928after a great war in the Shadowlands, a manliving in the Ashdown Forest of East Sussex, England, created the Hundred-acre Wood. In … Continue reading

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THE LAND BEFORE SNOW

IF TIME STANDS STILL ANYWHERE, IT’S AT BEDE. IF GHOSTS HAUNT ANYWHERE, IT’S IN BEDE HALL. But ghosts are nothing compared to the challenges haunting a curmudgeonly building with a desire for eternal life. BEDE HALL WAS ALIVE BUT EVEN … Continue reading

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THE POWER OF SNOW

There are three generations of Stratford-Smyths ‘living’ in Bede Hall. THE FOURTH IS THE GHOST OF A NINE-YEAR-OLD GIRL, WHICH MAKES THEM FOUR GENERATIONS SPANNING FOUR DIMENSIONS. Bede Hall is old. The word ageless barely covers it, and the word … Continue reading

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A FORECAST OF SNOW

Prologue for book one of the Bede Series THE DISTANCE FROM BEDE TO LONDON IS 300 MILES NORTH AS THE CROW FLIES AND 30,000 YEARS AS TIME FLIES. Sarah Goodman’s kitchen in the village of Bede radiated with spectral light … Continue reading

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LISTENING TO SNOW

‘Snow Behind the Door’– the memoir of a child ghost with amnesia (book four of my ‘Bede Series’) has progressed to the first short list for the 2023 GERTRUDE WARNER AWARD for middle-grade fiction. My Bede series was meant to … Continue reading

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VIOLET SEABORN’S UNFINISHED SOUL

ANCESTRAL WATERS RUN DEEP Violet Seaborn’s Unfinished Soul is a mythical fantasy about an extraordinary young girl who perishes in the Spanish flu epidemic of 1918 who must travel back to the prehistoric goddess culture of her ancestors to restore … Continue reading

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READ BEDE! … IF…

IF the title ‘PERPETUAL CHILD’ resonates to a natural affinity for magical realism within you. It helps to be middle aged to read the Bede Series in the true spirit it was written… namely in the guise of a middle-grade … Continue reading

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HAPPY IN THE MIDDLE

Being middle-aged or much older means we’re honorary lifetime members of the ‘middle-grade’ genre that filmmakers and authors have created especially for us. Indulge. It’s amazing. There’s no such thing as a second childhood if you never grow up! It’s … Continue reading

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100 NAMES FOR SNOW

Excerpt from ‘SNOW BEHIND THE DOOR’, the prequel to the ‘Bede Trilogy’, in Snow’s words: [The first beginning I remember was arriving at Bede Hall with my father on a bitterly cold, snowy English day in August of the year … Continue reading

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