On Darkness: a Poem Inspired by Fairendale

On Darkness: a Poem Inspired by Fairendale

It swells around you, like a living thing, lifting hairs on limbs, turning heads to check behind, hitching breath and bones. It slides into a mind, probes the corners, and stretches out into repose, knowing that once it has entered the consciousness, it is very nearly...
How to Escape an Encounter with a Black Eyed Being

How to Escape an Encounter with a Black Eyed Being

By Bregdon of White Wind Prophet The Black Eyed Beings are fearsome creatures in the world of Fairendale, though many cannot even see them. They are led by the Grim Reaper, and they look like what they are: the walking dead. They have pale, ghostly skin—nearly...
An Ode to Books: a Poem

An Ode to Books: a Poem

(By Oscar of Fairendale) You can keep them by your bed— at your makeshift kitchen table— by your boots beside the door. You can read them for entertainment— for information— for traveling to worlds you’ve never known. You can give them to friends— share them with your...
An Author’s Hopes for THE BOY WHO LOVED A SWAN

An Author’s Hopes for THE BOY WHO LOVED A SWAN

Analyzing how fiction might change the world is always a mysterious and somewhat difficult thing. Readers read stories differently, interpret books in varying ways, and glean from words what they need from them at the time of reading (which is why re-reading is a...
A Fun Look at Creative Book Biographies

A Fun Look at Creative Book Biographies

Did you know that I write different bios in the back of every Fairendale book? This is one of my favorite parts of the writing process: crafting a short bio that will tie the book to my life in a somewhat humorous way. For example, here is the bio that printed in The...