Enheduanna of Ur (approx. 2250 BC) First Author in World
"What I have done here, no one has done before!"
Daughter of the great king Sargon I of Sumeria, the first author and theologian in history. Her 4000-year-old poems to the Goddess Inanna, written a mere 300 years after the invention of written language, demonstrate a keen insight into the nature of power. In addition to being a princess, she held the most important religious office in the realm -- High Priestess of Ur -- as well as managing and overseeing the agricultural and fishing industries.
Anthology
"Mythspring", a new anthology of original speculative fiction inspired by the lyrics and legends of Canada and featuring new work by leading authors in the genre...
a special event anthology within the acclaimed Realms of Wonder series
Inspired by the Stan Rogers song "Lies" with a nod to "Snow-White," "Mirror, Mirror" is the tale of a winter-weary farmer and mother of seven who feels her beauty slipping away. When she finds a magical mirror that will restore her youth, Marie-Helene realizes a fundamental truth about the real nature of beauty, and the restorative nature of love.
A tale of the restorative nature of love.
* Winner 1st Prize 2003 Science Fiction Writers of Earth (SFWoE) Short Story Contest
Sixteen-year-old Maggie has been parked with her French-Canadian grandfather in the rural fishing town of Percé, Quebec while her mum is on honeymoon with her new husband, and Maggie is not happy. In her grandfather's creepy old house she finds a book of ghost stories and reads about La Dame en Blanche - the Lady in White - said to haunt the local cliffs. But that's just a silly local legend. Or is it?
A coming-of-age ghost story of loss and the enduring power of love.
*Winner 2nd Prize 2002 Science Fiction Writers of Earth (SFWoE) short story contest
· Status - In submission
"Stone and Anvil" An Inworld Tale featuring the Protector Uwin
Every instinct told Jani, the crippled son of poor fisher folk, to flee when the White Priesthood suddenly takes an interest in him. With the help of Winn, a mysterious warrior, he escapes their clutches, only to come face to face with his own destiny and a kingdom he never sought.
A heroic tale of self-esteem, destiny and the nature of nobility.
· Status - In submission
"Blood Always Tells" An Inworld Tale featuring the Protector Uwin
As punishment and reparation for ruining the innkeeper's brew, the noble-born young Fuwin is sent to work at the inn to learn the error of his ways. There he encounters the Protector, Uwin, who enlists the lad's aid in exposing a slave-trading ring. Fuwin quickly gets in over his head and, when his sister becomes hostage, despairs. But with Uwin's help he overcomes his fear and learns the hardest lesson of his life: that the measure of a man is in the choices he makes.
A heroic coming-of-age tale of courage and choice.
· Status - Thinking of expanding into a YA novella
"The King's Choice" An Inworld Tale featuring the Protector Uwin
The deformed King Nedron (né Jani) never wanted to be King. But having accepted the job, he must do his dynastic duty and choose a bride. He longs for a woman who will love him for himself, despite his hideousness. Meanwhile, his Protector Uwin grows concerned that the young King has not forged the expected bond with the land, and is homesick for the sea. When Nedron finally chooses a bride and she runs sobbing into the forest, his most bitter opinion of his desirability is confirmed. But the young girl Sina is in danger, and only the true King, with the power drawn from his mystic bond with the land, can save her.
"State of Mind" An Inworld Tale featuring the Protector Uwin
All her life Cami dreamed of joining the Protectors, the most elite fighters in the world. But no sooner had she made it than she was diagnosed with an incurable muscle-wasting illness that will kill her. Preferring to die in anonymity, she runs away and signs on to guard a merchant caravan where she forms a bond with a little boy who has absolute faith in her. But the caravan is attacked by slavers and Cami is the only person who can save it. To do so, she must conquer fear and pain and face the reality of her illness.
Inspired by real life, a tale of hope, courage and responsibility
· Status - I ought to submit this
"The Black Forest Plague" A Van Helsing tale
How Dracula's nemesis, Professor Abram Van Helsing, became a crusader against vampires, and lost the only woman he ever loved to madness.
· Status - Rewriting ending
"Young Mr. Smith goes to Mars" [Working Title]
In the face of perceived extra-terrestrial invasion, the youth of Mars use the power of the press to prevent hysterical response.
· Status - Under Revision
"The Stills Guy"
Gabriel worked as a photographer in the movies. He was good, ambitious and deserved a break. When he acquires a new camera, he believes he's finally got the competitive edge...that is until strange people start showing up in his pictures.
· Status - Under Revision
"The Demon Story" [Working Title]
Mayhem ensues when a small p.r. firm agrees to represent a demon.
· Status - In progress
"Untitled" - The Fuwin-Asana story (2001) An Inworld Tale featuring the Protector Uwin
When Fuwin returns to his childhood home of Pathí to set his father's affairs in order, he encounters the bandit San, the self-appointed avenger of wronged women. He quickly learns that San is no ordinary bandit, and that memories long forgotten lose none of their bite with time.
· Status - In development
"Winni" [Working Title] An Inworld Tale
The story of the orphan Winni and her Bondmistress Saling.
· Status - In development To be expanded into a novel
"The Cuckoo Girl" An Inworld Tale featuring the Protector Uwin
Alanna always wanted to be a Protector, but that was no fit career for a girl. So she changes her identity and sets off for the capital, determined to make a place for herself despite any obstacle.
· Status - In development
"The Last Dance" An Inworld Tale featuring the Protector Uwin
Kyraash wrestles with foreboding. His twin, Kyraasha is about to dance her Last Dance before the bulls, signaling her coming to a marriageable age when she will be mated to Gâlan, whom Kyraash knows to be a violent, dangerous youth. How can he prevent the inevitable and save his sister, and society, from certain betrayal?
· Status - In development
"The Initiation" An Inworld Tale featuring the Protector Uwin
The story of the young Uwin's initiation into the mysteries of the Earth-People,
· Status - In development... but Uwin doesn't seem to want to star in a story of his own.
Novels
"Flight to Flower Vale, Being the Fourth Quarto of the Zîniath" An Inworld Tale featuring the Protector Uwin
After Isa, an Olympic-caliber gymnast, is mortally injured in a train crash, she and her brothers and sister are catapulted into another world where magic appears to work miracles and her coming has been foretold by ancient prophecy. As the price for her life and as answer to that prophecy, the teens are sent on a dangerous quest across a continent at war. They soon discover that evil wears many faces and prophecies are riddles with many answers. When their best-laid plans go horribly awry, the teens must rely on their own ingenuity and newfound talents to turn the tide. But every victory carries a price, and in either world, the price is high.
Nulwina, the younger sister of Fuwin, is abducted as a child and sold into slavery in far-off Cothaï, where she becomes Bondslave to Sa-Ling, a wealthy merchant's daughter. Reborn as Winni, her earlier memories erased, she will do anything to protect her Bondmistress. Even if that means taking on the Faírelanian Protectors. Even if it means unknowingly fighting her blood brother Fuwin... to the death.
· Status - Plotting
Screenplays
"Where The Mountains Meet the Sea" (2000) 30 min Family Drama
The predecessor to the award-winning short-story "The Lady of Land's End"
"The Price of a Miracle" (2001) 30 min Holiday Drama
Seven-year-old Tessie longs to buy her ailing brother Andy a Christmas tree this year. But it's the Depression, and Andy's medicine is expensive, and she doesn't have nearly enough pennies saved. Things look up momentarily when her best friend Sarah donates her Hannukah money to the cause, but are then dashed when Tessie overhears the doctor saying that unless he gets an operation, Andy will die. An operation, says her mother, would take a miracle. So Tessie gathers her courage and pennies, and sets off to buy what her brother needs far more than a tree... a miracle. Undaunted by her own fears and uncertainty she remains resolute in her determination to succeed. THE PRICE OF A MIRACLE is a parable about family ties, friendship and one child's certitude that she can buy a miracle.
"Demon Scorned" (Spec Script - 2002) 60 min episode of series "Buffy The Vampire Slayer"
When the banished Geeks, Jonathan and Andrew, conjure an Aztec god to take out Buffy and Willow, they did not bank on it falling for Buffy, hard. The Aztec Baddie, on the other hand, did not even consider the ire of his Lady Consort. Meanwhile, Dawn falls big time for the handsome new history teacher and Anya catches Xander, whom she's still not forgiven, getting it off with the new magic shop owner. Spike grapples with when is a bat not a bat... or a vamp... and Willow is tempted by her heart's desire. Things come to a spectacular conclusion when a school history project nearly results in the Slayer being dusted, proving the maxim that it's never wise to turn one's back to a demon scorned.
Poetry
"To Shakespeare" (1974) Sonnet
· Status - As far as I know, the only poem I've published... in my highschool yearbook (1975).
Written for Mary Turzillo and Geoff Landis as a Clarion exercise. We picked the poetic form and subject matter out of a hat. I was lucky, I turned mine into a spin-off from my novel.
"The Last of the Red Moons Over Cothaï" (2002-03) A Dream Poem
A dream I had in 1986, in which I was promised I would be published. Undeniably, imagery and place names from the dream have crept into my novel. Then as I lay awake one night last fall, the dream reformed itself in my mind as a poem.
