In my forthcoming novel, Black Powder, White Magic, Queen Bloodrose is mentioned in the chapter where Sam Smith and his companions enter the Garden of Forever and encounter the disturbing statues that are all that remain of both Lord Carnelian and Lord Serpentine as well as their goblin armies--statues of carnelian and serpentine marble who are ( Read more... )

Had an interesting idea for a screenplay ( Read more... )

A fragment from Ghost Girl, which will either be a comic book or a television series.
Ghost Girl is the story of Amelia Ravenwood, a Changeling with the power to perceive the spirits of the dead who just happens to be a Dhampyr--the child of a Vampire. Such was the trauma of carrying the infant to term that her mother died in childbirth, and Amelia ( Read more... )

A story fragment from a future project, in which a teenage girl who believes in Faeries accidentally awakens the Winter Queen in New York City... and together with a Faerie Princess by the name of Stella Starlight must save the world from a Thousand Years of Winter by finding the Summer Queen before the Winter Solstice ( Read more... )

A story fragment from a future project, in which a teenage girl who believes in Faeries accidentally awakens the Winter Queen in New York City... and together with a Faerie Princess by the name of Stella Starlight must save the world from a Thousand Years of Winter by finding the Summer Queen before the Winter Solstice ( Read more... )

Like cracks in a mirror, the holes in reality were swiftly spreading across the world. Here and there the holes clustered together, following the paths of ancient ley lines, medicine wheels, and other sacred sites while in other places they were scattered like dewdrops on a spider's web. Trapped in Faerie since the end of the Renaissance, magic ( Read more... )

Ask a Dwarf to build the Perfect Mousetrap and you will get exactly what you requested. True, it will look like the mutant offspring between a petroleum cracking plant and a steam calliope and cover an entire city block, but when activated it will attract, capture, and exterminate every mouse within a mile radius ( Read more... )

As mentioned previously, Hobgoblins are a sinister mutation of the Common (or Low) Goblin who are best described as a race of faerie psychopaths. Bigger, meaner, and much stronger than their smaller cousins, they are to weapons what Goblins are to technology: for example, a Hobgoblin armed with a sharp knife is far more dangerous than a knight ( Read more... )

Fixing a Hole is a proposal for what will either be a comic book or a television series, and in some ways is a sequel to my current project, The Wasteland, since it takes place in the same universe--but in modern times.

Fixing a Hole is best described as a dystopian fantasy satire based on a simple premise: what if holes opened between Earth and ( Read more... )

"The End of the world was at hand, but it would not be by fire... or by ice. There would be no Armageddon, no Ragnarok, no Gotterdammerung ( Read more... )