An ex-soldier, now turned farmer, wakes one day to find mysterious marks on his hands and wrists. All seems well until black riders appear and kidnap his family. On his journey to recover his lost loved ones and to discover the meaning of the strange
Irene Smith has been a programmer who writes and a writer who programs for most of her adult life. She has written many articles about computer programming, and wrote API documentation for both Microsoft Corporation and Google, Inc.
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I have wanted to be a writer almost as long as I have been able to read. My major influences include authors such as Hugh Lofting, P.L. Travers, Rudyard Kipling, and Mark Twain. My own favorite genres are mixed. I love Stephen King and Terry Pratchett equally well and read almost all genres other than sports, and even then a good Dick Francis novel can cause me to make an exception.
My first desire to write stories arose from my love of reading other people's stories. I wanted to give other people some of the pleasure that I had received from reading The Lord of the Rings, The Phantom Tollbooth, Dracula, and hundreds (thousands?) more.
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