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
Danielle enters a baking contest that the Rainbow Dream Trains are hosting to impress a small UN counsel that is coming to the Castle of Imagination. But things quickly go wrong, for a very dark reason.
After decades of attempting to absorb the literature of the world (no less), Tolkien was a revelation, turning medieval sagas into entertainment with a message. As a journalist I clearly saw my social obligation to help make the world a better place, but it took half a lifetime to see that all we can ever change is ourselves, and even longer to realize that no rational decision will ever get us there. Change requires all our passion, a spellbinding story rather than a textbook of neurolinguistic processing.
Accomplishments
2 MA, several non-fiction titles, an award for the manuscrit of a children's book from the German Schneider Verlag, participation in an anthology of poems by the German Bert Schlender Verlag, writer-in-residence in 2005 at Gunnarsstofnun, Iceland