Back of the Envelope

I've decided to attend a writer's conference, specifically the "Festival of Faith and Writing" at Calvin College in April. If nothing else, it's a good chance to network, and as there will be publishers there looking for new authors, there is a chance I could find someone interested in one of my novels. To that end, I've been working on preparing both The Eyes of the Shadow and Fire and Water for this. I considered bringing paper manuscripts, but at 600 pages, it's probably a bit much to burden someone with. So I've been working on preparing a CD which both manuscripts and some introductory material on me. I don't know if anything will come of it, but it should be fun.

Andrew Ian Dodge, a regular contributor to the Storyblogging Carnival, has a new book out. Available on Amazon, The Gathering Dark and other tales: A Sage of Wales Collection, has more of Andrew's Sage of Wales stories, which he's frequently graced us with. Here's the blurb:

The Sage of Wales' adventures continue in this exciting new collection by Andrew Ian Dodge .

In a short novel, The Sage must help his friend, Reginald Wiggenbottom, discover strength out of legend in order to save his unborn son from a nasty conspiracy .

Followed by three additional short tales . First, the Sage must help a man come to grips with a dangerous family legacy.

In the second, he must stop an overly detailed writer from accidentally freeing the Elder God, Cthulhu, from his watery cave and so bringing about the end of mankind.

And finally, he must devise a way to keep an evil offshoot of Islam from raising a bloodthirsty pharaoh.

Congratulations to Andrew, and I encourage you to support him by buying his book.