I like to write things you can hold
Ansel and Sean Brandt are brothers, born on the same day ten years apart. It could be coincidence, or it might be that Ansel was supposed to die as a child so that Sean could receive his immortal soul. Ridiculous? The so-called Grim Reaper doesn’t think so, and he tells Ansel as much in a personal visit, when he explains that Ansel’s adult life was made possible by a clerical error on the Other Side.
Being “gifted” can be overrated. Meet the fabled twelve-year-old Wheatkeeper twins of Grasshaven: fable-bodied Tylen, mostly unimpressed by her own shapeshifting ability, and Awl, whose mental-moving power leaves him fable-minded each time he uses it. When their village school burns down, they’re blamed for the catastrophe and exiled… to a greater world of misadventure.
Jeremiah Carp is happy in his academic career... when a persuasive pair of ad men approach him with an intriguing brief: Work with them to "invent" a new letter. What looks like a lark, however, turns out to be something sinister, and soon Carp has his hands full, hectically helping to head off a huge hassle for humanity.
Everyone’s always telling Xavier what a terrific little gator he is. But Xavier doesn’t want to be a little gator forever, or even much longer. What would he like to be instead? He doesn’t know. So he spends a day talking to some of the more creative animals around, including the giraffic designer, the art cricket, and the museum curaptor. Ultimately, Xavier decides upon a role that suits both sides of his nature perfectly.
Jeremy Jarden is in some deep ship. ODDER SPACE is a humorous upper middle grade sci-fi novel with awe-inspiring spaceships, belligerent aliens, phlazer battles, pseudoscientific gobbledygook, and an artificial intelligence with a serious morale problem... but also spunk, heart, and some important life lessons. Mostly it’s just a lot of fun.
When an aide to a senator is found dead for apparently no reason at all, part-time government forensic etymologist Nathan Spector alone realizes that something supernatural is afoot. Feeling guilty after inadvertently betraying the wizardly community in his official capacity, Nathan decides to look deeper into the crime, unofficially, enlisting the aid of a new witch friend to solve the mystery quietly.
Paul grows up in a typical village in England toward the end of the reign of Henry III. He plays in the medieval mud; he helps his doting mother to make and sell string; he befriends a basilisk. But when he is finally orphaned, Paul begins to wonder about the world outside Dundonnedon. Once he leaves home to find his fortune, Paul quickly learns that it takes more than he has to survive in ye big, olde world.
Harrison Danger Bennett is a private investigator. He has an office, a secretary, and a gun that he keeps unloaded because he doesn't want to shoot anybody. And now he has a new case. When a woman hires him to find his own best friend, it seems like easy money because Bennett already knows where the other man is. Unfortunately, that's just when Bennett's friend disappears. It figures.
WHIMSY & SODA is a collection of twelve hilarious and entirely unauthorized short stories featuring the best-known and best-liked characters of P.G. Wodehouse’s fiction—Bertie Wooster and his man, Jeeves.
The government provides manuals for new home-owners and new motor vehicle operators, but what's a new superhero to do? Ka-POW! The Government Manual for New Superheroes rushes in to save the day!
The Government Manual for New Wizards is a hilarious, mock-official handbook for wannabe witches and warlocks. Wands, charms, cloaks of invisibility, shoes of stealth (or sneakers), and other otherworldly accoutrements—it's all here, discussed tongue-in-cheek but with the utmost Governmental authority.
This treasure trove of Pirate Code imparts wisdom on eye patches and tricorner hats, talking the talk, walking the walk (down the plank, that is), appropriate ship names, dueling, avoiding cursed treasure, and much more.
