After all that business of announcing new eBooks, have a nice long rambly journal! [edit: updated the journal a tiny bit, it is now augmented with handy links to relevant items.] I was in Las Vegas, Nevada, this last weekend, thanks to the generous offer from my amazing aunt, Rachel. As a starving artiste I …
Miss Vitronica Mage is the youngest of four children who have all mysteriously disappeared on the eve of their 21st birthdays. Now about to turn 21 herself, she comes to Bouragner Felpz in a desperate attempt to save herself, but what Felpz discovers when he investigates the case proves to be far more intricate than …
Mr. Bouragner Felpz, consulting magician, has taken many strange and sinister cases: bleeding stairs, cursed cathedrals, sentient shadows. But none have concerned such intimidating characters as the near-legendary figure he encountered in his investigation of the vengeful Abbey Axe. In this story he recounts an adventure from his early days, when he went to solve …
Since I hate to leave a story unfinished I thought I’d type up a report on my horse’s injury. For those of you with blissfully short memories, a few weeks ago I went to take the ol’ pony out for a ride and this happened. A tense weekend spent soaking, bandaging, and administering bute followed, …
Miss Corianne Birch is fifteen and dealing with all the usual problems attendant upon a girl entering a new school. Unfortunately she also has to deal with a cruel and dangerous hazing ritual which has already left one of her classmates in a state of nervous shock. Fortunately Corianne has a rather unusual guardian; the …
Today was a brilliant day. The first sunny day after a weekend of rain and clouds. I decided today would be a good day to ride my horse. Sadly, it was not to be. As anyone who has kept horses will tell you: there are magical, wonderful days where you and the horse go galloping …
In a world where magic is real, mythical creatures such as vampires can collide with reality to produce astonishing events. In this, the third installment in the Adventures of Bouragner Felpz, we find the “Magician’s Consultant” and his long-suffering ward embroiled in an intrigue that connects a famous cathedral to something much darker, and downright …
I want to begin this journal with two quotes, each from men far older and more accomplished than myself. The first is from George R. R. Martin, author of A Song of Ice and Fire series. It is called On Fantasy: “The best fantasy is written in the language of dreams. It is alive as …
This entry was originally posted to Live Journal on January 23 2011, in response to my earlier piece The Problem of Adaptation. In my diatribe about the problems in Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss’s Sherlock series I mentioned briefly that one of the troubles with adapting Sherlock Holmes is not only that the source …
Mr. Bouragner Felpz is a curious gentleman. “Magician’s Consultant,” according to his card, his practice takes him to places both fantastical and sinister as he untangles magical mysteries. And where he goes, his ward and reluctant biographer Miss Corianne Birch is often obliged to follow. Set in a time and place not far from late …
