New Shire Network News is coming out this weekend, and yep, I contributed a piece.
The Catmage Chronicles
Andy thought he was going crazy when a talking cat showed up at his front door. He couldn’t have been more wrong.Goldeneyes is a Catmage – a cat with human intelligence and magical abilities. Andy is an eighth grader who is smart, impulsive, and trying to avoid the school bully at all costs. A prophecy threw them together. There’s just one problem: Goldeneyes can’t stand humans.The Catmage world is heading toward war. Goldeneyes and Andy must try to stop the enemy from getting stronger. And they must save a powerful Catmage who’s been kidnapped. For Goldeneyes, it’s personal. That Catmage is her grandmother.Andy and Goldeneyes must try to put aside their differences. If they can’t, the enemy will soon be too powerful to defeat…
Bout time.
I did not know this site (thought at first, from the name, that it was Tolkien-related !).
meanwhile:
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(not familiar with that variation. heard “Think Yiddish, Speak British” on a Van Dyke Parks album)
Listened to SNN a little while ago. Good stuff. Good on Tom Paine and his comrades for facing down the swine demonstrating for boycott of Israel at the Melbourne Central Mall.