Thank you for hosting me at
the ARe Café. I am honored and excited at the opportunity to share my book The
Star Catcher.
I grew up for the most part
in my grandmother’s house on a tree-shaded street in an older part of Atlanta.
Reading and telling stories were important parts of my life. My grandfather
loved to tell me evening tales, many about bears–and my mother, an English
teacher, inspired me with her love of reading. Soon I felt compelled to create
my own tales!
The Star Catcher is my second
novel. This is about a handicapped boy, Hawke Reed, who travels via dreams to
another world and accomplishes heroic quests. Along the way he encounters a
wizard, a fire-wielding servant girl, and a savvy one-eyed crow. He also falls
in love with a mermaid. The setting, a mysterious, mist-covered country with
rocky coasts, is inspired by some of my early travels to Cornwall, England.
How do the events taking
place in ‘the other world’ impact Hawke’s struggle to regain his ability to
walk after a devastating car accident? Might these happenings have more of a
connection to Hawke’s real existence than he knows?
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