Two Pigs and a Chicken

"And there shall be a great light in the heavens, A portent of doom that will lay waste the world. Cities will fall, and mountains will crumble, And the worlds shall be ripped asunder. And that which was lost shall be found, And that which has risen before will rise again, And that which has fallen before will fall again; And there shall be an End of Days." A poetic fragment written as the epigraph for The Doorway, the first BridgeWorlds Book

The Maiden All Forlorn

How Things Came To Be As They Are
     For several years, I have been working on a series of fantasy adventures, the Kingdom of the Sun Stories and BridgeWorlds Books, about two worlds bound by an ancient struggle between good and evil. As currently envisioned, the series will encompass a dozen or so volumes, and may take fifteen or twenty years to write, which has at times somewhat tempered my enthusiasm for the project. So when, in March of 2003, I had an idea for a short story -- something I could hope to finish in a few weeks -- I poured myself into the project. The 'short story' kept growing, until it became a novel, Two Pigs and a Chicken, which was published in April of 2004.

The Shape of Things To Come
     Response to Two Pigs and a Chicken was so enthusiastic that I've spent most of the succeeding years working on plot development for a series of sequels, the Erindale Tales. The first of these, The Maiden All Forlorn, was published in July of 2010. At the time, I expected to finish successive novels in the series at a rate of about one per year, but as discussed on the page about the Tales, a problem with my publisher has made the exact date of further publications very uncertain; still, I do expect to eventually see all of them in print.
     I have not abandoned the fantasy adventure series, and am relatively close to finishing Ialia and the Flyer, the first Kingdom of the Sun story, and per the terms of my original contract, it will see print sometime in 2012. However, as for the Erindale Tales, although I intend to complete all the remaining fantasy adventures, and hope to eventually see all of them in print, the exact timing of their publication is very much up in the air.

Published Works
     Two Pigs and a Chicken (Erindale Tale #1) (novel: historical romance, 2004)
     The Maiden All Forlorn (Erindale Tale #2) (novel: sequel to Two Pigs and a Chicken, 2010)
     Well Met (short story: science fiction, 2004)

To Be Published At A Later Date
     Well Met and Other Short Stories (Kindle eBook, early to mid 2012)
     Ialia and the Flyer (A Kingdom of the Sun Story) (novel: romantic adventure fantasy, mid 2012)