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10 Years of Muirwood
Wednesday, January 18th, 2023 @ 7:59 pm Jeff's Blog Novels Stories | 11Comments
Ten years ago this week, 47North released The Legends of Muirwood as a trilogy all on the same day. That's not a typical thing for a publishing company to do. It wasn't a typical thing for me to do either when I self-published the trilogy all at once myself. I could... Read More
Tales from Kingfountain, Muirwood, and Beyond
Tuesday, November 9th, 2021 @ 2:00 pm Jeff's Blog Novels Stories | 3Comments
The very first short story I published for Deep Magic was in the June 2002 issue. Because that issue also included an excerpt from my fantasy novel LANDMOOR, I decided to publish the short story under the pen-name JT Slane. That story "Wizard Auditions" is now almost... Read More

Cover Reveal – Grave Kingdom Book 2 (Buried World)
Friday, September 27th, 2019 @ 8:11 pm Jeff's Blog Novels Stories | 1Comments
The cover art for the Grave Kingdom series is truly epic. Shasti O'Leary Soudant, who did my Kingfountain world, has also done this one. So even though you haven't seen the first book yet, it's time to reveal the cover for Book 2 of the series - The Buried World.... Read MoreMaia
Monday, December 11th, 2006 @ 4:35 pm Stories | Comments Off
Well, you found the right page, but the story you were looking for isn't here anymore. This is not a Jedi mind trick. You are probably here because you learned about "Maia" from the author's notes of the Muirwood Trilogy and did a Google search for it. I had posted... Read More
The Ravenmaster
Saturday, May 6th, 2006 @ 5:40 pm Stories | Comments Off
The inspiration for this story came from a friend of mine named Sam Andrus. He had returned from a trip to London and had purchased me a postcard from the famous Tower of London. The postcard came in a brown wrapper that described the legend of the ravens there. I... Read More