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fiction

Diabetic time traveller must win a Regency Princess to get home. Or discover insulin. Whichever is easier. What is the best way for a society to heal after upheaval? Form a band, of course. And give a kick ass show. It helps when you are teen witches, and you've got a unicorn on your side.The story of St. George and the Dragon which has a happy ending for all concerned, especially the dragon.

Dad was a Darren. Mom was a WereLion. She was 13. Daddy is in trouble. Time for the ladies of the family to show some claws.Adventures of a Paleolithic Goddess in the modern world.Is the most successful politician the one who simply says the least? Like a mime, perhaps? And is the time when it might be OK to take a swing at one?

Is it true that we are far more polite to total strangers we will never see again, yet we can be far more savage to those we are supposed to be close to? A novel in diologue.You know SOMEONE had to think it was a good idea to send barely clothed waifs to sell matches on street corners. In Copenhagen. In winter. It was the team from Marketing. And this is their side of the story.

Podcasts (free)

Legend of Dusty Cantina: Gunslinger, Librarian Before, Dusty’s Pa did the librarying and Ma did the cataloguing. Now they ain’t. Now, she aims to figure out why. She left a librarian. She came back a gunslinger. Authors, mostly from the Renaissance Faire, read their own work.Homer discovers Podcasting and tells the real story of the Illiad and the Odyssey. He calls it "The Big Horsey Ride" this time

People who have lived at Faire and have worked at life tell their tales. A collection of oral histories of Renaissance Faire participants.As time permits, Dan reads chapters of this tale of a time travelling diabetic and his sister kidnapped by a house to Regency England.

Music & Spoken Word

The album that goes with the book Maidens Rock, currently has more than 3,000 downloads world wide. We like to think it has a Taylor Swift/Mama without the Papas kinda vibe.A sound track to a musical where both an idealistic grad student and forger of poetry both interact at a very large public university not far from an ocean. Everybody learns something, except the Dean.If you have ever wondered what the anthem for the League of Nations was, I used it in this play. Technically, it known as "Onward: Song of World Freedom." And here it is. enjoy.

Excerpts from the book including Hans Christen Andersons fairy tales rendered as peans to Markerting.

Plays & Musicals (scripts)

A musical wherein an idealistic new grad student meets a somewhat jaded poetry forger, and both come away somewhat changed. The English Department, as a whole, remains unchanged, however.A 8 foot giant penguin goddess runs amuck in modern America. Good thing there is a government agency that is tasked to deal with this stuff.

Non-Fiction

As the title implies. inside this book there are 690 entertaining questions, then when answered will give you comprehensive view of Pasadena's past. Its a different way to conceptualize how to teach history using original source materials, newspaper accounts. History is best taught as a mystery, and this books presents the history of Pasadena as a series of mysteries AND gives the students the tools to solve them.