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WHY READ FANTASY AT ALL?

March 17, 2009

Tags: fantasy, dream, imagination, fantasy novel, Indian, prehistory, Native American

Why do we read fantasy? Why don't we stick with realists like Steinbeck and Hemingway? Or limit ourselves to non-fiction?

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Your Spirit Animal

March 5, 2009

Tags: fantasy, dream, imaginary, imagination, fantasy writing, fantasy writer, Native, Indian, prehistory

Sunoya, the medicine woman of ZADAYI RED, has a spirit animal as a guide. If you had a spirit animal, what would yours be? Mine's a wolf.

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WHAT FANTASY NOVELS ARE YOU READING AND LIKING?

March 5, 2009

Tags: fantasy, dreams, imaginary, imagination, fantasy writing, fantasy writer, Indian, prehistory

I'm reading MISTS OF AVALON for the first time, I'm embarrassed to say. It's great, a complex world visid with feeling, rendered in beautiful language.

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TWO PREHISTORIC FANTASIES!


ZADAYI RED and its sequel SHADOWS IN THE CAVE are epic journies through the magic and mysticism of the prehistoric ancestors of the Cherokee people, published by TOR Books.

LINKS• Caleb's prehistoric Spirit Fire novels are ZADAYI RED and SHADOWS IN THE CAVE, full of magic and mysticism, spirit animals, shape-shifters, and the world of the Immortals.
This is a link to the new SHADOWS IN THE CAVE at Barnes and Noble, at a terrific discount.
And here's a link to SHADOWS IN THE CAVE at amazon.com, also at a terrific discount
BSC Review of ZADAYI RED
Thunderbird, the master of gods, critiques ZADAYI RED
Fantasy Debut
terrific review of ZADAYI RED, with a feature article
SHADOWS IN THE CAVE at Powell's.
SHADOWS IN THE CAVE at the Book Passage store
•SHADOWS IN THE CAVE at Mysterious Galaxy.
•SHADOWS IN THE CAVE at the Tattered Cover.
SHADOWS IN THE CAVE at the Boulder Book Store.
FREEFALL, a home for folkloric stories
a community of stories by Caleb and Sarita Fox, Win and Meredith Blevins, and friends
Writers on the Rise
Writers of the Rise interviews Spirit Guide Quolodi, or maybe Caleb
• Wordcraft Circle of Native Authors and Storytellers.
• TOR, king of fantasy publishers.
• SF Site.
Locus Magazine Online
Goodreads
a lively book talk site, with readers and writers
the Historical Novel Society
Authors Guild
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