Chapter Three: A Unique Toyshop

By Joyce Jacobo [Author’s Note: The next chapter in “The Tinker Town Chronicles.” Link to last chapter: https://theliteraryserenityarchives.wordpress.com/2023/03/08/chapter-two-a-confused-awakening/%5D                 Mr. Gimble explained the situation to Horatia while he attached her second wooden arm. He was the proprietor of Unique Toys, a shop along Artisan Lane, where he sought to find loving homes for the toys

Chapter One: Concerns a Clocktower Keeper

By Joyce Jacobo [Author’s Note: This is the first chapter of a much longer novel that I’m working on called, “The Tinker Town Chronicles.” It will follow a clockwork cat named Horatia who has maintained a mysterious clocktower in a place known as Tinker Town. Hope you enjoy it! Here is the next chapter: https://theliteraryserenityarchives.wordpress.com/2023/03/08/chapter-two-a-confused-awakening/%5D

Journal Entry #32–Writers of the Future Contest

Has anyone here entered the Writers of the Future Contest? It is an impressive event where writers can submit fantasy and science fiction tales, which get judged by professional authors and can really help to launch your career as a writer as well. I’ve entered pieces on occasion, but a few days ago I got

Book Review: The City of Dreaming Books by Walter Moers

Walter Moers’ The City of Dreaming Books is a novel-length declaration of adoration to the writing craft and all its creative possibilities. This fantasy, written in a humorous spirit reminiscent of Terry Pratchett and Douglas Adams, takes us to the vast world of Zamonia, and follows a young Lindworm (basically a dinosaur-like being) named Optimus

Book Review: Giant Bones by Peter S. Beagle

Published by: Roc Fantasy Release Date: 1997 Number of Pages: 269 Peter S. Beagle’s Giant Bones is a collection of six short stories set within the same universe as his novel, The Innkeeper’s Song. I must admit, right now, that I’ve only read The Innkeeper’s Song once, many years ago (although now I definitely plan

A Conflict of Interests by MercenaryBlade (AKA Derek Cottrell)

[Author’s Note: So I think the idea for this story was just laying dormant in my mind until the right time. Years ago when I was in High School I did renfaire on the weekends. Near the same town was an old Civil War encampment, and at the same time as faire season there would

The Fairytale Rhythms of Inkheart

Cornelia Funke’s Inkheart is a fairytale tribute to the magical qualities that stories possess. Young Maggie resides with her father, a well-traveled bookbinder she has always called Mo, in a humble farmhouse where books crowd every available nook in piles and stacks. They lead quiet but pleasant lives dominated by a love of reading, until