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Darryl Frayne

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Born

Kingston, ON, Canada

Website

https://maidstonechronicles.com

Genre

Fantasy, Young Adult

Influences

J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Roald Dahl, J.K. Rowling ...more

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June 2017

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Thanks for visiting my Goodreads page! As a new indie author, I enjoy interacting with the Goodreads community. My first book is Across the Fourwinds, which I co-authored with Shane Trusz. The Maidstone Chronicles is a story told in a trilogy, so readers will be happy to learn that the third book was published on June 21, 2020.

As far as I can remember, my journey into writing began when I was about 11 or 12 years old. I had always enjoyed stories, so I experimented with some comic-book style writing. I would draw my characters in small boxes, complete with talking bubbles for dialogue!

My favorite books growing up include The Wizard of Oz, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, The Chronicles of Narnia, and The Lord of the Rings. As an adult, some of my favorite fiction writers include Terry Brooks, Patrick Rothfuss, and more recently, Michael J. Sullivan. I also have an affinity for YA stories with believable, endearing characters created by authors like J.K. Rowling, Kate DiCamillo, Rick Riordan, and Suzanne Collins. I could list so many others; there are far too many wonderful stories to read!

I am grateful for my timely meeting, subsequent friendship, and working relationship with Shane Trusz. He has a great gift for storytelling, conceiving grand adventures, and passionately spreading the word about our books. Although we are different in many ways, I am constantly surprised at—and thankful for—the way our gifts unite to form unique, enjoyable stories.

Here's the back cover blurb from Across the Fourwinds:

An ancient Gateway between worlds is vulnerable, endangering life on earth. Two teens begin an epic journey to find out why.

Since his mother’s tragic accident, Will Owens has been a loner. And for good reason: he claims to see dark creatures emerging from the forest near his home. Ostracism is a way of life until he meets Morgan Finley, a fencing champion with everything going for her—except a dark family secret.

In pursuit of answers, these unlikely friends enter the forest and discover a magical kingdom where a dragon has unleashed a powerful disease. When a young sage reveals their true identities, Will and Morgan join a small but courageous resistance on a quest to save the Fourwinds.

Can friendship and hope stop the swelling tide of destruction from breaching the portal to our world? ...more

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	Across the Fourwinds (The Maidstone Chronicles, #1) by Shane Trusz (Goodreads Author), Darryl Frayne (Goodreads Author) 4.05 avg rating — 76 ratings — published 2018 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Beyond the Hollowtangle (The Maidstone Chronicles, #2) by Shane Trusz (Goodreads Author), Darryl Frayne (Goodreads Author) 4.42 avg rating — 26 ratings — published 2018 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Into the Maidstone (The Maidstone Chronicles Book 3) by Shane Trusz (Goodreads Author), Darryl Frayne (Goodreads Author) 4.58 avg rating — 12 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Maidstone Chronicles: The Complete Trilogy by Shane Trusz (Goodreads Author), Darryl Frayne (Goodreads Author) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 5 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Frequentatives in Fantasy Novels

I learned some grammatical terms recently that I probably knew at some point in my smarter youth.

Thanks to a re-post a couple of weeks ago by fantasy author, J.A. Andrews, I had fun experimenting with the somewhat sesquipedalian term frequentative (I couldn’t help but use sesquipedalian, the term used—unsurprisingly—to describe long words).

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