My first illustrated book will be called “The Viking Crew of the Brooding Fairy.” While it will take me a while to finish writing it (I’m editing an anthology–check it out by clicking Submissions above), meet the fierce crew.

The Viking Chieftain: Radcliff Bloodbeard

His Queen: Fairuza Ironclad (I highly doubt a woman as powerful as Fairuza would actually take a man’s name upon marriage.)

The Steersman: Daan of the Deadly

Scholar: Jacob Incommodious

Journeyman Cook: Phlegm Hardtack

Bard (musician): Baird the Dissonant

Weapons Master: Magnus Breakneck

And the rest of the crew:

Aart the Temerarious

Uffe Cankersoar

Zeb the Really Really Sincere (Zeb has an arrow permanently stuck in his skull–pulling it out would kill him, so they’ve left it in, and it’s caused both good and bad things.)

I don’t want to give away too much, but there’s the resident filungar (boat builder), Ib the Deaf, who gets the intended name of the Chieftain’s new boat very, very wrong.

And a determined young lad simply called Welp.

Together the crew of the Brooding Fairy face sea monsters, hurricanes, curses and spells, an English bureaucrat who holds no truck with looting and pillaging, thank you so very much, a Welsh cauldron that grants everlasting life (but at a deadly cost), singing vampiric sirens, and a host of other adventures.

To say this will be an uproarious book is an understatement. My family just checked on me because I was literally laughing–tears in eyes–while I was finishing up some of the Vikings’ names. The book will be appropriate for both children and adults. I pride myself in being able to offer stories fit for both age groups.

If you’ve a mind to, please RT this post. I want everyone to read it when it comes out in paperback. I don’t quite have a timeline yet, but I should have a launch date in a week or two.

Come join the gang on the Brooding Fairy! You’re sure to have a raucous time.

More soon.