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The Scrying Mirror
This book is my second in a series on the tools of Magic. This is real magic, not stage magic or sleight of hand, it’s the real thing. Magic is all around us and is all about living life in a certain way. This series explains the physical objects that assist those who walk this magical path, this long and winding road. A road filled with wonder and adventure with a surprise around every turning.
There are many more books to be written. I hope they are useful and interesting but most of all I hope they will be enjoyed.
There are many more books to be written. I hope they are useful and interesting but most of all I hope they will be enjoyed.
27 pages, Kindle Edition
First published June 27, 2011
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About the author
Peter Freeman
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Peter Freeman lives on Salt Spring Island on the west coast of Canada. He writes nonfiction and fiction novels, screen and stage plays, short stories, magazine articles, and poetry.
Peter grew up in what was once the sleepy fishing village of Noosa Heads on the Sunshine Coast, just south of the Great Barrier Reef, Australia. He started his career as a cadet surveyor and then as a journeyman fitter and turner before focusing on computer science at the University of Tasmania.
While in Hobart, Peter joined the local rock climbing club, where he later met Max Dorfligger, a carpenter, shipwright, and famous Swiss mountaineer. Peter sailed across the Tasman Sea with Max in the thirty-two-foot sloop, Sunshine, that Max had built to New Zealand, where Peter then spent the next few years driving trains and building his sailboat, Laiviņa.
Eventually, Peter sailed from New Zealand to Australia and then to Canada, where he incorporated an Information Technology company that produced and sold scientific and business software to universities, governments, and the private sector.
In 1984, Peter departed Victoria, British Columbia, to sail his thirty-two-foot sloop, Laiviņa, on a solo, non-stop circumnavigation of the globe, breaking the existing world record with a time of 236 days. His book, Cape Horn Birthday, is an account of this journey.
Peter is a masters athlete who has represented Canada internationally in world championships, competing in Italy, South Africa, Australia, the USA, and Canada, and has won gold, silver, and bronze medals in these competitions in the 100, 200, 400, and 800 metre events. In 2003, at 51, Peter was ranked 11th in the world and 1st in Canada in the 400-metre event for his time in Puerto Rico of 55.10 seconds.
Peter has twice ridden his bicycle across Canada and, at the age of 61, bicycled the 15,400 kilometres around the perimeter of Australia, unsupported, in 79 days, averaging 200 kilometres a day.
His colourful history has given him an endless vault of story ideas to write about, as his publishing experience illustrates:
Awards
• Winner - 2019 University of Saskatchewan, The Fieldstone Review's literary prize – “Hidden Message”
• Best Short Story (Shortlist): “In the Waiting Room” – Best of 2018 Adelaide Literary Award
• Best Poem (Finalist): “Last Beating” – Best of 2018 Adelaide Literary Award
Published
• Books
◦ Novels
▪ Deadly Delivery – 363 pages – Ensilwood Publishing, SSI – 2025
▪ The Silenced Boy – 266 pages – Ensilwood Publishing, SSI – 2025
▪ When the Maple Leaf Fell – 274 pages – Seaworthy Publications Inc. FL – 2025
▪ The Worm Lady’s Daughter – 256 pages - Ensilwood Publishing, SSI – 2025
◦ Nonfiction
▪ Cape Horn Birthday: Record-Breaking Solo Non-Stop Circumnavigation – 348 pages – Seaworthy Publications Inc. FL – 2018.
◦ Short Stories
▪ Elements: Thirteen Stories (2nd Ed) – 305 pages – Ensilwood Publishing, SSI – 2025
◦ Screen and Stage Plays
▪ Alchemy Alive: Twelve Screen and Stage Plays – Fiction – 382 pages – Ensilwood Publishing, SSI – 2021
◦ Poetry
▪ Growth: Life’s Flow in Poetry (2nd Ed – #1 Growth series) – 141 pages – Ensilwood Publishing, SSI – 2025
▪ Regrowth: Reaching for the Poetic Sky (#2 Growth series) – 119 pages – Ensilwood Publishing, SSI – 2025
Publish-Ready
• Children's stories:
◦ How the Rainbow Got its Colours – 4,070 words – Typeset
◦ Mila-Kate and the Blue Butterfly – 3,842 words – Typeset
◦ The Case of the Ghostly Granny – 10,721 words – Typeset
Projects
• Fiction
◦ Soul Mates – (17%) – First Draft
◦ Infinity Farm – (20%) – First Draft
Peter Freeman lives on Salt Spring Island on the west coast of Canada. He writes nonfiction and fiction novels, screen and stage plays, short stories, magazine articles, and poetry.
Peter grew up in what was once the sleepy fishing village of Noosa Heads on the Sunshine Coast, just south of the Great Barrier Reef, Australia. He started his career as a cadet surveyor and then as a journeyman fitter and turner before focusing on computer science at the University of Tasmania.
While in Hobart, Peter joined the local rock climbing club, where he later met Max Dorfligger, a carpenter, shipwright, and famous Swiss mountaineer. Peter sailed across the Tasman Sea with Max in the thirty-two-foot sloop, Sunshine, that Max had built to New Zealand, where Peter then spent the next few years driving trains and building his sailboat, Laiviņa.
Eventually, Peter sailed from New Zealand to Australia and then to Canada, where he incorporated an Information Technology company that produced and sold scientific and business software to universities, governments, and the private sector.
In 1984, Peter departed Victoria, British Columbia, to sail his thirty-two-foot sloop, Laiviņa, on a solo, non-stop circumnavigation of the globe, breaking the existing world record with a time of 236 days. His book, Cape Horn Birthday, is an account of this journey.
Peter is a masters athlete who has represented Canada internationally in world championships, competing in Italy, South Africa, Australia, the USA, and Canada, and has won gold, silver, and bronze medals in these competitions in the 100, 200, 400, and 800 metre events. In 2003, at 51, Peter was ranked 11th in the world and 1st in Canada in the 400-metre event for his time in Puerto Rico of 55.10 seconds.
Peter has twice ridden his bicycle across Canada and, at the age of 61, bicycled the 15,400 kilometres around the perimeter of Australia, unsupported, in 79 days, averaging 200 kilometres a day.
His colourful history has given him an endless vault of story ideas to write about, as his publishing experience illustrates:
Awards
• Winner - 2019 University of Saskatchewan, The Fieldstone Review's literary prize – “Hidden Message”
• Best Short Story (Shortlist): “In the Waiting Room” – Best of 2018 Adelaide Literary Award
• Best Poem (Finalist): “Last Beating” – Best of 2018 Adelaide Literary Award
Published
• Books
◦ Novels
▪ Deadly Delivery – 363 pages – Ensilwood Publishing, SSI – 2025
▪ The Silenced Boy – 266 pages – Ensilwood Publishing, SSI – 2025
▪ When the Maple Leaf Fell – 274 pages – Seaworthy Publications Inc. FL – 2025
▪ The Worm Lady’s Daughter – 256 pages - Ensilwood Publishing, SSI – 2025
◦ Nonfiction
▪ Cape Horn Birthday: Record-Breaking Solo Non-Stop Circumnavigation – 348 pages – Seaworthy Publications Inc. FL – 2018.
◦ Short Stories
▪ Elements: Thirteen Stories (2nd Ed) – 305 pages – Ensilwood Publishing, SSI – 2025
◦ Screen and Stage Plays
▪ Alchemy Alive: Twelve Screen and Stage Plays – Fiction – 382 pages – Ensilwood Publishing, SSI – 2021
◦ Poetry
▪ Growth: Life’s Flow in Poetry (2nd Ed – #1 Growth series) – 141 pages – Ensilwood Publishing, SSI – 2025
▪ Regrowth: Reaching for the Poetic Sky (#2 Growth series) – 119 pages – Ensilwood Publishing, SSI – 2025
Publish-Ready
• Children's stories:
◦ How the Rainbow Got its Colours – 4,070 words – Typeset
◦ Mila-Kate and the Blue Butterfly – 3,842 words – Typeset
◦ The Case of the Ghostly Granny – 10,721 words – Typeset
Projects
• Fiction
◦ Soul Mates – (17%) – First Draft
◦ Infinity Farm – (20%) – First Draft
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