July 1st - Merlyn's Heir, Book Two of Merlyn's Legacy now available from greendragonpublications.com

"A thoroughly enjoyable read with a fascinating background."

Writer and journalist August Autrey arrives in the village of Three Weirs to cover the story of the Forest of Weir. The villagers have long believed the forest to be the home of a wizard and a dangerous dragon. When August disappears leaving only his empty clothes draping the seat of a chair, many believe he has paid the price for being too curious.

His landlady's niece, Ann Singlewood, dreams that she meets the missing journalist living in the forest as a nine-inch-high elfin wizard. Two weeks later, however, August returns and spends three days typing furiously. The next morning they find him dead. He has left a long manuscript addressed to Ann

As Ann reads the manuscript she realises that the magical world she dreamed of is actually real - and that August is in love with her!  To join him there, however, she must give up everything...

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July 1st - Merlyn's Heir now available

Osbert Norman-Walter, writer, playwright, journalist, and Astrological Consultant Seginus of the News of the World (1937 — 39) conceived Wizard’s Woe, in his twenties around 80 years ago but could find no publisher. On his death in 1974, his daughter Marion Athorne inherited an unfinished trilogy.  

Married with three children, ten grandchildren and three great grandchildren, but now widowed, Marion has only recently had the necessary time to commit to working on a manuscript that comprised more than a million words.  She enrolled with the Writers Bureau early in 2004, studied the new writing techniques and won a short story competition. This gave her the confidence to author this revised, and abridged version of a now complete trilogy,and hopes that Book One, Wizard’s Woe will begin to achieve the wider readership that her father’s inspiration deserved. 

In recognition of help she has received, Marion says: 'There are a number of people whose help and encouragement I would like to acknowledge, but especially my sister Sheila, whose unfailing enthusiasm nerved me to take the apparently presumptuous step of rewriting someone else’s story. I would also like to thank my Wise Readers: grandson Edward, friends Alan, Peggy and Susan with the initial efforts, and pay tribute to all my family’s patience; also to Jenny Sanders for her recognition to go ahead and, above all I would acknowledge my indebtedness to editor Dave Haslett of ideas4writers whose help and unflagging attention to detail has taught me so much. Finally, and not least my thanks to Imogen Hallam, artist and illustrator, who created such a fantastic cover.