Douglas Arvidson is a past winner of the WICE/Paris Transcontinental International Short Story competition. His short fiction has been published in Paris, Prague, and in literary magazines in the United States and he was recently invited to be a staff writer for the Prague Revue, a cutting-edge, online literary journal (http://bit.ly/1mMT6ZC). The novels in his fantasy series, The Eye of the Eye of Stallion, include The Face in Amber, The Mirrors of Castaway Time, and A Drop of Wizard's Blood. His new novel, Brothers of the Fire Star, was selected as a finalist in the ForeWord Reviews 2012 Book of the Year national awards and as a finalist in three categories in the 2013 New Mexico-Arizona Book Awards: Action Adventure Fiction, Historical Fiction, and Young Adult Fiction. It has become part of the pantheon of Pacific literature and is now included in school literature programs. Brothers of the Fire Star is an adventure story set in the Pacific during World War II and concerns two boys of different races and cultures who escape the island of Guam in a small sailboat when the Japanese army invades. They must then struggle to survive as they master the secrets of the ancient Pacific navigators. Appropriate for young adults as well as adult readers, Brothers of the Fire Star is available on Barnes & Noble, Amazon.com (http://amzn.to/1j3axVk) and Crossquarter.com. Visit the author's website: douglasarvidson.com



Thursday, November 30, 2017

1st Place Winner in Sci-Fi/Fantasy in the 2017 New Mexico-Arizona Book Awards


This multiple-award-winning novel is the third book in my Eye of the Stallion fantasy series but it is a stand-alone adventure with a time-twisted, fast-moving plot. Appropriate for young adults and adults, it includes great characters from the other books including Astral the Ancient Boy, Admiral Penance, his long suffering donkey, and the great Scraps, a powerful wizard with a miserable camel. The central conflict of the series continues with the survival of Space-Time depending on the eternal love of two Time Drifters, Sonoria and Dag-gar. But can that love survive Sonoria's determination to be free of Dag-gar's control? Or will Captain Sorrow, the avatar of dark and vagrant energies destroy the Universe?