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
The backyard at 2 Riley St. in Onancock: The Arvidson residence in lacey white.
Pardon me, but you slip is frozen. I stand on the dock where we keep our boat in time of liquid water.
The Blue Ridge mountains on New Year's weekend from the deck at the home of our good friends, the Harkers.
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