Yvonne
Mailbox Monday is a gathering place for readers to share the books that came into their house during the last week.
Be warned that Mailbox Monday can lead to envy, toppling TBR piles and humongous wish lists.
Your host for May 2013 is: Abi over at โ4 The Love Of Booksโ
This is a great way to plan out your reading week and see what others are currently reading as wellโฆ you never know where that next โmust readโ book will come from!
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This was another of those surprise emails, direct from the author, which periodically land in my ‘in box’, as a pleasant and unexpected surprise! Fantasy isn’t a genre that I tend to read on a regular basis, however the premise of all the music being stolen from the world, is a particularly intriguing one, especially with the clever name that Earl has chosen for hisย main protagonist!
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‘TALE OF THE MUSIC-THIEF’
Music is being stolen. From everywhere. Not just the printed pages and the crystals that playback music, but from the very minds of the people. The latest victim of this theft is the City-Along-The-Lake Opera Company. Their latest production is shut down opening night because no one can remember a single note or word of the opera. Allegra takes it worse than others. From her childhood she’s been surrounded by music. Now that her clan from the Great Steppes is dead of a sleeping plague she has only the song memories left to remind her of who she is. But those memories scare her, she’s afraid of the pain they will cause her. She has buried them under hundreds of other songs she’s learned since then. Now that those songs are disappearing, the past is rising in her memories. Allegra tries to hide at home but when the isolation gets to her, she dons the disguise of Allegor, a traveling troubadour. One night, as she plays one of the few local songs she has left in her memory at a local tavern, she feels the music being stolen as she sings. She also sees a strange man in a traveling cloak, carrying what looks to be like a teapot made of crystal. She tries to talk to him but he escapes the tavern. Suspecting that this mysterious man may have something to do with the disappearing music, Allegra sets out in a pursuit that takes her far down the South Road. Using a magic map she tries to catch the music-thief. But she only has until the music-thief reaches Town-Where-South-Road-Forks. After that the magicked map will be useless and the thief will escape with all the music.
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EARL T. ROSKE
The first story Earl recalls writing, was in the second or third grade and was about a sad baby whale. He also illustrated and bound it. Alas, being a military brat and having moved many, many times, it and most of his early writing has been lost. Earl does have one story, which he wrote while in his first year of the Marines, however he proclaims it so immature that it will be cremated with his body, so that it can never come to light.ย
In 2007, wishing to take a writing class, Earl signed up for playwriting at Foothill College. The intent was that he would take the class to interact with writers and work on his dialogue skills. He had planned on doing this for a year and then moving on, however such was not the case, because after having his first 3-
As much as he liked writing fiction, there is something to be said for โseeingโ your words on a stage. It also didnโt hurt that the first 10-
Earl currently has two collections of short stories and a novelette available on Smashwords.
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I can’t wait to discover all your own great new finds this week … so please stop by and share your link
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