The novel, Sylvanus Anonymus of the Greenfriars, has just been released, and is available from Lulu.com for $18 plus shipping.
Overview
Ed Pacht, a resident of Rochester NH,
keeps meeting a pair of strange green-robed friars in various unlikely places:
at a Renaissance Faire in Lebanon ME, at a grotto called Gully Oven in the same
town, at Hanson’s Pines, the Intervale, and Wyandotte Falls in Rochester, in
his sister’s back woods in Meredith, in the woods behind his childhood home in
Grafton, and at Bailey’s Island in Maine.
The friars have a mission, to deliver him, piece by piece, the
manuscript of a strange tale for him to edit.
The tale is of a not-quite-England around
the year 1000, of the foundation of the Greenfriars, of their establishment of
a tree-house friary in the Deep Wood, a parallel earth reached through magical
Gates, and of their involvement with the political events of the city of Wellchester. The central characters are Sylvan, once the
scion of a noble family, the founder of the order, and his protégé Kenneth
(Cakennet), a rescued boy turned hero.
The church is consistently at center stage, on both the good and evil
sides of the action.
The action revolves around the oppression
by an evil duke and his corrupt brother the bishop of the populace of the city
and the duchy, and of an uprising in which the friars are much involved. It is structured around three “cycles” in
which the brethren emerge from the friary, take part in the Duchy’s events, and
return to the Friary. Since time flows
differently in the two worlds, a certain degree of time-travel intrudes into
the story, with elements of paradox.
I had another Blog labeled Poetreader that I used very seldom. It seems to be still up, but I no longer have access to post on it, and will be trying to resurrect some of those posts on this blog, and to make occasional entries
Brother Sylvan the Bard,
ReplyDeleteAs the recipient of one of your poems entitled "Safe" which was written about a photographic image that was shown at the July art exhibit in Riverstones, I want to thank you! It was an honor to have my work chosen for your poetry, a d it will be cherished...thank you!
Pat Watts
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