I've published the last two chapters of Wizards of Everfree Valley. I dedicate this story to Steve, and Woz, and Dan, and Nolan, and Bill, and Alan, and... all the pioneers of the personal computer revolution. If it wasn't for them we wouldn't be part of this global community of minds, seeking to amuse themselves, find fellowship, get educated and educate others, (or toll or be trolled!) I want to thank those pioneers for being crazy enough, and never accepting being told that what they sought

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With this chapter we return to the OC Slamjam competition. Finding a scenario to integrate the remotely stationed Evergreen into Firefly's story was a bit of a challenge. Most authors in the contest had ponies either visiting Evergreen's forest, or had her investigating some crime elsewhere. I chose the former, and used the story to move the timeline of the personal caster revolution forward a few years, to a stage where Firefly was rich, famous, and to an extent feeling confused about what he

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I just published chapter six of Wizards of Everfree Valley: The Magic of Distribution

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This chapter is the first of the original chapters published in Wizards of Everfree Valley, i.e. chapters that were not part of the OC Slamjam competition. It described an important event in the genesis of the personal spell caster industry. Resemblances to actual events and participants are entirely on purpose. Can you catch them all?

I posted another chapter of Wizards of Everfree Valley today. This one contains e introductions to one of my favorite OCs of the OC Slamjam: Falcata, the time displaced pegasus legionnaire.

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My intention in participating in the OC Slamjam contest was to develop a multi-chapter story loosely based on the life of Steve Jobs and equating the Personal Computer revolution (which I experienced very personally in the eighties and nineties) with the Personal Spell Caster revolution championed by my protagonist OC, Firefly. In fact, I chose his name very deliberately, (though some participants in the OC Slamjam complained pretty loudly about it!)

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