This year has already been a productive one, book-wise, as I am tying up some loose ends this year and next and finishing up some novels I had begun but were unfinished.
The Mythic Hunter of Dusseldorf is one of those novels. My first children's fantasy book, it draws on characters and stories I read as a child and young adult from people like Astrid Lindgren, George MacDonald, Tolkien, and C.S. Lewis to create the Mythic Hunter, a fairy Queen in another realm called Aldermere. The Aldermere world is overlapped with a forest outside Dusseldorf, Germany, in Europe.
This story is developing rapidly as I got down my first draft this year and actually finished the manuscript from begining to end with some conceptual plot devices.
I wanted to finish up this book since 2023 when I put out a video onYouTube on fairies, mentioning this book and quoting an earlier poem. The quote on Pan, although he was not a Greek god in the book, played out as I was able to weave him into the story, and he is a fairy that leads a group of boy fairies and plays a wild flute in Aldermere.
The story begins with a young girl of ten named Marina who is unhappy with her size and having food and nourishment issues, along with being the child of a single mother who works at the local hotel as a laundress. She inavertently stumbles into fairyland, where she has many detailed adventures, including meeting a boy named Ansel. They solve fairyland riddles, mysteries, and there is even a few ballads thrown in from the resident prophet, a fairy named Orin.
I have been generating some images to inspire me as I write the book, and I have shared some of them with you. I am looking forward to seeing if this book will be acquired by a publisher when I am finished editing it. I can hardly wait to see my book read by Middle Grade readers, usually grade 6-8.
Emily
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