My great-grandfather also told me this little tidbit, which, being a science major (biology) I never would have known (and frankly this one leaves me a little woozy): In Dwarf Story, we meet Dera, who is the grandmother of Cry, and Cry is one of Arty’s friends – so named because he quickly becomes sobby …
Besides the “Dwarfspeak,” there are a few other interesting parts of the composition of the book where I wonder how much my great-grandfather did versus what he was given, or found, or otherwise collected and came to send the original pages of the Dwarf Story. I asked him once about the incantations (the “counterspells”) that …
It’s like an epilogue, but I tell it, and tell it now that all the excitement has died down.While finishing my cycle of drawings, and all my journal entries on the Fairy Battle – it took weeks – I read a lot of folktales from the old days, the ones that Arty’s books listed and …
Emma left for Scotland later that Summer, after the May excitement and fairy battles. She finally took an interest in my list of lists of folktale creatures and their talents, and picked a few that she believed – with all her new experience – were most like her, that she must have “kinship” with, she …
Having those children running in and out of our home – the famed Eastward Manor that my wife Trudy and I proudly took ownership of many years ago – was a new experience, to be sure. Of course, this was while the house and grounds were filled with creatures of folklore legend, and they were …
With all the trouble I had getting great-grandad to get on a computer and use email – ancient technologies indeed – he was surprisingly engaged and interested when I explained to him the need to use social networking when publishing a book – or doing anything else if you want to still qualify as a …
This is Arty. Dwarf-finder Arty. Friend-rescuer Arty, Gwyllion-fighter Arty. And Summertime Arty, because it is Summer. Usually Summertime Arty has projects – microscope stuff, internet stuff – but this year is different because the fairy creature war left behind a lot of unanswered questions, a lot of mysterious answers, and a lot of spare clues. …
Me (GGD): Hi. (blah blah, I ask about his health, and how Rogers is doing, then) The book is at the printers (he doesn’t know about modern production, it’s just easiest to sum up the 11,000 steps to get the book into Amazon in this way), with the extra stuff you wanted. I have a …
Some of the Dwarf words that Thryst uses in Dwarf Story were not in the original manuscript pages that W.W. Marplot sent to me. The professor gave me lists and – sometimes vague – meanings of the words, with suggestions (a little less vague) for which to use when. I didn’t question this when putting …
It used to be rare that WW and I would speak by phone – it is not an easy process and he prefers the written word of course – luckily, as the joke goes, his amanuensis (Rogers Pettigout-Smythe II, taking over in his father’s role after the latter’s death) one day pulled swapped out the …
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