Frost

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Synopsis:

In the fog-laden streets of Newport, Jack Frost, an artist with untapped potential, finds his world unraveling as nightmares begin to invade his reality. When his beloved cat is mysteriously killed, he discovers an ancient world of fae and magic hidden within the shadows of his city. Guided by a mysterious woman named Summer, Jack is drawn into a conflict that threatens to shatter the delicate balance between the human realm and the world of the Sidhe.

As Jack navigates this new reality, he encounters allies among the fae, including the enigmatic Dobbs and the wise Duncan Thrift. Alongside his friends Ryan and Chris, Jack must harness his newfound powers to stand against the treacherous Summer and her dark ally, Bander of the Host.

Join Jack and his companions in a world where art and magic collide and where the fate of two worlds hangs in the balance. Frost is a captivating urban fantasy that will transport readers to a realm where the extraordinary becomes reality.

Frost is a spellbinding journey that explores the magic hidden in the everyday and the power of hope in the face of darkness.

I began writing Frost when I took a creative writing course in graduate school at the University of Cincinnati taught by Josip Novakovich. I showed up assuming we’d be writing short stories, but he informed the class that we’d be working on “our novels.” I hadn’t even contemplated writing a novel, but there you are.

And thus Frost was born. I wrote about seventy pages of this story in one quarter, and never picked it back up. At the time I was very self conscious that this story borrowed from ideas in Emma Bull’s War for the Oaks, and pretty much everything Charles de Lint had written, but particularly his novel Jack the Giant Killer.

Every few years I’d pick it back up and read it and consider investing more time in it. This past year I was bogged down in my current project, a novel called Legacy of the Bitterroots – A Crystal Village Tale, and I was stuck, not making any headway. One evening I picked Frost back up and thought – since I was stuck on my other book, maybe this one could be a quickly finished Novella. And in a few weeks, Frost 2025 was completed.

I was Jack’s age when I started this book, and now in my 50s, having children Jack’s age, I have a very different relationship to the characters.

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