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The Owl Has Landed! Kalfona 1: Escape the Aviary goes to print! Find it on Amazon. Write a review or email me what you think. Meanwhile, it's time to start banging on the keyboard to finish Kalfona 2: Bird in the Syrup. Cheers! ![]() Kalfona: Escape the Aviary is available for purchase! The Kingdom of Kalfona knows it survives upon the ruins of an ancient, high-tech civilization. Official interpretation declares nuclear war was the harbinger of the Breeds Disease, the sinking landscape, and the fall of ‘Ancient Merka’, but historians who study the evidence don’t buy the party line. In Kalfona: Escape the Aviary, Charlie Banta has thirsted for a career in history all her life, yet when she comes of age to work, the kingdom decides her fertility is more important to the dwindling human race than her book smarts. Charlie’s journey begins inside a privileged commune where she must learn how to think ‘outside the cage’ in order to secure her right to study Merkan history. With the help of the four men on the History Team, Charlie struggles for balance on the fine wire between behaving and breaking the law so she can also earn the right not to have children. Meanwhile, peculiar Merkan artifacts are trickling into town, and these objects should be a lot more decayed than they are. It was hard enough to get the government to allow a woman on the History Team, now she must convince them to let a woman risk her ovaries on an archaeological expedition into the wilds of Kalfona. ![]() Photo by Hyn May Productions Kalfona Is Now Seeking Agents Kalfona 1 : Escape the Aviary is now seeking literary agents! Thanks to the valiant weed-whacking skills of Editor Katie Kennedy, the custom art drawn by Patience Gonzales, the awesome website work of David Eastham, and my too many to list proofreaders who dutifully drove me to insanity, Kalfona 1: Escape the Aviary has begun its rounds about the country in search of an agent. You can read the sample here. Remember to add your email to my list on the Contacts page so you can get updates on its adventurous path into print. To mark this momentous occasion, I give you one of my favorite poems of all time: Author to her Bookby Anne Bradstreet Thou ill-formed offspring of my feeble brain, Special thanks to all my friends who have supported, heckled, poked, bugged, and bothered me to get it done. ~Cass The Meat Eater Finished His Meal Some years back, I ended up at a diner for a 3 a.m. breakfast with my crotchety old uncle Joe, a triple-divorced Viet Nam veteran from El Paso, who ordered his meal as such, “I’ll have two aborted chicken fetuses, a couple of slices of fried pig ass, and a cup of shoe polish.”The waitress rolled with it so well she didn’t even crack a smile. “And how you would you like your aborted chicken fetuses cooked?” The moment made a good launch point for a project I did for a college film class. You can find the script and film Meat Eater on the Shorts page. The gang had a great time putting it together. Thanks for your help, (from left to right) Barb Shapiro, Danielle Setherley, me, Patience Gonzales, Megan Kennedy. You guys rock. ~Cass ![]() "I remember about 10 years ago reading these stories. I was still in high school and doing through a really hard time. These stories were by far the best that I had ever read, published or not, and kept my imagination running when I felt like I had nothing left. I wish I could write like this author could, because in no way shape or form could I express my heartfelt gratitude and admiration for what 'Living Legend' has meant to me. When I had tried to find these stories again a few years later, the original website had been taken down and I trolled various Star Wars boards searching for this trilogy again with little success. At one point I had gotten a hold of books 1-4, but were lost when my computer crashed at the end of my college days. This afternoon I tried yet another hopeless search, but for some reason I found these postings on - it must have been meant to be. Miss Eastham, you are a fantastic writer. You have brought to life an alternate universe in which my favorite character shows his true personality. I remember when I was younger imagining that I was part of this world you had written and not of my own. Your story gave me hope in a time in which I had none, and it helped me through my own self-discovery and shaped me into the adult I am today - still a dreamer, as always. Thank you for taking the time to write these stories. I won't ramble on more, but I hope that this attempt at a review will illustrate how much your writing has meant to me." Review on Living Legend : Book 3 : The Long Story Posted by sixteenstep on FanFiction.net on 12/01/2009 My favorite review. ~Cass |