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Wizardry for Fun and Profit
Wizardry for Fun and Profit
Wizardry for Fun and Profit
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Wizardry for Fun and Profit

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It's odd, but I didn't really know my sister was serious about leaving home until my father told me, “Sam, your sister is serious about leaving home.”

But then, in his very next sentence, he shook me up, really shocked me. He said, “You should probably go too. You could keep an eye on her.”

What ? I mean, this was Frannie's harebrained idea, not mine. I had responsibilities—three goats, some chickens, even a cow. No way I could just walk out on all that. Was this some sort of weird punishment for something?

He said, “It would be good for you. You're old enough... a grown man, in fact. Think about it.”

Oh, sure. Throw that in my face! Anyhow, I drug my feet, but before you know it we got off the bus in Albuquerque, only to be mugged by this scruffy over-size teenager, jailed for helping a fake cop steal furniture from an old lady (not my fault) and nearly run over—on purpose mind you—by a bunch of gangsters.

And Frannie has these magic powers, but did that do us any good? No. We just got in more trouble. Especially since she accidentally turned all our cash into toilet tissue.

Then I remember that everybody in our home town has some kind of magic. So, why am I surprised when I find out I can make all kinds of things move? And I mean, really move! That would have been a helpful trick to know back when we got off the bus.

Anyhow, I make friends with the teenage mugger, meet a gorgeous lady gardener, Nancy, and try to help out some old folks financially by picking winners at the horse races in Santa Fe.

And Frannie—get this—she gets kidnapped by the gangster and falls for the sorry... Oh, well. But she tries to impress the guy by fixing (with magic) the same horse races that I'm trying to bet on. Plus, how was I to know my mugger friend was under age to bet on the races? I did know his step-dad was a cop, but... well yeah, that was my bad.

And then things just get out of hand.

I mean, who is this old beggar guy with the lisp? And his friend with all the money who looks like some big bird? I thought they were going to help us, but...

Anyway, I'd just like to go home and check on my goats. But then, there is Nancy...

So, I'll let you know how it all turns out.

LanguageEnglish
Release dateJun 26, 2020
ISBN9780463514429
Wizardry for Fun and Profit
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Leo Moss

So I always wanted to be a writer, and when I got sucked into being an “editor” for Yucca Road Productions' series of subject guides, I took my opportunity and ran with it.(Notice I put the word editor in quotes. They think I don't know they gave me the job title just so I'd do all the grunt work that they don't want to do. As if!)Anyhow, my earlier gig as a webmaster for a mid-sized public school district was great training for all the computer-related hoops you have to jump through to get books up and running. I edited all the books in the Knowledge Blaster! Series for YRP and a couple of books by Terry Marsh, also for YRP. And at the same time, unbeknownst to the muckety-mucks, I wrote a couple of books and—you guessed it—edited them too.The first book was a collection of poems about all kinds of things, and Terry told me I have a fifth-grade sense of humor. But then he read my little rhyme “The Wonder at Widow's Lake,” and his eyebrows went way up and he looked at me like he was meeting someone new for the first time. Y'know? That made me smile.I called it Something Different because, well, it totally is. Check out the owl on the cover.The second book was years in the making, as they say. Not that I literally spent years on it, but it took me years of thinking how I'd like to be a writer before I finally forced myself to sit down and write. And even then it took a long time because I wrote about a couple of wizards, and I was just making stuff up until I finally found some wizards that I could sit down with and ask what it was really like. After that, it was cake.Terry kind of, in an off-handed way— so he really doesn't deserve any credit—suggested the name Wizardry for Fun and Profit. But it made me smile, and I totally had the final say-so, except for the muckety-mucks.So anyhow, if you like books like Angela's Ashes or Tuesdays with Maurie, don't even bother reading my work. I just write stuff that makes me smile. Maybe you'll get a grin, too.Just kidding about finding the wizards.Or am I?

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