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The Shaky Season: a Story
The Shaky Season: a Story
The Shaky Season: a Story
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In the Callilibong, the vampires arent shiny, and they arent brimming with teen angst or swimming in oceans of drama. Here in the Callilibong they arent even called Vampires, and this book isnt really about themmores the pity because I hear theyre really big at the moment. What you are holding in your hot little hands is a story about a boy named Evan, two men called Pleth and Falco, and all the various troubles they get into in their roles as Tradesmen, the protectors of The Valley Between the Mountains the Callilibong, in the old Mahoot tongue. Now this is what Callilibong means. Now before you pass on this opportunity in an undue fit of pique, understand that there are vampires inside (though we call them night folk here) and werewolves and a number of other nasty creatures collectively known as creatures of the dusk world. And they are always up to trouble of some sort. Thats why we have tradesmen, and thats where Evans story (which is also Pleth and Falcos story) begins. So pick it up, drop a bit of thread on the pay counter, and have yourself an enjoyable experience in the nooks and crannies of a truly original fantasy world.
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PublisherAuthorHouse
Release dateMay 19, 2017
ISBN9781524691080
The Shaky Season: a Story
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Joshua K. Sapp

Joshua K. Sapp has been writing fiction, fantasy and otherwise, for near on to forty years now. His first attempt, “Kitty Coincidence and His Junkyard Crew’ , though a fair enough effort, failed to garner him admission to the 1980 edition of the Knox County Young Author’s Conference but don’t worry . . . he’s gotten better. In between long days and hard nights of work, study and family time he’s managed to kick out a fair number of short stories, unfinished novels and soppy, prosaic poetry. He’s been a carpenter, mechanic, warehouse worker and, most recently, truck driver and that has given him the unique experience of witnessing this ride we call life from a large variety of seats and through innumerable sets of eyes. The path of life has led him to some strange places and across some even stranger days and he’s copy and pasted most all of it to his own personal in-box. He may not be your typical ‘professional’ writer - or your typical anything - but the man can weave a tale just wait and see. Joshua K. Sapp has enjoyed the varied realms of fantasy since his Dungeons and Dragons days (World of Greyhawk, First Edition, if you needs ask) and will continue to enjoy them until the day he passes from this earth to whatever lies beyond the veil. It’s a great honor to him to be permitted to add his few words to the great book that began with the first fellow to ever spin a tale in front of the cookfire and he’d like to thank you personally (he knows that because he is writing this) for your readership and congratulate you for choosing to imbibe his particular brew. Joshua K. Sapp currently lives in the woods and wilds of Knox County, Ohio, with his lovely wife, two lively children and lazy cat, in a pleasant but far too small little house in an occasionally quiet neighborhood.

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