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New releases

jessicalittledeer — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 14:00:17 CDT

Turkey Creek is now available as a hard cover from amazon.com

Fantasy released Sept 07	Children's released Dec 07	History released April 08

What others say

jessicalittledeer — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 16:58:29 CDT

Reviewers

"Palmer is able to evoke a sense of wonder and enchangement that seems to have been lost in the marche of progress." The Northern Echo, Darlington, England.

"Palmer's work is lovingly put together." Kindred Spirit Magaizine, London, England.

"Palmer is an informative and entertaining writer . . . " S. Derrickson-Moore, Las Cruces Sun.

"Undoubtably the best, Jessica Palmer with her wit and humour. . ." Howard Watts, Substance Magazine.

"Palmer reveals good, crisp writing and tense text," The South African Times.

(Jessica Palmer ) from the past to the future with science fiction," Greenrock Telegraph.

Other authors

Ron Chetwynd-Hayes, The Monster Club: Jessica Palmer is an author with a glorious future. . . a rare and distinguished talent.

Stephen Laws, author of The Wyrme: Jessica Palmer is a real original. Her work can at once disturb, provoke and amuse. Her very own `turn of the screw' in the art of storytelling is a constant source of delight and dislocation. Just when you think you know where you are in one of Palmer's works, she creeps up behind and not only takes you by surprise, but makes you realise that you've been led deliberately and dangerously down a very dark path. Highly recommended. . .

James Herbert: True horror is based on the reality around us. Jessica Palmer delves deep into that reality and produces a superb story that is compelling as it is horrific. Palmer is set to take over Virginia Andrew's crown. Required reading. Stunning chill all along the way.

Charles Grant : Dark Lulluby is an unsettling book filled with terror and power.

Coming Soon

jessicalittledeer — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 17:35:11 CDT

In late 2009, another of the Renegades Fantasy Line

Return of the Wizard

And with McFarland Books

Tinneh: The History of the Apache Peoples

Renegades - fantasy

jessicalittledeer — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 17:14:58 CDT

Now available from Mundania

ALSO IN THE RENEGADES SERIES

Zelia is a priestess with sky-blue skin and strange tempers. Half-human and half-air elemental, she lives uneasily in the College of Healers. Perceived as an outsider, and declared a renegade, she is nevertheless chosen for strange and dangerous task.

Ares is an opportunist and adventurer. Neither elf nor human he is another outsider, welcomed by no one, mortal or otherwise.

Misfit and outcast meet, and together they discover the possess unimaginable powers of sorcery which they will need to combat the scourge that threatens the land.

For the evil necromanceer Queb, long thought dead, has returned...

The Renegades series was first published by Scholastic Books in the 1990s.


Healer's Quest, book one in the series, proved so popular that it was reprinted within a week of its release.	The Scholastic version is out of print, but Mundania Book will release the US edition of Fire Wars in 2008.	The third in the series Return of the Wizard is so rare that used copies are now selling for up to $200 a copy.

Reviews

This is what fans have to say about Renegades . . .

A big fan since I found the first of the trilogy in the school library Iv'e reread it a few times and it still stands up well to the test of time . . . if it's a laugh that you want, you'll go back to time and again. We can all relate to the stifled outcast blue skinned maid or the feared but kind snow elf in some ways, and they do make a hell of a combination. wizards beware!!

Darwi Odrade (Scotland)

. . . if you want something a little lighter in tone and weight, you could do a lot worse than "Healer's Quest". This is not a kids' book - teenagers maybe, but not one for the under-tens. And that says a lot about its suitability for adults, too. The plot, the style, the characters and the action will keep you turning the pages, and you'll be requesting the next two before you know it. In fact, my only problem with the entire trilogy is the price of the third book... But I'll survive until I can afford that; I've got the first two to keep me going!

Laligin (England)

Fire was continues the series of Ares and Zelia as well as a good storyline (If a little irrelavent due to time being reversed). We are introduced to the Gods, and see more of the world in whih Zelia and Ares live. More is revealed about Ares parentage(or at least inferred).

L.R. Cross

Just for kids

jessicalittledeer — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 15:15:17 CDT

Turkey Creek Adventures

Laura Jo receives a doll, a magic doll, from an eccentric aunt. It opens up a world of enchantment where she can talk with the animals and see fairy-tale creatures. With her newfound friends, Laura battles flood and confronts a gnome that has taken residence in her home.

Set in the Kansas plains, Turkey Creek shows rural,America where the pace is slower and life less complicated. Where mystery floats on the same breezes that cause the ripening wheat fields to ripple like a golden sea. Turkey Creek was written for the young and the young at heart. For all those people who would like to recapture lost innocence and those who believe that magic still exists in this world.

Excerpt

Laura liked coming down here, especially on hot, summer days. She and her mother would walk next to the creek, but now that she was five and all grown up--why next year she would be in first grade--her mother said Laura could come down here all by herself if she was careful of cars.

Laura walked faster. Who knows what adventures she would find there? "Who knows?" The small voice echoed her thoughts.

"Wha..." Laura never finished her sentence. Tom Cat raced along the road, chasing something--Laura didn't know what. She quickly followed to see what he had found. She stopped after she reached the shade of the trees. Tom Cat pounced, but whatever he had tried to catch ran off.

Laura slowed her pace. No point in hurrying. She reached the bridge over the creek, picked a small stone and threw it into the water. It fell with a plop. She tossed one stone after another watching the rings they made on the creeks surface.

"Help me!"

"What!" Laura jumped, dropping Cousin Jess in her surprise.

"Help! Help! Help!"

Laura turned to her right and to her left, but saw no one. She bent over to pick up the doll which had fallen in a heap at her feet.

"That won't be necessary." A small button eye winked at her. "I can get up by myself."

Laura stepped back, tripping on a twisted root. She sat down hard on the ground now eye level to the doll who sat up brushing herself off.

"You can't talk."

"I can't?"

"No, dolls don't talk."

"Dolls talk; it's just that people don't listen."

"But..."

"Help me! Won't you please help me?"

"Someone's in trouble."

Laura ignored that. "If you can talk, how come I never heard you before?"

"I told you. You weren't listening."

"How come I can hear you now?"

Tom Cat looked up from where he sat sunning himself and spoke: "I guess because you are learning how."

Stunned Laura turned to the grey tabby. "How what?"

"How to listen? It takes special people, and it takes a special ear," the doll answered.

"Help!"

To Laura's amazement, Cousin Jess stood up. "Don't you think we'd better find out what's wrong?"

Laura stood up also and nodded. She leaned out over the bridge and peered into the woods, looking for the voice's source. She saw a flash of red. A fox came into view. It ran up and down along the edge of creek's steep bank.

"Won't you please help me?" The fox panted. "It's all that rain we had the other day. My Missus and the little ones--oh please help."

"Where are they?"

"Trapped in the den. Come quickly maybe you can get them out."

Laura turned first to Cousin Jess and then to Tom Cat who was busy washing himself.

The fox darted up the small hill toward the bridge. "Follow me. Oh, please, hurry." Laura scrambled down the steep slope to the creek's edge. Cousin Jess ambled after her.

"I don't understand. Animals can't talk."

"Like dolls, I suppose."

Reviews

This book has been compared to Wind in the Willows that harkens back to an easy, more gentle time.

(You are invided to add your own review)

History

jessicalittledeer — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 15:50:59 CDT

The Dakota people, alternatively referred to as the Sioux (The People of the Seven Council Fires), have a storied history that extends to a time well before the arrival of the European. This work offers a comprehensive look at the Sioux nation and is largely based on eyewitness accounts from the Dakota themselves. It covers the legends, the traditions, and the history as given in their own winter counts. The book traces their history back to their origins. Included are detailed analyses of the various Sioux tribes and bands (the Dakota, the Lakota and Nakota). Topics explored include the Dakotas' early government, the role of women, the rituals and rites, and the influence of the white man in destroying Dakotan culture

Excerpt
. . . before there was time, Han (night) existed, but Han was not as we know it now, with the stars and the moon drifting in an indigo sky. It was empty; it was void. Inyan lived alone in the vastness of space; but like Han, Inyan was not as it is now--not made of stone---instead Inyan contained within itself all things, all life, and his spirit was Wakan Tanka1, the greatest of all mysteries, that which was both unknowable and unknown.

From the origin myth of the Oglala Sioux

Review

This book teaches without preaching. It softly challenges the widely accepted premise that America’s indigenous peoples were “less civilized” than Europeans who brought salvation and enlightenment. We learn that the Iroquois form of government influenced not only Thomas Jefferson but Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Paine, and George Washington. While much has been written about the influence of the British Magna Charta on our political system, it is refreshing to read about the democratic values expressed through the Iroquois system of governance that also influenced our great leaders.

Their knowledge, respect and reverence for what we call “the environment” is another lesson we must learn and embrace if we are to survive as a species. “They knew that each species no matter how insignificant, had it’s niche to fill, that the loss of one meant the impoverishment of the whole . . . thank you for a book that teaches, and vividly describes the complexity and sophistication of The Dakota Peoples. Congratulations on successfully comparing the moral character of native culture to the distorted views of entitlement in Manifest Destiny

Carlos Melendrez - politcal activist
Las Cruces, New Mexico

Jessica Palmer - books

jessicalittledeer — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 13:18:42 CDT

I write . . . . it is, I believe, a punishment for something I did wrong in a previous life. I write long e-mails and long letters, and just to get through the day, I write long lists.

But most of the time, I write books -- fantasy, science fiction, horror, children's books and books for adults. I write nonfiction too; I write textbooks for college students and for the post graduate.

And I work with wildlife who have inspired three books thus far and will probably inspire more. . .

Don't be timid. When looking at the table of contents, at the side of the page remember to scroll to the bottom. There are a lot of goodies that are not immediately apparent at first glance.

Other Visions of Heaven and Hell

jessicalittledeer — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 13:14:16 CDT

Proceeds go to the treatment of sick and wounded wildlife.

Donations of $25:00 receive a copy of a collected short stories,

OTHER VISIONS OF HEAVEN AND HELL.

Other Visions is definitely not a children's book. OTHER VISIONS is dark fantasy, and it is a satire. In other words, it is not for the squeamish or the faint of heart.

If you are interested in a children's book, something

on the ligher side of fiction , then you might want to try

our other website: jessicalittledeer.wetpaint.com

where we have childrens' books on offer.

If you can't decide, click here, to get a preview of Other Visions.
Once you have donated, you will receive a password, which will allow you to download the book. Because of size restrictions of this site, it comes in three parts.

The Cover
Part One
Part Two

The password you receive will be good for all three parts.

A sneak peak

jessicalittledeer — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 10:56:27 CDT

DEVIL'S DUE

On the seventh day He rested.

A big mistake.

For idle hands are the devil's playground, but God couldn't possibly know that yet, for the world was young and so was He, comparatively speaking.

Lucifer had been an angel then. The Angel of Light. And the position of devil hadn't been even been invented yet, much less filled. The daemon hadn't been demoted--by the simple expedient of removing a single letter in their names (and a few rungs on the evolutionary ladder). Thus the daemon became the demon, and the divinities of old were transformed--Astoreth becoming Astoroth and Baal, Bael. And a friend, a fiend.

A god by any other name . . .

The Almighty sniggered.

Never underestimate the power of THE WORD.

At that time, though, a week hadn't even passed, for the week also hadn't been invented yet. Jehovah hadn't got around to that until day thirty when He came up with the idea for a month. Unfortunately, He didn't bother to sit down and figure out the maths on it until He devised the concept of a year. By then it was too late, and there was no way He could correct the calculations without fiddling them.

A quarter of a day here, a quarter of a day there, and every four years, Bob's your uncle.

Time.

God grunted as he slipped into yet another veil. Now that was a bit of a botched job. In other universes, He'd dispensed with the formality as extraneous. For with time came mortality and where fatality existed desperation soon followed.

But God only understood this later, much later, after He had the opportunity to ruminate upon some obvious design flaws. He had made quite a few. He'd already had to give up on giants as too cumbersome and large lizards as too clumsy--and not particularly bright. After those first abortive attempts at creation, God had wiped the slate clean.

Except for the angels, of course. It had been the angels and not man who had been made in His image and likeness. They were immortals like Himself, and He was stuck with them as they were with Him.

Sometimes He wondered if angels had been a mistake also. They were something He'd whipped up one boring afternoon--long before day one--when the sky was grey with the nothingness of void and he had wanted someone to talk to.

Still, God thought He'd corrected the basic angelic faults when he upgraded to man. First, He'd eliminated a lot of the frivolities and fripperies. No flaming wheels of fire, no multiple tongues or thick covering of hair--each with a myriad of mouths and a multiplicity of eyes. No halos of radiant light that forced Him to squint.

Nothing flash.

No wings either. They were much too ostentatious. The daemon and angels spent hours preening them, and comparing them. ("I got sixteen-thousand and you got only four.") That was when God had discovered the sins of vanity and pride.

Wings weren't necessary for land bound creatures. So man became simple streamlined versions of the original. Never let it be said that God didn't learn from His mistakes.

He knew now that He should never have given the angels the knowledge of good and evil. With that He'd given them the ability to reason, to think and to judge others--even him the Supreme Being.

In so doing He'd opened the door to contention and debate...But in those days God had been young and idealistic, believing in individual rights. Little had He known that with this single act He'd spawned an eternity of discord and dissent.

Horror

jessicalittledeer — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 12:12:52 CDT

US/English editions

James Herbert: True horror is based on the reality around us. Jessica Palmer delves deep into that reality and produces a superb story that is compelling as it is horrific. Palmer is set to take over Virginia Andrew's crown. Required reading. Stunning chill all along the way.

Charles Grant : Dark Lulluby is an unsettling book filled with terror and power.

Norwegian versions

The Factor series - sf

jessicalittledeer — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 10:35:09 CDT


The Factor SF trilogy	published by Scholastic UK	and now out of print.

Although written for the younger reader, the Factor Series discusses many issues of our time, from war and global warming to the computerization and dehumanization of society.

Animal magic

jessicalittledeer — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 10:20:16 CDT

Another book that has become so popular that new copies are difficult to come by. Please, note it is out of stock and not out of print. If you are interested, most booksellers will be happy to order it for you.

Animal Wisdom covers some 70 animals, discussing their physical characteristics, their habitat and their range. It also gives the myths and legends assocationed with the species, including: Native American, Egyptian, Roman, Greek, Norse and Celt.
It is a handy reference for anyone interested in biology natural history and anthropology. Listings are alphabetical for ease of use.

This book has been the most cited and reviewed books with some 9 other books drawing quotes from this original sourse.

Reviews

More Kudoes from fans . . .

This is an excellent collection on animal power and a must for anybody who wishes to understand more about the magic of animals. The author clearly has a very wide depth to her knowledge, as well as imparting animal facts, she also includes information gathered from a lifetime of searching, I'm sure. Each animal (over 70 of them) has its own chapter with information such as: characteristic, legends and traditions, medicine and power from any global culture which has knowledge of that particular animal.

G.Rutter (Brighton, England)

It is truly a DEFINITIVE GUIDE to the medicine and power of animals.This book is far more detailed than others books on the subject. She covers some 68 animals in all and not all American either. ANIMAL WISDOM is nearly 400 pages. It is a true wealth of Information, one not to be passed up.

Ruby Standingdeer (Colorado)

This is by far one of the best books on the topic of animal magic I've read ... it is exceptionally thorough, an incredibly detailed animal totem dictionary. Palmer is very good at what she does. She starts with physical characteristics and environmental factors of the species, then discusses world lore and mythos surrounding it. Next she goe into more neopagan magical correspondences, and finally a paragraph or two of her observances of people associated totemically with that animal. Her writing style is excellent. Overall this is a high-quality piece of work that any worker of animal magic should own. It's a superior reference when researching totems, and a definite change of pace from the same old stuff. Good job!

Lupa (England)