![]() ![]() The animals are made of fleece and velveteen, and the illustrator's fine crayon drawings emphasize these textures, right down to the knitting on the stocking cap and the ends of yarn on its pompom. ![]() Everything in it is soft, warm, and cuddly, including the animals, the bed, the nest, even the socks. By morning, Hoot has reunited the socks with their mates and sleeps comfortably in his new nest. After an owl's lunch (midnight snack to the others), all return to their beds. The other animals offer to replace it with an equally warm, snugly cap and help him get it to the top of the wardrobe. He wakes the others, and they all try to find the source of the mysterious "hoot." It turns out to be an owl whose nest, made from the missing socks, has fallen to the bedroom floor. All of the stuffed animals are asleep except Little Bear, who is frightened by a strange noise. ![]() A story that offers one explanation for where missing socks go. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Her first volume of "straight" historical fiction - a book about Mary Todd Lincoln called The Emancipator's Wife - is already gaining her a new audience. From there, she proceeded to a historical mystery - The Quirinal Hill Affair, now out of print - a format that she returns to with the Benjamin January murder mysteries. In 1982, Del Rey published her Time of the Dark, and the Darwath Trilogy was born. She has been contacted about writing an adventure/fantasy Comix series, and has contributed a graphic novel to The Victorian, a comic series produced by Pennyfarthing Press. She also wrote scripts for cartoons at one time, including three for the show Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors and one for He-Man. She searched for a job that would allow her time to write, trying various positions: a high-school teacher, a model, a waitress, a technical editor, a professional graduate student, an all-night clerk at a liquor store, and a karate instructor. She also spent time in Bordeaux, France as part of her studies. She attended University of California at Riverside, specializing in Medieval History and eventually earning a masters degree in 1975. She grew up in Montclair (in southern California), except for one high school semester spent in New South Wales, Australia. ![]() VJ Books Presents Author Barbara Hambly! Barbara Hambly was born in the Naval Hospital of San Diego, California, on the 28th of August, 1951. ![]() ![]() You are here: Home > Our Authors > Hambly, Barbara ![]() ![]() While Tom is agonizing over what to do, Grace is having his own troubles. ![]() In short order, Tom gets an email with a dire warning from Scarab Productions: If he tries to open the program or contact the producers or the police, he’ll be killed along with his wife and children. He takes it home, idly boots it up and discovers in the few moments before it stops playing and begins to erase his hard drive that it’s a record of the brutal murder of Janie Stretton, the law student whose mangled body has launched the Sussex CID on a frenzied investigation. Leaving the commuter train at Brighton, struggling entrepreneur Tom Bryce finds an unlabeled CD where a particularly obnoxious fellow-traveler had been sitting. Roy Grace’s sophomore case is just as suspenseful as his first ( Dead Simple, 2006), and just as wildly improbable. ![]() ![]() ![]() One such example was Dino-Cop, a clear take on Image Comics' hero Savage Dragon. Other ideas included a Nazi universe, a world dedicated to the Shazam Family, as well as obvious pastiches of characters from other publishers. ![]() Perhaps the most prescient was the world of "The Just," which looked at young superheroes through a social media lens. Likewise, "Pax Americana", asked what would happen if Alan Moore's intentions to use Charlton Comics' characters in Watchmen, with the result being a conspiratorial caper headlined by familiar heroes. For instance, the world of The Society of Super-Heroes took familiar members of the Justice Society of America and placed them in a fantasy world inspired by pulp magazines. While the central premise of The Multiversity involved a villainous horde known as The Gentry (a disguised take on the idea of gentrification), the real meat behind it was a look at Morrison's sometimes bizarre reinterpretations of the DC Universe. ![]() |