Wandmaking 101

Earth, but an Earth with Magic--It's 1963, Things have been peaceful in the Republic since the Avalon War seven years ago. Sarah, Jonnie and Katie formed the Sunshine Mystery Magic Club in Brookhaven Middle School in Virginia with the idea that since they couldn't afford to buy a magic wand from Avalon, they'd try to make one. No one bothered to mention it couldn't be done. What could three middle school girls do that the scientists and mages of Earth's most brilliant colleges hadn't already tried in the years since Newton codified magic? 


Major Accipiter looks older than dirt. Half the time he feels like it, too. He's the last operational Sorceror of the Republic's Special Forces, once again told he can't retire just yet because his country needs him, something he's heard before. He's been asked to discover just who, or what, the "school teachers" of the Spiritavit School of Magic really are--and what they're up to.


She's old--she doesn't know how old, but she can remember things from eons ago: the time before the dragon came to Avalon, even the time before humans walked on Earth and Avalon. She can almost remember those who built her-their language was something no human throat could reproduce. As the years pass, she is awakened for a day when she is needed, then sleeps again. She remembers clearly loaning Excalibur to Arthur to save Avalon, and being given it back. All she wants is to walk her own path, but her stone circle wasn't designed for that-it was designed to guard the weapons she loans until some nearby world needs one. Tonight, she'll fall asleep again–but now, she's off to rescue three girls who're in more trouble than anyone else would believe. Will she be forced to go back to sleep while someone else rescues humanity?


Wandmaking 101 is:

Three parts coming of age

Two parts parents running to keep up

One part military backdrop

Two pinches of Lovecraft

One shake of a dragon

Mix well with an Arthurian legend

A recipe for Adventure

No one told them the worlds were the stakes