Some of you may not have found time yet to read my historical fantasy novels, The Magic Battery and Spells of War. If you haven’t, you can get them now for just $1.00 each from Smashwords with the coupon code SG36X. This offer is good for the rest of 2023.
Here’s Chapter 40 of The Magic Battery. It’s a little Christmas story by itself.
The Christmas guests at Thomas’s house were the mages Lucas Schneider, Jacob Kessler, and their families. The dinner, everyone agreed, was excellent. The fire made the room pleasantly warm. Everyone was in good spirits.
Kessler stood on a chair and raised his cup. “To Thomas Lorenz, for bringing in a new age of magic!” All joined in enthusiastically.
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My short story, “Snares of Satan,” is now on this site in German.
“Reconstructing the original German” of the story was an interesting exercise, since my German is far from fluent. It’s a manual translation, but I made heavy use of these online tools:
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