The next step of my writing journey begins with the winter solstice as the manuscript for my new novel Garden of Heaven begins making the rounds of prospective publishers. My avatars, the Black Horse and the Golden Eagle, are used throughout the novel as yin and yang symbols.
Several of the characters in this new story also appeared in my 2004 metaphysical fantasy novel, The Sun Singer . "The Sun Singer" was inspired by dream images that haunted me after a childhood trip to Robert Allerton Park in Monticello, Illinois. There you will find the bronze statue representing Apollo that captured my attention 45 years before I wrote the novel.
"The Sun Singer," set in Glacier National Park, is a hero path novel about a young man who travels to an unknown mountain world to complete a dangerous mission begun years earlier by his avatar grandfather. Among his tasks: climbing 'The Guardian,' the mountain of visions known in our world as Chief Mountain. He enters that world with a gift that will either save his life or ensure he will never return from his quest.
The novel is available in trade paperback and e-book formats. To celebrate the novel's third anniversary and to help fight air pollution in America's national parks, 100% of the royalties from the e-book version of the novel purchased after June 1, 2007 are being donated to the National Parks and Conservation Association. That's a $3 donation for every $6 e-book!
You can find me on the Internet at my Malcolm R. Campbell.com , at my Round Table and at my daily Writer's Notebook .
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Praise for The Sun
Singer
"The Sun Singer is gloriously
convoluted, with threads that turn on themselves and lyrical prose on which you
can float down the mysterious, sun-shaded channels of this charmingly liquid
story." --Diana Gabaldon
"A remarkable facet of what I hope will become a fantasy series--this book would even be more appreciated if another in the adventure followed it." --Nancy Morris, AllBooks Reviews
"Malcolm R. Campbell has successfully crafted an elegant, romantic fantasy of good vs. evil that most fans of the genre should appreciate." -- Tabitha