Frostflower and Windbourne
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Phyllis Ann Karr
Born 1944, death date not yet established. Lifelong fictioneer, primary publisher for the last few decades Wildside Press. Savoyard (fan only, non-singing), Droodophile, etc.Pictured with my beloved husband Clifton Alfred Hoyt, who among other things invented a means of measuring gas in tenths of a gallon when pumped into your car. He moved out of his body in 2005. (Note: that's ALFRED, not "Albert," as some places seem to have it erroneously.I once had a poor little website. It got eaten by some Japanese(?) concern peddling -- as nearly as I could make out -- cosmetics. As nearly as I could see, it had never profited me; and as of today, it seems as nearly as I can see to have vanished. Now I leave it all to Wikipedia (which may not always be reliable), Amazon, and Smashwords.Throughout my life (77 years and counting), every time I have tried to blow my own trumpet, somebody has thrown heavy lumps of discouragement into its bell. Now I am like someone shipwrecked on a desert island with several cases of pop, reams of paper, and sharpened pencils, who, after drinking up each bottle, puts in a message and tosses it into the ocean. A few of these messages may eventually be picked up; and, since it will probably be too late for the writer, at least let the message itself give a little enjoyment to the finder.in February 2022 I was appalled to find that somehow -- who was responsible for the goof may never be known -- the dollar ninety-nine cents I thought I had listed for my "Polifonix Poems" message-in-bottle had got transmogrified to a hundred and ninety-nine dollars!! I don't think there is any newly published and/or currently available volume of verse anywhere in the world worth that kind of asking price, unless perhaps it were privately printed on thin sheets of beaten gold and bound in unicorn hide. Apologies to anyone who may have glimpsed that absurd $199.00 and pictured me as endowed with an ego bigger than Mount Everest. Although leaving the price to the purchaser amounts to "free," that's much better than risking such a ridiculously out-of-line price tag by mistake; and I am, after all, pretty well just tossing out messages in bottles.
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- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Accused of murder and sentenced to be stripped of his powers, the sorcerer WindBourne only wants to clear his name - or at least announce his innocence. The warrior Thorn, who helped him escape against her better judgment, wants her name cleared, as well. Thorn's sorceress friend FrostFlower is prepared to help both. But while sorcerers of both sexes are roundly mistrusted and feared by the farmer folk & priests, they're actually very limited by what their very particular ethics will allow them to do, say, and eat. If Frost and WindBourne can't find the will to sacrifice, or at least bend, some of their scruples, someone (else) may wind up dead.A roughly written fantasy. The contrast between the meek and mild, ethical vegetarian, FrostFlower, and the coarser, far more pragmatic and violent Thorn is an interesting juxtaposition. But having encountered Frost and Thorn before in more tightly composed short stories in the Sword and Sorceress series edited by Marion Zimmer Bradley, I was expecting more... well, more. There's a bit of suspense, and a moment or two of tension, but on the whole things stay fairly predictable.