George Skipworth: 14 books

The Shindaheen, Chadshar, and four thousand Native American warriors meet the unlikeliest invasion in the unlikeliest of locations, turning our preconceptions of off-world life upside-down. Where are they from, why are they here, and do they really eat that stuff? Vilia isn't going to like this one bit.

Before the rise of the "Mighty Five" in The Simpering, North Dakota, Literary Society, these female geniuses were all over the world leading colorful and often dangerous lives. Follow their younger years, in which colorful historical characters appear in important ways - including Annie Oakley (who...

A 24 - stage psychodrama based on the poems used by Franz Schubert in his famous song cycle, Die Winterreise. A tale that goes from rejection to insanity as the central character travels throughout the ancient world, colorful and imposing characters abound, such as Knochenfrau (bone woman) and Leirmann, himself. We all have to go into the woods sometime, but like this?

In the 4th volume of Fables of the Carpailtin Campfire, Airna, the pint-sized heroine of Shindaheen, has grown up, and is definitely in charge. The 4th volume asks the question, "What do you do when your time fold is under attack?" The answer - close down, build a new one, appoint a new queen who's never touched a weapon, and go on vacation in Legend.

Card shark and ex-nun, Farika Zingarella, won the greatest game of poker ever played. Her prize, the town of Simpering, North Dakota. Gathering like-minded female geniuses to her side, she established an empire capable of holding off the world - which is precisely what they did. There wasn't much...

Among the most epic sci-fi/fantasy works to come out in years, Shindaheen relives the exploits of what one critic described as "The woman Star Wars forgot!" With its non-stop interplanetary action, poignant philosophy and outlandish humor, one senses a witch's brew of Christopher Mooreishness, a space...

Shindahee heroine Vilia (Vykelli) must undergo The Three Conundrums, an alternate world free from the laws of physics and spacetime. It's all fabricated, but you still might not come back alive. The Conundrum is where logic goes to die, but Lewis Carroll's Alice is going down the rabbit hole again, armed to the teeth this time.

Teri Jane McRae has been brutally attacked in a robbery outside of the Vancouver Public Library, and thrown into the pages of the book she was just reading. Only Zossima, an escapee from a Dostoyevsky novel, can get her home, but not until she figures out his "miracle."

Joey still hasn't learned. In his dual exitence across the dreamline as a seven and thirty-year old, he's done it this time, falling head over heels for Rita Hayworth. The problem, he can't dance - not a lick, she doesn't belong in either one of his eras, and the seven-year old brain is starting to take over - disaster ahead.

An enlightened race of women fight to protect the men of Earth from a sisterhood that still views males as food.It doesn't matter who you are. If you've ever been stalked by one, lived with one, married one, or Heaven forbid picked a fight with one, you don't need us to tell you what trouble you're...

Mark Twain and his favorite riverboat captain return, comet-borne from the far shores of Heaven, with some new thoughts on the hereafter and some never-told tales from the here-below.

An elderly British woman on the east coast of England fancies that if she sits on a certain pew in the ruins of an old church, she can speak to and guide the steps of the soldiers stranded on the beach at Dunkirk. With a touch of Paul Gallico's The Snow Goose, a healthy helping of the supernatural, and a village trying to bring her to her senses.

Joey has a time problem. As a seven-year old back home, on the other side, he's thirty, and has fallen for famous dancer, Eleanor Powell. That brings its own set of difficulties, but when the seven-year old bleeds over the line and starts weaving island fantasies and making decisions, it all goes outrageously weird.

We only know Mozart's infamous page boy from a twety-four hour period in the priceless "Le Nozze di Figaro." Here is the following 12 years, in which we discover that Mozart is rife with Cherubino's relatives, and that the line between earthly success and the supernatural is razor thin.