Author Description

Fairy Tales, Folklore, Legends & Myth Collide - in an Enchanting New Children's (9-12) Action Adventure Novel. Hailed "A Story to Love" by Critics. - Masterfully crafted, Piper takes young readers back to the golden age of piracy as they embroil themselves in the power of music and the written word. A literary cocktail of myth, folklore, song and legend; a new style of fairy tale that fuses its innate innocence with the freedom and intensity that only magic can provide. (308 pages; available in paperback, hardcover, eBook, and Kindle) 30+ chapters span three acts and read like short stories with action, adventure, and lyric. "Critique: Exceptionally well written, "Piper" clearly reveals author Gene Black as having a genuine flair for original and deftly crafted storytelling. "Piper" is a consistently compelling and unfailingly entertaining read from cover to cover. Highly recommended and certain to be an enduringly popular addition to community library General Fiction collections." - Midwest Book Review Volume 16, #4, April 2017 Story review by author Emily-Jane Hills Orford for Readers' Favorite: "Timothy Rags, or Taylor as he liked to be called, is a detective. He's on a sabbatical of sorts, imposed by his employers. He's been sent to de-stress in a tiny village, Kipper's Cove. Stumbling out of a storm into a quaint store, he discovers a book which the owner, Samuel, lends him. Back at his lodgings, Taylor immerses himself in the book and finds himself swept into another world, another time, in a tiny village called Thyme on the river Thymes. And Samuel's there too, as is the lovely landlady's daughter, Ms. Gibson. The year is now 1712, about three hundred years before Taylor's time, and the Samuel and Ms. Gibson of this century share the story of an adventure filled with the power of music and the power of the written word, a story that makes the reader believe they've fallen down the rabbit hole with Alice, or flown off with th