Paula Baker and her son, Aidan Davies, have a special bond that has them creating fabulous new worlds and populating them with fantastic characters.
Baker grew up on a farm in Manitoba, Canada where she spent as much time reading everything from Enid Blyton to Charles Dickens as she did playing her trumpet, building treehouses, and riding her bike. After earning a Bachelor of Music Education from Brandon University and a Master’s in Gifted Education from the University of North Texas, she worked as a band teacher and librarian for thirty-five years.
Davies grew up in British Columbia, Canada reading Percy Jackson and Harry Potter, playing Legend of Zelda and Assassin’s Creed, and building longswords and armour out of wood. After attending the University of British Columbia, he earned a degree in mathematics. During the day, he analyzes data, while at least part of his brain continues to develop the fantasy worlds where his stories take place. They live in British Columbia, Canada.
Paula Baker and her son, Aidan Davies, have a special bond that has them creating fabulous new worlds and populating them with fantastic characters.
Baker grew up on a farm in Manitoba, Canada where she spent as much time reading everything from Enid Blyton to Charles Dickens as she did playing her trumpet, building treehouses, and riding her bike. After earning a Bachelor of Music Education from Brandon University and a Master’s in Gifted...
In a land gripped by tyranny, a masked rebel stirs the embers of revolution. Assassins are not always the bad guys.
Cadmon has always been a loyal member of the King’s Guard, shouldering the blame for serving the corrupt king of Abbarkon. But when he is ordered to perform yet another abomination, he can no longer stand idly by while innocent...
A dark sorcerer, a corrupt king, and a hidden village of rebels.
Assassins are not always the bad guys.
A page-turning, sword-fighting fantasy adventure for middle grade and up.
In Abbarkon, it's best to keep your head down and your guard up. As long as he can remember, Flint has done exactly that. He ignores the whispers of a monster named...
Strangest Intelligence: Book 2 in Legend of Order and Chaos is coming together. After my little vacation from it while I wrote the first chapters of Four Old Women Go to Machu Picchu, I’m back to work. The memoir will have to wait until after May when we make the trip.
Thank you, by the way, to all those people who let me know they enjoyed the opening chapter. I’m having fun with it. The style of writing is so far removed from what I normally do—and as an added bonus, I...
Aidan and I write fantasy. I love piecing intricate lore together to form a world and peopling it with characters. And Aidan loves crafting a story line filled with battles and wondrous magic.
But last week, I woke up with a new idea. So I gave myself a vacation from fantasy. Aidan was a little concerned—but I assured him that I can do both. I would take ten days to get the new project underway and then split my time evenly so they both...
Have you ever noticed that names in fantasy books can be difficult to hook your mind around? Or is that just me?
Tolkien, the man who built the cornerstone for modern fantasy, started the ball rolling with the complicated, unpronounceable names. As a professional philologist (scholar of historical languages), he drew heavily from Old English, Old Norse, Finish, Welsh, Gothic, Latin, Greek and others. Plus, he invented at least 15 languages—6 or 8 of which are fully developed with...
