The writings of Mary Woodbury (pen: Clara Hume)
Note that this story is fairly long, and I’ve only added the first chapter here. It’s something I wrote as a teenager/young adult. I can see how my writing style has changed quite a bit. The title “Mt. Sapo” is just a thought. Part One Chapter 1 My daddy told me a piece of trivia…
ISBN: 978-1-927685-30-3 Order: Amazon.com, Barnes & Noble Publication Date: October 16, 2018 Suggested Market Retail Price: $14.95 USD/CAD Back to the Garden is in its 2nd edition, launching the new Wild Mountain series in October 2018. Clara Hume’s speculative ecofiction, Back to the Garden, is told from the perspective of a group of “tipping point”…
This is a game idea I had back in 2006. The idea and design of this potential MMORPG is © Mary Woodbury, though cited notes are referenced throughout. Ama Lur is a MMORPG starting in mythical Basque country and Cantabria, but will include all of Spain in expansions – representing other regions. Spain expands old…
Stormbird Press is doing such a wonderful job! This is one of their newest books, and I am completely honored to be one of the authors. I told the story of our visit to the Atnarko River, which we paddled in late August 2015–it was a grizzly bear rafting tour in Bella Coola, the gateway…
This is another story draft I’ve had on me for a few years. It’s the first horror type of writing I’d ever tried, though later I was playing around with weird fiction. The wind outside Cabin 4 kicked up from the north, blowing snow at a sharp angle so that it piled up sideways against…
This is a short story that never really went anywhere, so I figured I’d post it here for fun. It’s also just a draft. Sarah wanted to sleep often these days. Sleep was where she could find Charlie. The only other place he existed was in the far reaches of her memory. Before she closed…
I’m excited and relieved that I finally got Back to the Garden revised, with a beautiful new cover, and uploaded all the new files to the printer. You may pre-order the Kindle version at Amazon. First, the art for the gorgeous new covers in this series are from original canvas abstract oil paintings by “borojoint,”…
ISBN: 978-1-927685-29-7 Coming in 2019 Part 2 of the Wild Mountain series, To the Waters and the Wild (out in 2019) takes place two and a half decades after the previous novel and begins at Back to the Garden‘s Wild Mountain in Idaho. Told from the perspective of Alejandro Callahan, the son of Fran and…
ISBN: 978-1-927685-32-7 Coming in 2020 Previously unannounced, The Stolen Child will be the final and third part in the Wild Mountain Series. In The Stolen Child, we’ll find a world unrecognizable to those of us in living in the early to mid-21st century. Fran and Leo’s youngest child, Fae, has gone missing. Here we learn…