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Revery is a genre of dreams, musings, single thoughts locked in time, free form expressions that can be either overtly logical or cryptically puzzling, extravagant or plain, proselike or rhythmical. Revery is a big tent construct that affords writers flexibility from the categorization of traditional genre.This volume, Whispers Willow, contains the first one hundred reveries of author Justin Blaney, a series that ranges in content and tone from high romance to philosophical, travel memoir to motivational, fantastical to nightmare.

From #1 bestselling author Justin Blaney I love telling stories. I've been earning a living-though sometimes it's been hard to call it that-from storytelling since I was sixteen years old selling vacuum cleaners door to door. Funnily enough, some of the stories I told back then were more fictional than the novels I write today. Over the years, the mediums I've used have changed, but for me, it's always been about the story. Through blogging and songwriting and photography and speaking and design and sales, I've learned that the power of story is universal. Today, I apply my passion to writing novels and producing films for nonprofits and businesses. Sometimes I'm trying to affect change in the world through fictional characters and magical adventures. Other times, I'm showing the world how my nonprofit and business clients are heroes in the lives of the people they serve. I'm often surprised to find that the real stories are even more magical than the fiction. And that is why I created Fast Wide Open. I realized many of the true stories that have inspired me over the last fifteen years were being held captive on my computer's hard drives. Whenever I see these images, I remember the way I felt when they were taken. I think of the people who allowed me to share for a small time the richness of their lives, the people who live or worship or play or learn in these places, the people who work these machines. This book is not about pictures. It's about the fairytales inside the pictures. These pictures are mere snapshots of real lives, but the snapshots give us a window through which we can dream for a short time that we are inside the fairytale. That we are someone else. And sometimes, every so often, a little bit of that dream rubs off on us, and when we wake, we find we're just a tiny bit changed. I hope these stories inspire you as much as they inspire me. About Fast Wide Open This collection of 37 photos from Justin Blaney provides a panorama of the inspiration for his anthology of post-modern fairytales, exploring character, architecture, setting, texture and visual storytelling. Praise for Justin Blaney's work "Dark and amazing" - Silverine "Unique and rustic and wonderful" - JoJo's Corner "Absolutely awesome" - Renee Chaw "Justin Blaney creates a wonderful world of intrigue, mischief, and magic that comes alive through vivid storytelling" - Kari Skinner "Freaking amazing upside down, side ways and back again"- Hope to Read "Magical, mystical, imaginative and compelling" - L. Stronjny "Wickedly complex" - Mary Weber "Appeals to the aesthetic value of everyday mundane things" - Nerdzy "Justin Blaney has his finger on the pulse of artistic current." - Kat in Kentucky

Proudly presenting Isfits Vol. 1. A postmodern fairytale. Cinderella Goes To The Potty is based on true stories about young girls who face real danger. Some of these brave young women live to tell their tales. Other stories die without ever being heard. This darkly humored graphical novel is reminiscent of Tim Burton, Roald Dahl, and David Bowie from the hit film Labyrinth, challenging traditional notions of art and story to transport the reader into a world that may be more real than the one they go to work in every day. And if you, dear reader, discover Cinderella's secret, you may never be the same. Featuring A stone tower An old man with an ax An old woman with a key A long set of stairs A girl with a secret And introducing The Potty Forrest Praise for Justin Blaney's postmodern fairytales "Dark and amazing" - Silverine "Unique and rustic and wonderful" - JoJo's Corner "Absolutely awesome" - Renee Chaw "Justin Blaney creates a wonderful world of intrigue, mischief, and magic that comes alive through vivid storytelling" - Kari Skinner "Freaking amazing upside down, side ways and back again"- Hope to Read "Magical, mystical, imaginative and compelling" - L. Stronjny "Wickedly complex" - Mary Weber Discover more at http: //www.justinblaney.com/isfits

Discover #1 bestselling novel, Evan Burl and the Falling A monster lives in all of us. My father abandoned me when I was an infant. My friends have turned against me. My uncle hates me. The most powerful sapients in the world want me dead. They all have one thing in common. They think I'm turning into a monster. I'm starting to worry they're right. Over a thousand years, one man unlocks sapience-the ability to transform the imagined into reality. But not everyone believes sapience is a gift because this power blurs the lines between dreaming and waking, making it impossible to divide real life from nightmare and friend from enemy. The most powerful of these sapients rule the world, sharing little in common save their venom for each other and lurid horror for Evan Burl-a sixteen-year-old imprisoned with twelve immortal orphans in a haunted castle surrounded by the bones of a forgotten city. Evan finds a letter that orders his execution-signed by his own father-that reveals Evan's latent supernatural talents. As Evan makes use of his new abilities, he loses his grasp on the physical world and fears he might be responsible for the string of gruesome deaths that have begun to plague the orphans. With each passing day, Evan's waking world is fading into a mist of dreams, replaced by starless nightmares that just might be real. The fates of those who remain alive rest on whether Evan can regain his ability to tell dream from reality and save his friends from the sapients who would rather the world forget that these twelve orphans ever lived. Praise for Evan Burl and the Falling "The best fantasy book I've ever read" - Mitsy Princell "Amazing " - Melissa Williard "This world is both incredible and terrifying at the same time" - Courtney Bax "I want more It just isn't right that's over. Evan Burl is every bit as good as the top YA fiction out there right now, in my opinion, better. The characters are brilliant, each story line is captivating, the content is complex and unpredictable, and I am intrigued to read more." - Bethany Canfield "Wickedly complex villains so entertaining and terrifying they'll get under your skin and creep you out ... Evan Burl's world will fascinate you and leave you begging for more." - Mary Weber "This eerie world and amazing cast of characters grabbed my heart from the first page and never let go. I can honestly say I would do anything to get an advance copy of Evan Burl's next chapter." - Natalie Medina "I'm hooked. So many threads of greatness, I can't wait to see how the series ends." - Annie Biondi "Justin Blaney creates a wonderful world of intrigue, mischief, and magic that comes alive through vivid storytelling. This is a struggle of good and evil at its finest ... it will have your mind on edge as you race to the end." - Kari Skinner "Rich, believable characters set in a captivating storyline that made me constantly anxious about what would come next. This story of hope and redemption will have you rooting for Evan to find the good within himself." - Marisa Loper

Revery is a genre of dreams, musings, single thoughts locked in time, free form expressions that can be either overtly logical or cryptically puzzling, extravagant or plain, proselike or rhythmical. Revery is a big tent construct that affords writers flexibility from the categorization of traditional genre. This volume, Whispers Willow, contains the first one hundred reveries of author Justin Blaney, a series that ranges in content and tone from high romance to philosophical, travel memoir to motivational, fantastical to nightmare.

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