Once, when I was small, my dad led me down to the tumbling stream that flowed through our Colorado ranch. We sat on the roots of an old ponderosa pine, listening to the rushing water for several minutes before he spoke.
T. A. BARRON’S BLOG
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Great Tree of Avalon Maps- Merlin Books 9, 10, 11
Drawings, maps, manuscripts, and handwritten notes for The Great Tree of Avalon epic of the Merlin Saga.
Merlin Book 5
A few handwritten chapters of “MERLIN: A Wizard’s Wings,” (Book 5 of the Merlin Saga).
Merlin Book 3
Handwritten draft and notes for “MERLIN: The Raging Fires” (Book 3 of the Merlin Saga).
Labor of Love: The Birth of Compassionate Intelligence
The closest I will ever get to giving birth, I often feel, is in delivering a new novel.
Merlin Book 3
More handwritten notes for “MERLIN: The Raging Fires” (Book 3 of the Merlin Saga).
Alaska — Land of Immensity
Alaska — land of immensity. Both in its realities and its possibilities, Alaska can stir our hearts and minds like no other place on the planet.
The Ancient One – Heartlight Book 2
My handwritten chapters on legal pads, written with blue ink, for the book, “The Ancient One.”
The Merlin Effect – Heartlight Book 3
A few of the chapters and notes for my book, “The Merlin Effect” (Book 3 of the Heartlight Saga).
Seeing Through the Eyes of a Whale
In this essay from 1995, originally written for Children’s Book Review magazine, I explored what it means for a story to feel true and how the threads of truth and imagination are woven together.