Written Word by Dwayne R. James

The Gingers & Wry Books

Gingers & Wry	Gingers & Wry An Illustrated Companion
"TWINS. It's the kind of word that only ever happens to somebody else." This is the kind of dry humour that characterizes Gingers & Wry, an auto-biographical account of a stay@home Dad of tenacious toddler twin boys. Join the author as he finds... more...	This is a collection of close to fifty image quotes and typographic posters illustrating passages that were either originally presented in, or have been newly inspired by, my book Gingers & Wry. The images gathered for this collection are funny, thoughtful, inspirational, and are perfect... more...
Obsidian Fire - a Twelve-part Superhero adventure serial

OBSIDIAN FIRE Book One: The Cave of the Sleeping Sword	OBSIDIAN FIRE Book Two: Revelations of a Secret Brotherhood	OBSIDIAN FIRE *Book Three: Dawn of the Flaming Knight*
Mark Allen had been preparing his whole life for this, but when the mystic sword chooses the last person anyone would ever expect instead of him, Mark must swallow his pride, and become the most maligned of all superhero clichés: the sidekick. FREE download! Download a PDF of Book One.	The Flaming Sword is real! Although this is something that should excite Mark, he's having a hard time feeling elated. He and Dirk are on the run, under the protection of the shadowy organization known as the Obsidian Brotherhood and, although the group is sworn to protect the Flaming Sword and serve the new Flaming Knight, Mark is discovering that things are not as they appear to be.
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The Princess Etheria Chronicles

Princess Etheria and the Battling Bucks	Princess Etheria and the Lost Queen	Princess Etheria and the King's Surprise
In the first part of The Princess Etheria Chronicles, Etheria accepts the challenge of separating the antlers of two buck deer that have been entwined in a bitter argument for more than a century. Her undertaking begins here, and continues through each of the other books in the series... more...	In the second part of The Princess Etheria Chronicles, Etheria is just beginning to puzzle out the challenge of separating the entwined buck deer. Her first efforts have failed, so she takes a moment to reflect on one of her father's many life lessons. It's a difficult memory for Etheria, as it... more...	In the third part of The Princess Etheria Chronicles, the Princess reflects on the time that she was charged with a task by the King after asking a simple question. This leads to revelations about the connection of the dream forest to our own waking world, and becomes a lesson about why... more...

Princess Etheria and the Stone Trees	Princess Etheria and the Magic Words
In the fourth (and longest) part of The Princess Etheria Chronicles, the Princess ponders the connection of her current challenge of the conjoined deer with the time she joined her father on a quest through the snowy forest, and across the icy Sweetwater River. Along the way, she... more...	In the conclusion to The Princess Etheria Chronicles, Etheria is at her wit's end. None of her solutions to the problem of the entangled buck deer have worked, and she finds herself having to chose between what she's been told by her father, and what she wants to choose to believe. Ultimately, her... more...
Miscellaneous

The Nineteenth Century Farmer in Upper-Canada	A Painter's Portfolio
In his 1997 Master's Thesis, the author studies the zooarch-aeological remains from four historic sites in Ontario, paying close attention to the manner in which these faunal remains were butchered. In his analysis, James introduces culturally relevant quantitative units in order to draw conclusions... more...	An illustrated portfolio for watercolour artist and author Dwayne R. James. This document contains images and descriptions of his varied paintings, as well as examples of his other works. more...