title: Forsaking Magic
author: Julian Norwood
description: Julian Norwood is a writer and illustrator living in rural Connecticut with his spouse, two cats, and a small menagerie of pocket pets. Originally from Kettering Ohio, he has a degree in Studio Art from Defiance College, and finished his first children's book, Up and Away, as his capstone project. His first novel, Forsaking Magic, followed in 2014. He's been busy on an alphabet book for pre-schoolers, and more YA fantasy ventures, including the sequel for Forsaking Magic, and "Ambrose and the Cat." Most of his work is painted, in various media such as casein and oils, and most of his writing is done at much too early in the morning. When he's not writing, he's elbows deep in an engine, bottling the next home-brew project, enjoying a cup of tea, or traveling the countryside.
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  Unveiling Magic
  
  School of Magic Survival 2
  
  Chloe Garner
  
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  Copyright © 2019 Chloe Garner
  
  All rights reserved.
  
  Cover design by Melody Simmons
  
  Published by A Horse Called Alpha
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  > The New Normal
  
  Valerie sucked on a tooth as she looked around the room.
  
  Dr. Finn had painted a lot of it, the furniture, the walls, the ceiling, the
  floor, with a savannah theme, and a lot of the desks and chairs were upside
  down with thickets of grass and plants tied to the legs.
  
  She had to give it to him, he was creative about it.
  
  He was also standing behind her with a stopwatch.
  
  That beeped on the minutes.
  
  Man, oh, man how she hated that stopwatch.
  
  She didn’t know where the baton was hidden, or even what it would look like,
  precisely. It could have been painted brown and hidden in with some of the
  grass, or taped to the underside of a lab table.
  
  Or he could have cast an invisibility spell on it and hung it from the
  ceiling, for all she k