Lee Barwood

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June 28, 2010

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What's the latest trend in China? Dog dying. Er, um, it's not spelled that way in the media attention it's getting -- they spell it d-y-e-i-n-g, as in dyeing the dogs' hair so that they look like tigers, or zebras, or pandas, or Bozo the Clown. Really. Apparently they don't think their dogs are (more…)

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Selected Works

Horror

Some Cost a Passing Bell
Love can survive death -- but so can hate. The two collide in this haunted Ozarks tale of betrayal and heroism -- on both sides of the grave.

Folklore/Juvenile

Klassic Koalas: A Coloring Book of more than 80 Koalas and Uniquely Australian Creatures
Australian wildlife images to stimulate creativity in children and adults alike

Klassic Koalas: A Summer Party in Koalaland
Vintage wildlife photos illustrate a children's story about koalas

Klassic Koalas: Ancient Aboriginal Tales in New Retellings
Retellings of eight Australian Aboriginal tales, mostly focusing on the koala -- a powerful figure in Aboriginal lore

Fantasy

A Dream of Drowned Hollow
Gryphon Award-winning ecological fantasy novel, now available from Double Dragon Publishing (February 2006)

The Siege for Westmarch
Volume I of The Ribbons of Power, this was Honor Book Award winner in Andre Norton's Gryphon Award competition

The Rise of Champions
Volume II of The Ribbons of Power

Mystery

By the Book
A professor is murdered. Can the plot be unraveled?