Set in ancient sumeria ca. 2800 bce, Fearless Inanna follows a teen girl on an heroic journey around the ancient near-east to rescue her parents from a dragon's curse that has turned them to stone. Inanna lives an idyllic life with her parents, Induni & Induki, in a small house by the sea, but while she's away in the City a tiny dragon sneaks into their garden & bewitches them. At the behest of a peculiarly wise heron, Inanna sets out on an arduous trek full of hazards to find the dragon & restore her parents to life. Aided on her quest by an unlikely collection of allies-- including a hyena, an old trader, three old-world goddesses, and a witch-- the girl is prepared to meet her dragon through a series of encounters with a highwayman, an ambitious prince, & a mysterious & dangerous wizard. Her final confrontation, with a dragon now grown immense, is not what she expects.
In The Way To Atlantis, five years on, our titular heroine is presented by her goddesses with a daunting task: cross the Long Sea to distant Atlantis to rescue it from another dragon, this one more forbidding than the last. After a visit with her old friend, the witch Siduri, and an enlightening stay at the court of the Minoan Bull-king, Inanna makes her way at last to the doomed city, even reawakening a sleeping giant in her efforts to save it, but the dragon is more formidable by far than she ever anticipated.
About fearless inanna: The manuscript was originally inspired by a random collection of artwork created by jonathan schork in his studio-- the schork-munsell-- in Key West, Florida, in 2005. Each piece of artwork, both 2- & 3-dimensional, was used as the focal point of a chapter & a character in the development of the story, the narrative of which was composed in his dreams while he slept. The academic elements were extensively researched in the Key West Public Library, & are reflected in the bibliography. Having committed the story to paper, schork turned it over to his then wife, Mary Cooke Hoeft, a retired English teacher & avid reader, to edit for structure & content. Schork distinguishes this project as the last one on which he worked with his wife, who deceased in February, 2006.
Newly widowed, schork allowed the project to languish for a decade, during which he tried unsuccessfully to collaborate with several visual artists on the production of some complimentary illustrations, but finally decided to produce the artwork himself in 2015 after a couple of romantic misadventures. His first editions are authored on Amazon's CreateSpace platform, with generous help from a short list of benefactors, including Laura Bricker, Larry Enlow, & Maureen Kilroy of Gulfport, Florida, & Edward & Mary Anne Sedlmeier of Knoxville, Tennessee. He has produced an inexpensive black & white edition, and expects to publish a full-colour, limited edition collector's copy shorty.
In The Way To Atlantis, five years on, our titular heroine is presented by her goddesses with a daunting task: cross the Long Sea to distant Atlantis to rescue it from another dragon, this one more forbidding than the last. After a visit with her old friend, the witch Siduri, and an enlightening stay at the court of the Minoan Bull-king, Inanna makes her way at last to the doomed city, even reawakening a sleeping giant in her efforts to save it, but the dragon is more formidable by far than she ever anticipated.
About fearless inanna: The manuscript was originally inspired by a random collection of artwork created by jonathan schork in his studio-- the schork-munsell-- in Key West, Florida, in 2005. Each piece of artwork, both 2- & 3-dimensional, was used as the focal point of a chapter & a character in the development of the story, the narrative of which was composed in his dreams while he slept. The academic elements were extensively researched in the Key West Public Library, & are reflected in the bibliography. Having committed the story to paper, schork turned it over to his then wife, Mary Cooke Hoeft, a retired English teacher & avid reader, to edit for structure & content. Schork distinguishes this project as the last one on which he worked with his wife, who deceased in February, 2006.
Newly widowed, schork allowed the project to languish for a decade, during which he tried unsuccessfully to collaborate with several visual artists on the production of some complimentary illustrations, but finally decided to produce the artwork himself in 2015 after a couple of romantic misadventures. His first editions are authored on Amazon's CreateSpace platform, with generous help from a short list of benefactors, including Laura Bricker, Larry Enlow, & Maureen Kilroy of Gulfport, Florida, & Edward & Mary Anne Sedlmeier of Knoxville, Tennessee. He has produced an inexpensive black & white edition, and expects to publish a full-colour, limited edition collector's copy shorty.
