Helga: Out of the
Hedgelands
Twelve-year-old Helga has more danger
in her life than most beasts her age—Wrackshee slavers after her, a
vicious attack by bandits that nearly kills her, a race against
dragons pursuing her, and leading a daring rebellion to save her life
and rescue friends and family from the insidious WooZan. And that is
just the beginning. But what do you expect when you are a young beast
who just can’t see the stupid rules of the world making any sense?
Helga can’t accept things as they are and ends up taking on not
just one, but two all-powerful, supreme tyrants in two different
realms.
Helga never intended to lead a
revolution. It just sort of happened because she wouldn’t go along
with the “rules of normal” that keep tyrants in power and entire
societies enslaved. Beginning on a dangerous quest to solve some
mysteries in her own past, Helga leads her quirky comrades on a
journey that will not only forever change them, but upset ancient
civilizations.
As an author, I’m drawn to eccentric,
unexpected characters: those who surprise because they hear a distant
galaxy, see a different music, create their own fragrance rather than
get hooked on a soundtrack; the child who has her own ideas about how
the emperor is dressed; the lunatics and rebels who tell stories on
the boundaries. Helga’s unusual story will take readers to worlds
they never imagined—definitely a whole new ride.
Time and again, the unconventional
heroine and her eccentric comrades overcome ominous tyrants and
black-hearted slavers, not by battling to the last beast standing,
but by being the first beast to think differently.
Helga: Out of Hedgelands is divided
into three books which introduce the epic saga of the Wood Cow clan
and their role in overturning centuries of slavery and tyranny. This
story will continue in additional volumes of the Wood Cow Chronicles
now in development. Over the series of current and future volumes,
the entire history of the Wood Cow clan, the fall of Maev Astuté,
and the coming of Lord Farseeker to the Outer Rings, will be told.
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Author Rick
Johnson
I am a native of the Great Plains,
having grown up on a farm in the Platte River Valley of western
Nebraska. I love the wild beauty of the Plains and nearby Rocky
Mountains--the too hot, too cold, too empty, too full of life
extremes. Typically, the awesomely diverse and the awesomely stark
are much the same, even as they are different. Although I have lived
in Michigan, North Carolina, and British Columbia, the western
plains, mountains, and desert are in my heart.
As my day job, for over thirty years I
have been a faculty member and administrator in higher education.
Teaching broadly in the liberal arts, including creative writing, my
professional publications include educational materials, poems, and
28 stories for young readers. During my spare hours, I have also
collected and carefully studied the records of former times upon
which the Wood Cow Chronicles are based. It is my privilege to bring
this astonishing saga to light.
The Wood Cow Chronicles have been
researched and written with the irreplaceable assistance of Barbara,
my beloved wife of more than thirty-five years, and our children.
Indeed, the essential research into the history of the Wood Cows has
been conducted during the odd hours of family reading and
storytelling "around the campfire" as we say--even when
there is no campfire! This research continues and grows richer as our
family expands across generations and continents.
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