BOOK: Griffin’s Boy

Joys of December

Posted by on Dec 4, 2023 in BOOK: Griffin's Boy, Editing, Uncategorized | 0 comments

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The satisfaction of hitting SEND and whooshing off a second draft to your editor is just about equaled by the satisfaction of having a stack of Christmas presents wrapped, packed, addressed, and ready for the post office.

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Vegetable Lambs

Posted by on Sep 28, 2023 in BOOK: Griffin's Boy, Fantasy | 0 comments

From an 1887 book called The Vegetable Lamb of Tartary…copied from Johann Zahn’s Specula Physico-Mathematico-Historica Notabilium ac Mirabilium Sciendorum

Another delightful creature to be featured in The Griffin’s Boy: the vegetable lamb. According to legend, these lambs grew on stalks, rather like fruits, but would die if plucked–or starve if they grazed alway all the foliage in reach.

Either way, a short and difficult life for the poor little thing. Its wool was said to be exceptionally fine.

It’s possible the vegetable lamb is based on the cotton plant–which does, to be fair, produce a wooly substance that can be made into a very nice fabric.

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