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Cup of Shadow, Tea of Dream is a companion, guide, and behind the scenes gossip magazine for the Shadow series. We’re doing art, short stories, cartoons, quizzes and whatever else looks shiny along the way.

So what’s it all about?

Shadow is a bubble world, born of a 3,000-year-old curse, and created as a prison for a Really Bad Guy - who naturally declared himself king and is still doing a terrible job of running the place. Sucks for him that the rest of Shadow’s population are ready for a freaking big fight over it.

The Shadow Series chronicles this freaking big fight over ten illustrated fantasy books, following Bloody Fairy Hippy Ishtar and her daughter Krysta from Shadow, to Greece, to Fremantle Western Australia and then Shadow again. You can find the series so far here.

Wait, what? Illustrated fantasy? Cartoons?

When I was a kid I loved books with big beautiful complex art, and I loved comics. Now I’m an adult, I’m firmly of the opinion that adults should be allowed to have fun too. That’s why the series are regular novels, but they also have pictures, and cartoons at the front and back.

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