Welcome to a fairy tale like no other.
Enter the Land of Man, a place of magic, wonder…and danger. Lead by the Mistress of Magic, this land is one of peace and harmony…but also of darkness. This is a place where shadows are held at bay by magic but, even magic cannot dispell all the shadows. This is a place of flying sheep, Bumble Kitties, giant pandas, Bloo Moos, witches, monsters, and much more.
The Meep Sheep
Welcome to the Kingdom of Man, where the Mistresses of Magic have ruled their Kingdom with sunshine and peace for centuries. As the dawning of a new age comes and a new Mistress is about to take the throne as Queen though, darkness is finally coming to the land. In a world full of amazing creatures and wondrous sights it will fall to people who have yet to meet to stand together against a hidden enemy who is working to bring darkness back to the land forever and who seeks to destroy all that is good in the Kingdom. But it is always during the darkest of times when the light can become the brightest, and in order to save their world, strangers will become friends, friends will become heroes, and heroes will become legends, united by their common hope and the simple magic of the Meep Sheep.
The Kreep Sheep
In every land, to every story, there is a beginning and even in a world of magic and hope there is a past, there is a shadow, and there is a story as to how the world came to be. Welcome back to the Kingdom of Man in a time before there were Meep Sheep, before there were Bumble Kitties, and when there was much darkness in the world. These are the stories of the lands, the people, and the places of legend and song. These are the tales of how the world came to be, what made the Great Thicket such a dangerous place, how the Lady Hush first spread her evil and so much more. Here are stories of great darkness but at the heart of all darkness is light and there is much light here as well, such as the light of the love between mother and daughter, husband and wife, and two sisters pitted against a grim foe. If you yearn for a return to the lands of magic where the sky is filled with flying sheep, the hills alive with magical creatures, and where Love is still stronger than all that it opposes then friend, welcome back, welcome back to the Kingdom of Man. This is but a door. You are the key. Welcome, welcome home.
The Last Sheep
An era is ending in the Kingdom of Man. After a long and peaceful reign Queen Messy is preparing to leave the throne to her two daughters – Aribel and Beliar. The many years of peace were hard won and did not come without sacrifice but it seems as if the era of war has finally come to an end. It is the beginning of a new age. At the dawn of this new age though dark shadows of the past have returned to finally take their revenge on the Queen and her Kingdom. An enemy thought long dead is spreading the seeds of war and those seeds are beginning to bear rotten fruit. Change is coming. War is coming. War…is here. As Man and monster join forces against Queen Messy and all who stand with her a war to end all wars is coming together that will bring in a new era, though whether it is an era of darkness or light hangs in the balance. Darkness is spreading. But in all darkness there is light waiting to be seen and while there are still those that cling to friendship and love there is yet a chance against the most terrifying enemies. This is the dawn of a new age. Long live the Queen.
The Meep Sheep trilogy are no your average grim fairy tales, these have an epic scope full of magical creatures, dangerous villains, and magic at its center.
All three books are available on Amazon.com or by ordering through your favorite indie bookseller.
THE STORY
The Meep Sheep series started with one story, “Messy and the Meep Sheep,” a fairy tale I wrote in the early 2000s after the idea of flying sheep started to float around my mind. I based the main character on a dear friend and she was just the first to find their way into the story. As ideas for the story grew, and creatures filled that world, so too did friends find their way into the story and then books. I wanted to write a “grim” fairy tale, something that was dark but not merciless. I released the first story as a chapbook that I sold at comic conventions but that world wasn’t done with me yet.
I was full of ideas and “The Kreep Sheep” started life as a series on Tumblr, where I decided I could create a history for the world. As I wrote more for it though, I realized it’d be better served as a book, and I wrote more stories and tied it all together with a final story that echoed back to the world of Messy and where she was now.
The final book came together as I decided that I wanted to write one last story, an epic that would tie the first two books together and up the stakes. The series ages up as it goes along, and as we move toward a large-scale war against the forces of hope and those of doom, the stakes could be no higher.
I love this series and the creatures in it. I have tried my hand at drawing all of them, though I have always loved to see other interpretations. If there’s a series of books I’d love folks to check out, it’d be these as it really brings everything together in one package.
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