’Twas Brillig

About the Book

’Twas Brillig in an adult fantasy spin-off of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass. After a knock on her head from a school fight, Ceila Bidle finds she can pull the original Alice Liddle—for whom the story was first written stories for her—through her bedroom mirror. Neither girl is happy with her own period of time. Ceila becomes involved with a debate team meeting for the National Youth Challenge to revise the constitution of the United States. Also Ceila and Alice are tutors at the wild palace of a magical red witch named Emma. The girls decide to introduce democracy to Wonderland as they practice against both Victorian mores and class warfare in the United States. The heads are gonna roll.

About the Author

Sher Dawn hails from the San Francisco Bay Area, where she has attended with relish such time travel festivals as the Renaissance Pleasure Faire and the Dickens’s Faire. She designs her own costumes and wardrobe. Her screen credits as an animator and as a storyboard and layout artist can be viewed at www.imdb.com/name/nm1980802/. Her career includes Masters of the Universe, She-Ra, and Bravestarr and such computer calendars and games as Johnny Castaway, Willy Beamish, and King’s Quest VII. She currently lives in Oregon, where she has done some carpentry, carving, and welding. As a child, she read Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass with a root beer float in one hand and a homemade eggnog in the other as an after-school treat. And yes, poor Emma—the tutelary red (karmic) witch—got stuck with plenty of her later-life baggage. (It is comforting to see that a character who is stronger, smarter, and more powerful can’t handle the you-know-what in the fan any better than the rest of us! Misery wants company, and all that.) Alice has always seemed likely to grow into a girl who will not settle for merely questioning the social mores of a whacked-out society, and Ceila is an American girl amalgam for Alice. After a blow to the head from a school fight, Ceila discovers she has the power to pull the original Alice Liddell through her bedroom mirror! Neither girl is happy with her natural time zone; they decide to practice social reengineering on Wonderland before working their magic on Victorian England and the United States of America. So fasten your seatbelt. It’s going to be a bumpy ride—and heads will roll! (There is a poisoned apple for the royal ruling class headed Wonderland’s way. It’s called democracy—and we’re next!) Not to get too pushy with the commercials, but there are some really nice personal goodies in the artist’s store, if you’re curiouser and curiouser . . . Try this: www.cafepress.com/phantasmagloria. (Hey, it’s a work in progress. A book has been holding life up. You should see the house and the yard! Yowsa!)