A Star Called Wormwood

About the Book

About the Author

Tom O. Jones has published the scholarly Hermeticism and Renaissance Magic in the Shakespeare Sonnets with Edwin Mellen Press. His novel The Death Gods of Applevale was a 1992 winner of the West Virginia Writers award. Other novels include Red Swastika at the Crystal Palace and StarTwist Blue: A Science-Fiction Comedy. He has published 150 poems in 50 literary quarterlies and is a member of the American Academy of Poets. His latest book is a combination of collected poems with the short novel The Fatima Letter: A Gnostic Gospel of the Virgin Mary. With Royal Fireworks Press, he has published two young adult novels, Lord of the Geats, a retelling of the Beowulf epic, and Tinyacha’s Quest, a retelling of ancient Peruvian Peruvian folktales. He is an environmentalist, a member of the Ohio Valley Environmental Coalition ()VEC), and lives in West Virginia.