Save Magic City 04/20/2011
 

Save Magic City

A story of hope, action and adventure as 13th Century Edmund the magician lands in the present-day USA. A fantasy where medieval times meets modern times.

A City in a recession: The corporation employing the townspeople has left, the bank’s foreclosures have created whole streets of empty houses, and people are leaving in droves. With the help of the children and Edmund’s magic, they save their beloved city.

The Story Behind "Save Magic City"

Save Magic City
By Auhor Rocsanne Shields

While I was working for a big corporation, ten-hour-days seemed the only way of keeping up with the work load.  However, after retiring, I got lots of time to look around me and take stock of the changes that had taken place while I worked.

The world is dominated by corporations who conduct their business in a globalized way.  They change work forces the way we, plain humans, change clothes.  The process of finding new jobs entails such stress that families split and children suffer.

I believe firmly that people should help each other when misfortune strikes; the need to put something on paper became an obsession.  How to help people in a small community, where the major work supplier left and has taken their living means away?

Leo, eight, needs a father figure, to love and grow to resemble.  Edmund fills the role to perfection.  Leo is the glue; he unites all the characters around their common goal -- to save their town from death.
Save Magic City
Squirrel, a vivacious girl of eight, is one of Leo's best friends, and she is always there to help with communications among teams.  Through Edmund's cooperation, she finds the courage to tell everybody about her talent.  Without her effort, the town's children would have been left to perish by their abductor.

Raccoon, the oldest of the trio of friends, is calm and ponderous and lives most of the time he is not with his friends in front of a computer.  He helps the grownups with their problems with the Internet and sets up the website for their town.  He also is the one to find, through the Internet, a lawyer to volunteer his services for the problems that are sure to crop up in their strife for a new, independent life.

The town becomes a unit and they might as well adopt the Musketeers' logo -- one for all and all for one.  The children surely live by that.  To read their story, go to my website, www.rocsanneshield.com. You will find an excerpt of "Save Magic City"; if you are intrigued to hear more, you can purchase my book there as well. Save Magic City is also available for purchase at Amazon.com and Barnes and Noble.

"Save Magic City" is an excellent book for adults who want to teach their children the importance of caring for each other and the environment they live in. My book makes great reading and you will, I hope, tell others about it too.

About the Author, Rocsanne Shields

Rocsanne was born in Romania many years ago, when communism was still the way of life in her country.  She desired to escape the communism and find more about a freer way of life in the West.  For this, she left Romania as a tourist, and never looked back.  Her education includes Geological Engineering and Construction Estimating, thus being able to find work wherever she went.  During all these years she wrote short stories, mostly about the people she met, finding them extremely interesting.  But always she was sure she will write a novel someday.
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