If you're interested in a look at some samples of my writing, you've come to the right place. Scroll down for two novel samples.

Here is The Sword and the Grail, an article I wrote for the Atlanta Jung Society. It delves into some of the archetypal and mythic themes I'm exploring in my novels. This is another article I wrote for the Jung Society: Can fantasy be myth? Mythopoeia and The Lord of the Rings. I'd love to hear what you think about these ideas.

I wrote Experience Architecture—Beyond Personalization, a chapter included in the book The Power of One , published in 2003 by AMACOM, the publishing arm of the American Marketing Association.

I also wrote the text on Michaela Foster Marsh's Web site. She's an amazing musician.

Happy holidays, 2007!

This is it, folks—the more or less final draft of my novel, The Widening Gyre.

I've been promising an update, and here it is at last. Most people seem to think this .pdf version is easier to read, so I've removed the html versions that used to be here. I hope you enjoy. The Widening Gyre deals with the return of King Arthur, Morgan Le Fay, Queen Gwenhwyfar, Lancelot, Gawain, and the other Knights of the Round Table. The time is the very near future. The Widening Gyre is the first in a trilogy called The Circle Unbroken. The later volumes will be called What The Thunder Said and The Last Light Flickers. If you're wondering, I'm about 1000 pages into the second book as of July, 2004.

To read an Abode Acrobat .pdf of the first 36 chapters (the first third or so of the complete book), click here. It's a fairly large file, so you might see a white screen for a few minutes whileit loads.

If you'd rather download, just hold down the option key when you click if you're a Mac user, or right click if you are stuck with Windows.

So why am I doing this? Well, I've always felt the Arthurian Legends are incomplete. There's the prophecy that he'll return some day, of course... but it's more than that. See, the whole time Arthur is sending his Knights out to quest for the Holy Grail (this very powerful feminine artifact/archetype). Morgan Le Fay, his sister and shadow-self, is trying to steal the sword Excalibur (this very primal masculine artifact/archetype... get it?). They're both searching for that which is missing in themselves. The reason everyone fails in the end is because no one is able to use these two powerful symbols together. Camelot falls. Now, the characters must deal with issues of the past, for a grave danger awaits them in the modern age. For more about these ideas, please see the Jung Society articles linked at the top of this page.

If you're one of the many people who written asking me when this monster (300,000 words) will be published, stay tuned! I'll have an announcement here very soon. Where does the title come from? It's from the poem The Second Coming, by William Butler Yeats. To read it online, Click here. I'd love to know what you think! Please e-mail me. I would sincerely appreciate your feedback... believe me, it helps more than you know.

Many of the revisions are based on comments I've received from people who've read these pages on my Web site. If you're one of those who've taken the time to visit, read, and write to me, thank you. You can't possibly know how much I've appreciated it. Please continue to let me know what you think!

© Copyright 2006 by John Adcox

This a new novel I've just finished and started polishing, Blackthorne Faire, which blends elements of Celtic myth and faery lore with all the costumes, theatre, drinking, music, romance, and boisterous fun of a contemporary Georgia Renaissance Festival. You'll find young love, lost tunes, a mysterious Tarot deck that doesn't behanve as it should, the courts of Faery, lawyers, and even a few mobsters. This book is (very loosely) connected to my trilogy, which begins with The Widening Gyre. This is a very rough first draft! I'll likely need to cut it down some, especially in the beginning, but I'd love to know what you think.

To read an Abode Acrobat .pdf of the first chapters, click here. You might see a white screen for a few minutes while it loads. If you'd rather download, hold down the option key when you click if you're a Mac user, or right click if you are less fortunate and use Windows.

This story was inspired by The Georgia Renaissance Festival and two poems by William Bulter Yeats: The Stolen Child and The Host of the Air.

If you'd like to read more about King Arthur and the Matter of Britain, visit my Mythology and Folklore page.

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