PERHAPS A GIFT VOUCHER FOR MUM?: MOTHER'S DAY
L. A. Hammer has a Bachelor of Arts in Fine Art Painting and Literature studies. He is currently studying his Masters of Writing and Literature, while preparing a Masters' exegesis of a new King Arthur mash up, with Cleopatra, Robin Hood, Julius Caesar and Dracula, all rolled into the one adventure, and that's just a few of the planned names to feature in this metaphorical reality where animals and humans fight side by side, and magicians are a rare breed. The exegesis will be complemented with studies into Arthurian Celtic Legends of the 12th to 13th centuries A.D. and looking at religious symbolism in such stories, as well as studying Joseph Campbell's hero journey, Freud's Interpretation of Dreams, and other related texts. Hammer has walked the Kokoda Track at age 16, and has swum with white tipped reef sharks on the Great Barrier Reef in northern Queensland at a similar age. His childhood holidays included many trips to Queensland, including Expo '88, and a crocodile cruise at night where he played spotlight boy at the front of the boat. He fed the giant milkfish at the Darwin Aquascene at about age 8. He has many fond memories of those days, as well as his high school studies at a country college where he flourished in his love for art, reading and writing, drama, though his passion for reading fantasy novels began at a much younger age. Hammer has plans to continue writing Sons of Odin in many new editions, with Books Four to Five in preparation to create in print, another 800 page single volume, though the writing of Book Five and edits to Book Four may take a few years longer. There will be another 800 page Book Six at least, with a possible middle series of six books that detail the early adventures of Highlander's son and grandson, Pendral and Rayne Dragonsword.
