Fiction

Seven stories of tea, including the poor farmer who cleaned up a temple and was given a special tea plant by the goddess; the mandarin who tried to fix an English earl’s tea and created one of the western world’s most popular teas; the tea master who performed one last tea ceremony after he was ordered by his daimyo to commit seppuku. Some of the stories are entirely legend, their origins lost in the mists of time. Some are based heavily on fact. Some will be familiar to any tea aficionado. Some are purely the product of my own imagination.

Much more of my writing and ranting about tea is available on my Tea With Gary blog.

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Scheduled for release April 2026! My first young adult fantasy novel!

Skogaban has always dreamed of being a storyteller, and when he’s forced to flee his hometown with his best friend, Dacey, he finds that his strange magical abilities may actually control his destiny. But there are others that are threatened by new magics, and he finds himself pursued by a powerful necromancer that is killing off other mages in a bid for power and control. Is magic really worth it? Does he even have a choice anymore?