Carlos tells me it's a great way to drum up business; personally, anyone who's going to look for a detective on MySpace deserves the trouble he's in. Still, it could be fun.
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If you're reading this site, it means one of several things:
---You've got trouble the Mundane police can't handle.
---You're a Faerie in the Mundane universe looking for help from your own kind.
---You're a Mundane Human with trust issues.
---Google sent you.
Regardless, you've come to the right place.
The Dragon Eye Private Detective Agency.
I'm Vern, a professional problem solver in two universes, thanks to the interdimensional Gap that opened between your world--lately known as the "Mundane" and don't blame me 'cause I didn't name it--and my world--now known as "Faerie" and I'll thank you not to snicker. Yeah, I'm a Faerie. A North African Faerie Wyvern. Yes, a for-real dragon, though you should have seen me back when I had my full size and abilities. That's a story for another page. Suffice to say events have brought me to your world, to this job, and it seems to be where I'm needed. (The photo in the corner is from my banner on the up-and-coming website. Doens't have my teeth, but it's not bad..)
Sister Grace, my partner, is a High Church Mage of the Faerie Catholic Church. Yes, she does magic. No, I don't want to hear your sermonizing that magic is evil. We all have one God, but He made the rules of our universe just a little different than yours. You'd better be glad of it, too. She's done more than her fair share of saving lives, fighting demons and generally keeping both our universes safe for all God's creatures and she's used magic to do it.
We'll handle just about any case that pays, and being a dragon, I'm not particular about what I get paid. Cash or carrion, I'm your dragon. We've handled simple cases like lost pets, and we've solved murders and kidnappings. We've saved the multiverse a few times. We've even done all three at once. Hey, when you've got the wisdom of the ages and the experience of eternity, you can multi-task.
For the most part, our business centers around Los Lagos, home of the Gap between our dimensions, but we've been known to branch out. Even solved a mystery in Disneyworld. As more Faerie immigrate to your world, however, there may be a greater need for our unique services elsewhere--hence, this website.
You know, I'll probably add a primer on the Faerie/Mundane world. Little things like brownies won't clean your house for milk. Stuff that might keep your people and mine safer--and keep me from being called "dinosaur."
By the way--if you see any typos on this site, feel free to drop me an e-mail. In addition to having to spell in a foreign language with as many exceptions as rules, I've got claws bigger than your fingers. Even with a virtual keyboard, I make a lot of typos.
As you may know--and will know if you keep reading--our transcriber Karina Fabian has our permission to publish some of our cases. (No, she's not a Watson wanna-be. For one thing, she's quite happy living in a nice house with reliable heat and A/C rather than in a drafty old warehouse with us. Besides can you see me in a deerhunter's cap and pipe? Don't try. Seriously.. Don't.)
What you may not know is that we are both Mensans. That's that club you Mundanes have for people who rank in the top 2 percent of the population for intelligence. No big surprise for me, excpet for the fact that they let me in despite my non-person status...
Anyway, an already-long story shortened, Karina's been chronicling one of our Mensa related adventures in the North Dakota Mensa newsletter, The Prairie Dawg, and the story recently won an award for best fiction from Mensa. This is the story she's novelizing.
Figures. Of all the cases to chronicle, she gets awards for one of the most annoying...
Congrats, Karina.
Karina has finished the manuscript for the first Dragon Eye novel: Magic, Mensa, and Mayhem. Why she had to pick one of our most personally irritating cases to chromicle, I don't know. Grace tells me, "Lighten up Vern. It's funny!" And it is. I think it would have been funnier if Karina had described the look on Coyote's face when he realized Grace picked his pocket at the end, but can't have everything. The draft is with friends who edit and critique--yeah, I already did my share--and it goes to an interested publisher in August.
Synopsis: Vern and Grace are "volunteered" by Bishop Aiden to chaperone the Faerie at a Mundane's Mensa World Gathering. (Vern: "Chaperone"? Try "Magical Haz-Mat!) It looks like a cushy job, but when the Valkyrie start vamping, pixies start pranking, and elves high on soda try to declare war on Florida, its turns out to be more work than they've never gotten paid for!
Based loosely on the serial, Magic, Mensa, and Mayhem, this novel (like the Titanic) goes deeper and way overboard. Jokes and twisted cliche's on every page mean a giggle a minute. Not your usual Dragon Eye case--but hey, they weren't getting paid for it, anyway!
I'm pleased to announce that Infinite Space, Infintie God, edited by Karina and Rob Fabian, won the EPPIE award for best electronically-published science fiction for 2007. You can find out more botu the anthology at http://isigsf.tripod.com.
Karina writes our case files. Recently, she had "Amateurs" accepted by The Sword Review. http://www.theswordreview.com/contents.php
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