The Dream Detective Agency

conceptual template for a 2017 cover idea for Lorien Howell's DREAM DETECTIVE AGENCY (book one ... and the case of the missing century) about young heroine Dierdre Openhouse 's quest through the age of dreaming legions, accompanied by her sister Brody Belvedere. Additionally, I'm going to take the opportunity to share with you a rather interesting text from 1881 called The Place-Names of Wales by Thos Morgan. "Happy is he who knows the origin of things. " Is the opening dedication, and essentially The Place-names of Wales is about the tacit (or intentional) erosion of our 562 AD comet-ruined Britishness and the northerly easeterly pressure upon the true British language and people from successively incursion of Frisians and Norwegians. Yes, 1881 and yes this is still a children's book. Considering the rapid strides of English education in the Principality, we fear the time is not far distant when a moiety of our mutilated Welsh place-nam...

in book one of this proposed series of Dream Detective Agency novels, special agents  Brody Belvedere and Dierdre Openhouse span the Tricephallic chasm of the  corpus callosum divide and go on a bewildering adventure that might just get them to where they need to be to solve the case of the missing century. I've commenced writing this massive intergalactic adventure this morning, having had about six or seven lovely lucid interwoven and self-referential dreams last night. The spectator/participant nature of these kinds of slices of existence is just top-shelf excellent. History and how it relates to the language of the dream is a key element to the way the DDA works. Or fails. No: missing century has nothing to do with cricket. Yes: missing century has everything to do with one hundred years of stolen human evolution. Dierdre Openhouse, she's a bit of a precocious minx and a classic case of shameless know-it-all, having been at this dream detecting ga...