SongStar

About the Book

I received the original manuscript that describes the meeting of Jes Mavers with the Native American Indian storyteller, Wandering Eagle at a dance in honor of a Swinomish Elder who was also a great storyteller.  Apparently this manuscript had circulated for years in Washington State and several areas of northern Oregon.  It is a curious form of early Cree.  After much study, investigation, and great efforts in translating the work a tremendous epic story emerges being told to Jes Mavers by Wandering Eagle throughout the night.  The story is at its roots a spiritual symbolic journey of the human soul.  Its meaning unveils slowly and deliberately, enticing the reader with its mystical depth.  Characters express the enduring values that bring out the best and the worst in humanity.  The reader finds himself or herself swept into the journey of Stormtree, his training, his visions, and his own development into the last of the Spiritsons

About the Author

Clay Fielding has and continues to have a special interest in Native American Indian lore and mythology.  In fact, he thinks he has Native American “inside” of him!  Here he brings his interest to fruition by crafting an invented legendary story in the guise of an ancient manuscript written in early Cree!  “Out of my playful childhood comes this story,” he says, “Without a doubt, I can see the scene of Jes meeting Wandering Eagle at a crackling, popping fire just about any autumn night!”

Born in south Florida, the son of a truck farmer – he majored in history at Samford University in Birmingham, AL and then later in divinity at a Theological Seminary in Kentucky.  An avid reader and student of mythologies of many cultures he hopes to follow this first work with two more: one, in which Jes Mavers returns; and the next, in which modern man must unite with his mythological depths in order to finally conquer evil!

Clay Fielding currently resides in Lakeland, Florida.