Old Flames and Heroes
2016 Silver Falchion Finalist Young Adult Fiction Ages 14+.
Mord McGhee's wonderfully wise Old Flames and Heroes is the perfect coming of age companion for grads--from grade school, high school, college, and beyond! Connecting childhood to adulthood in a delightful way. From soaring to a city built into a waterfall to great sights as experienced by the young protagonist, Mord McGhee addresses life's ups and downs with humor, luck, love, and magic. He encourages readers to find the true meaning of the little blue sun which suddenly appeared in the sky.
In a starred review, world-renowned adventurer Adam Davies notes, "Mord McGhee's Old Flames and Heroes is a great addition to the genre (young adult fantasy)."
McGhee's message is simple and fun, capturing the great balance of life and a parent's fears for their children, but through it all he makes it easy to laugh and believe in happy endings.
A wonderful gift for anyone starting a new phase in their life!


"We measure a celebration, beginning anywhere. This one seems as good as any other. If you are a Fortean, don't know you are or want to be one, take delight today in a new uniquely intellectual American book by Mord McGhee."
Loren Coleman
World Famous Cryptozoologist and Director of the International Cryptozoology Museum
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Old Flames and Heroes
2016 Silver Falchion Finalist Young Adult Fiction Ages 14+.
Mord McGhee's wonderfully wise Old Flames and Heroes is the perfect coming of age companion for grads--from grade school, high school, college, and beyond! Connecting childhood to adulthood in a delightful way. From soaring to a city built into a waterfall to great sights as experienced by the young protagonist, Mord McGhee addresses life's ups and downs with humor, luck, love, and magic. He encourages readers to find the true meaning of the little blue sun which suddenly appeared in the sky.
In a starred review, world-renowned adventurer Adam Davies notes, "Mord McGhee's Old Flames and Heroes is a great addition to the genre (young adult fantasy)."
McGhee's message is simple and fun, capturing the great balance of life and a parent's fears for their children, but through it all he makes it easy to laugh and believe in happy endings.
A wonderful gift for anyone starting a new phase in their life!


"We measure a celebration, beginning anywhere. This one seems as good as any other. If you are a Fortean, don't know you are or want to be one, take delight today in a new uniquely intellectual American book by Mord McGhee."
Loren Coleman
World Famous Cryptozoologist and Director of the International Cryptozoology Museum
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2016 Silver Falchion Finalist Young Adult Fiction Ages 14+.
Mord McGhee's wonderfully wise Old Flames and Heroes is the perfect coming of age companion for grads--from grade school, high school, college, and beyond! Connecting childhood to adulthood in a delightful way. From soaring to a city built into a waterfall to great sights as experienced by the young protagonist, Mord McGhee addresses life's ups and downs with humor, luck, love, and magic. He encourages readers to find the true meaning of the little blue sun which suddenly appeared in the sky.
In a starred review, world-renowned adventurer Adam Davies notes, "Mord McGhee's Old Flames and Heroes is a great addition to the genre (young adult fantasy)."
McGhee's message is simple and fun, capturing the great balance of life and a parent's fears for their children, but through it all he makes it easy to laugh and believe in happy endings.
A wonderful gift for anyone starting a new phase in their life!


"We measure a celebration, beginning anywhere. This one seems as good as any other. If you are a Fortean, don't know you are or want to be one, take delight today in a new uniquely intellectual American book by Mord McGhee."
Loren Coleman
World Famous Cryptozoologist and Director of the International Cryptozoology Museum

Product Details

BN ID: 2940157982904
Publisher: Rezcircle Books
Publication date: 11/17/2015
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 354
File size: 441 KB

About the Author

Mord McGhee is an award-winning author of science fiction, fantasy, horror, and literary fiction, based in North Myrtle Beach, South Carolina and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in the United States of America. He is a Board Member of Rowayat.org (Canada) and an associate editor for Ariel Publishing and Parsec SFF. Two unpublished manuscripts are Claymore Award Finalists in '22, and upcoming books include Ironblood, The Seven Children of God, Anna's Odyssey and Holy Water. The novella The Stroke of Oars and chapbook Mind Poker are slated for 2023 by Nat1 Publishing and Audience Askew. Mord is also an associate executive producer for upcoming feature film The Man in the White Van starring Sean Astin and Ali Larter and My Dead Friend Zoe starring Morgan Freeman and Ed Norton. Mord is a former columnist for The Horror Within Magazine, has been an editor of various anthologies, and is a previous Honorable mention in L. Ron Hubbard's 'Writers of the Future.' Mord has been an editor of various anthologies, and a previous winner in L. Ron Hubbard's 'Writers of the Future' (#39). It's also true Mord McGhee is a classic MMORPG gamer specifically found Landroval server in Lord of the Rings Online, server 101 of Meridian 59, and at times in Lovecraftian- The Secret World.

"It is not dystopia to think history will repeat itself." ~Mord McGhee



Mord's influences are as eclectic as his creations, which lean towards magic realism, horror, fantasy, and science fiction coming in unlikely happenings. Steven Brust, Mark Twain, Glen Cook, Robert E. Howard, Ambrose Bierce, J.R.R. Tolkien, Terry Pratchett, Gilderoy Lockhart, and Ernest Hemingway are some of his creative influences.

2014 Dan Poynter's Science Fiction Award
2016 Killer Nashville Silver Falchion Finalist
2017 Preditors and Editors Top Ten
2016 Newbery Medal nominee
2021 NaNoWriMo Winner
2022 Killer Nashville Claymore Finalist (Ironblood)
2022 Killer Nashville Claymore Finalist (The Seven Children of God)
2023 L. Ron Hubbards Writers of the Future Honorable Mention
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