You've arrived at the home page of Eugene Woodbury. The main purpose of this website is to talk about the novels I've written, translated, and published.
My reviews, essays, and various other musings and announcements will usually show up on my blog first.
Serpent of Time (Peaks Island Press) is a historical fantasy about the daughter of the last emperor of Japan's defeated Southern Court. Caught up in a failed revolt against the shogun, Fujiwara Ryô seeks sanctuary on Mt. Kôya. There she is cast into the future by Kala Sarpa, the capricious Serpent of Time.
Angel Falling Softly (Zarahemla Books) is a contemporary horror story about the wife of a Mormon bishop who strikes a Faustian bargain with a Wall Street vampire (literally and figuratively) to save her daughter's life. The price of redemption will prove weightier than either of them could have anticipated.
In my cross-cultural romance, The Path of Dreams (Peaks Island Press), the guy and the girl deal with the temptations of the flesh the usual way BYU students do: by getting married. But in this case with rather unusual results. The spirits of their ancestors simply won't leave them alone until they get their way.
Tokyo South (Peaks Island Press) is the largely autobiographical account of the two years I spent in Japan as a missionary during the late 1970s. This collection of linked short stories depicts how an overzealous religious bureaucracy turned the preaching of the gospel into a cynical game of numbers.
Mr. B Speaks! (Peaks Island Press), written by my sister Katherine, puts the famously redeemed rake of Samuel Richardson's Pamela on trial in a modern courtroom before a panel of critics, skeptical literary scholars and an unsentimental judge. Can he salvage his good name and win back his wife?
Contemporary adaptations and explorations of Pride and Prejudice have too often transformed Fitzwilliam Darcy into the stereotypical alpha male of Regency romances. In Katherine's comic novella, A Man of Few Words (Peaks Island Press), Darcy endeavors to explain himself and set the record straight.
Previous publications, including links to the short stories I wrote for The New Era, and ongoing translation projects for Digital Manga Publishing, are listed in my bibliography. I am currently translating Hideyuki Kikuchi's Maohden.
My samizdat translations of Fuyumi Ono's Twelve Kingdoms novels Shadow of the Moon, A Thousand Leagues of Wind, The Shore in Twilight, and her anthology, Kasho no Yume, are posted on this website. For more information about the Twelve Kingdoms novels and other translations, see this guide.
As for all who I existentially am, I recommend this article by Jonathan Rauch. As Rauch puts it, "On the Internet, no one knows you're an introvert." As for what I believe, I offer this excerpt from American Gods by Neil Gaiman.
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