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 Serpent of Time.
Angel Falling Softly (Zarahemla Books) is an urban fantasy 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 the cross-cultural romance, The Path of Dreams (Peaks Island Press), the guy and the girl deal with the temptations of the flesh the way most BYU students do: by getting married. In this case, however, the spirits of their ancestors won't leave them alone until much more gets accomplished.
Tokyo South (Peaks Island Press) follows the adventures of a Mormon missionary in Japan during the late 1970s. This largely autobiographical account depicts an overzealous religious bureaucracy turning the gospel into a cynical numbers game.
Mr. B Speaks! (Peaks Island Press) puts the famously redeemed rake of Samuel Richardson's Pamela on trial before a panel of literary critics, skeptical scholars, and an unsentimental judge. Can he salvage his good name and win back his wife?
Contemporary adaptations of Pride and Prejudice have too often transformed Fitzwilliam Darcy into the stereotypical alpha male of Regency romances. In A Man of Few Words (Peaks Island Press), Darcy endeavors to 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.
My (unauthorized) translations of Shadow of the Moon, A Thousand Leagues of Wind, The Shore in Twilight, and Kasho no Yume are posted on this website. For more information about Fuyumi Ono's Twelve Kingdoms novels, see this guide.
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