Title: My Dragon Name is Misora
Formats: Print and eBook
Genre: Folklore & Fantasy
Book cover by: Samitha Perera
Pages: 45
Reading Age: 6 to 18+
Language: English
Release Date: March 2025
In the collection: Amazon
Story Summary:
In the Japan of old, people lived side by side with an unseen world of yokai and spirits. For Misora, a young girl with a vivid imagination and a “dragon sweater,” life is a series of games until a sudden tragedy at sea leaves her family fractured. As her father, a man of cold facts and heavy grief, struggles to connect with his daughter, Misora embarks on a journey involving a giant who carries the sun in a wheelbarrow and a world-eating dragon. It is a story about how imagination can be the only engine strong enough to pull us through the weight of loss.
What This Story Means To Me:
At some point I saw a picture of a man pushing a wheelbarrow, and the moon was low and right behind it. I made a mental note of it, knowing I was going to use it. Just not how.
I originally wrote out the broad strokes of this story when I went to Vancouver Film School as part of an assignment. I can’t say too much, because it would reveal parts of the final plot as it is now. But suffice to say, the ending was not what it is today. I was struggling to give the story any real meaning, at least to myself. I had plenty of visual ideas, but the depth behind them was just that. Visually interesting, even when reading them, but they didn’t lead anywhere.
Then years later, my girlfriend became pregnant. And for no real reason, I felt certain it would be a girl. I think I did what most soon to be fathers do. I worried about things. Everything from the financial side to would I even be a good father.
But the pregnancy didn’t last, and no daughter or son came. And in some way, it set everything in place for this story. I could, in a sense, work through some of those thoughts by placing them into it. I have a playful mind, but I can be awkward in play, especially with children. So I used that.
And in my own way, I tried to honour this girl that never was.
* I’m making this book temporarily free because, for me, it was never about the money. Where it’s sold, the price mostly just covers publishing costs with little to no profit. What matters most is that people read it and connect with it.
I haven’t done any marketing yet, so offering it for free (for now) is my way of getting the ball rolling… hopefully. If you enjoy the free version, you’re very welcome to support me by purchasing a print or ebook copy. Every purchase helps nudge Amazon’s algorithm (or wherever you buy it), so more people might find the book. And if you have a moment, please leave an honest review – it really helps, both me and potential readers.
Thanks =)