Book a Fantasy Tour ~ by Andre van Wyck

The boy recalls crafting vast dungeons (in kindergarten crayon) and filling them with enough traps to give Harrison Ford, in any guise, pause. Sprawling treasure maps were festooned with the kinds of cautions sure to attract adventurers: ‘Impassable Forest’, ‘Cave of No-return’, and ‘Here be Dragons’, all horribly misspelled and with the ‘R’ reversed.

Reality never quite lived up to his expectations. Which was fine, because books were a season-pass to a better place. Specifically, on one ill-fated fifth-grade geography excursion, there was a book, left unattended on a bus… A few, furtive chapters was all it took. An astounding world! Where bullies got their comeuppance and where being average simply meant your moment had yet to arrive. The grail vanished along with the tour but the indelible memory remained.

Life moved on to law school, moved on to law, where writing fantasy meant contracts and spells to sap the souls and fortunes of others. The boy fled the company of such fell wizards and fell in with a company of corporate pirates instead. It was a living. But it was not a life. He longed for a world, glimpsed between stolen pages, so long ago.

Every story needs a hero. Had his wife been a character in one of his favorite books, she’d have been a general to armies. She booted their old lives overboard and led the march to a foreign land, filled with great forests, caves of wonder, and castles fit for dragons.

Once again, the boy set to exploring dungeons, drawing maps and prying open the pages to fantastical worlds…

Immersing in the local culture

And these worlds are now open to visitors! A variety of tours can be booked through Amazon! For swords and sorcery, reserve your seat on The Waking Worlds adventure! Or The Patchwork Prince package for an unforgettable urban fantasy experience!

Does magic and mayhem sound like your cup of tisane? Are you in the market for mythic conspiracies, uncontrolled shape-shifting and a coming-of-age story? Then visit the Heli Empire in A Clatter of Chains and be dispatched on a daring diplomatic mission to the Kingdom of Lakes. Warning: may contain unexpected assassinations. Side effects may include hair-pulling and cursing the nature of cliffhangers.

The second leg of The Waking Worlds tour is now available! As of 1 November 2019, management is offering a survivalist experience, spanning the breadth of the Empire. Transport your prisoner across the snowbound tundra, force your way through desert sandstorms, and drag your ass donkey through forgotten waterways.  Don’t miss A Fray of Furies, lauded as “a sterling example of high(est) fantasy,” by Midwest Book Review.

If you find alternate worlds a tad too far afield, if your tastes run closer to home, try Stumbling Stoned. A tumble through this urban fantasy turnstile plops you into a French insane asylum. Try figuring out what’s real and what’s not as you make sense of pharmaceutical superpowers, corporate witches and talking cats. “The term ‘utterly original’ is too weak for this [tour]”, said a frazzled BookLife Prize tourist. Disclaimer: trip taken at own risk. Management will not be held responsible for visitors ‘hearing voices’ or ‘tasting colors’.

Our tour leader asking a local for directions

Andre lives in Luxembourg and invites you to visit his WEBSITE.

Compliments and complaints may be communicated via MESSAGE. For lost luggage / patience / family members, please contact the tour organizer directly on TWITTER. We look forward to seeing you there!

Don’t dawdle! Book now!