Frond

Publisher info

Frond is my publisher name for the books under my two pen names Candy Ray and Lena Chere.

Smashwords Interview

When did you first start writing?
I started to write short stories and poems when I was a child. My first stories were about God, Jesus and Satan- even when I was six I was fascinated by religion! Later on in my twenties I wrote many songs and I married an amateur musician who wrote his own material. But I didn't have much luck collaborating with him or with the other musicians he knew: I used to argue with them too much. Eventually I married again, another musician/songwriter; however, for a long time I stopped writing.
After a journey through a lot of different religions and philosophies I took up chaos magic and became a writer seriously. Chaos magic is based on the arts and sometimes the works of art are magic spells.
What is your writing process?
Usually I write my stories in order. Occasionally I write a later scene in a novella before an earlier scene, but it feels more natural to me to go from the beginning to the end. I don't have the whole story planned out when I start and sometimes I even do that 'writing by the seat of the pants' thing, where you have no plot worked out at all.
One of my books 'The Rescue Circle' was originally going to be a novel, so I drafted out more of a proper plan for that one, but in the end it turned into a novella the same as the others.
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Where to find Frond online

Time Gate
Price: Free! Words: 15,710. Language: English. Published: April 8, 2021 by Frond. Categories: Fiction » Visionary & metaphysical, Fiction » Fantasy » Contemporary
Lydia and her girlfriend Moona are classical musicians with a strong interest in the esoteric. Lydia encounters a time travel current which can change her destiny, and her destiny is also linked with a past life in pre-historic times. When true love and her time of death are in the mix, it becomes vitally important to learn how to manipulate the timelines.
Chaos Dreams 4
Price: Free! Words: 23,680. Language: English. Published: March 19, 2020 by Frond. Categories: Fiction » Fantasy » Paranormal, Fiction » Fantasy » Short stories
Four tales of occult fantasy by Candy Ray and her muse Ino. A fable about a doll whose life is all work and no play, two artistic and creative girl ghosts,an eccentric psychic and a muse. One farm in Wales, brooded over by creatures of the Cthulu Mythos. A chaos magician alters the entire landscape of outer London by mistake. The story of a band of spirit pirates who make mischief every Spring.
Alchemical Journey
Price: Free! Words: 24,750. Language: English. Published: October 24, 2019 by Frond. Categories: Nonfiction » New Age » Reincarnation, Nonfiction » Religion & Spirituality » Body, mind, & spirit » Ancient mysteries & controversial knowledge
(5.00 from 1 review)
Now available as an eBook, Candy Ray’s popular account of her 6 past lives, and the times in between them. She has been a demon, a warrior in ancient India, a sacred cat in the time of Moses, a scholar in Medieval England, a witch during the English Civil War and a Quaker in the era of slavery. The account focuses on how the Law of Karma works, and gives insights into important world events.
Silver Manes
Price: Free! Words: 18,630. Language: English. Published: July 31, 2019 by Frond. Categories: Fiction » Fantasy » Paranormal, Fiction » Visionary & metaphysical
Arran is a Kabbalist, a young professional man from the UK, and his accident comes at a critical moment in his love life. It also serves to deepen his emerging connection with one of the kingdoms of Hell. He enters into a coma in which he learns much about love and about archetypes, while those around him get the chance to petition a Wishing Horse for three wishes- or anything else they want.
Mount Clexa
Price: Free! Words: 18,920. Language: English. Published: April 12, 2019 by Frond. Categories: Fiction » Fantasy » Paranormal, Fiction » Visionary & metaphysical
This is a book of serious occult fiction, told in the first person by Clexa, the daughter of the Horse Goddess Eoss. Bound to a magician in service, she finds herself forced to explore the aethyrs of the Enochian magic system with him, and to carry out a revenge curse on a girl when she would prefer to spare her. Follow the adventure as Clexa responds to these challenges.
The Wizard From Vahan
Price: Free! Words: 24,150. Language: English. Published: April 5, 2019 by Frond. Categories: Fiction » Fantasy » Paranormal, Fiction » Science fiction » Adventure
Jasper is an apprentice magician from Earth of the future. By mistake he transforms into a warrior knight in a parallel world. He encounters Emin, an advanced magician who offers to swap places with him and be the knight leaving Jasper in his retreat up in space. Jasper must use his emerging magical abilities to return to the planet and fight aliens who threaten its people and the girl he loves.
Chaotic Dreams
Price: Free! Words: 14,860. Language: English. Published: October 21, 2018 by Frond. Categories: Fiction » Fantasy » Paranormal, Fiction » Visionary & metaphysical
Five short stories of surreal and slightly dark fantasy. An ancient legend meanders into strange directions. An inner demon seems to depart- but has he really gone? Alchemical fantasies sweep one man’s world into disarray. A living doll yearns to escape. Trading in crystals leads to an unexpected magical drama.
The Rescue Circle
Price: Free! Words: 25,640. Language: English. Published: December 21, 2017 by Frond. Categories: Fiction » Visionary & metaphysical, Fiction » Fantasy » Paranormal
(5.00 from 1 review)
A magician undertakes a dangerous quest to become a psychopomp, a guide of the dead, and afterwards to find his true love who has gone hitchhiking without him. During his trance he encounters angels, gods, djinn and troubled souls, and joins a rescue circle of Spiritualists.
Chaos Dreams Part 2 Astral Tales
Price: Free! Words: 18,240. Language: English. Published: December 20, 2017 by Frond. Categories: Fiction » Visionary & metaphysical, Fiction » Fantasy » Paranormal
The common theme in this collection of Candy Ray’s short stories is the astral plane, which is both the realm of the dead and the plane of dreams. In each story the action focuses on a different aspect of this plane: mediumship, lucid dreams, life after death, visionary alchemical experience and esoteric magick. Dive deep into these other worlds and you will find that they intersect with your own.
Chaos Dreams Part 1
Price: Free! Words: 16,820. Language: English. Published: December 20, 2017 by Frond. Categories: Fiction » Visionary & metaphysical, Fiction » Fantasy » Paranormal
These short stories were channelled by Candy Ray from a non-human chaos muse called Ino. Each one creates a vivid and enchanting world, sometimes in the past. Some of the stories have a narrative style that roves around observing. The tales are a showcase for Ino's unique views about human beings; her observation of people is very sharp, yet with a motherly quality
Copying A Master
Price: Free! Words: 18,350. Language: English. Published: December 18, 2017 by Frond. Categories: Fiction » Visionary & metaphysical, Fiction » Fantasy » Paranormal
Maurice, an idealistic painter, is pulled into an art fraud against his will. He seeks a solution to his problem through a sigil spell. Meanwhile the crisis of the fraud uproots him, wrecks his domestic life and drags him across three European countries as he flees the revenge he fears. Channelled from Ino.
Chaos Dreams Part 3 Fruition
Price: Free! Words: 29,400. Language: English. Published: October 29, 2017 by Frond. Categories: Fiction » Fantasy » Paranormal, Fiction » Visionary & metaphysical
A compilation of three chaos magic stories about chaos magicians and their spells and servitor spirits. The third story is channelled from Ino and it is about a chaos spirit from the mineral kingdom.