It ended in fairyland. This was after Warren survived the fire in Los Angeles, made out with Hamadryad Botticelli in the British Columbia mountains and rescued Mira Manchu, the Perfect Princess, from a tentacle monster in the Pacific Ocean. In turn she dueled to save him, on the Camel’s Tail in the dusty spikes of India. Warren would get a promotion for his ability to evaluate the quality of trash left by the annual swarms at Jade Tooth Peak in Wuhu, China, and fight his best friend, John Brown, on a waterfall full of dragons.



None of these were what he wanted. He wanted the truth.



Did Warren kill his mother Perpetua? Or was it world famous film director Victor Fishfire. Victor Fishfire, who never won Best Picture, because Perpetua died? Victor hoped the Perfect Princess would give him one last chance. The Princess thought she might follow them all to the fairy islands and burn everyone to the ground. Only Warren’s extraordinary skills with tea, the original, unevolved, molecularly perfect tea, could reveal the truth and set things right.



This was the only way Warren could find love.



Camille Dumas is a woman of many names: Camille Vanessa Johnson, JC, Gabrielle Taylor, Camille Nickles, Elle, Satin and Antoinette, to list

a few. Her projects include the text-based games Tesseract and Rehobaom's Legacy (hypercube.org:9000), her seminal online column Auntie Dynamite (a blog that existed two years before Blogger), investigation of the green marketplace at My Toxic Life and Clean Shopper, and writings on organics and cutting-edge tech for Shiny Media. She was editor of Hippyshopper and star writer for Shiny Shiny and Tech Digest. She was editor of Mascaret magazine for four years.



Camille's grandmother Rosetta Johnson, nee Dumas, was cousin of the celebrated French writers Alexandre Dumas pere (author of The Count of Monte Cristo and The Three Musketeers) and Alexandre Dumas fils (author of Camille, or, The Lady of Camellias). Her son Arthur Johnson loved both writers and so named his first born daughter. Both authors are huge influences on Camille's work.



Camille was born in Sechelt, BC, during an unusually snowy winter. She has also resided in Quesnel, BC; Sackville, NB; Ottawa, ON; Eugene, OR; Santa Barbara, CA; Albany, NY; Moncton, NB, and Toronto, ON. Though enrolled at the prestigious Mount Allison University at age 13, and further studying at Carleton University (where she studied writing with Tom Henighan) and the University of Leicester, a disabling genetic defect forced her to drop out of each. Like Edith Wharton, she writes in bed.



The Tea Master is her first novel and took six years to write. She is hard at work on a new book about Crawford Cold, lesbian chef.



Praise for the work of Camille Dumas:



“Star writer” —Chris Price, founder, shinyshiny.tv

“Wonderful writing” —Hugo winner Vernor Vinge

“Keep on... it’s a noble mission!” —Ken Layne, wonkette.com/Tabloid.net

“Nice work” —Harvey & Eisner winner Greg Rucka, Detective Comics, 52

“Lovely!” —Claudia Christian, star of Babylon 5

“Fantastic and fabulous” —Hugo winner George Alec Effinger

"Hilarious! A Dumas through and through. Talent is in those veins like blue in the Seine! [She’s] a modern-day Flannery O’Connor.

As good as anyone I ever worked with.” —William Richert, dir. Winter Kills, feat. Jeff Bridges, John Huston, Elizabeth Taylor,

Anthony Perkins, Toshirô Mifune

“Very charming” —Edgar nominee Ron Goulart

“Delightful” —Hugo nominee Robert Sheckley



Camille Dumas, aka Camille V. Johnson, Camille Taylor, Camille Nickles, Gabrielle Taylor, Auntie Dynamite or Antoinette, is also known for her games Tesseract and Rehobaom’s Legacy, via Hypercube Industries.



Visit www.camilledumas.com.