The Tree is a series of 4 stories (a Tetralogy), each taking place in a different season of a single year. The first story, Faith & Fairies, takes place in the Summer. The second story, Maps & Mermaids, takes place in the Fall. The third story, Rats & Riddles, takes place in the Winter. and the fourth story, Dryads & Dinosaurs, takes place in the Spring.

The Tree is also a screenplay (equates to the Faith & Fairies storyline), and actually predates the novel. It was written while I was working at SHO Entertainment at Universal Studios Florida around 1991-1992. It fared very well at many major writing contests over the years. I adapted it into a novel in 2003, self-published as Faith & Fairies in 2004 by my company LegendMaker Scriptoria, and my initial run ran out too fast. So I fixed a few issues and published a better version in 2005. Its sequels, however, still only exist in outline form, and I will not send them in for publication until I revisit my publishing strategy with these books. See FaithAndFairies.com.

"Our mundane world seems to have a number of gates to strange places and adventures to suit every occasion and purpose. FAITH & FAIRIES, with exciting encounters between young humans strong in disbelief, and magic as old as the first tree, has opened another such to entice the explorer. As one can truly say--a good read!" —Andre Norton, The late Grand Master author of Witch World, The Beast Master, Catfantastic, The Solar Queen, and more than 200 other science fiction and fantasy novels since 1938.

"An enchanting tale full of humor and whimsy, reminiscent of such young adult classics as THE CHRONICLES OF NARNIA...full of wonder and imagination, yet feels familiar and real. There is much to like..." —Eldon Thompson, Author of The Legend of Asahiel series.

"...a finely crafted, haunting tale of adventure, sacrifice and love that fondly recalls the young adult fantasy novels of C.S. Lewis, Andre Norton and Madeleine L'Engle." —The St. Augustine Record, St. Augustine, Florida

"Author C.S. Haviland has composed a mythical and magical turn of events in FAITH & FAIRIES. Some compare the story to C.S. Lewis' THE LION, THE WITCH, AND THE WARDROBE." —The Ames Tribune, Ames, Iowa

"Rarely do I read, nor enjoy fantasy novels but I am very happy to say this is one I like very much. I think its because I can relate to the characters, unlike other fantasy novels that are about long ago societies, or worlds very different from our own. It's the story of several teenage boys who enter a magical world that becomes more interesting page after page. Haviland is in the class of L. Frank Baum, Terry Brooks, or Stephen Donaldson who are some of the authors I have enjoyed." —MidWest Book Review

"FAITH & FAIRIES is a sweet fantasy story filled with wonder, magic, and fairies. There is also a good deal of action and adventure. Kissing as a healing method for fairies, quite an interesting concept." —TCM Reviews

"All I can say is, when is the next one coming out? Very enjoyable and original. ... There was nothing in this book that set off echoes of anything else I ever read, and that is a very hard thing to accomplish." —Danielle Ackley-McPhail, Author of Yesterday's Dreams

Code & Creation (formerly entitled Code & Chemistry) is a witty allegorical low-budget science fiction movie that takes place mostly on a single set with a single actor who interacts with other characters on "cam-screens."

The story is chocked full of hidden meanings, suggesting the emergence of self-awareness while exploring social and psychological issues such as the erosion of freedoms by technological isolationism (in contrast with claustrophobia), cultural dysfunctions and crowd mentality resulting from a lack of individual conscientiousness such as the power of groupthink, the intuition and perils of true AI clashing with gender awareness and reproductive curiosity, sexual stigma, capital punishment, civil disobedience, the morality of social experiments, shame, and self delusion. It even suggests parallel reality theories of quantum physics (particularly "Schrödinger's Cat" and Quantum Superposition).

It's not a heavy-handed story. It doesn't draw conclusions or preach paradigms. It's fun, but gives the audience a lot to think about. You will find its motifs and intentions in science fiction movies like THX-1138, Moon, Cube, Brazil and Ex Machina.

"...groundbreaking..." — MidWest Book Review

Fang Hunters approaches the genre in the way as An American Werewolf in London. The idea is to be scary and funny  at the same time without "going camp." Years ago I had the opportunity of working with director John Landis as his stand-in on Psycho 4 (a sequel directed by Mick Garris and the last Norman Bates movie starring Anthony Perkins, in which John Landis had a cameo as the manager of a radio station that Bates was calling into with his life story). I pitched to Landis a script I wrote called Lunatic (a story in the vein of Nightmare of Elm Street) which was my first attempt at this style of merging horror and comedy, written for SHO Entertainment which had I co-founded with Paul Sirmons at Universal Studios Florida in 1990. While that script was not picked up, I learned how to refine this style and in later years wrote Fang Hunters as a result of it. The result is familiar but original, both scary and witty, and I think will be very entertaining.

I generally don't try writing straight-up comedies, but the idea for this script - while absurd - had too many opportunities for silly situations that I couldn't pass it up. Shep's poor dad has no idea why his body is doing all these strange things, and he desperately tries to explain himself to his colleagues and clients. I call it pseudo-scifi because of the machine that uses DNA from a hair sample to gain this control, but the whole idea is ridiculously impossible scientifically. It's just meant to be fun and silly, and I think I accomplished that.

• Andre Norton, Grand Master author of over 200 science fiction and fantasy novels since 1938, remarked that the character Stripe possessed abilities she had "never even seen before."

• iPublish (former arm of Time Warner Books) said that Mr. Haviland has "talent to burn" and the story "is space opera as it was meant to be."

• The editor of the online mentoring program Inside Sessions, which featured many authors including Tom Clancy, Robin Cook, Kurt Vonnegut, David McCullough, and Nora Roberts, said, "I very much enjoyed immersing myself into this world and I especially liked the characters you have created: Mayla, Stripe, Lord Adah, Drill and many more."

• Jennifer Repo, as senior editor of Penguin Putnam, wrote, "I enjoyed reading your work, particularly because the protagonist, Mayla, is such a wonderful character. ... It's obvious that you've spent a lot of time developing your plot and characters, and it's paid off well."

Canis Dirus is a major horror novel set in Yellowstone National Park's deep winter. A homicidal maniac, nicknamed the Seattle Snake Man, has entered the park's winderness with his latest captive, a girl he has kidnapped out of a laundromat in Salt Lake City. He is pursued by a detective with a background in CIA black ops, but he fails to catch up to her before she is rescued by a local Yellowstone legend: a huge wildman known simply as "Falcon," a native of Kodiak with a mysterious military past who has taken up residence in the wilderness of Yellowstone. The Seattle Snake Man has unwittingly crossed paths with Falcon and is no match for the powerful eskimo. But there is another threat in the woods, something unprecedented and much more sinister and impossible to defeat: a monster wolf that kills for the sake of killing, and when shot down will grow and come back to life.