The blonde from Barsoom

** "The Blonde from Barsoom" by Robert F. Young weaves a tale about Harold Worthington Smith, a science fiction scribe whose life takes a bizarre turn when he's pulled into his own Martian saga. The story explores the themes of creative freedom, retreating into fantasy, and the amusing discrepancies between real life and fantastical fiction. Harold, troubled by publishers rejecting his far-fetched Martian stories featuring the curvy Martian princess, Thejah Doris, finds himself living the adventures he writes as his own character, Thon Carther. As Harold and Thejah escape from a Tark mob the story escalates with comical and quirky plot developments, until Harold has a breakthrough: he can alter his reality by simply writing a new story that reflects his real life rather than the Martian one. **