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Showing posts with label Partings. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Partings. Show all posts

Sunday, 21 December 2014

It’s Out! Book Three of A Seared Sky Hits the Shelves.

For all you fans of fantasy, the third book in my epic fantasy series, A Seared Sky, is now out, completing the trilogy. At present, Convergence is available in digital form only, but the print version will be out soon in the New Year.

So, what is book three, Convergence, about? I assume that you’ll have read, or intend to read, books one and two, as this is a sequential story set over the three books.

Wise woman, Ivdulon, finally discovers how the world is in danger, but knows only young Tumalind, a gifted female mindtalker, has the means to save it.
Dagla Kaz, fanatical High Priest, fights to prevent changes that will undo all his power and prestige, engaging with evil forces to get his way.
Aklon-Dji, fighting to save the future of his islanders, faces war, treachery and violent death to bring justice to his land and security to the woman he loves.
Tumalind, gifted and brave, faces unknown terrors and the peril of utter destruction for herself, as she sends her beloved Okkyntalah into great danger in hope of saving the world from evil.

As a gift for the Christmas period, my publisher, Fantastic Books Publishing, is offering the new book as part of a package of all three in digital form with a substantial discount. Bought separately, they’re £9.27 (already good value for 660,000 words of adventure, excitement and character-driven action), but you can have them for £7.99 as a set, saving you 14%. Just click this link.
And remember, 10% of all proceeds go to charity, funding research into ME/CFS.

To buy book one, Joinings, in digital form, click here. In paperback, click here.
For book two, Partings, clickhere.
And for all three in digital form, either separately or as a bundle, click here.

Wednesday, 3 December 2014

5 Star Review for Partings.

Partings is now available in print form. We’re still waiting for Amazon to connect the digital and print versions, but you can still buy it either from your local Amazon store by clicking here. Or direct from Fantastic BooksPublishing by clicking here.

And, after a long wait, I’ve finally got a review of the book. Here it is. For those who’ve read either of the books so far published, I’d really appreciate your review, regardless of what you have to say. All reviews help both the author and other readers. Thank you.

Love it, an enjoyable story with interesting characters., 29 Sep 2014
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This review is from: Partings (A Seared Sky Book 2) (Kindle Edition)

The second installment of this fascinating series carries on where "Joinings" left off but introduces a lot of new characters for the second part of the journey. All the characters are interesting and are continuing to develop. Unlike many fantasy novels, where the focus is on the journey and the lore, "A Seared Sky" isn't afraid to let the character drive the story and undergo significant change along the way.

Highly recommended for adults everywhere, but don't leave it somewhere the kids can find it - unless you don't mind questions like "daddy, what does 'prodding a fern" mean? ;-)

Author's note on the above - 'fern' is a local euphemism for a part of the female anatomy; local to the characters in the series, that is.

Thursday, 21 August 2014

Partings; A Seared Sky Now Available on Amazon

As promised, here's the link to take you direct to your local Amazon site, where you can buy a copy of , as an ebook.
Partings; A Seared Sky
This, as many of you will know, is the second book in the Fantasy Trilogy. You enjoyed Joinings, now you can enjoy Partings.
The third book, Convergence, is due for release before Xmas, so you can read the whole tale this year!

Wednesday, 20 August 2014

A Seared Sky: Partings now Available!

Just a quick note to let you know that you can now acquire a copy of the second volume of my epic fantasy, Seared Sky. Partings is currently available only in digital form, but is due to be released in print form very shortly. Keep an eye on this blog for the announcement. Sorry for the delays, folks. Dan, my publisher, has been mega busy with both the convention, FantastiCon 2014 and with the distribution of a new line of scifi novels associated with the popular Elite computer game.


So, you can currently obtain the ebook via Fantastic Books Publishing using this link.

Shortly, I'll be able to give you a direct link to Amazon for the digital version, and in a couple of weeks I'll provide a link for the print version. Patience, my friends. All will be well!

Thursday, 31 July 2014

A Seared Sky: Partings. Launch of Book 2 of the Trilogy

Exciting news! Book 2 of A Seared Sky, Partings, to be launched! 

But before I get carried away....

In my last post I almost explained my temporary absence from the scene for the past few days and promised to let you know why, today. Nothing too exciting for readers, but we’ve been preparing our house to sell up and move on. It’s now on the market (or will be at the end of today). So, that’s why I’ve been away.

However, in the meantime, something far more exciting for readers and, especially for me, has happened. My publisher has announced the launch of book 2 of A Seared Sky. Partings will be available from 16 August and will be launched at FantastiCon in Hull, initially as an ebook. But, hey, why should I keep all the good news to myself. Here’s a copy of the Fantastic Books Publishing newsletter making the announcement in full.

 The very first #SciFiHour at FantastiCon, another upcoming release more short SF competition news!

This week we have been collecting delegate bags to be used at FantastiCon and given to all our visitors! Now starts the interesting job of filling them for you all…

So far Waterstones, Hull University and the Copyright Licencing Agency have all come forward and offered bags for FantastiCon. All Golden Tickets holders will receive one and standard ticket holders will get one on a first come, first served basis until they are all gone.

Inside the bags we’ll be putting lots of fun stuff from local companies to check out while you’re in Hull and also a few extra bits too. Because all our supporters are so Fantastic, one of those extras will be… a random collector’s card from our recently released FEF Collector card series! The rest of the series will be for sale at the event but to get your collections going we thought we’d give you all a card at the door to get you started. You’ll also all receive a new pen that you’ll be able to use to navigate the fantastical world of Dave Hughes’ RPG ‘Elite Encounters‘ too.

And now news of another first for the event. The very first #SciFiHour will be happening live at FantastiCon! All you need to do to get involved is follow @SciFiHouron twitter and if you have any questions about science fiction in general or would like to ask our Fantastic Elite Fiction authors anything about their work, just add the hashtag #SciFiHour to your tweet and they’ll be there to answer your questions live from the event at 9pm GMT from the bar of the Hull Royal Mercure Hotel.

How can you help? Go follow @SciFiHour now and help us spread the word people! #SciFiHour

And what of you poor folks who who for reasons of geography or otherwise won’t be able to join us at FantastiCon? Don’t worry, we haven’t forgotten about you!

We currently plan to have a live feed from the event but if this turns out to be technically impossible we have 4 roaming cameramen coming along and we plan to create a documentary and will showcase it shortly after the convention. We’ll also be taking lots of recordings of things like the book readings, the author and actor Q&A, the Fantastic Awards Ceremony and the wonderful John Levene, Barry Nobles and Simon Fisher-Becker chatting on stage about Dr Who.
So, what’s happening with the short SF competition entries? Our judges are battling away with each other and so far, after nearly 2 weeks of judging, have not decided on a single story to remove from the list! Will the longlist become the contents list for the anthology? Only time will tell but the judges will need a little more time to sort it out amongst themselves. Watch this space…
Also, some of you have been asking about Stuart Aken’s next book in his ‘A Seared Sky‘ series following the launch earlier this year of the first in the series ‘Joinings‘. We can reveal that the second book is called ‘Partings’ and will be available as an ebook in time for Stuart’s appearance at FantastiCon in August. The cover for ‘Partings’ has been designed by the wonderful Heather Murphy and a sneak preview can be seen at the top of this blog.

Continuing on the fantasy theme, Stuart will now be joined by good friend and fellow fantasy writer Linda Acaster who will be speaking at the event about how her fantastical world differs from the norm.

For those of you unfamiliar with all our latest endeavours, why not sign up to our weekly newsletter? You’ll find lots of interesting items in there and we always give our newsletter subscribers access to our latest news first.

Just 16 days to go until the inaugural FantastiCon! See you there Commanders!
Just imagine,

Daniel and Gabi