Greetings to you all.
There’s a lot to consider, I’ve discovered, in the run-up to publishing a book, most of which has nothing to do with the actual book, not to mention a woeful experience, so now that it’s out there I can take stock and hopefully get back to actually writing. For that matter, I was surprised by how much went in to editing, by which I mean that no matter how much you try to anticipate critique of your work, you’re going to have your blind spots. I was Dunning-Kruger manifest, and I daresay I will be many times over. I may even detail some of my mistakes here in future, so others avoid them.
I preface with my failings so I can lay some claim to humility while I try to sell you my novel, if you haven’t bought it already. I’ve written a fantasy novel influenced in one part by the renaissance and foolish golden-age-ism – though ultimately they might be the same thing, despite our instincts to the contrary. It’s influenced by my frustrations with issues of psychology and mental health, which dominate all times of strife, even if they’re unspoken. It’s inspired some of the questionable ways in which powers is deferred and dictated.
The story begins with Isaac Brodie, who has seen something he shouldn’t have as a child, which is both traumatising and unbelievable, even, or perhaps especially, to his inventor of a father. So it’s his life’s work to understand what happened, but the more questions he asks, and the more attention he attracts, it snowballs into wider existential chaos and risks worse than that.
It’s a story I’ve been working on for some time, and to refer to my first paragraph, not without unexpected upsets, so I hope you enjoy it (and its forthcoming sequels). But it wasn’t just me!
My thanks go to Dallas Wilcox and his other contributors who proofed the book, and put up with strange turns of phrase you the reader don’t have to see. Despite my allusion to William Blake, I’m not responsible for the cover art. Another thing we don’t have in common. That was done by Jeff Brown, as were some other formatting details. Robert Altbauer drew the maps, many moons ago when I was relatively early in the process.
Lastly I must thank circumstance and luck, for I’m neither a great and intrepid polymath nor an island.
You can buy the book on Amazon just about anywhere, from Barnes and Noble in the USA, and various other places as well. Please enjoy.
Matthew de Lacey
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