Update (The Changeling, The Devoured Earth)

[adelaidesean]

It's been an unhappy few weeks, but there is always a silver lining. The Changeling, the short, dark fantasy novel for kids that I wrote for my Masters, has been printed, bound and submitted for examination. With help from certain very generous members of the local community, plus my fellow students in the Creative Writing unit at Adelaide University, I think it's turned out pretty well. Grade and publication details to follow (touchwood!).

Also, the last installment of the Books of the Cataclysm, The Devoured Earth, has been rescheduled for September next year. Apologies in advance for the delay, but that gives me some much-needed space at the moment to sort a few things out. I'm not used to life getting in the way of writing; normally it's totally the other way around. :-/

Here's a short blurb for TDE that I knocked up for a HarperCollins catalogue last night:

"It's the end of the world--again. Last time, Seth and Hadrian Castillo trapped Yod in the Void Beneath and sacrificed their future to keep it there. Now Yod is stirring and an even greater sacrifice is demanded of the twins and their new companions.

"A conspiracy of seers fights to peel back the veil from the darkness ahead. Strange new beings from forgotten corners of existence converge on the tomb of the Goddess. A dragon with its own agenda takes an unlikely ally--and gives a ghost from the future the chance she needs to save the man she loves.

"Among the ruins of two worlds, with the future of every living thing at stake, a handful of lives are all that stand between success and utter failure."

Now all I have to do is write it. :-)

Cheers,
Sean

Comments

[benpeek.livejournal.com]

best of luck with the life shit and book writing :)

[seanwilliams.livejournal.com]

Thanks, Ben. The good thing, I guess, is that one feeds the other. I'm anticipating a dark and experimental opening to the first installment of Astropolis, the next book after this one. The first sentence, which I've had in my head since Japan, will be: "I am not a decent man." Where it'll go from there is anyone's guess, least of all mine. :-)

[benpeek.livejournal.com]

sounds cathartic :)

it's a good opening line, though. but as they say, you shouldn't be too harsh on yourself. i hear it's a bad thing.

[lonewolf23.livejournal.com]

Huzzah for silver linings, but yah-boo-sucks to the dark clouds they cling to. But I like the blurb. I'd buy it. :)

[seanwilliams.livejournal.com]

Thanks, Martin. That bodes well for the future. :-)

[transcendancing.livejournal.com]

I like the sound of the blurb... but then i've been enjoying this story so much regardless of the blurb I'd buy and read it.

I am glad to hear there is a silver lining amidst the angstyness... I am hoping this continues, to the point where the latter dissipates entirely with the use of the much needed space.

Thinking of you ^_^

[seanwilliams.livejournal.com]

Thanks! ;-)

[accy.livejournal.com]

For a while there I thought you had postpones publication of the next one , "The Hanging Mountains", and thought that finally writing three novels a year had taken it's toll ;-)

[seanwilliams.livejournal.com]

No, THM will be out in December as planned. The cover is amazing! Will post a link to it soon. Greg Bridges has excelled himself. Again.

[damienw]

coffee sometime?

[seanwilliams.livejournal.com]

Sounds like a plan...

[shadowsandice.livejournal.com]

*drivebyposthug*

[seanwilliams.livejournal.com]

*gratitude*