So my book (actually a novella as it’s about 28,000 words)
is on a special promotion for the next few days. Between the 14th
and 16th May 2013 you can get it for your kindle for the special
price of FREE! So you should give it a go as it will only cost you a bit of
your precious time and you might really like it. You can get it here: http://smarturl.it/dls that super swanky link
will take you to your nearest Amazon shop. If you don’t have a kindle remember
you can always read it on your phone, or computer, or iPad or expensive android
tablet that you’ve just bought by using the kindle app – here’s a handy link
for that too: http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/feature.html?ie=UTF8&docId=1000425503
What’s it about? Well I’m glad you asked.
It’s about if getting your dream life is all it’s cracked up
to be…
“Welcome to the land of your dreams, your perfect life,
your perfect partner. A world with no worries, no troubling thoughts and the
freedom to create your own environment as you truly wish it. That’s what
Dream Co™ had promised but living in the reality was so very different.
Kaleb should be living happily ever after in a world where everything you wish
for can happen. His wife is a cyborg version of his anima, programmed to meet
his every whim, his negative thoughts can be drawn away from him at the end of
each day and the world is a beautiful place. But Kaleb is suffering from a deep
depression and he doesn't know why. He isn't the only one; this dark depression
is fast becoming the biggest national disease. As an employee of the
government’s Department of Dreams, it is his job to work out why.
Watching him from afar are a strange order of monks one of whom, Frater Ra, has
been sent to investigate the encroaching darkness and how it conforms to an
ancient prophecy which indicates the world will slip into total chaos.
But the Dark is growing in strength and it has a believer in the form of a
young woman called Evangeline who is prepared to mother its child and bring
about the end of light and order. Through her belief, it can gain a shape and
substance and become a living powerful entity.
Do the answers Kaleb is seeking perhaps lie in the outlawed books of psychology
and magick? Can he fight the very authorities he is part of and risk destroying
his mind in order to find a solution? As the Dark gains shape and form, time is
running out and Kaleb has the fate of humankind’s sanity in his hands.”
I wrote it because I wanted to explore how governments
ignore the moral questions posed by science, often using it to further their
own ends with consequences they cannot control. I wanted to imagine what it
would be like to live in a Utopia and play around with how depressing that
might actually be.
There are elements of fantasy, horror and science fiction in
the story; some people have said it’s a bit like Clive Barker, others like Neil
Gaiman or a weird episode of Black Mirror.
It’s a bit of all of those perhaps but with a large dose of me in there.
There’s a little bit of sex and swearing in there so those who don’t like that
sort of thing have been forewarned.
Anyway, did I mention it’s FREE at the moment? Oh I did.
Well try it now then. I hope you like it.
