The Broken Kingdom (All Episodes) is out now!
As some of you may know, I have been doing a little literary experimenting. I have been writing a novel – an Arthurian fantasy novel – in my spare time, that is between other writing and editing jobs, and releasing it as short, 70-page, 20,000-word episodes. And now I am going to find out if the experiment worked. I have finished the whole book – The Broken Kingdom (Wormkind Chronicles 1) – and you can now read the whole thing in one go. If enough of you buy the complete book, and say nice things about it in reviews on Amazon, I will know the experiment has worked. If not, well, that will be valuable info, too.
So what is the book about? It is a story about King Arthur and set in a post-Roman Britain with the petty kingdoms all fighting each other to decided who will be High King after the brutal murder of Uthur, Arthur’s father. The Saxons, driven out of their homeland by rising waters, are flooding into Britain. And a great evil is stirring in the North, beyond the Wall. All the usual suspects are in the book – Merlin, Excalibur, Camelot (called Caer Camlann here), Tristan and Isolde, Knights (actually, Warriors) of the Round Table – and several new and, I hope, interesting characters, and because it is historical fantasy there are various dragons and monsters, and Nimue appears as is an evil witch called The Soothsayer who is Merlin’s nemesis. I think it’s a good yarn. But I would very much like to hear what you think of it.
At the moment, it is only out as an eBook, but I will be producing the paperback later this week (fingers crossed – I’m having trouble uploading the cover) and there may be an audio version soon. I have begun preliminary talks with the audio people. Of course, if you don’t want to buy the whole thing (for £3.99), or you are not sure, you can still buy each of the five individual episodes (for 99p) and they look like this:
So that’s it. The Broken Kingdom (All Episodes) is out now as an eBook. And if you want to buy the individual episodes, start with Episode One: Arthur’s Bane. All these are available now from Amazon.