The Janus Cycle
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Simon Llewellyn, for being the second person to ever read the entire manuscript. When someone like you says good things… well… that is a good sign.
Iris Mansfield, who read one of the stories to check for accuracy and gave me lots of useful comments.
Douglas Thompson, for recommending I try submitting to Elsewhen Press – that was definitely a good shout.
My editors, Dan and Sofia, who, with much patience, brought vast improvements to this novel and taught me how to use a comma.
And finally, Pete and Al, for your enthusiasm, hard work, and taking a chance on me.
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The Rhymer
an Heredyssey
Douglas Thompson
The Rhymer, an Heredyssey by Douglas Thompson defies classification in any one literary genre. A satire on contemporary society, particularly the art world, it is also a comic-poetic meditation on the nature of life, death and morality.
Nadith, a wanderer who appears to be an amnesiac or possibly brain-damaged tramp, is on a journey through the satellite towns and suburbs of a city called Urbis. With spiteful intentions, he is seeking his brother Zenir, a successful artist, who is always two steps ahead of him. But as his brother’s fortunes wane, his own seem to be on the increase. When Nadith finally catches up with Zenir, what will they make of each other?
Told entirely in the first person in a rhythmic stream of lyricism, Nadith’s story reads like Shakespeare on acid, leaving the reader to guess at the truth that lies behind his madness. Is Nadith a mental health patient or a conman? ... Or as he himself comes to believe, the reincarnation of the thirteenth century Scottish seer True Thomas The Rhymer, a man who never lied nor died but disappeared one day to return to the realm of the faeries who had first given him his clairvoyant gifts?
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Future Perfect
Book 1 of the Blueprint trilogy
Katrina Mountfort
A future in which men and women are almost identical, relationships forbidden. The BodyPerfect cult means looks are everything. A young woman, Caia becomes attracted to co-worker Mac, a rebel questioning their ‘utopian society’. Slowly drawn into a forbidden world, her life changes irreversibly when they are both sent on an outdoor research mission.
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TimeStorm
Steve Harrison
In 1795 a convict ship leaves England for Australia. En route it encounters a savage storm. Miraculously, the battered ship stays afloat and limps into Sydney Harbour, where the convicts rebel, destroy the ship and escape. But the surviving convicts and crew have more to concern them than a shipwreck, because they have arrived in 2017.
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Arteess: Conflict
James Starling
Winner of the SILVER Award in the Teenage Fiction category of the 2013 Wishing Shelf Independent Book Awards
Arteess: Conflict is the first in a new science fiction series where much of the action takes place inside a game. But surviving the game is not child’s play. We learn of science, betrayal, power and progress – from the perspective of innocent, but nevertheless accomplished gamers.
Created as an experiment into the nature of time itself, the virtual world of Arteess exists, in the near future, as a private digital realm. A full-body virtual reality experience where the talented, the shrewd and the lucky are invited to participate in an international war zone of nomadic factions. We are introduced into the world of Arteess alongside the Shard squad, a group of friends specialising in conflict arenas. Though each member possesses unique talents, they are ultimately defined by their personalities, their own personal battles and the moral choices they make in the consequence-free virtual environment.
Surrounded by sociopathic technicians, facetious pilots and a potentially insane commander, they must carve out a place for themselves while surviving the onslaught of rivals and the antics of the rest of their own faction.
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Jacey’s Kingdom
Dave Weaver
Jacey’s Kingdom is an enthralling tale that revolves around a startlingly desperate reality: Jacey Jackson, a talented student destined for Cambridge, collapses with a brain tumour while sitting her final history exam at school. In her mind she struggles through a quasi-historical sixth century dreamscape whilst the surgeons fight to save her life.
Jacey is helped by a stranger called George, who finds himself trapped in her nightmare after a terrible car accident. There are quests, battles, and a love story ahead of them, before we find out if Jacey will awake from her coma or perish on the operating table. And who, or what, is George? In this book, Dave Weaver questions our perception of reality and the redemptive power of dreams; are our experiences of fear, conflict, friendship and love any less real or meaningful when they take place in the mind rather than the ‘real’ physical world?
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About the author
Tej Turner has just begun branching out as a writer and been published in anthologies, including Impossible Spaces (Hic Dragones Press) and The Bestiarum Vocabulum (Western Legends).
His parents moved around a bit while he was growing up so he doesn’t have any particular place he calls “home”, but most of his developing years were spent in the West country of England. He went on to Trinity College in Carmarthen to study Film and Creative Writing, and then later to complete an MA at The University of Wales, Lampeter, where he minored in ancient history but mostly focused on sharpening his writing skills.
Tej has just returned from backpacking his way across Asia and keeping a travelblog (http://tejturner.wordpress.com) to let his friends and fans follow him on his adventures as he gallivanted around Burma, Indonesia, the Philippines, and Nepal. When he is not trekking jungles or exploring temples, reefs, and caves he is usually based in Cardiff, where he works by day, writes by moonlight, and squeezes in the occasional trip to roam around megalithic sites and the British countryside. The next time he has enough money he will be flying off on another adventure.
He is currently engaged in writing an epic fantasy series.