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June 5, 2017
Homecoming - Permanently FREE in the Amazon Kindle Store
My debut novel and the first volume of the Shael Chronicles is now permanently FREE in all Amazon territories.
Follow the links below and they will take you straight there.
Happy reading
Jonathan
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June 1, 2017
Homecoming - FREE in online ebook stores
I have just made my debut novel 'Homecoming' permanently free in the following online retailer sites.
Follow the links and they will take you straight there.
Happy reading....
Jonathan
Apple: https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/id12...
Barnes & Noble: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/home...
Inktera: http://www.inktera.com/store/title/e4...
Kobo: https://www.kobo.com/gb/en/ebook/home...
Playster: https://play.playster.com/books/10009...
Scribd: https://www.scribd.com/book/349506315...
Homecoming
May 24, 2017
Coming soon - Delivery Man
Just putting the final pieces together to this short story which should be out in the next few weeks.
More info to follow
All the best,
Jonathan...
The Waiting Room - Number 1 in the Amazon charts
Thank you to all of you for getting 'The Waiting Room' to number 1 in the UK Amazon charts.
I'm so grateful for all the support, really couldn't do it without you.
All the best
Jonathan...
The Waiting Room: A short story fantasy thriller
Excerpt from my second novel - Meadowbank
The days were hard, but the nights were far, far worse. The unforgiving landscape was harsh and scorched by the perpetual baking sun, and every afternoon before sunset a burning wind would sweep through. If you were unlucky enough to be caught in it, it would strip the skin from your bones. This was something he’d learnt the hard way and still had the angry scars on his face to prove it.
Yet he had survived.
In the early years he used to keep a count of the months he’d been stranded. The cave in which he spent most of his days was covered in tally marks too many to count. In recent years he had given up the counting, resigned to the fact that he would live out the rest of his days in this hell of a place he had come to call home.
Despite all this, he had still survived.
He could just about make out his hut in the distance. In his younger days it would stand out crystal clear on the horizon, but nowadays it was more of a milky blur. It wasn't exact, but he guessed the distance from cave to hut was three miles. A distance that used to take him less than an hour to cross. Now it was closer to two, including the frequent rest stops he had to take on the way. He convinced himself the daily pilgrimages kept him sane, but in truth, they were now more out of habit than necessity.
There was a deep well just outside the hut that, despite the unrelenting sun, provided an endless supply of cool water. It also provided just enough water to irrigate the sorry excuse for a vegetable patch that lay on the leeward side of his abode. He could grow nothing more than corn, wheat, potatoes and a green rooted plant that looked like cabbage but tasted like vomit. There was the tatty remains of a lemon tree that blossomed every two or three years providing a bitter fruit. But not this year. This year had been hard. If it wasn't for the coarse flour he made from the wheat and turned into dry bread, or the infrequent scurrying rodents he sometimes caught making their way from the foothills, he would have been eating only dried corn and roots all year. He'd suffered worse, but the older he got the harder it became.
Many times he thought of ending it. He'd pictured half a dozen ways he could do it too. The well was an option. It was deep and if he were to fall in he would surely drown or at the very least break his neck. He thought of walking out into the wind after dark, the unbearable heat would strip his skin in less than an hour. One of his more cruder ways was to impale himself on any number of rusty tools he used for the vegetables.
But no, the means and desire to kill himself were there, in fact on four very clear occasions he had tried. But each time the other had stopped him. The other. His silent companion. If he were to put an estimate on it, he reckoned the other had been dormant now for over twenty years. In the early days he (or it) had been very active; full of rage and hatred. But not recently.
Well, not until a week ago, anyway.
Years before, it was he (or it) that had made them set out beyond the foothills on a foolish expedition. They had walked for so long the hut and the dusty plain it sat on disappeared from view. But they went too far. So determined was the other to get away from this god-forsaken place, they left no time to return. They were exposed to the burning wind for one terrible night of torture. He tried to bury himself in the loose earth as much as he could, but the wind tore at anything exposed. The pain was unbearable. The scars took weeks to heal and the next morning he barely managed to stumble his way back to the hut. From that point on, he vowed to play by the rules; never to be outside once darkness fell.
To his credit, the other hadn't argued.
So he was trapped to spend his years living a sorry existence in a sun-bleached nowhere. For some reason the other wouldn't let him die. The other who had been so silent for so many years. The other who had only started to stir when, the previous week, two strangers passed through.
The only people either of them had seen for eighty years.
Meadowbank
May 10, 2017
Meadowbank - The difficult second album
Meadowbank - The difficult second album
I knew when I was finishing my first novel 'Homecoming' that there was a great many more stories to tell about the world of 'Shael'. I also knew that by telling these stories I would have to greatly expand the world I was creating.
'Homecoming' was a relatively simple tale revolving around our protagonist 'Dave' and his return to his old family home. I thought it gave a decent introduction to 'Shael', but was only really a starter for the main course yet to come: which turned out to be the novel 'Meadowbank'.
I wrote the opening chapters before 'Homecoming' was published and I could see where the whole arc of the story was heading. My goal for this story was to move away from the single hero tale and focus on a group dynamic and introduce characters that could (hopefully) continue the story over a further 2-3 novels.
Meadowbank is a fictional village, but the part of North Dorset in which it is set is full of quaint little villages and a number of grand (but run-down) mansion houses - all of which gave me a great launch pad for the tale.
So, I had my characters and I had the mystery of 'Meadowbank Hall' and then the story kind of grew from there - in directions that at times I felt I had very little control over!!
I hope you find the story as much fun as I had writing it and I hope you can follow me on the adventures yet to come! Rest assured, we will learn what has happened to Dave from the first book and we will find out more about the secret organisation that has been popping up along the way...
Work has already started on the 3rd 'Shael' book which at the moment is tentatively titled 'Nightfall' and, if all goes well, should be out towards the end of the year.
Happy reading
JK...
Meadowbank
April 30, 2017
Meadowbank - Bank Holiday Giveaway
Meadowbank - Available for FREE in the Amazon Kindle Store for the next two days (30th April & 1st May).
Grab your copy today!!!!
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April 29, 2017
The Shael Chronicles - OUT NOW!
'The Shael Chronicles' Volume 1 & 2 - Available in the Amazon Kindle Store for a limited time price of £2.98
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April 26, 2017
Meadowbank - OUT NOW!!
Meadowbank - Available in ALL Amazon territories
Limited time new release price £1.99. Usual price £3.99
Meadowbank: A dark fantasy thriller
Meadowbank is the chilling second volume of the Shael chronicles from author Jonathan Kent. Following on from the events in 'Homecoming', an idyllic North Dorset village awakens to discover two women have mysteriously been taken during the night. As a small group of villagers rally round to unravel the mystery, all evidence begins to point to the dilapidated mansion at the end of the lane: 'Meadowbank Hall'.
Uninhabited for decades and filled with an unknown host of secrets, our four protagonist's must search the deepest bowels of the house where they learn of the final days of its previous inhabitants. Then begins a desperate race against time as they are thrown into the strange alternate reality of Shael and the real truth behind the women's disappearance.
Shael, the world that really doesn't want to be found
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April 24, 2017
The OA - Incredible concept for a Netflix show
There is some great shows coming from Netflix and Amazon at the moment. It can be hard to keep track of all the releases, but with a bit of searching you can find some real gems.
Case in point is this Netflix original show called the 'OA'. From the first episode I was hooked with an absolutely fascinating concept around near death experiences and parallel dimensions.
Right up my street and definitely worth checking out.
JK...
