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Peter Laurent

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Author Peter Laurent was born and raised in Auckland, New Zealand. He studied 3D animation in Auckland, then worked full-time in Mount Maunganui. Peter then formed his own company, Indiana Games Limited, and has been freelancing art and animation back in Auckland ever since. “The Covert Academy” is his first novel, borne of a passion for creative storytelling.

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Neglected Child

Yes I'm still here, but I haven't been writing. The next book has been a neglected child, but I still love it.

It's hard to believe it's been over a year since my last blog post!

In 2013 I took some time off work to write The Covert Academy, then Scout's Honour, and in the following 6 months pumped out a 100k draft of the next book by February 2014. That's just shy of 200k words in around 15 months, Read more of this blog post »

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Published on June 17, 2015 15:46 • Tags: covert-academy, cross-fate, scout-s-honour, writing

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	The Covert Academy (The Covert Academy #1) 3.48 avg rating — 73 ratings — published 2013 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Scout's Honour (The Covert Academy, #1.5) 4.17 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2013 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Description: A short story I wrote for a job application, based on this criteria: - The things you loved doing in childhood. - An imaginary or factual problem that you had in school/life and how you handled that. - How you would have loved your life to be. - What your life is like now.

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I really want to rate this 9/10 but it falls just short for many of the same reasons I stated in my review of The Way of Kings. This is very much a direct continuation of where that story left off, and most characters follow a predictable, if enterta ...more
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