Terence Park's Blog
November 8, 2022
Facebook Book Pages
When I got home I decided to check FB changes to FB pages, after concluding there was quite a lot of pruning to do, I made a list; so this is how my FB pages currently stand:
Door Witch
The Turning Stone
The Slow Holocaust
Burnley
The Tau Device
Silt From Distant Lands
A Guide to First Contact
Unfinished Tales
Ice Made and other stories
Lucky
Terence Park
Burnley (1st)
The Turning Stone Chronicles
My Writing Blog
November 7, 2022
Burnley Artisan Market
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I continue to create websites for my books - these are a place to put additional content but I would be delighted if reviews were also left there. My site list currently stands at:
Silt From Distant Lands
Door Witch
The Tau Device
Burnley
A Guide to First Contact
The above can alos be accessed from my main blog site: TP Archie, noting I've made considerable changes to the site menus.
October 2, 2022
The Tau Device - Survey
I should add that the Artisan Market was cold and windy - this is Burnley in autumn after all - and there were frequent incidents of stallholders rushing to stabilise their stock as gusts of wind tore through the covered walkway. More on this another time.

May 2, 2022
Burnley Artisan Market

Jennifer, my beautiful but fierce wife passed away in February 2022. She became ill in autumn 2020 but due to COVID we delayed getting this checked; eventually there was a phone consultation. Her condition continued to deteriorate over November - December 2020 and she found it more and more difficult to breathe - so mid December 2020 I took her to A&E and then to the nearest hospital where she spent a week. January 2021 we learned there’d been a misdiagnosis; she had lung cancer and had already lost one lung. Treatment followed (chemotherapy, immunotherapy and radiotherapy) but valuable time had already been lost. Jennifer passed away in February 2022. I am used to a busy house so even though I am of retirement age, the plight of the Ukrainians resonates with me; my mother was a refugee from the Soviets so I hope to house a refugee Ukrainian family.
February 26, 2022
Release date for Door Witch
Door Witch: New e-book sees fate step in as gaming avatar gets real - the perfect read for for fans of YA fantasy, anime and manga

Published on: 1st March 2022
Synopsis:
An alternate Earth, Alan Bates lives in Lanndern. He's an avid gamer on Earth Myth, an online role playing game and has one of the highest level in-game avatars, a level thirteen nomad, however he's seldom in employment, education or training - but he's just got a job and is hoping to sort his finances out. Fate steps in - late one night he's woken by his mobile - it's a girl claiming to be Sivitya.
The problem is Sivitya is a Door Witch he hired to protect his property - on Earth Myth - and she's a non-playable character. There are problems for Sivitya too: to start with she only knows the Earth Myth avatar who hired her, and Alan Bates doesn't look anything like him. Through encounters with a nosy neighbour, Jimbo's Cafe, the local hospital and the law, they have to figure each other out. They also need to take on board her news. And yet Earth Myth is only a game so how is Alan Bates going to get Sivitya back; but then events take a hand, turning his life upside down.
Door Witch n
NPC class in Earth Myth equipped with portal spells. Responsible for organising the defences of your House when you are offline. Also useful defending against raids.
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on Kindle Door Witch
in paperback - on Lulu as Earth Myth An Isekai Fantasy
an advance review copy on Reedsy: Door-Witch-Terence-Park (membership of Reedsy may be required)
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October 3, 2021
Door Witch
In book news, Door Witch looks like it will be published - before Xmas I'm hoping.
I've also got to first draft on The Samurai-Knight. The Samurai Knight deals with over-population, pollution, first contact and the moral code (or absence of) of the warrior.
August 11, 2021
Door Witch - preview
A couple of years back, while watching shows such as If It's for My Daughter, I'd Even Defeat a Demon Lord and Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon? I wondered what I would make of isekai, if I tried my hand. Thus began Door Witch.
Door Witch
In an alternate Earth, Alan Bates lives in Lanndern. He's an avid gamer on Earth Myth, an online role playing game and has one of the highest level in-game avatars, a level thirteen nomad, however he's seldom in employment, education or training - but he's just got a job and is hoping to sort his finances out. Fate steps in - late one night he's woken by his mobile - it's a girl claiming to be Sivitya. The problem is Sivitya is a Door Witch he hired to protect his property - on Earth Myth - and she's a non-playable character. There are problems for Sivitya too: to start with she only knows the Earth Myth avatar who hired her and Alan Bates doesn't look anything like him. Through encounters with a nosy neighbour, Jimbo's Cafe, the local hospital and the law, they have to figure each other out. They also need to take on board her news. And yet Earth Myth is only a game so how is Alan Bates going to get Sivitya back; but then events take a hand, turning his life upside down.
Door Witch is narrated by Sivitya and Alan Bates (and occasionally by his avatars). It is Young Adult Fantasy.
Publication date: TBA
Further information TBA
Cover art C. Rachel
Internal illustrations: ArtKapele
August 23, 2020
New works update 2020
The following works should be released in the next few months:
Door Witch (Isekai, Shoujo)
This is RPG fantasy with realism. Alan Bates has spent long hours on Earth Myth an online RPG. The catch to being a gamer is it doesn't pay the bills, even shabby one room apartments. In the middle of the night, a girl rings Alan claiming to be an NPC he hired on Earth Myth. Is this a wind up?
Bluebelle (Medieval Fantasy)
Aerythe and Cerise are wood nymphs set to guard Darkling Woods, this being an entrance to the lands of the Fae. In the nearby village of Tranby, Illius, son of widow Lizzy, dreams of being a heroic warrior; however he catches the eye of Aerythe. Thus are events set in motion to shake the Fae all the way to the Courts of the Goodly.
In the coming months, the following works will be issued as ebooks:
The Slow Holocaust
Silt From Distant Lands
Works in the pipeline
Angel in my Heart
Dragon Shard
Man for the Stars
On Kaikoku Isle / Star Samurai
Bolton University have asked for copies of my works to add to their archive of Lancashire authors. I will forward the following works (after issuing them in paperback):
The Turning Stone - Arshaana's Calling
Under Winter's Bough
In addition to these, I plan to forward front cover variants from earlier works.
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Thankfully my job continues
December 10, 2019
Door Witch
When I bought my first Studio Ghibli film

Grave of the Fireflies
I didn't realise how large Anime was but gradually, through outlets like Crunchyroll I have been educated, and gradually I have developed a taste for it. Anime originated in Japan and what first drew me was was its use of scenery, bringing the world to light in stunning ways; then I fell for the characters and the drama. Japanese Anime is more than Studio Ghibli,

Spirited Away
there are all kinds of shows on Crunchyroll: Fantasy, Romance, Sci-fi, Horror...

If It's for My Daughter, I'd Even Defeat a Demon Lord
Those I have seen focus on MMORPGs - MMORPGs are online role playing games where players from all over the world interact and play in the same game world, one in which they slay monsters, loot treasure, go on quests and raids and in general hang around with their online buddies, even adventure solo.

Log Horizon
The pull of such online adventures is new sights, new sounds, new experiences new rewards - all as 'toons. 'Toons: realistic looking but ultimately cartoon personifications.
Those who follow this kind of media will know that Anime is largely derived from Manga which in turn has roots in the Japanese Light Novel. A Japanese Light Novel is printed in A6 format and might have around 300 pages.

Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon? II
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In Door Witch I am reversing all that. Sivitiya is a door witch who gets sucked into the real world. She doesn't think of herself as a 'toon - her job is real - guarding the property of Akalito. She isn't powerless and can wield magic to some effect in the game world, but will that power carry over into the real Earth? Also, her world is a pastoral paradise… for wayfarers and heroes. It isn't built up and has no cities, travel, technology, fast food, business, shows, transport, libraries… and certainly no masses of people. These are all things she has yet to witness and discover.
Door Witch is a Western reflection on the Eastern anime-manga-light novel phenomenon. It will be realistic but there will also be magic, quests and skulduggery. In short Anime with a make-over to make it plausible. It is a fantasy romance — real world crossover.
Door Witch reverse engineers Light Novel from Anime... with MMORPG influences
:-)
Current state of play:
Draft 2/3 complete
Wordcount: 20,000
Point of view: First person narrative alternating male and female
Genre info: Adventure + realism + magic + moderate violence
Age range: 16 +
Book cover: Looking an for artist to do Anime style illustration.
ETA: Early 2020
October 31, 2019
Halloween Blind Date Story
Status: Still in Progress
Word count: 13,000
and...
I just did the Halloween Blind Date Short Story MMORPG-style.
At The Haunted showcases Darkness Falls, a horror themed MMORPG where the hero is recruited into the Virtuous Hero guild. Things go south almost immediately as the hero is a level 1 Knight newbie.
He makes a few surprising discoveries starting with: Virtuous Hero isn't all that virtuous and culminating in: what remains when you leave an MMORPG.
To song theme of: A Night on Bare Mountain, Mussorgsky
Story title: At The Haunted
Word count: 4,200
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Competition Ends 31/10/2019, Midnight
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