Terence Park's Blog - Posts Tagged "the-turning-stone"

A lot can happen in 12 months.
Move home, help sort out your kids life, deal with a crisis, get a job, have financial problems... the list is long. In my case I moved just over two years back but the chaos of the move will be remembered long. More recently (April 2018) my youngest daughter suffered a freak accident in which her right ankle was simultaneously dislocated and fractured. She had reconstructive surgery to both tibia and fibula, came back home to recover and was on painkillers for the best part of three months. This left her bedridden, missing an important part of her final year at Chester University (History). What parents wouldn't do what they could help their child? In the meantime I lost my only source of income and, due to the vagaries of the UK system, didn't qualify for government help - neither did my wife as carer or my daughter as her injury wasn't long-term! Then on 21/07/18 my wife had a heart attack - the key trigger in this was stress; she's since worked hard on recovering, sticking to being vegan which she took up late 2017.
Looking after a bed-ridden daughter with next to no income sent me into financial crisis - credit card (maxed out), overdraft (maxed out), eligibility for support = zero (Universal Credit rules). I've lived through hard times - growing up on a sink estate teaches you a thing or two - but the past year ranks as one of the worst.
Worry is a cloud that rains destruction (one of the many sayings collected by Idries Shah)... and it sure as heck puts the break on writing. Anyway good fortune landed a job in July. Soon I'll be in a position to get more fiction out there (professional editors don't come for free). I'm equating this to go ahead with renewed vigour. Waiting to be edited are:

Dragonshard
Space, Horror
Is there anything out there between the stars and what would happen if we managed to make contact?

The Turning Stone
Young Adult
All that keeps us from reverting back to the days of warring powers: lithilids vs magmoids vs fire elemental vs Amazon vs whatever, is the Turning Stone. The Turning Stone is found by group of unsuspecting teenagers. Disaster awaits.

Angel in my Heart
Dystopia, Romance
Angels, Archaea, WelteMenn and of course the Last Library on Earth.

Most of my 38,000 words this year is work on Nymphs, tales of beings out of legend: Ice, Storm, Sea and Tree. This collection will probably be 18+.

I have three titles coming out this year (at least three btw). The first is The Turning Stone and the Kindle version has just been issued. btw I love the cover:

For thousands of years a closely guarded secret has been kept safe. It concerns a pact made to bind the peoples of Earth into one race: man. Pre-human species used to war with each other and their powers were destructive; the only way to end this was to bind them together, by magic. The spell was hidden in a well-guarded artefact and safeguards were set to prevent it falling into the wrong hands, or so tradition tells. Ages have passed and humans grew together, developing a technological society; so legends of beings with great power are just that: legends. No Amazons, djinni, elementals or other more exotic types....

The Turning Stone is YA fantasy set in the present day, with elements of myth. Its starting point is one of the most powerfully destructive events to affect the human race.

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Hasiwriters started up again tonight - Hasiwriters being a writing group that meets in Haslingden Library every two weeks - after an absence of coming on for 5 years. I managed to get off early from work for this re-inaugural session. The group leader was Jim Taylor - a local poet of some repute and after introductions we got down to a 20 minutes writing session. A poet, a script writer, an activist (who smelt of tobacco) and two well-read, readers willing to give writing a go - plus myself. I have to concede my piece was hastily conceived and executed but it was a good to get to grips with writers meetings again.
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