New Release: THE STICKMAN'S LEGACY
I think every author has that one book.
The one you worked away at for years, scribbling down ideas on the back of scrap paper, crafting elaborate worlds and huge casts of characters before you dared write a word of the first chapter.
The one that hovered over your teenage imagination like a brewing storm, ever-receding into the future as you promised yourself that one day, this day, any day soon you'd actually sit down and start it.
The one where you finally poured every idea you'd ever had into it, spilling your life and dreams into the pages until it felt like you'd never think of anything else to write about again.
And then you finish it and move on. You write other stories, less ambitious but better crafted. You maybe even see some of them published. And you finally come back to your magnum opus and realise with sinking heart you're going to have to rewrite the entire thing from scratch.
This is my one book. Seven years planning, three years actual writing (including the aforementioned rewrite), five years getting it to publication.
Half my life.
I'm excited, nervous and a little bit proud to finally share it with all of you.
Mary never knew her father until he died and brought his enemies to her doorstep. Searching his house for answers, she unearths an ancient nightmare and is drawn into a world of corporate magicians, subterranean kingdoms and living architecture, all of whom have history with the Stickman - and their own sinister agendas for his daughter.
As a secret war breaks out across London with her at the centre, Mary finds fragments of her own past resurfacing, and has to understand the true nature of her legacy before it's too late...
The Stickman's Legacy is a dark fairy-tale about the stories we tell ourselves.
The one you worked away at for years, scribbling down ideas on the back of scrap paper, crafting elaborate worlds and huge casts of characters before you dared write a word of the first chapter.
The one that hovered over your teenage imagination like a brewing storm, ever-receding into the future as you promised yourself that one day, this day, any day soon you'd actually sit down and start it.
The one where you finally poured every idea you'd ever had into it, spilling your life and dreams into the pages until it felt like you'd never think of anything else to write about again.
And then you finish it and move on. You write other stories, less ambitious but better crafted. You maybe even see some of them published. And you finally come back to your magnum opus and realise with sinking heart you're going to have to rewrite the entire thing from scratch.
This is my one book. Seven years planning, three years actual writing (including the aforementioned rewrite), five years getting it to publication.
Half my life.
I'm excited, nervous and a little bit proud to finally share it with all of you.
Mary never knew her father until he died and brought his enemies to her doorstep. Searching his house for answers, she unearths an ancient nightmare and is drawn into a world of corporate magicians, subterranean kingdoms and living architecture, all of whom have history with the Stickman - and their own sinister agendas for his daughter.
As a secret war breaks out across London with her at the centre, Mary finds fragments of her own past resurfacing, and has to understand the true nature of her legacy before it's too late...
The Stickman's Legacy is a dark fairy-tale about the stories we tell ourselves.
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