Blog Tour: THE PATH OF REDEMPTION by Tom Haward

 

THE PATH OF REDEMPTION

Tom Haward

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GENRE:  Alternate History

 

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BLURB:

 

WithGrand Protector Faust missing and Caesar dead, Senator Frigus is trying to holdthe fraying threads of the Empire together by keeping this information secret.The Empire is already fragile, and if the truth spills onto the streets of Romeand beyond, the Empire could crumble.

 

Faustis prisoner of the giant Bjorn Askå and his cellmate is the rebel leader,Boatman King. Abducted by Askå, they’re now part of his grand plan to rule theentire world, with the Empire his next target. Can Faust and Boatman forge analliance or are their own ambitions stronger than any desire for a truce?

 

Acontinent away, Bella, Maverick and the other rebels have escaped to the RIAwhere they lick their wounds from the disaster of Faust and Askå’s attack ontheir underground headquarters. They believe they have covered their tracks andhope the 35, leaders of the RIA, will equip them to take the fight to Romeagain, this time with the advantage of surprise.

 

OliviaKing, though, she is tired of the fight. Traumatised from being tortured at thehands of Maximus Nero and conflicted about her husband’s relentless desire tocrush Rome, she is unsure whether she has the energy to keep fighting those whohave caused her so much pain.

 

Withthe world and its people in turmoil, one thing is for certain: chaos remains ina world needing redemption.

 

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ExcerptTwo:

 

Maverick was told that the fight was a global spectacle, soto ensure it stayed that way and to go easy on Francesco, to prolong the fightand therefore the coverage, Maverick was also reminded that the man he wasfighting was an amateur and under no circumstances was he to kill him. Maverickthought about how he had been dragged from his family home to become agladiator, tortured by one of the most deprived men in existence in thehellscape of Aestii and then paraded around the world like an object. He decidedthe powers that be could go fuck themselves and he would fight as he wanted to.For poor Francesco, that was a mixed outcome. The negative was that withinthirty seconds of trying to show off his newly acquired sword skills he wasskewered with Maverick’s, but the positive was that he died so quickly hedidn’t feel any disappointment in his debut gladiator performance.

 

Marcus had watched in horror as his dad was butchered, andhe nurtured that horror for years and years so that it became pure hatred forthe man that murdered his father.

 

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What are some of your best writing practices?

 

Being a writer is all aboutdiscipline. Discipline that you will even put one word on paper and disciplinethat you will keep writing even when you doubt your ability to the point youwant to throw your laptop out of the window.

 

I would think discipline ofsticking to the task has been my best writing practice in the past four years.When Cinnabar Moth signed me to write a trilogy, I asked my wife if I was madto do it. It has always been my dream to write stories for the world to readand when Cinnabar showed their faith in me and offered to help me take mystories to the world, I couldn’t refuse. I signed a contract committing towrite three books in three years. After doing so I asked my wife if that waspossible and if I was stretching myself too thin. I’m a business owner and runa small business with twenty staff. It’s busy and I have a lot ofresponsibilities, but the dream of being a published author has been with mesince I was a child, so I was honoured and keen, but then worried I had agreedto something beyond my capabilities. My wife reassured me I had the skills todo it, but I needed to be disciplined.

 

And that’s the thing. My bestwriting practices over the past few years has been discipline anddetermination.

 

At the end of a work day when I amtired and I still have work to do for the business, my greatest achievement hasbeen having the discipline to keep writing through an evening. I have placedwhere I write best and I would take myself off to them to ensure I was in mymost creative space. And that helped me, even when I had major things tocontend with for work, to focus solely on the books I have been crafting allthis time. That’s what keeps writers sharp and keeps them producing goodquality stories: discipline.

 

AUTHOR Bio and Links:

 

Tomwas born in Essex and at 4 months old he and his identical twin were adoptedinto an oyster farming family. Tom now runs the business as generation eight ofHaward oyster farmers.  He has a fiancée,baby daughter and a cockapoo.

 

Tomhas an MA in Creative Writing and has loved telling stories since he was achild, whether verbally or through prose.

 

ThePath of Chaos was his debut novel. He is also working on a six episode comedyscreenplay and tweets passionately about his family’s industry and thechallenges it faces.

 

Website:https://tomhaward.co.uk/

Twitter:https://x.com/HawardTom

Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/tomhawardauthor

Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/hawardtom

 

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