The Orphan Stone - Preliminary Cover Art

Here's the preliminary cover art for 'The Orphan Stone' which is about to be released.

Have to admit,  I am hugely proud to introduce this first installment of the series: a Dark Fantasy/ Horror YA novel featuring Salem Drake, a tenacious teenage paranormal investigator with an affinity for the spirits of the dead.
This is the first novel in what will be an extensive series where Salem finds she must survive and fight for her family, and everything she holds dear, while investigating the mysteries surrounding the strange world of demons, ghosts and secret societies.

After six months of writing, brainstorming and jumping up and down in the cerebral attic to shake the creativity monkeys loose from the rafters, it has certainly been through a few incarnations (and some heartfelt incantations too), as readers of this blog might figure out. (The monkeys are very well fed btw - banana sandwiches mostly).
The Orphan Stone was originally intended as a tie in for Curse of Ancient Shadows, but a mad brainwave one rainy afternoon brought about the creation of Salem Drake, so this new series can develop completely unfettered and in a totally new creative direction. (Which is why I've been running around the streets like a bonkers person and howling at complete strangers over it.)
I really didn't want to restrict the world of Curse of Ancient Shadows, and Cat Celeste, either (along with the rest of her gang) during the process of writing COAS 2. 'That' is another world that is morphing into something very cool, but has different 'roots' and a very different feel to the much darker world of Salem Drake.

The Orphan Stone has intentionally been kept shorter. At 45,000 words the story carries deeply, quickly and fluidly through the events surrounding Salem's first adventure to its climactic conclusion. Provided it doesn't get snapped up by an agent beforehand <cheesy grin> it will be appearing for sale as an e-book for the Kindle, Nook and Sony Reader very soon.
Thanks for checking it out! Check back shortly for more updates.
Happy reading
Rod :)


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