Only the Vampire Priests understand the Blood Moon “A drop of His blood fills the cup and brings the Blood Moon Dawn.” “ Lots of cool action and drew me well in.” – AHF Magazine.
The Hole Inside the Earth is a multi-genre tale, spanning from the ancient past to the far future, whose genre strands gradually converge into an epic battle to save Earth.
See further down page for the list of genres and colours.
Find maps, mythologies, family trees (including character descriptions), background information about such subjects as agzulas, bonus chapters (already included in Volumes 1-13), music and much more in Appendix 1 and Appendix 2, volumes 16 and 17.
The myths of Atlantis and the Holy Grail, as well as War and Time Travel, all get new interpretations in this epic adventure.
This tale is not entirely linear. It can best be likened to a wheel; you can choose a spoke and travel inward to the hub (Volumes), or you can explore each spoke in turn (Colours), travelling around the rim and moving gradually inward until you reach the hub.
Another way to view it is as like a tree. You might choose one branch and travel toward the trunk, or you might jump gracefully from the tip of one branch to another, exploring the canopy of the tree, gradually spiralling inward. In either case, eventually you will reach the trunk and may even perceive its roots.
It has been my experience that people’s lives are not linear. Their journey is an inward one, to eventually meet other, sometimes the most unlikely, souls in a space that transcends time and space, indeed even lives.
Consequently, you can read The Hole Inside the Earth by colour stream (red, yellow etc.) or by volume (which includes every colour in order). Indeed, even if you chose to read only one colour, you will still understand the story, although I recommend including Blue, which recaps the main elements of the other colours. The colour streams loosely correspond to the following
Green – Alternative History :Two Meso-American vampire princes seek the Holy Grail to save their race in Atlantis Yellow – Alternative History : A vampire refugee from Ischian (alien) attack wanders from the desert in Ancient Egypt Orange – Military : 1947 race to recover the Nazi anti-gravity device 'Die Glocke' (The Bell) at the end of WW2 Violet – Romance and Sci-fi : A couple try to negotiate a world where contaminated water makes people forget to drink Indigo – Romance and Alternative History : A slave fights to save a Princess on post apocalyptic Earth, where books are currency and Floyd is god Red – Sci-fi : A quantum AI and Grand Master vanish in a chess match held to avoid war, leaving a detective stumped Blue – Sci-fi and Romance : The last human wakes up on a space ship travelling away from Earth, but where is it going?
Due to a slight oversight on my part, for the transition phase between Part 1 and 2 (Chapter 6 and 7) it is best to read in the following order if you are reading more than one colour (this is taken care of if you read Volume 6 and 7): Green, Yellow, Orange, Violet, Indigo, Red, Blue.
Romance, Sci-fi, Holy Grail, Atlantis, Vampires, Alternative History, Military, Distopia, Magic, Wicca, Shifter, Ancient Egypt, AI, Android, Creation Myth, WW2, Die Glocke, Plague, BDSM, Crime, Time Travel
Educated near Oxford, during English author Lazlo Ferran’s extraordinary life, he has been an aeronautical engineering student, dispatch rider, graphic designer, full-time busker, guitarist and singer, recording two albums. Having grown up in rural Buckinghamshire Lazlo says:
“The beautiful Chiltern Hills offered the ideal playground for a child’s mind, in contrast to the ultra-strict education system of Bucks.”
Brought up as a Buddhist, he has travelled widely, surviving a student uprising in Athens and living for a while in Cairo, just after Sadat’s assassination. Later, he spent some time in Central Asia and was only a few blocks away from gunfire during an attempt to storm the government buildings of Bishkek in 2006. He has a keen interest in theologies and philosophies of the Far East, Middle East, Asia and Eastern Europe.
After a long and successful career within the science industry, Lazlo Ferran left to concentrate on writing, to continue exploring the landscapes of truth. - - - From lessons learned as a professional musician about personal privacy, I do not publish using my real name but with the pen name Lazlo Ferran. Above, you can read a brief profile that you will find anywhere on the internet, and below, you will find my interview, qualifications and industry endorsements.
Interview
I was interviewed by The Authors Show about my novel Ordo Lupus and the Temple Gate. In the interview video on my profile to the left, I share:
1 How Ordo Lupus and the Temple Gate blends myth and mystery 2 Lazlo’s research into secret societies and historical settings 3 Behind-the-scenes writing insights
Qualifications
1. After a year studying a degree in Aeronautical Engineering, I chose to leave and received a BTEC Diploma in Graphics at Salisbury College of Art in 1985. 2. My IT Qualifications: building an early CMS from scratch in Perl, certificates in Search Engine Building, JSP, ColdFusion, SQL, B2B sofware. 3. In 2017 I became certified (with Distinction) from the TEFL Academy, London as a Teacher of English as a Foreign Language and gained experience teaching foreign students in a local professional school, although I had already taught children with varying degrees of dyslexia to read before. You can see my certificate at lazloferran.com/about 4. As for my knowledge of history, I have been a keen genealogist since the 90s and have traced my family back to a 13th Century Knight in Burgundy. 5. Lazlo Ferran is cited in the 633 Squadron Wikipedia [citation 25] entry for his interview with Cliff Robertson.
Industry Endorsements
1. The Devil’s Own Dice received a five-star review from Maria Beltran for the Reader’s Favourite website. 2. The respected Beijing Review published an article on my books in China: http://www.bjreview.com/Lifestyle/201... 3. The defunct AHF Magazine https://www.amazon.co.uk/AHF-Magazine... published by the Wolfian Press, now Purple Unicorn Media, said The Hole Inside the Earth had ‘Lots of cool action and drew me well in’. 4. For endorsements of my work as editor, here is Amit Bobrov on my work for his novel ‘The Journals of Raymond Brooks’: ‘Lazlo’s the best editor I’ve worked with, and I’ve worked with a few. He took an already successful novel and found every imaginable flaw, corrected dialogues, fixed my grammar and altered key scenes to make them more exiting. He’s a fountain of creativity and knowledge. When I showed my Publisher his version of my novel they were speechless and this was a novel that three previous editor worked on.’ 5. I have more than 100 publications (25 as editor) to my name and more than 70 individual works. 6. With more than 100,000 of my books in the hands of readers, their popularity continues to prove that an independent, genre-busting approach can work.
I loved the colour maps and illustrations in the Appendix. I'm glad the author didn't put all this in the volumes, especially the languages, because it would slow it all down. And I think it should be up to teh reader to decide if they want all the extra information and 'back story'.