Ask the Author: Gareth Mottram
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Gareth Mottram
I've managed to secure more time for writing recently so here's what I'm up to:
1. Reformatted and lightly edited the Jason Willow trilogy - new version on eBooks everywhere and coming to paperback by end of July 2025.
2. Withdrawn my two Battle books after hiring the HUNGER GAMES and HIS DARK MATERIALS publisher/editor, Lisa Edwards. Lisa gave me an in-depth developmental edit which has led to many changes to the story, not least of which is to re-focus it as young adult. The new version will be re-branded as Deadlock and sees the story expand into the magic-users' prison lands and get a tad darker. I am aiming to get Deadlock 1 out for Halloween '25.
3. I'm finally building a website, theredbuttonpress.com, which will have lots of freebies for my three creative endeavours - fiction, games and learning hacks. This should be up and running by the end of July '25.
In the meantime, I'll keep you up to date here on Goodreads and on https://www.facebook.com/RedButtonPress .
Cheers for now.
1. Reformatted and lightly edited the Jason Willow trilogy - new version on eBooks everywhere and coming to paperback by end of July 2025.
2. Withdrawn my two Battle books after hiring the HUNGER GAMES and HIS DARK MATERIALS publisher/editor, Lisa Edwards. Lisa gave me an in-depth developmental edit which has led to many changes to the story, not least of which is to re-focus it as young adult. The new version will be re-branded as Deadlock and sees the story expand into the magic-users' prison lands and get a tad darker. I am aiming to get Deadlock 1 out for Halloween '25.
3. I'm finally building a website, theredbuttonpress.com, which will have lots of freebies for my three creative endeavours - fiction, games and learning hacks. This should be up and running by the end of July '25.
In the meantime, I'll keep you up to date here on Goodreads and on https://www.facebook.com/RedButtonPress .
Cheers for now.
Gareth Mottram
Here's a fifteen-word chiller. Hopefully it strongly suggests a back-story and opens up a world of possibilites about what will happen next...
Mentallious concentrated and the president pressed the button. No one was laughing at him now.
Mentallious concentrated and the president pressed the button. No one was laughing at him now.
Gareth Mottram
That's a long story - one for another time I think.
Gareth Mottram
Films and books mainly, mixed in with a touch of real life. I like thinking about how a particular film/book character would cope in another situation and mixing up a cocktail of personalities and plots. I also love seeing how other writers and directors build up the audience hate for the bad guys.
Gareth Mottram
Just keep pushing through your 1st Draft. Jot down any notes for changes you have to make in early chapters and handle them later in the 1st edit.
Gareth Mottram
Being able to build your own characters and give them hopes, faults, mannerisms, relationships etc and then have them twist through your plot-lines across any place on Earth (or beyond).
Gareth Mottram
I don't really get a complete block - sometimes I do lose confidence/hope in being a world famous author a bit and put of writing/editing for a few hours or days but then I get over myself!
I do use a lot of fabulous film music to get me in the mood for action and sad scenes in particular.
I do use a lot of fabulous film music to get me in the mood for action and sad scenes in particular.
Gareth Mottram
Having finished my Jason Willow paranormal action trilogy in 2018, I started on an MG/YA fantasy series called BATTLE. Book 1 is out now on Amazon and Smashwords and Book 2 should be released aroung Christmas 2020. This is part of a Battle Project which will soon include an illustrated, younger version by Stephen Bowkett, a tied-in educational book teaching young people to unover the truth and argue their corner and a fantasy strategy card/board game.
Here's the blurb for DIVIDED WE FALL:
Shields, lobbers, skirmishers and the rising dead - the Dark Ages as you’ve never seen them before!
In an alternate Anglo-Saxon Britain, fifteen-year-old Will Foundling trains his heart out to be accepted into the shield wall. As an undersized outsider, his dream is constantly thwarted by prejudice and bullying from all sides, but, when the savage Pict tribes inexplicably unite and come crashing through the ancient Romani Wall, Will has his chance to shine. His beloved warrior princess chooses him to join a quest to warn the capital and the deadly race is on.
Pursued by ferocious, wode-painted warriors and terrifying, druid-twisted creatures, Will also has to fight increasing hostility from his own side. With only Bridget, a sassy battle-runner, to watch his back, Will discovers the Picts are themselves fleeing from the resurrection of a dark and forbidden magic - a magic that begins to resonate deep inside him.
Can Will survive brutal warrior races, betrayal and the terrifying power growing within to find love and his place in the new order?
If you relish rooting for the underdog and believing impossible relationships can survive, then join Will and his companions in an action-packed, relentless flight through an ancient world on the verge of annihilation.
Here's the blurb for DIVIDED WE FALL:
Shields, lobbers, skirmishers and the rising dead - the Dark Ages as you’ve never seen them before!
In an alternate Anglo-Saxon Britain, fifteen-year-old Will Foundling trains his heart out to be accepted into the shield wall. As an undersized outsider, his dream is constantly thwarted by prejudice and bullying from all sides, but, when the savage Pict tribes inexplicably unite and come crashing through the ancient Romani Wall, Will has his chance to shine. His beloved warrior princess chooses him to join a quest to warn the capital and the deadly race is on.
Pursued by ferocious, wode-painted warriors and terrifying, druid-twisted creatures, Will also has to fight increasing hostility from his own side. With only Bridget, a sassy battle-runner, to watch his back, Will discovers the Picts are themselves fleeing from the resurrection of a dark and forbidden magic - a magic that begins to resonate deep inside him.
Can Will survive brutal warrior races, betrayal and the terrifying power growing within to find love and his place in the new order?
If you relish rooting for the underdog and believing impossible relationships can survive, then join Will and his companions in an action-packed, relentless flight through an ancient world on the verge of annihilation.
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