Nephylim's Blog - Posts Tagged "fairytale"
The Runaway
My latest book, The Runaway is due to be released on 12th September and I am WAY excited.
I've never put so much into marketing any of my books before and it's been a learning experience. I've enjoyed it very much, especially my forays into twitter, blog hopping, web banners etc.
I'm hoping it will have made a difference but in some ways it doesn't even matter because I've made friends and had lots of new experiences.
Anyway. The Runaway is a modern fairy tale based around an old Celtic story of faeries and the Otherworld.
In the story, a man chooses to leave fairyland, a place of pleasure and ease, but a prison to return to a world changed beyond his imagination where he has to struggle to survive, but is free.
In my story Ciarrai, a successful model turned Hollywood actor is crushed by the privilege and control of his extraordinary life and yearns for freedom.
He runs away to a cabin by a lake and meets Jack a boy with no past after a car accident kills his parents and wipes his memory.
While Ciarrai runs away from his past and Jack runs towards his they begin to form a relationship and Jack finds himself falling for the enigmatic boy who likes to wear silk and lace when he feels like it and thinks it's fun to turn up for a date in a leather mini skirt and stockings.
At first, Jack thinks the only reason he has these feelings for Ciarra is because his androgynous beauty blurrs the boundaries of male and female and he is attracted to the feminine in him. Gradually he comes to know better but by this time Ciarrai's past is snapping at his heels and just when it looks like they're going to be happy the past comes rushing back and Ciarrai is swept back to fairyland.
Can a mere mortal find his way into the world of the Hollywood superstar? Does he even want to? And will either or both of them survive it?
Interesting questions and an interesting story.
So there you have it a fairytale with no fairies in sight (unless you count Ciarria who's as fey as they come when he wants to be) and a story of two men struggling to be themselves in a world with so many expectations and demands.
Step out of the box and join two unusual characters on their journey of discovery and find out why Aaron Coleman has to die.
Stretch your imagination and ask yourself why the hell shouldn't a beautiful young man wear a silk kimono and high heeled slippers if he wants to? Or go on a date showing a sliver of flesh between the top of his stockings and the bottom of his skirt?
It was such a fun book to write and I really hope you'll find it just as much fun to read.
I've never put so much into marketing any of my books before and it's been a learning experience. I've enjoyed it very much, especially my forays into twitter, blog hopping, web banners etc.
I'm hoping it will have made a difference but in some ways it doesn't even matter because I've made friends and had lots of new experiences.
Anyway. The Runaway is a modern fairy tale based around an old Celtic story of faeries and the Otherworld.
In the story, a man chooses to leave fairyland, a place of pleasure and ease, but a prison to return to a world changed beyond his imagination where he has to struggle to survive, but is free.
In my story Ciarrai, a successful model turned Hollywood actor is crushed by the privilege and control of his extraordinary life and yearns for freedom.
He runs away to a cabin by a lake and meets Jack a boy with no past after a car accident kills his parents and wipes his memory.
While Ciarrai runs away from his past and Jack runs towards his they begin to form a relationship and Jack finds himself falling for the enigmatic boy who likes to wear silk and lace when he feels like it and thinks it's fun to turn up for a date in a leather mini skirt and stockings.
At first, Jack thinks the only reason he has these feelings for Ciarra is because his androgynous beauty blurrs the boundaries of male and female and he is attracted to the feminine in him. Gradually he comes to know better but by this time Ciarrai's past is snapping at his heels and just when it looks like they're going to be happy the past comes rushing back and Ciarrai is swept back to fairyland.
Can a mere mortal find his way into the world of the Hollywood superstar? Does he even want to? And will either or both of them survive it?
Interesting questions and an interesting story.
So there you have it a fairytale with no fairies in sight (unless you count Ciarria who's as fey as they come when he wants to be) and a story of two men struggling to be themselves in a world with so many expectations and demands.
Step out of the box and join two unusual characters on their journey of discovery and find out why Aaron Coleman has to die.
Stretch your imagination and ask yourself why the hell shouldn't a beautiful young man wear a silk kimono and high heeled slippers if he wants to? Or go on a date showing a sliver of flesh between the top of his stockings and the bottom of his skirt?
It was such a fun book to write and I really hope you'll find it just as much fun to read.
