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Later This Year
The latest 'fantsy adventure' has been put to bed, all edited and proofed and formatted and ready for printing and distribution. Print and ebook, as usual. This is 'Tsar of the Empty Lands,' a novel set in more-or-less the same world and time as the Malvern/Mora novels and peripherally related to them. Not necessary to read any of these books to understand the others (except the Malvern trilogy should ideally be read in order).
Here's the official back-cover blurb: Nineteen Thirty-Five, Soviet Russia. Josef Dobrov is only a soldier and wants it to stay that way, to be someone nobody notices. Some of his friends have been noticed and it did not end well for them. One of them is on the train of gulag-bound prisoners he is guarding. Not his affair, says Josef. He has no intention of getting into trouble. But high in the Urals, fate throws the young soldier into not only trouble but an whole new world, a world of savagery and beauty, danger and wonder. A world he adopts as his own, only to find it besieged by forces from without, and the woman he loves endangered and ensorcelled by those forces. Can he and the ancient and powerful sorcerer, Hurasu, stop them? Jokingly named ‘Tsar’ by his fellows, Josef becomes a man willing to step forward at last, to be seen as leader, as hero, in Tsar of the Empty Lands, a fantasy novel by Stephen Brooke.
'Tsar' will be out officially on Sept 8, from Arachis Press. There will also be a new poetry collection published before the end of the year, 'Magic,' to be released on Dec 1. Beyond that, into 2019? Nothing definite yet, but one should expect another fantasy adventure, 'The Jewels of the Elements,' which is a sequel to 'The Eyes of the Wind.' Yep, I'm keeping myself busy.
Here's the official back-cover blurb: Nineteen Thirty-Five, Soviet Russia. Josef Dobrov is only a soldier and wants it to stay that way, to be someone nobody notices. Some of his friends have been noticed and it did not end well for them. One of them is on the train of gulag-bound prisoners he is guarding. Not his affair, says Josef. He has no intention of getting into trouble. But high in the Urals, fate throws the young soldier into not only trouble but an whole new world, a world of savagery and beauty, danger and wonder. A world he adopts as his own, only to find it besieged by forces from without, and the woman he loves endangered and ensorcelled by those forces. Can he and the ancient and powerful sorcerer, Hurasu, stop them? Jokingly named ‘Tsar’ by his fellows, Josef becomes a man willing to step forward at last, to be seen as leader, as hero, in Tsar of the Empty Lands, a fantasy novel by Stephen Brooke.
'Tsar' will be out officially on Sept 8, from Arachis Press. There will also be a new poetry collection published before the end of the year, 'Magic,' to be released on Dec 1. Beyond that, into 2019? Nothing definite yet, but one should expect another fantasy adventure, 'The Jewels of the Elements,' which is a sequel to 'The Eyes of the Wind.' Yep, I'm keeping myself busy.
