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James Erith

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Born

in Bury St Edmunds, The United Kingdom

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Fantasy, Fiction, Young Adult

Influences

CS Lewis, Tolkein

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September 2013

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Restless after schooling, James traveled and experienced plenty of adventures. He has been shot at, scaled Pyramids, climbed mountains, been through earthquakes, police detained and even swum with beavers.

James specialized in getting lost quite a bit, like in the Canadian wilderness in bear season, as well as experiencing hypothermia, dysentery, muggings, altitude sickness, thefts, a broken neck, desert breakdowns, etc.

Inadvertently these experiences set James up for a big writing journey. (If only I’d gone into real adventuring like his old school-friend, Bear…)

In the 1990s James worked as a journalist for the financial pages of the Yorkshire Post, scooping the infamous Gerald Ratner; ‘Crap’ story.

James designed and built gardens for se ...more

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	The Power and The Fury (Eden Chronicles, #1) 3.80 avg rating — 197 ratings — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Spider Web Powder (Eden Chronicles #2) by James Erith (Goodreads Author) 4.39 avg rating — 44 ratings — published 2013 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Dragon's Game (Eden Chronicles #4) 4.55 avg rating — 31 ratings — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Chamber of Truth (Eden Chronicles #3) 4.22 avg rating — 27 ratings — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Key: Eden Chronicles: Book Six 4.16 avg rating — 19 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Eden Chronicles Books 1-3 4.28 avg rating — 18 ratings — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Eyes of Cain (Eden Chronicles #5) 4.81 avg rating — 16 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Truth (Eden Chronicles #0.5) 4.36 avg rating — 14 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Healing Pond: The Calamitous Construction of an Organic Pool, and a Journey of Healing. 4.75 avg rating — 8 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Time Stamp 3.80 avg rating — 5 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Giveaway Time!

Spider Web Powder, the start of Archie, Daisy and Isabella's quest to find the tablets that offer clues to find the Garden of Eden comes out in paperback this week.

Buzzing with action, adventure and a hint of magic, this is a must for middle grade / crossover traditional fantasy lovers with a fantastical twist.

The action starts where The Power and The Fury leaves off.
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“Rich people have small TVs and big libraries, and poor people have small libraries and big TVs.”
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“Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.”
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“I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.”
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tags: deadlines, humor, humour, work, writing

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“There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.”
― Ernest Hemingway

tags: good, writing

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“One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.”
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