[image error]It’s taken me a lot longer than I thought, but I’ve (finally!) finished Skip - my fantasy action adventure story. The idea came to me out of the blue one day when I wondered, ‘What if a single clock controlled all time in the world? And what if that clock broke and time started skipping around like a broken record?’

I immediately felt I knew the genre and tone of the story – something like The Princess Bride by William Goldman or Stardust by Neil Gaiman. I also knew the general structure of the story – it was going to be what is one of my own favourite genres, adventure – and follow two individuals around the world as they find the missing pieces to fix the clock, and fix time.

From these ideas I developed Skip, the first episode of which I gave away free to anyone who joined my mailing list. There, you can see the early draft of the first act of this story. It has since developed into seven parts, seven episodes.

I originally conceived this idea of being a trilogy of books, but we’ll see if readers enjoy it or not before I start writing the second one. Here’s the blurb:

A Mysterious Clock Controls Time. What Happens When It Breaks? 

The clock tower is the center of the town of Time. It counts down the hours, minutes and seconds of every passing day. But unbeknownst to the local inhabitants, it is at the center of a great deal more than that. It is the center of the universe and controls time itself. But it is old and beginning to break, sending the world’s inhabitants skipping forward and back through time. 

Seventeen-year-old Jera Wythnos, betrothed to marry a powerful lord, runs to escape her responsibilities and pursue her dream of traveling the world. Hot on her heels is her betrothed, moving heaven and earth to find her before the wedding day. 

Elian Stump is an outlaw on the run from a bungled heist, but he carries with him a dangerous secret that threatens to either free or ensnare the world. 

They confront sinister forces at every turn, hell bent on preventing them from achieving their goal, and taking control of the clock tower for themselves. 

The universe has chosen this unlikely pair to collect all three replacement clock pieces scattered across the world before the clock tower, and time, breaks for good. On their journey they make friends and enemies, encounter strange and wonderful mythical creatures, and face their own internal demons. 

The first episode is free on Amazon.com. I’m working on making it free on all the other Amazon channels (always takes time). But you can download it free now in any format from Smashwords.

Happy reading! :0)