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In Search of Spice preview: The Voyage of the Queen Rose
In Search of Spice chronicles the first innocent steps that will lead to the conquest of Hind by trade, love and grief. Harrhein is a kingdom brought into unity by the Starr dynasty, riven with political intrigue. Barons and Lords jostle for power and the right to levy taxes, while the Church intrigues where it can. A very few develop special abilities, which the Church tries to keep limited to its priests, which is sometimes mental control and sometimes a mental ability to control natural forces - magic. Some of the characters are based on historical people.
The small regiment of regular soldiers guard the north and the king, while individual Barons and Dukes command their own inferior forces. The story is set in a similar time to the 15th Century except Christianity is not so endemic and gunpowder has not been invented.
Trade to the East is stymied by the neighbouring Island race of Spakka pirates, while in other directions is just empty ocean from which nothing appears. A foreign ship of novel design is shipwrecked by the Spakka and salvaged by Harrhein. Imitating it creates a carrack, capable of sailing the oceans and volunteers are sought to sail over the edge of the world in search of trade and the valuable spices.
In these first chapters, we meet two central characters as they are recruited to the carrack, and their first days as sailors. You will see their characters begin to emerge.
In Search of Spice will be published in May and this eBook consists of the first three chapters as a taster to encourage you to find out more about Harrhein. Please visit https://publishizer.com/in-search-of-.... This is a brand new campaign where we are offering fabulous incentives to readers who would like to pre-order, talk to the author or indeed have one of the characters named after themselves. Readers can have stories written about themselves or their friends, set in Harrhein or even go In Search of Spice themselves, accompanied by the author, to a secret spice island in the East Indies.
This pre-order campaign gives us leverage. It allows us to persuade our publisher to invest in extra design, to make the maps prettier, to improve the front cover and to print more copies, thus allowing wider distribution. It also allows us to fund marketing campaigns to ensure the success of the book.
The small regiment of regular soldiers guard the north and the king, while individual Barons and Dukes command their own inferior forces. The story is set in a similar time to the 15th Century except Christianity is not so endemic and gunpowder has not been invented.
Trade to the East is stymied by the neighbouring Island race of Spakka pirates, while in other directions is just empty ocean from which nothing appears. A foreign ship of novel design is shipwrecked by the Spakka and salvaged by Harrhein. Imitating it creates a carrack, capable of sailing the oceans and volunteers are sought to sail over the edge of the world in search of trade and the valuable spices.
In these first chapters, we meet two central characters as they are recruited to the carrack, and their first days as sailors. You will see their characters begin to emerge.
In Search of Spice will be published in May and this eBook consists of the first three chapters as a taster to encourage you to find out more about Harrhein. Please visit https://publishizer.com/in-search-of-.... This is a brand new campaign where we are offering fabulous incentives to readers who would like to pre-order, talk to the author or indeed have one of the characters named after themselves. Readers can have stories written about themselves or their friends, set in Harrhein or even go In Search of Spice themselves, accompanied by the author, to a secret spice island in the East Indies.
This pre-order campaign gives us leverage. It allows us to persuade our publisher to invest in extra design, to make the maps prettier, to improve the front cover and to print more copies, thus allowing wider distribution. It also allows us to fund marketing campaigns to ensure the success of the book.
61 pages, Kindle Edition
First published February 7, 2015
3 people want to read
About the author
Rex Sumner
8 books3 followersRex is English, but was born in Java, Indonesia and has spent many years in the Far East. He speaks Indonesian and Malay, with a smattering of other languages.
He has had an interesting life - as a youngster worked his passage on a container ship to Australia where he worked as a cowboy, gold-miner, door-to-door salesman and fruit-picker, before switching from Zoology to the Army to study at Sandhurst.
He saw active service in Northern Ireland and was Logistics Officer for Operation Drake in Indonesia. A country manager for an international tobacco trader at 25, he spent two years during the Cold War with MI6 before returning to the UK where he and his wife raised his two sons while working in marketing and publishing, with forays into NLP and personal development. Now they are adult, he and his wife have moved back to the Far East where he lives in Bali, travels, writes and researches.
He has always had a passion for writing and this was rekindled by telling stories he made up on the spot to his sons.
His hobbies are angling, orchids, reading and reptiles; he represents Bali Reptile Rescue in Ubud, removing snakes from houses free of charge.
His wide experience and knowledge are interwoven into the tapestry of his writing.
He has had an interesting life - as a youngster worked his passage on a container ship to Australia where he worked as a cowboy, gold-miner, door-to-door salesman and fruit-picker, before switching from Zoology to the Army to study at Sandhurst.
He saw active service in Northern Ireland and was Logistics Officer for Operation Drake in Indonesia. A country manager for an international tobacco trader at 25, he spent two years during the Cold War with MI6 before returning to the UK where he and his wife raised his two sons while working in marketing and publishing, with forays into NLP and personal development. Now they are adult, he and his wife have moved back to the Far East where he lives in Bali, travels, writes and researches.
He has always had a passion for writing and this was rekindled by telling stories he made up on the spot to his sons.
His hobbies are angling, orchids, reading and reptiles; he represents Bali Reptile Rescue in Ubud, removing snakes from houses free of charge.
His wide experience and knowledge are interwoven into the tapestry of his writing.
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