Afterland Chronicles Trilogy - Audiobook OUT NOW!

Hi everyone,

I have been working hard to bring you the full Afterland Chronicles Trilogy on audiobook. So, if you are an audiobook lover the book is available on Audible and iTunes. The book is narrated by a first class, experienced audiobook producer and narrator - John H. Fehskens. The audiobook includes all three volumes - ASCENSION OF THE WHYTE, RYTE OF PASSAGE AND ICE AND FYRE.

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Happy listening!

News! - Author & Book Rebranding

Well if you've been paying attention then you may have noticed that my Author brand has been undergoing something of a renovation.

Over the next few weeks, my website, blog and book covers will undergo a complete rejuvenation.  I would love to hear what you think of the new designs.

This month also sees the release of the Audiobooks for Ice and Fyre and the complete Afterland Chronicles Boxset - so if you like audiobooks then you're in for a treat!

Take a look at the newly designed book covers for my two series:

The Afterland Chronicles

The Dark Fairy Tales Series

Audio Books, Exercise and Taming My Dragon

Hi everyone,

I've had a busy couple of weeks since I got back from my holiday in the Cotswolds. Mainly I've been concentrating getting my audiobooks produced and on sale. I now have three on sale and two more in production!

Available to buy now are the first two books in the Afterland Chronicles series - Ascension of the Whyte and Ryte of Passage as well as The Last Girl Guide, my stand alone post-apocalyptic young-adult survival adventure story.

In production is the final book in the Afterland Chronicles - Ice and Fyre, and my first children's book - Molly Midnight and the Little People.

I have also been putting my new exercise regimen into operation in an attempt to be healthier. Writing is a notoriously sedentary lifestyle so I vowed to walk at least 4 miles a day which pretty much ensures that I smash my 10,000 steps a day target too! My Fitbit stats are now something to be proud of and hopefully, I shall reap the rewards with a little weight loss and improved level of fitness too! My dog Jinks is also, understandably, extremely happy about this new exercise routine!

Lastly, with a view to increasing productivity and improve dialogue authenticity, I have been experimenting with Dragon Dictation software, and hopefully from now on will be writing all my first drafts using dictation.  The great thing is that I can combine the two and dictate while I am walking! So if you pass a preoccupied, dog-walking woman chuntering "Full stop, new paragraph" stop and say Hi - it will probably be me!

Ascension of the Whyte - Audiobook OUT NOW!

ASCENSION OF THE WHYTE

AVAILABLE NOW ON AUDIBLE (AND ITUNES)

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Boxed Set Preview

Hi all,

I have been very busy on the second draft of Ice and Fyre over the last few weeks. It's slow going, but hopefully, I'm still on track for a spring release.

As this book marks the completion of the Trilogy I will also be releasing a boxed set and I thought you may like a sneak peek at the artwork - so here it is - Enjoy!  Oh, and don't forget to enter my competition to receive a free signed copy of The Last Girl Guide - only 7 days left to enter.

Cover Reveal For The Afterland Chronicles Re-Boot

Well, I've been debating for some time whether to update the covers of The Afterland Chronicles Series and I finally decided to do it. So here I can present to you the new covers for the three books in the series.  Your feedback would be welcome,

Karen

Ascension of the Whyte - Audiobook News!

Hi everyone,

You may well have been wondering where I have been the past couple of weeks. Well, I have been away on holiday to the Cotswolds where I visited many literary places including the birthplace of J. K. Rowling and the famous Rose Farm, and Woolpack Inn made famous by Laurie Lee. I even checked out his grave with a beautiful inscription which pronounces, "He lies in the valley he loved."

I also had a well-deserved rest, ate a great deal, drank a little and sat a lot! However, I have not been entirely idle.  I have done much research and written a few thousand words of The Last Girl Guide, and I have arranged to have an audiobook produced for Ascension of the Whyte, which should be available by Christmas.  So if you are an audiobook fan, check back here for updates on the release date.

A Writers Life - Disasters

Okay, so this week has been a busy week, I planned the complete outlines of the five books that I intended to work on over the next twelve months and even got their cover designs drafted.

Cover Design for my new
Thriller Series - Hoyle & Son

I downloaded a new scrivener app so that I could sync my work onto my iPad for when I had a flash of inspiration and no laptop handy. I was feeling pretty happy with myself, smug even. 

Then, just like there really was some Amish-like God up there waving his divine finger at me and tut-tutting at my shameful display of pride - KERPOW! Everything fell apart. 

Cover design for the third
in the Afterland Chronicles
Series - Ice & Fyre

Maybe I did worship at the feet of that false God of 'Technology' a little too enthusiastically - recklessly even, but the punishment was harsh. My new syncing app synced all of my work into oblivion, including the first five chapters of Ice and Fyre. I am not ashamed to tell you I cried like a beauty queen only not so prettily. 

So, instead of spending the day busily writing as originally planned, I spent the next eight hours trying to recover my work. After googling thousands of 'solutions' to my problem, trawling through hundreds of backup files and performing various geeky technological gymnastics, I got most of it back. Though it appears that the first Chapter of Ice and Fyre sadly, is lost forever. 

Trying to remember a couple of thousand words that you wrote a few weeks ago seems an impossible task especially when those words were painstakingly crafted to resolved the cliffhanger left at the end of Ryte of Passage, So now I have to rewrite it....

Looks like this week is going to be another busy week - doubly so because I'm going to backup the hell out of everything!

Karen

The Story Continues...

Last weekend I began book two of the Atfterland Chronicles and managed to complete the first draft of Chapter one of the book which has the working title 'Ryte of Passage'. It is my intention to develop some of the newer characters as well as delve more deeply into the relationships between each of the main protagonists and of course the antagonists. 

The book is to begin where Ascension of the Whyte ended,  so nothing important will be missed out. Twists and turns in the plot are already in the scheme of things. It really is great fun and an exciting challenge to try to surprise my readers and keep them interested and engaged in the story. I love it!

 

Take a look at the image that is to be used for the cover design for Ryte of Passage... There will be dragons too!

Karen