Pigs, rats and love
Love fairy tales... always have. They hold you in that magical space between between the normality of pork crackling for Sunday lunch and some other dimension that only the mind can reach. Children easily pass in and out of this space which is why most warm to fairy tales. And they're moral (almost a dirty word now) without the moralising.I was delighted to have a modern fairy story published on Enchanted Conversation, A Fairy Tale Magazine website, as the October winner...
A boy allows himself to be turned into a pig to save a beautiful fairy princess from ending up on the dinner plate of a greedy Goblin King... but there's worse to come!
There's a free Kindle promotion for my dark time-travel young adult novel, The Terminus,
(Mauve Square Publishing ISBN 978-1-909411) from Fri 1st November through to Sun 3rd November inclusive...
Gary, desperate for a girl friend, soon learns that love brings
heavy burdens when he gets whisked by a pair of spectacles he finds on a park
bench to twenty third century London, a terrifying place where he meets the
beautiful young Beetie. With other rebels holed up in the disused London
Underground, Gary, together with his irrepressibly-loyal friend Mike, is
pitched into a journey of passion, deceit, loyalty and terror… a journey to
uncover the dark mystery of the Terminus, involving an enigmatic time-traveller
called God and an ancient Atlantean artefact. Why are the residents of London
who live on the surface behaving like zombies? And why are the Underground
tunnels infested with the giant, genetically-modified rats? Time is running out
rapidly for Gary… and can he really
trust Beetie when she goes missing? This is a story not only about first love
but about the meaning of true friendship and the challenges it has to face.
