So you may or may not know (you probably do; I rarely shut up about it) but my debut The Forgotten is now available for eBook download! And I have organised a blog tour to celebrate. The Forgotten is the first in a young adult Dystopian series. The Lux Guardians has hints of science fiction, post-apocalyptic, and historical fiction, and is set both in a future wreck of London and power-crazed London in the Victorian era.
It's available to download here, and in free paperback here.
The summary is as follows:
Good and goodness will
prevail.
Honour and Horatia Frie are twins living in a world of wreck
and ruin.
Forgotten London is a dismal place of containment,
rationing, and a four-family-per-house regulation. Twenty five years ago the
world was set ablaze when solar flares obliterated three quarters of the
Earth’s population and wiped out whole continents in one blow. The flares
brought with them The Sixteen Strains: agonizing and fatal diseases that plague
each of the forty one zones of Forgotten London and the rest of the world. The
only places that escaped fatal damage were two countries now known as The Cities
– States and Bharat. The rest of the world – The Forgotten Lands – is contained
within borders for the people’s protection against even deadlier Strains
outside the barrier. But fifteen year old Honour thinks differently. He thinks
that they’re kept inside the fence for other, more menacing reasons. He thinks
that States are planning to kill them.
Branwell and Bennet Ravel are twins living in a world of
danger and secrecy.
In Victorian London, years before the solar flares hit, the
Ravels’ world has just been turned upside down. Their father, poisoned by
something even genius Branwell can’t determine, has passed away. His dying
words were unnerving orders to keep each other safe no matter the cost, and to
hide everything he has ever invented. When one of his creations goes missing –
a device named The Lux that can generate unlimited energy – the twins are
shocked to discover that their very own government has stolen it and, according to
their father’s journals, are planning to use it to create unfathomable
explosions to destroy their world.
The Ravel twins will have to find and reclaim The Lux if they are
to stop their world’s planned destruction, but when they’re transported to an
unfamiliar, derelict world, the search for the device will become harder than
ever. Honour and Horatia, against all odds, will have to find a way to stop
States before the remainder of Earth is eradicated and their world is lost for
good, or somehow get every single citizen of Forgotten London outside of the
fence.
If everything goes according to plan (i.e. if people don't pull out), the tour is as follows:
There are excerpts and an interview along the stops, as well as a giveaway to win a fancy-ass ARC of The Forgotten, and some really cool metal bookmarks!
a Rafflecopter giveaway
These are the bookmarks:
