I would love to share with you "Red Leaves and the Living Token," a new, slightly atypical, fantasy novel. I decided to take a chance and forgo the traditional publishing route in order to maintain the film rights. I'm in the CG/VFX business and those things are rather important to me. We'll see if that decision turns out to be a good one.
A little about me:
I graduated from film school a little over a decade ago and have been writing screenplays and shorts ever since. I turned a few of those into short films and won some awards in film festivals. "Red Leaves and the Living Token" actually started as a script as well. But after it grew past 300 pages it was clear the story needed more room than a script could give. As an animated feature, it needed to be in the 90 page ball park to have any chance at production.
Back to the introduction of the book, here's the blurb:
Doctors tell Raj that his son Emret won't survive his illness. As Raj struggles to prepare himself and Emret for the inevitable, he's confronted by Moslin, his son's nurse, who’s been filling Emret’s head with fairytales about heroic quests and powerful disease curing miracles. Emret now thinks that all he has to do is find the mythical Red Tree from the nurse's stories, and he'll live.
In an attempt to protect his son from further emotional damage, Raj asks Moslin to stay away from Emret. He returns hours later to find them both missing.
He searches the fairytales for clues to where they may have gone and stumbles upon stories that, strangely, he already knows. He saw them in a vision just before his son disappeared.
I look forward to your thoughts and comments.
Here's the amazon link:
http://www.amazon.com/Red-Leaves-Liv...dp/B007KFGS36/
