Hello chaps and chapettes. BeWrite Books released a new apocalyptic fantasy by oft-published UK author Liza Granvlle last week called *The Tor*.
Must admit that I'm no big fan of fantasy (this one was edited by my editorial partner, Hugh McCracken in Canada, who's more in tune with the genre), but *The Tor* grabbed me because it's fantasy with its feet on the ground rather than firmly planted in the air. I've read it several times, and I'd highy recomment it.
You can read about *The Tor* by going to the bookstore pages at our site,
www.bewrite.net, and elsewhere. It's $5.99 in ebook form -- but I'll be happy to send the PDF, ePub or Mobi version with our compliments to any MobileRead chums who email me in the next twenty-four hours or so.
A line or two of review would be welcome, but that's by no means a condition. Just enjoy the read and that'll do us fine.
Cheers. Neil -- ntmarrATbewrite.net (use the @ sign, of course)
In case you can't be bothered visiting the site, here's my back cover text to the paperback version:
Among the rotting ruins and open sores of a diseased Earth, Jude – sole survivor of a solitary group of hungry travellers and scavengers – is destined for a vital task ... but those who knew what that task is are all dead.
Bewildered and questing, Jude makes an epic Odyssey across a dying and decaying landscape of corrupt countryside and crumbling cities, thinly peopled by savage killers and unworldly dreamers, in a desperate bid to discover what he is meant to do.
Along the winding way, he gathers new companions: a wretched waif, rescued from slavery and cannibalism, a mysterious woman of beauty and secrets, and an equally mysterious, though anything but beautiful, old man of unfathomable prophesies and ferocious violence. At times, Jude feels his tired old wagon horse is his only true ally as the once-clear dividing line between friend and foe becomes blurred.
In this futuristic re-telling of ancient Grail legends, Jude becomes knight errant in a joust to the death between fear and duty.
Will he become the saviour of humanity or its doomed scapegoat at the end of days ... when his quest finally brings him to The Tor?
With characters that become as familiar as personal friends and enemies, a story that is both vaguely remembered and vividly fresh, and pages that seem to turn in the wind, Liza Granville inspires her reader to ask, for new reasons, the age-old question ... is our very presence on the only planet we know intimately the problem or the solution? Are we Mother Nature’s children or her killer?