Latest author announcement - JAMES BROGDEN

[showmasters]

We are pleased to announce our next writer guest for LFCC:

 

JAMES BROGDEN

 

Author of The Narrows as well as numerous short stories, this up-coming fantasy author will be signing copies of his second novel Tourmaline at LFCC.

 

"Its full name is the Tourmaline Archipelago, and it's only a small part of a much larger parallel world which we sometimes access when we dream too deeply, become comatose, or enter hallucinatory or psychotic states of mind. So far so standard fantasy trope. Think Banks' 'The Bridge', or the Thomas Covenant books (except without the annoyingly humourless anti-hero). The problem comes for the people who live there because our dreams superimpose themselves on their reality, forcing them to become unwilling participants in our fantasies and nightmares. This process is called Subornation. The people of Tourmaline do not like this, and in the country of Oraille they have developed a specialised branch of the police called the Department for Counter Subornation, whose agents are tasked with exorcising us from their world.

 

This is complicated by the fact that sometimes people from their world get caught up in this exorcism and end up back in our world, trapped inside the bodies of the dreamers. A kind of possession, if you like. They too have an ability to impose their reality on ours - albeit to a much more limited degree. They in turn are hunted by an organisation called the Hegemony which wants to exploit them for their powers.

 

In a doldrum region of the Archipelago called the Flats, there is an island-sized raft called Stray, populated by people from our world who for one reason or another have never woken up. Bobby Jenkins finds himself there with no memory of who he is or how he got there - all he knows is that he's in love with a woman from Stray who can't leave, and somehow they have to defend themselves against forces in both worlds that want to do 'orrible things to them."

 

http://jamesbrogden.blogspot.co.uk/

 

[Coles84]

I seriously cannot wait to meet James. This man is a major talent.

[jbrogden]

Thanks! Looking forward to seeing you there. Bring others!