Well, more like a lamb, at the moment. Things seem very springlike and it makes me think about the call of the greenwood (i.e. a Robin Hood sequel). That won’t happen for a bit because of other projects.
But in the meantime, I’m running a price promotion on the Kindle edition of Robin Hood: Wolf’s head in the Amazon US and UK stores! It goes from March 2nd to March 9th.
“The Road to Hel” is now available through Amazon in both print and Kindle editions here.
Also, from March 2nd to 13th the book will be available through a giveaway on Goodreads!
Giveaway ends March 13, 2016.
See the giveaway details
at Goodreads.
I’ll let the narrator, Sean Cornwell, introduce the story in his own words:
“Sean here. When wolf-riding trolls attack our house, my sister Fiona and I find out the hard way that we’re destined to be heroes. That goes for our friends Arturo and Parvati, too. Next thing we know, we’re all enrolled in the last hero school on Midgard (that’s hero speak for ‘Earth’). In fact, we’re the entire final freshman class.
“It’s not all bad. We get to go to school on an enchanted island. The girls get to ride flying horses, Arturo gets to go berserk, and I get to learn more about swordfighting than I ever wanted to know. We also get our own personal bard who sings our praises in deathless…well, verse that you wish would die, but it won’t.
“You’d think we’d also get to save the world. But as it turns out, there are about a million prophecies guaranteeing that Ragnarok is right around the corner and the world is literally toast, so all we get to do is die (heroically, of course).
“In the meantime, our mom winds up in Hel while trying to rescue our dad from, believe it or not, an even worse place. And for some reason even Odin won’t explain, we’re the only ones who can bring them back.
“Well, that takes care of summer vacation. I can’t wait for the school year to start!”
I was recently interviewed on TJ Talks Writing.
In September I won a micro fiction contest sponsored by Amid the Imaginary.
My winning entry can be read here.
I actually took an idea I’d had for a novel to see if I could condense it to fit within the contest’s 500-word restriction.
I guess it worked.
Probably this makes it more likely that I’ll get to the book length version someday. The idea of a disposal/recycling business in a magical context has a lot of possibilities.
“Robin Hood: Wolf’s Head”, my first book, is my version of the Robin Hood legend. It answers the burning (well, to me, anyway) question “What if Robin was actually a werewolf?”
Other than that small twist, I’ve tried for historical accuracy. The story is set in the fourteenth century. It’s really an interwoven series of stories, and stories inside stories. Among them is the story of John (no, not Little), who is wounded by a nameless enemy and saved from death by a hermit who nurses him back to health. In return he passes on the true tale of Robin, and in the end, the story of his own journey.
Along the way the stories tell of loyalty, love, sacred kingship, the hard life of a Sheriff, how men and women half animal can become more truly human, and a strange kind of redemption.
“Robin Hood: Wolf’s Head” is available in print and Kindle editions.
It’s also on Goodreads here.
Eric Tanafon 