Thursday 7 November 2013

Help! My book has been banned!

Do you think the internet can save ordinary people by exposing the wrongs done to them?
I do.
On the very day Tim Berners Lee, inventor of the internet castigated the spooks for cracking online encryption and making the world a far less safe place to exist in, I am relying on his invention to make a clarion call to rally assistance.

I never thought I would need help in this manner, but I am going public with some deep concerns I have.  I don’t feel safe and I need as many people as possible to know my story.  If everyone knows I am being bullied, maybe it will stop, or at least, stop escalating...

First things first.
If you have been trying to get your copy of The Last Changeling from Amazon.com, you will probably have been disappointed.  I have received notifications from followers of The Last Changeling in Amsterdam, Dallas, Singapore and Los Angeles saying that The Last Changeling definitely isn't available from Amazon.com.

The guy in Dallas said it kept saying that the price wasn't available, now that's subtly different from the kind of thing I have been experiencing, (the page churns and continually refreshes without ever settling), which I find a bit odd.  Surely a genuine glitch would be the same wherever you encountered it, not apparently ‘tailored’ for different scenarios?

I complained to Amazon and I got a strange reply explaining the page was working correctly.  That's it - a flat 'We're right, you're wrong.' What is going on?

So, if you want to purchase from Amazon.com, please note, The Last Changeling is currently only available from Amazon.co.uk .  You can follow or cut and paste this link:


I will advise you as soon as I can as to when / if the US sanction is lifted.  For now I can only view this as a sinister turn of events occasioned by the startling truths hidden within my book. 

So this is how it is, and it’s not a great place to be.  There is an echo on my phone – friends have been complaining about it for around six weeks now.  I never thought much about it.  

A man from a certain security organisation made a point of giving me his card a couple of months ago.  I mentioned this to someone who laughed and said ‘Americans always give out their cards...’  but I haven’t encountered this oh so fervent behaviour before, and this guy really wanted me to know who I was dealing with...  still I didn’t join up the dots.  Then another apparent anomaly – I live in the wilds of Wales and 19 bats suddenly died here, like they’d been hit by a sudden burst of something.  
Then I began to wonder if this was all part of some of the names I have named in The Last Changeling.  Today I was followed down a lonely mountain pass.

 Earlier this week, traffic to this blog from the USA went up a startling 1,100% in one day. 

So who is reading this? 

Are you my friend? if so, please share what's happened here and shout it loud.

Or are you a man in black?  If so, be aware, you only think you are the good guys.  
I, and millions more like me, agree with Tim Berners Lee.


Tuesday 5 November 2013

Interest and Intrigue...

I am continually amazed and humbled at how many people take the time out to read this occasional blog.  Hello to all of you, and thank you for being here.  That's you in the Ukraine, plus my German, Russian, American, Canadian and New Zealand readers.  Hello also to you also, kind readers, in Brazil, the UK, Austria, the Netherlands, Denmark and India.

It's really nice that 'The last Changeling', - the novel that is, not this blog - has been shortlisted for an award.  Of course I would be immensely thrilled to get it, although out of an awfully large number of semi-finalists, it's unlikely... but... and I don't want to sound ungrateful to the lovely people at Authors Database as I am delighted to be considered in the first place... but... I do find it a little strange that the award is for the cover, not the content!
If you want to have a nosey at the competition, and even go so far as to 'like' my cover, please follow this link... http://www.authorsdb.com/book-cover-awards/occult-supernatural

Kindle are doing a fantastic promotion at the moment; The Last Changeling is on offer at a whopping 67% discount!  But just for the next couple of days!  So be quick if you want a discounted copy.  However, if you miss the deal you will still be able to get 33% off until the end of this week.  It's certainly attracted a lot of interest.  For the uninitiated, anything under 100,000th. place is deemed not too shabby and, at time of writing, The Last Changeling is sitting in 2,638th place!

http://www.amazon.com/The-Last-Changeling-Enigma-Wars-ebook/dp/B00B90EIRQ

Incidentally... there has been some interest in The last Changeling coming from, shall I say, 'officialdom', which makes me wonder if I have put something in the novel that I shouldn't have?  Parts of the story are absolutely true, and it does deal with espionage and the occult, so nothing would surprise me.

Here's the latest version of the 'back cover blurb', I really hope you like it -any comments would be most welcome... thanks for reading!

All of history is secrets and lies.
The present is just a cover story...

Metahominids: Mêta'hôm'i'nîdz: (pl.) n.
Ancient Greek:  meta = other, hominids = men
From Dr. John Dee's* 'Inventory of Magickal Correspondences 1583
(*Dee was astrologer and code-breaker to Queen Elizabeth I)

Can you be sure everyone you meet is 100% human?
What if old legends and fairy stories were revealed to be encoded survival guides?

Parts of this story are true.

When a Government cost-cutting exercise goes too far, it accidentally compromises a centuries old cover up.  D, the enigmatic Head of Department, finds himself forced to fight for his life against the rising of a dark and persistent enemy, a traitor within, and a reckless amateur, hell-bent on breaking open ancient secrets.

Metahominids are our oldest enemy.  Throughout history there have been people who knew about these creatures and their ways - Dr. John Dee, Queen Elizabeth I, Sir Arthur Conan-Doyle, Sir Winston Churchill...
Within their traditional haunts of hill-fort, woodland and barrow, metahominids are dangerous enough - but now, like urban foxes, they are abandoning the countryside to infest our city spaces and prey upon us.  Our unwillingness to 'see' and believe in these 'other men' leaves us hugely vulnerable.  They steal infants and leave Changelings in their places.  Should any parent suddenly realize their child is a stranger, no professional would ever believe it was anything other than that parent's aberrant state of mind.  
Metahominids infiltrate our places of entertainment with addictive music and dance unwary clubbers to death.  They move among us, destroying lives as they have always done, protected by the modern world's inability to see what is really there.

Will D save the child or the venerable City of London?
His country or the planet?
Just remember, whatever happens, parts of this story are true.
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