Releases - The Word Guardians

I’m excited to share that book 4, The Word Guardians and the Lost Beginnings is now available on Amazon.

It’s been a work in progress for the past year and I’m really happy with the result.

It’s another multi-layered story, set in the familiar (if you’ve read the other books in the series) setting of the magical realms.

Yas and Sam feature in this book, along with some other memorable characters from previous books. There are some new faces too.

I’d like to thank my wife, Angela, for helping me through the editing stages and Larch Gallagher for the wonderful cover design and cover revisions for the other books in the series.

A different take

I wanted the story to be a slightly different take on magic and realms. Whereas previous books have seen the characters move between a number of realms, book 4 is a tale of just two realms, the outer world (set in Vancouver, Canada) and an inner realm, ostensibly also the same city.

The inner realm is hidden though, the doorways are locked and only accessible to a few. There are reports of missing people in the outer world, and flashing lights that resemble portals. Yas and Sam become interested and do some investigation of their own.

If you could conjure anything you wanted, would you be happy?

Yas and Sam find a realm in which magic is an everyday commodity. You would think that in place where anyone can conjure anything they desire, life would be rosy. Yet, most don’t and everyone seems miserable. People seem trapped, having forgotten how they came to be there. Something or someone is at play behind the scenes.

New characters and relationships

This all sets the scene for new characters, a man that Yas and Sam find in the outer world who knows about the realm, the boy he’s kidnapping, a police officer, and more. In order to escape back to the outer world, Yas and Sam have to help the police officer discover her lost beginnings, uncover the identity of the mysterious Controller and foil whatever plot he or she has in mind.

Where to buy book 4

Book 4 is available to buy on Amazon using either of the buttons below. I hope you enjoy reading it.

Book 4, Lost Beginnings, on Amazon

The Word Guardians series on Amazon

The models have changed

While working on Book 4’s cover (The Lost Beginnings – yes there’s a new book on the way and I’ll share more on this in a later blog), Larch suggested that it would be good to switch to models who had several images and poses available. It’s certainly made it easier for the first three book covers, so that the same ‘Yas’ and ‘Sam’ could be used consistently across these.

This was a great suggestion and solved a challenge we’d already hit for the original book 3 cover (The Shadow Readers). It used a different model for Sam, because the positioning of the image for the book 2 (The Twisting Tales) didn’t work as well as we’d hoped.

As a result, the models for Yas, Sam and Penn have changed for the covers of the first three books and on this website. If you spotted the change, that’s the reason why. For the really observant among you, there’s still an older post on the facebook page that has the previous Yas model. I’ll leave that there for posterity.

Results

I’m really pleased with the results, and I highly recommend Larch for any author who’s interested in creating a book cover for their own published works. If you’d like to see the result for yourself, please go and buy one of the books. And if you already have a copy of a previous version of the cover, I hope it becomes a valuable collectors edition at some point in the future. Time will tell.

To buy one of the books with the new cover, please use the link below.

Category: Releases

Book 4, The Lost Beginnings, is now available on Amazon