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Several years ago I responded to an on-line appeal by the author Simon Kewin<\/a> for a beta reader. I was looking for critical guidance myself, for an early version of Haunters<\/em>, so we exchanged texts. I can only hope I was as helpful to Simon as he was to me! And now, I\u2019m delighted to say that Simon\u2019s book \u2013 Engn<\/em> — is due to be published on the 15th<\/sup> of July by the brilliant December House<\/a>, with this fabulous cover:<\/p>\n

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I was immediately impressed by Engn<\/em>, with its richly built world and creative use of language. Imagine Mervyn Peake (Gormenghast<\/em>) and Scott Westerfield (Leviathan<\/em>) and\u00a0 Philip Reeve (Mortal Engines<\/em>) meeting in a Zeppelin to dream up a steampunk Lord of the Rings<\/em>, and you\u2019d be some of the way there. I hope the book achieves the success it deserves. Here\u2019s the blurb:<\/p>\n

Finn’s childhood in the valley is idyllic, but across the plains lies a threat.<\/em><\/p>\n

Engn is an ever-growing steam-powered fortress, that needs a never ending supply of workers. Generation after generation have been taken away, escorted into its depths by the mysterious and terrifying Ironclads, never to return.<\/em><\/p>\n

The Masters of Engn first take Finn’s sister, then his best friend, Connor. He thinks he, at least, is safe – until the day the ironclads come to haul him away too.<\/em><\/p>\n

Yet all is not lost, Finn has a plan. In the peace of the valley he and Connor made a pact. A promise to join the mythical Wreckers and end Engn’s tyranny from within.<\/em><\/p>\n

But now on his own, lost and thwarted in the vastness of Engn, Finn begins to have doubts. Is Connor really working to destroy Engn? <\/em><\/p>\n

Or has he become part of the machine?
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Sign up for Simon Kewin\u2019s mailing list<\/a> to find out more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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