{"id":330,"date":"2021-02-06T20:54:02","date_gmt":"2021-02-06T20:54:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bloginbasket.com\/?p=330"},"modified":"2021-02-06T20:54:02","modified_gmt":"2021-02-06T20:54:02","slug":"fight-for-the-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bloginbasket.com\/?p=330","title":{"rendered":"Fight For The Future"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery aligncenter columns-1 wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/bloginbasket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/fight_full-1-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"333\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/bloginbasket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/fight_full-1-scaled.jpg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/bloginbasket.com\/?attachment_id=333\" class=\"wp-image-333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bloginbasket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/fight_full-1-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/bloginbasket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/fight_full-1-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/bloginbasket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/fight_full-1-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/bloginbasket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/fight_full-1-1024x1536.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/bloginbasket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/fight_full-1-1365x2048.jpg 1365w, https:\/\/bloginbasket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/fight_full-1-scaled.jpg 1707w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Many, many years ago, I started getting spectral visits from a young red headed woman. She wouldn&#8217;t tell me her name at first, but she did tell me that she was a shapeshifter, and that she had a story for me. That story is the story of the Ransomed Hearts, and is the subject of my next novel. Once she was sure that I&#8217;d got the message, she left me alone, and I wrote lots of stories about her family and their adventures. One of the stories was set several decades in the past, and at first all I knew was that it started with two scruffy looking lads climbing down from an old fashioned bus in a village in the north of England. That story became &#8216;Fight For The Future&#8217; and is my first independently published novel. It&#8217;s been a long time coming, and for that, I apologise. It was pretty much finished a few years ago, but it took me a while to pluck up the courage to send it to be critiqued, and then edited. <br>I don&#8217;t expect wild success, as the whole series is hard to categorise. It will have to find its own audience. It&#8217;s about shapeshifters, but not the paranormal. It&#8217;s about centuries long feuds, terror and murder, but it&#8217;s also about love and laughter and family. <br>I&#8217;m hoping to finalise the publication of &#8216;Fight For The Future&#8217; very soon, and in the meantime I&#8217;m licking the second book into some sort of shape before I dare to start sending it around for reading and editing. The third book is written, and has a title too, but we&#8217;ll save that for later eh? <br>I&#8217;ll let you all know when you can buy the first book, and I hope that some of you, at least, enjoy it. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many, many years ago, I started getting spectral visits from a young red headed woman. 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