I have signed a publishing agreement with SilverWood Books. INCEPTIO will appear in paperback and ebook format. We are looking at Spring 2013. If it changes, I’ll let you know!
So what is my book about? Romans, alternate history, romance, action-adventure, loss, self-growth, recognition? All of those.
Suppose you’re an ordinary young woman in New York, nearly twenty-five years old. You work in an office Monday to Friday. It’s pretty routine. You don’t have a college degree so other people overtake you, but you don’t mind too much. Well, sometimes, but generally not.
Why? Because you have the best weekend volunteer job in the world, in the city park – a huge green paradise over 800 acres. Breathing fresh air, helping people, laughing with kids, losing yourself in the trees. It reminds you of your happy childhood home, the one you lost when your father died when you were twelve.
It’s what you live for, it’s what keeps you sane.
That’s your life – five days so-so, two days exhilaration. Life is safe, if a tad boring and going nowhere.
Then you throw a stoned kid and his two friends out of the park for beating up an old man. Problem is his father’s the second most powerful person in the country. Result – you get sacked from your beloved volunteer job. You are devastated.
But you get a promotion at work and meet an attractive foreign spy disguised as an interpreter. He’s from a mysterious European country founded centuries ago by Romans.
Soon a sinister enforcer from your own government is trying to wipe you out. And the pretty hot foreign spy is trying to convince you he’s the good guy.
But this world isn’t the one this blog is written in – it has a different history and different rules…
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2016 update: INCEPTIO was indeed published Spring 2013 – more here.
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Alison Morton is the author of Roma Nova thrillers, INCEPTIO, PERFIDITAS, SUCCESSIO and AURELIA. The fifth in the series, INSURRECTIO, will be published on 12 April 2016.
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Sounds great! Many congratulations!
Thank you, Debs. It’s quite exciting. No, it’s very exciting!
Congratulations Alison!
Thanks, Anita. I feel I’m starting on my publishing journey at last. I hope my readers like what I write.
Excellent news and it’s a great inspiration for me. Many congratulations!
Thank you, Tessa, and good luck to you in your endeavours, too.
I love the sound of your book, and can’t wait to read it! Congratulations on your publishing deal.
Thanks, Denyse. Lots of hard work in front of me, but I feel I’m taking a big step and ending my apprenticeship.
Congratulations, Alison – wonderful news!
Thank you, Chris. The end of my apprenticeship, I hope, and the start of a new enterprise. *sails off into the unknown, but with a smile on her face*
It’s so exciting to be working with you, Alison. Lots to do… and such a nice project to be busy with!
Thank you, Helen. I feel I am in a very safe pair of hands, Well, several pairs! 😉
Big congratulations and with Silverwood. It could not be better. I know I shall love the novel. Shall certainly be happy to review it. The parts we heard in Portugal were terrific.
Thank you, Carol. You were all stunned when I read it out. I didn’t know whether you were all shocked, stunned or trying to think of something to say. I was relieved when you said you liked it!
Well done Alison – New York, spies, Romans – great combination. And great publishing deal!
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Thank you, Ali, I hope the wait was worth it. Itried not to keep everybody in suspense for too long.
Congratulations, Alison! I enjoyed meeting you on the HNS Greenwich tour and look forward to seeing INCEPTIO next spring.
Thank you, George. The Greenwich tour was excellent, wasn’t it? I hope you’ll enjoy INCEPTIO when it’s published. I’ll be blogging here regularly – don’t worry!
Being one of the lucky few to have read the book, I heartily recommend it, particularly if you can’t sleep at night. This will really keep you awake and guessing.
I’ll still buy the paperback though, Alison!
Glad you added the second bit! I wouldn’t want to send people to sleep. 😉 You have been there throughout the book’s gestation, supporting, critiquing and advising. No thanks are enough. I can’t think of anything better to say than a heartfelt “thank you”.
Just caught up with your news!!! Fabulous. Huge congrats!!! lx
Thak you, Liz. All a little scary, but quite exciting. I feel that, at last, I’m getting going. And with a very professional company.
Congratulations!!!! xxx
Thank you, Jane. Now I *really* need to read your book “Wannabe a Writer We’ve Heard Of? 🙂
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Wannabe-Writer-Heard-Secrets-Success/dp/1906373973