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Gravedigger
Michael-Israel
Jarvis
Genre: Fantasy
Publisher: Booktrope
Date of Publication: 31st October
2015
ISBN: 1513703102
ASIN: B0175IDQDW
Number of pages: 304
Word Count: 115,747
Cover Artist: Amalia Chitulescu
Book Description:
Dead or alive. Good or evil. Hero
or fugitive.
Valo needs a specific solution to
a grave problem. The human Claimfold and prigon Torzsi draw apart. War is
promised in the West. Worst of all, the magi of Nagyevo are meddling with the
dead.
Perin is an apprentice
Gravedigger: uneducated, unwanted, unsure. He may be the answer Valo needs, if
he doesn't get killed before he works out what's going on. But of course
there's the chance that fate hasn't called him after all. The gods are nameless
and silent and the best laid plans have a way of going badly wrong.
Enter the spade and sorcery world
of Valo.
Gravedigger subverts the
expectations of that oldest of foes in fantasy, the dead that walk, in a
fast-paced adventure through a world of culture, intrigue, magic and blood.
About
the Author:
Michael-Israel Jarvis was born in
Cambridge, brought up in Bishop's Stortford and moved to Great Yarmouth in his
teens. He got his degree in Creative Writing at the University of Northampton
and returned to Great Yarmouth with his wife, Katie.
Michael-Israel writes principally
for Young Adults, which is what he intends to be until he's very, very old.
Further explorations of the genres he prefers to write in throw up fantasy,
adventure, coming of age stories and more. If possible, he prefers to write in
a way that bends the distinction between different genres. Why shouldn't the
superhero trope take place within a fantasy novel? And however serious a book
is, shouldn't humour weave its way in?
Michael-Israel chose to go the
route of Independent Publishing after observing the increase in sales of eBooks
and a move towards indie expression in general culture. In early 2015, after
self-publishing three books through Amazon, Michael-Israel was accepted by
Booktrope Publishing, an international publishing company with a unique model.
Booktrope offered the expertise
and structure he needed (much like a traditional publisher) but also offered a
system with far more creative control and better royalties, as well as a system
of cooperation at the heart of the professional team. This was the perfect
middle ground that Michael-Israel had been dreaming of, and he was delighted to
sign with them to republish his previously independent work.
"Gravedigger"
republished on 31st October 2015, with both "Osric Fingerbone and the Boy
Murderer" and "Land Rising" to be republished within the
following months.
Sequels to all will follow.
@JarvisAuthor
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