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Joe and his best friend Amber are drawn into a series of incredible events and discover hidden truths not only about themselves but about the world itself. Is Joe suffering a breakdown or are the events in his dreams about to be played out for real? How can Amber help and protect him as their lives begin to spiral out of control?
Everything they think they know will be shattered forever- and their lives will never be the same again.
"I have many secrets. Some of them I'll never speak of. They're mine, and they mean nothing to anyone else. But I still have a heart that beats. I can still laugh and cry- not that I laugh very much here as you can imagine- and every now and then I even feel a faint hope in my heart. It leaps at me from out of the dark."
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***** "Simon Williams has weaved a fascinating story perfect for his target audience, but also suitable for adults. I particularly enjoyed the illustrations sprinkled throughout the book."
***** "Williams knows how to spin a yarn and has written a remarkable story"
***** "I can honestly say that I totally and utterly loved this book. I'd had it sitting in my kindle for months before getting the chance to read it, but it was so enjoyable that I read the whole thing in one day and loved every minute."
***** "This beguiling protagonist sets the tone of intrigue and suspense beautifully, and the switch in dialogue from reality to his inner thoughts & world- I found to be a perfect craftwork of intelligent YA."
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AND A BRIEF INTERVIEW WITH THE AUTHOR...
Q: How do you find inspiration in your writing?
It comes from my "inner world" rather than anything else- I suppose you could say I just dream things up and write them down, and I stay true to my "voice". I'd rather be authentic than a unit-shifter. I know how to write exactly the sort of thing I *want* to write, and because that took years to work out, I just want to keep doing it.
Inevitably, human nature is a big influence on what I write and how I write it. I also think that it helps the rare "good guys" (or more usually in my works, the "not quite as evil as the other ones" guys) stand out more. Like splashes of colour on a backcloth of absolute black.
Q: If you couldn't be an author, what ideal job would you like to do?
I've never been a particular fan of employment. I don't believe we were put here or brought into existence just to do someone else's bidding in order to have access to food and a roof over our heads- but then, that's idealism for you.
My flippant answer would be a job where I don't have to do anything and can just read or listen to music all day or go wandering in the woods, and didn't have to "work as part of a team" [shudder]. Again, that's idealism for you.
Q: How do you develop your plots and characters?
The plots seem to just come to me in sudden bursts of inspiration and enlightenment- I can be struggling for ages and suddenly I'll come up with an idea, or a way to bind two parts of a plot together and tie up loose ends (although I often deliberately leave some ends untied... I like to think "What if... ?" about my own work, maybe revisit it at some point or just idly ponder what might have happened to one or more of the protagonists after the curtain falls. For me, the world I created continues in my mind forever- in a way the closure of the book or books is really just the end of a chapter in a wider saga which may or may not ever be written. There are more potential stories out there than atoms in the universe, after all.
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