Weather Child, my latest podiobook offering is now out in the wild. This is a very personal story for me, including many characters and stories based on my family. It is set the alternate history, where New Zealand is home to magicians- magicians that rely on a symbiote called a seraphim to give them their magic. Yet some one is planning to use the Awakened for their own purposes.
This is the book New York publishing houses said Americans wouldn’t be interested in reading, set as it is in New Zealand. Let’s see if that is true. New chapters drop every Sunday.
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OMG! I love the title of this post! He he, you should let everyone else in on the pun.
I think those New York publishers need to take their collective heads out of their collective asses and take a look around. People want stories about exotic locals and characters. A book about the alternative history and culture of New Zealand has got that in spades! And it’s not like New Zealand is a country no one’s ever heard of! At the very least, anybody who’s ever seen a little series of films called Lord of the Rings ought to know it was shot in New Zealand.
I’ve been to New Zealand. I had only a week to spend there, and it wasn’t enough. I’m glad I can get a little taste of it again through Weather Child. Thank you for podcasting this book.
If those New York publishers need an example, how about Ngaio Marsh? Several of her quite successful mystery novels were set in New Zealand, and I assume I wasn’t the only American to read them.
Griz