It's a year to the day since I submitted my urban-fantasy thriller The Pendragon Protocol to Snowbooks. Today we finalised the cover design:
The image was created by the outrageously talented Emma Barnes, and I love it to pieces. The way it balances thriller and fantasy, modernity and antiquity is wonderful, and the endorsement from Simon Morden is the icing on the cake.
Here's the blurb again:
The Circle are the modern-day successors of the Knights of the Round Table. Armed with the latest military hardware and operating from a hidden fortress on the South Bank of the Thames, they protect 21st-century Britain from certain very specific threats – criminals who, like the Circle’s own Knights, have characters from Arthurian legend living inside their heads.
Jory Taylor, the Knight bearing the device of Sir Gawain, has grappled on the Circle’s behalf with mercenaries, serial killers and far-right terrorist cells. However, when he is captured by Gawain’s traditional enemy the Green Knight, he discovers a new side to the myths he lives by – one which, as he learns more about this clandestine world, becomes both threateningly personal and terrifyingly political.
The legends of King Arthur are not the only stories with influence on the British psyche – and some of the others have their own, very different agendas.
A smart, contemporary political thriller and a new kind of urban fantasy, The Pendragon Protocol is the first volume in The Devices Trilogy.
The Pendragon Protocol is out on 1 July from Snowbooks. I'll post ordering details at some point over the next few weeks.
Do you know if there will be a deal for North American distribution? I'd really like to be able to buy this and support my local bookstore at the same time.
ReplyDeleteHi Cameron. Sorry about the delayed response. I'm told that UK bookstores can order the book through the Ingram Content Group, who are in partnership with Gardners Books, Snowbooks' UK distributor. Does that help?
ReplyDeleteYou might want to consider changing the picture on the Pendragon Protocols site, it doesn't do you justice, and you look as if you've been photographed in a concave reflective surface. (Sorry, but if no one says.....) Simon BJ
ReplyDeleteThanks -- I should look into that. I have better ones, but they're all about a decade old.
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