WIN A COPY OF THE ENCHANTED QUEST

By Allan | Thursday, 20 August 2009 at 09:11
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Hello there,

I’ve already told you about the new Fan Site that Marisa has set up, well, we put our heads together and we’ve come up with a great idea!

Marisa is organizing a short story writing competition for members of the Fan Club - and the prize will be a signed copy of Faerie Path 5: The Enchanted Quest.

One other little thing - as most of you already know, there are currently planned to be 6 Faerie Path books published by Harper Collins. I’d love to write more, but this will depend on the sales of the first six. At the moment things are looking good - but what will help is if I can show the Publishers that I have a big Fan Club - so any of you guys who haven’t joined up yet, might like to consider doing so - it costs nothing and it will definitely have exclusive stuff on it.

I’ve already given Marisa two short stories of mine, and I have another ready. Plus I plan on posting some poems - and some of the more eagle-eyed among you will spot that some of the words of these poems will have already appeared as songs and chants in the Faerie Path series.

Plus she will have some of my artwork for you to look at. All things considered, Marisa’s Fan Club is going to be a great place to visit!

FAN CLUB

By Allan | Wednesday, 12 August 2009 at 07:46
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I’ve just been told by one of my fans, Marisa, that she has set up an Allan Frewin Jones fan club website. That’s pretty exciting for me- I don’t think I’ve ever had a fan club before!

It would be really great if you guys could check out the site and maybe join the club and do some blogging. I’ll be checking in on it regularly to see what you’re all talking about.

The URL is: http://www.greatbooksrock.webs.com

Thanks so much to Marisa for organizing this - now it’s over to all of you.

Jade Anderson

By Allan | Monday, 10 August 2009 at 08:19
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Well, here’s something weird! Jade keeps turning up in The Faerie Path books - but do I ever actually say what she looks like? If not, does anyone have a mental image of Jade? I’m partly asking because a couple of you were thinking of an actor for Jade in the potential movie - so, what does she look like, do you think?

This is especially strange, because I have files of lots of details of people, places and things in Faerie and beyond - you know, a full description of Earl Valentine, a full description of The Royal Palace and a full description of the Amber Prisons and how they work - but for some strange reason my entry for Jade is blank. I think the Dark Arts have been at work here!

Oh, and I do rather like the idea of the same actor playing Mr Palmer and Oberon - in heavy disguise, of course. The only problem I see with this is that I always imagined Anita’s parents being late thirties or early forties - but I had Oberon down as a little older…what do you think? (Yes, I know Faerie folk live forever - but at what age do you imagine them stopping - or at least slowing right down - getting older-looking?)

Movie Actors

By Allan | Wednesday, 5 August 2009 at 08:12
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Okay, a couple of you think that last blog of mine opened a new subject that wasn’t very interesting. That’s fine, no problem, I just come up with stuff that interests me…but I’m up for you people to pick your own topics. So - let’s go with Clare’s idea: if The Faerie Path was made into a movie, who would you want to act the main parts?

Further Adventures in Faerie

By Allan | Tuesday, 4 August 2009 at 15:21
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Okay, I think we’re probably talked the whole Rathina/Edric/Tania/Connor thing pretty much into the ground now. So I was wondering if any of you might like to talk about something a bit different?

Let’s say Tania survives all her recent problems and decides to live at least part of her life in Faerie (I’m NOT saying this is what happens, I’m just making stuff up here…).

If you were Tania, where in Faerie would you like to live? The Royal Palace? Veraglad? One of the Caers - like where Hopie lives? Or somewhere else? Crystalhenge? Weir?

And if you had the time to explore the Immortal Realm of Faerie, which place or places would you most like to see? Leiderdale, perhaps? Or would you go way up north to visit Clorimel again? Or maybe you can think of a -place that hasn’t even been mentioned in the books yet? Some totally new magical place in Faerie? What’s it called? Where is it on the map? What would you do there?

And finally - who would you take on your travels? One of your sisters? Several of your sisters? All of them? Someone else? How would you choose and why?

Rathina and Connor

By Allan | Sunday, 26 July 2009 at 18:59
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Well, I’ve just started writing book six of the Faerie Path series, so the rest of my Summer is pretty much mapped out now.

Meanwhile, I see plenty of you are getting involved in the discussion about whether Tania should end up with Edric or Connor. A few people have suggested that maybe Connor could get together with Rathina. What do you think about that one? A Faerie Princess and a human boy? Is that a good idea or not? And what about the fact that “Love Never Dies” in Faerie? What do you think that really means? And lastly - does Rathina deserve to be happy after all the things she did? Is she bad or was she just under a bad spell cast over her by Gabriel Drake when she let the Sorcerer King loose?

Over to you.

Meanwhile, I’ll be trying to get Tania out of the terrible mess she got herself into at the end of Book Five! Sorry - you’ll have to wait a few months to find out about that.

bye for the moment

Allan Frewin Jones

Edric v. Connor

By Allan | Tuesday, 14 July 2009 at 12:29
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I’ve had quite a few comments and messages from people who have read The Immortal Realm and who are really cut up about the problems Tania and Edric are going through - and begging me to let them know what will happen between them.

Of course, I’m not about to give a chunk of the plot of the next two books away, but I’ve tried to reassure these worried readers that Tania does meet Edric again in The Enchanted Quest…but that he’s dabbling even more in the Dark Arts. In fact, there’s this one scene where…nah! I’m not going to tell you that!

Anyway, my point here is that till now everyone has been hoping things will work out for Tania and Edric - but does everyone wish that?

I had one comment along the lines of: Hey, Tania - dump Edric - Connor rocks! So - anyone got an opinion about that?

By the way, I already know what happens - but you’re going to have to wait to find out. Sorry. Meanwhile - who are you rooting forĀ - Edric or Connor?

Over to you!

Allan

Faerie Path On-Line Movie Petition

By Allan | Thursday, 18 June 2009 at 08:23
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Well now, this is fun! There is a website where fans of The Faerie Path can join in with a petition to have the books made into a Movie!

The site is: http://www.petitionspot.com/petitions/FaeriePath

Thank you to Addie Cummings for getting this started and for letting me know about it.

So…does anyone out there like the idea of a Faerie Path movie???

bye for now

Allan

Book excerpts on-line

By Allan | Monday, 15 June 2009 at 16:11
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Book excerpts on-line.

I have now added the facility for you to read excerpts from a few of my newer books on-line. These include the first four Faerie Path books and the first Warrior Princess book.

In the near future, I also hope to be posting excerpts from books not yet published. The first of these will be Destiny’s Path - book two of the Warrior Princess series, intended to be published in October 2009.

The second of these “sneak-peaks” will be from The Enchanted Quest - book five of The Faerie Path series, due to be published Feb 1st 2010.

Watch this space - I shall download this stuff as soon as I hear from the Publisher that we have an agreed “final” versions of these new books.

Faerie Path: The Enchanted Quest

By Allan | Friday, 12 June 2009 at 09:49
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Hello there

This is just a very quick post to let you know that the publishers have told me The Faerie Path Book Five: The Enchanted Quest will be published on the 1st February 2010.

Also, within the next few weeks, I am planning on posting some sneak-peaks of this book on-line.