Rachel Starr Thomson

The proof copy of Worlds Unseen arrived today, and it’s gorgeous! It needed a little tweaking, but that’s now done and the finished product will be ready-to-order before this month is out. In the interest of getting this book on Amazon in time for Christmas, I will only be taking pre-orders until November 30. If you’d like an early, autographed copy of my first fantasy novel, place your order on LittleDozen.com today!

Shameless though it is, I’m going to mention that Worlds would make a great Christmas gift for the pre-teen/teen/young adult in your life who enjoys Narnia, Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter, et al. This is clean fantasy with a backbone of truth and a lot of heart. Copies are $15.00, and like I said, they’re beautiful! Deborah’s cover art and design are gorgeous.

It’s finished :).

Well, Worlds production is in high gear. The book should be ready to ship in two weeks or so. In celebration, I’m taking pre-orders :). Each pre-ordered book will be autographed and shipped at the earliest possible moment.

To order, visit the Worlds Unseen page on LittleDozen.com.

You can still get your free ebook version of Worlds from the same page.

The cover for Worlds Unseen is finally underway. My sister Deborah is painting it in acrylics. I got a look at it last night and it’s pretty cool. I intended to blog about it today, and before I got a chance, she posted on her work blog about it… so I filched a picture.

Here it is:

Kudos if you’ve read the book and you know what scene this depicts, and also what still needs to be added :).

You can get a free Ebook Edition of Worlds here.

Onward and upward to publication…

… is here :).

If you’d like to help get the ball rolling, feel free to copy the below announcement and post it on your blog, email it to all your friends, skywrite it from an aeroplane…

Worlds Unseen

Click to Download the Free eBook Now!

The Council for Exploration Into Worlds Unseen believed there was more to the world and its history than the empire had taught them. Treating ancient legends as history, they came a little too close to the truth. Betrayed by one of their own, the Council was torn apart before they could finish their work.

Forty years later, Maggie Sheffield just wants to leave the past behind. Memories of the Orphan House where she grew up are fading; memories of her guardians’ murder are harder to shake. When a dying friend shows up on her doorstep bearing the truth about the Seventh World–in the form of a written covenant with evil–Maggie is sent on a journey that will change her forever. Along with the Gifted gypsy Nicolas Fisher, who hears things no one else can, Maggie joins with the last surviving members of the Council and a group of eastern rebels led by a ploughman and a princess to discover the truth.

It won’t be easy. The Seventh World has long been controlled by the Blackness, and its monstrous forces are already on Maggie’s trail.

Readers Weigh In

“Wow, Rachel, oh my goodness…. wow. I fell in love with Worlds Unseen. I finished it a few moments ago, with tears in my eyes. It was really touching…and brilliant, and beautiful. The whole thing reminded me of a mix between C.S. Lewis, Ted Dekker, and Diana Wynne Jones, while being wholly different.”

“Your story is wonderful! You are such an artist and you paint such beautiful metaphors. I am in awe.”

“You have a gorgeous poetic way of putting things that’s incredible and enviable. I love the huge grand scale of things that your world runs on, yet your characters make it personal in such an amazing way.”

“I thought all of your characters were great! They were real, which is what I’ve always loved about your writing.”

Coming Soon: Worlds Unseen in hard copy!

It’s still in production, but Worlds will be available as a “real” book in the next few months, with beautiful cover artwork by Deborah Thomson and availability on Amazon.com and special order from bookstores across the continent. Watch for it!

I sent out another pre-release email for Letters to a Samuel Generation today. Got the introduction written last week. This week it’s final editing/proofreading, then I’ll pass it along to my whiz kid sister for formatting, get all of the information registered in official places, and gear up for honest-to-goodness publication in March. Who says publishing has to be slow? ;)

In all honesty, most books cannot be published anything close to this quickly, especially if they’re going to be successful. It doesn’t matter much for this book for a few unique reasons.

On another plain, my fellow Romany author Libby Russell just finished a freehand sketch of Lilia, one of the main characters in Taerith. She’s beautiful and I’ll make sure you all get to see her as soon as Libby’s finished making artistically obsessive alterations. Libby’s also doing sketches for me to illustrate the eBook version of Worlds Unseen (sorry, no link yet) which I plan to come out with (FREE!) this summer. I’m very grateful for all the work she’s putting into it, because she’s got a lot of talent and she’s not charging me anything. Yet.