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the Goblins are Coming! - book coverthe Goblins are Coming!

by Zsolt Kerekes

the long anticipated (300 page) speculative novel of Earth's recolonization, revealed in lost books, and those who wrote them - will be published in Spring 2025

the Goblins are Coming!

Great deeds done for love of family do not list in scrolls of wars. Yet how best stop the tides of war return and live at ease together? Memories fade. Can be remade. Victors write true histories whose meanings time wipes slippery. For those who can read them - words of Olden cast new warnings. The goblins are coming, 1, 2, 3. Hide in the cellar. Hide in the tree.

What can I tell you about the Old School? It's the bedrock of society, impervious to outside interference and mysterious in its inner working.

For 700 years it has pioneered the teaching of integrated classes and written the books whose influence, all acknowledge, has been to avert a new war.

The new head, traditional to the core, never before doubted that while in his custody, the school's momentum of stability would bumplessly endure.

Words of defiant Olden freshly found hidden, the return of a famed artifact long thought missing, and suspicions about the loyalty of a teacher newly arrived, conjoin and conspire to raise doubts about the Old School's hallowed origin myths and the surety of its future.
A serious book with "goblins" in the title? How the heck can that be? - an explanation and a preview by the author (December 9, 2024)
December 6, 2024 - update on this work in progress
  • I began writing this story in 2001. I've had a long time to think about it. I shared a short story version of it on email with sample readers in 3 continents in 2005. They all said the same. Make it longer. We'd love to know more, the before and after.

    13 months ago I began rewriting it and throughout this year (2024) it's been my main writing preoccupation.
  • sample chapters will be published here on goblinsearch.com when the manuscript is finished
  • length of the book (based on the current state of writing and edits) is projected to be over 85K words
  • over 78% of the book is already in the Reedsy book editor
  • alpha reader feedback of novel slices began in April 2024
  • beta reader samples of the 85% complete novel will be distributed on December 25, 2024
  • the placeholder cover may change
I'm on X and Linkedin neither of which existed when I began publishing online in 1996. So, although you'll see some snippets of my writing thoughts in those other places, the first reveals of significant new book content will be here on GoblinSearch.com

thanks for your interest
Zsolt Kerekes


the Goblins are Coming!
update on this work in progress
by the author Zsolt Kerekes - November 13, 2023

In 2005 I emailed the first complete draft of a novella called the Goblins are Coming! (which I had started writing 4 years before) to selected beta readers in the UK, US and Australia.

They all said the same - make it longer - we'd like to know what happens before, and what happens next.

I was busy in those days earning my living as the editor of the leading publication in the solid state drive market - where my readers were at the forefront of a new revolution in computer architecture. And in my spare time I had made personal commitments to write some books for children.

In the past 22 years I've picked up and set aside this novel (as it has now become) on several occasions - at major milestones in my writing life - expanding scenes in the original novella and adding never before shared new chapters.

When I embarked on my project to publish 7 books at the beginning of 2023 - the Goblins are Coming! was #6 on my list. I've lived with this story for a long time. I look forward to sharing it soon.

### tentative notes from the book cover ###

Great deeds done for love of family do not list in scrolls of wars. Yet how best stop the tides of war return and live at ease together? Memories fade. Can be remade. Victors write true histories whose meanings time wipes slippery. For those who can read them - words of Olden cast new warnings. The goblins are coming, 1, 2, 3. Hide in the cellar. Hide in the tree. A novel of books past and future - by Zsolt Kerekes - coming in 2025



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