 the Goblins are Coming!
by
Zsolt Kerekes
the long anticipated (350 page) speculative novel of Earth's
recolonization, revealed in lost books, and those who wrote them - will be
available for pre-order in Summer 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 |
April 14, 2025 - 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.
In November 2023 I began rewriting it and
since then it's been my main writing preoccupation.
- sample chapters will be published here on goblinsearch.com when the
manuscript is finished with pre-orders on Amazon from Summer 2025
- length of the book (based on the current state of writing and edits) is
projected to be 130K words (350 print pages)
- over 103K words have already been imported, linked and edited
into the Reedsy book assembly and layout editor
- alpha reader feedback of novel slices began in April 2024. There have been
4 sliced releases to date. The most recent in mid April 2025, and hereafter
monthly in the lead up to publication.
- 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
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| 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 | | |
