 the
Last Book
200 years after the Fall, Mary and Dan,
a young couple born and raised in the quiet farming parish of Cool Springs, set
off with their toddler Sandy to walk the long drifter road south. What spurs
them is a mixture of hope and fear. Hope of a better life in the cities of
culture which they read of in old schoolbooks. Fear of being caught in the
advancing tide of war. No one's seen the mysterious foe in the far north.
Those who have, don't live to tell tales.
Set in a dystopian future
the Last Book by Zsolt Kerekes tells of the kindness of strangers, the
wickedness of those who prey upon those seeking peace and the forging of new
history.
Perfect for readers who like epic fantasy the new self contained novel
(over 200,000 words in the writing and 25 years in the development of its
world building) will be published in the 2nd half of 2026.
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February 13, 2026 - 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 in Q2 2026
- length of the book (based on the current state of writing and edits) is
projected to be over 200,000 words (800 print pages)
- over 186K 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
6 sliced releases to date. The most recent was in February 2026, and hereafter
monthly in the lead up to publication.
- Feedback I can share with you from my longe suffering alpha reader is -
Finish the book! I want to know what happens. Beta readers? those 5 of
you know who you are, you'll be getting copies of the book by email after I've
uploaded the pre-order text into Amazon kdp.
- 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!
was the working title of this novel for most of time I was writing it. They were
the first 4 words I wrote of the draft story in 2001. That remained an adequate
title for the short story version in 2005 (which was16K words) but based on
beta reader feedback of the 90% complete novel in early 20025 it was clear that
the book (in which many books feature as plot anchors) didn't match the epic
scale of the novel it has become (exceeding 200K words). I have left the
contemporaneous mentions to the old title in the test of the page below - but
have no doubt that the book - when it's published - will have the title - the
Last Book. |
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.
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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 | | |
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