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NOT FINAL ART! |
Hello all!
Here is the nearly-finished art* for the cover of my new children's / young adult novel, Merv The Druid Boy.
It will be available in mid-December on Kindle and in paperback in the new year.
It’s the Third Century AD at the Britannic settlement of
Cae’r Dydd, and Merv, the son of the
Roman fort’s animal doctor and a native Princess is free to get on with his
usual chores: tending to his own menagerie of animals, swotting up on Imperial
culture ... and keeping out of the way of his Druid teacher and mentor, Caradoc.
But when mad Senator Virilius**
arrives from Rome intending to take over control of an abandoned outpost up in
Caledonia and create his own kingdom north of the frontier – intending on
killing his old enemy Paulus, Merv’s
Pa, in the process – Merv’s teacher has to bring his own plans forward, and
initiate the boy early into his destiny as Holder
of the Grimoire, the sacred
depository of all the hidden knowledge of the Druids...
And so begins an epic adventure that will take the boy right
across the face of the Empire, make him discover his amazing affinity with
animals – especially his white tiger Shadow
(rescued from the arena....), and then backwards and forwards in time as far as the 20th
Century and the devastating aerial bombing of the huge town that grew from his small fort.....
*with special thanks to Aled Hughes for his modelling skills...
** ..and Virilius is a genuine Roman cognomen, or surname. Honest!
