The Wild Thyme Unseen
by L.J. Hutton
Price: $3.99 USD. 258080 words.
Published on March 6, 2012. Fiction.
The DeÁine know where their Treasures are hidden, and they’ll go to war to get them back! From the heart of the Islands the trusted few out on quests. Some head into the dangers of DeÁine territories to save hostages or to retrieve the Island Treasures. Others find unexpected dangers horribly close to home. With winter coming can they save Brychan, or will the DeÁine make their first re-conquest?
Location: United Kingdom
Member Since: Jan. 13, 2012
L.J. Hutton
Biography
I was born and brought up in Birmingham (UK). In my mid teens I suffered from exposure to Tolkien from which I’ve never fully recovered! After leaving school I did a variety of jobs until redundancy threatened, at which point I escaped to university to do the degree I’d always wanted to do and discovered Tolkien’s academic work as well. As a (very) mature student I first acquired a BA in Medieval Studies, then followed it with an MPhil in Anglo-Saxon History. Old English remains a facination and one day - when and if I ever get the time - I'd really love to learn Old Welsh. By this time anything and everything medieval had become a bit of an addiction, as proven by my ever expanding bookcases of reference works (which one day might take over the house) and visits to every castle and ruin I could find. All this, coupled with a life of avid reading of fantasy, spurred me into writing about a fictional world as a way of exploring the ideas about the bits of history which remain obscure, or how things might have turned out differently.
Apart from the completed fantasy quartet set in the Islands I am also writing a historical series based on the Robin Hood legend and set very firmly in the late twelfth/early thirteenth centuries. The aim with these coming books is to return the legend to its true setting, but to tell more would be to spoil the fun...!
I currently live in Worcester with one husband and several recued lurchers, one of whom shares my photo - which is nothing unusual in my life! I support Evesham Greyhound & Lurcher Rescue.
Apart from the completed fantasy quartet set in the Islands I am also writing a historical series based on the Robin Hood legend and set very firmly in the late twelfth/early thirteenth centuries. The aim with these coming books is to return the legend to its true setting, but to tell more would be to spoil the fun...!
I currently live in Worcester with one husband and several recued lurchers, one of whom shares my photo - which is nothing unusual in my life! I support Evesham Greyhound & Lurcher Rescue.
Where to find L.J. Hutton online
Website: http://islandsquartet.com
Twitter: Lin_Hutton
Twitter: Lin_Hutton
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Books
Woven With A Silent Motto
by L.J. Hutton
Price: $1.99 USD. 232030 words. Published on February 3, 2012. Fiction.
(5.00 from 1 review)
The unofficial truce between the Islands and their would-be conquerors, the DeÁine, has been broken. For the Islanders the scale of the threat only emerges as they struggle with enemies closer to home. Yet time is running short if the Islanders are to prevent the DeÁine’s plans from becoming reality. Only together will they be in with a fighting chance of winning and keeping their freedom.
Price: $1.99 USD. 232030 words. Published on February 3, 2012. Fiction.
(5.00 from 1 review) The unofficial truce between the Islands and their would-be conquerors, the DeÁine, has been broken. For the Islanders the scale of the threat only emerges as they struggle with enemies closer to home. Yet time is running short if the Islanders are to prevent the DeÁine’s plans from becoming reality. Only together will they be in with a fighting chance of winning and keeping their freedom.
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Smashwords book reviews by L.J. Hutton
- Inn The Laughing Dragon
on Jan. 22, 2012
A beautifully crafted short story with a neat twist at the end. Yes it does follow the 'three men in a bar' start, but what is done with the storyline beyond that is original and engaging. If this is a true taster of what Mike Jansen can produce then the full-length novel will be well worth reading.
- A Stalker's Game (Short Story)
on Jan. 22, 2012
As a short story this works fairly well, but sometimes the language doesn't flow as well as it might. The introduction of Tom as the lead character is intriguing, but there are almost too many assumptions about the reader knowing this world - as if we had already read a full novel about this person. Not having read the novels, this makes the short story a little too stuffed with terms and allusions which I, for one, found distracting from the main storyline; but it would be interesting to know how someone felt about this story who had already read the novels.
- They Came, They Saw, They Took the Tinfoil
on Jan. 22, 2012
An engaging short story, but without enough originality to warrant 5 stars. If you want to read what a master storyteller can do with an almost identical storyline look for Clifford Simak's "Dusty Zebra" - 50 years old but beautifully crafted - or one of many Theodore Sturgeon shorts. Sorry, M T McGuire, but this story needed an extra somethign to compete with those two masters of the genre.
- The Ghost Child
on Jan. 22, 2012
A tantalising taster! There are so many characters I would love to know more about, and the two central ones are original and highly engaging. This is definitely a taster for a longer work, rather than being a complete short story, but I shall be looking out for more instalments.