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Author of two Doctor Who novels, "Drift" and "Emotional Chemistry" for BBC Books, plus a Telos Novella "Shell Shock" and a number of other Doctor Who works, as well as (under a pseudonym) the first two books of Puffin's Fright Night series and two (soon to be three) novelisations for the BBC's Merlin series. Currently developing and promoting my original sci fi and children's fiction.

favourite books

Anna Karenina, The Hitch Hiker's Guide To The Galaxy, The God Of Small Things, Gormenghast, Inkheart, Jane Eyre, Ringworld, Mission Of Gravity, Professor Branestawm, Something Wicked This Way Comes

my websites

http://www.simonforward.co.uk     http://prefectjournal.blogspot.com/

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The Bells Of St Transylvanians....

Simon Forward

Welcome to St Transylvanians. The school for little horrors.


Colour St Clair is packed off to the boarding school of St Transylvanians, where girls with ‘supernatural afflictions’ are prepared for return to normal society. Some, however, will never be going back. Even when surrounded by other vampires – to say nothing of werewolves, ghouls, zombies and Egyptian mummies’ girls – Colour has a hard time fitting in. Until a book entitled The Willowyvern turns up in her backpack. Like her vampirism, Colour has no idea how it got there, but it bears her name on the cover. Along with the names of three other girls as co-authors: Tiffany (Tiffy) Laine, Shandi Roy and Lilica Drakul. From there on the girls become firm friends, banding together in a club of their own to stand against the bullying Vickies, make their own brand of mischief and – why not – go ahead and write The Willowyvern. They’re keen to know where it will lead... Trouble, is the answer. Big trouble. Because the school sits on the Morrow Abyss, a kind of hell where all the worst nightmares of vampires and monsters reside. Strange horrors like the Willowyvern. And worse. And the book is their way out...

 

KIP DOODLE And The ARMCHAIR of....

Simon Forward

Kip Doodle's been trapped in his latest cliffhanger for too long. Now he's breaking out of his felt-tip world and into Ty Lewis' life.


KIP DOODLE has faced the lot: enemy soldiers, monsters, gangsters and alien invaders. But he has been trapped in his latest cliffhanger for far too long. Not one for hanging around, Kip decides to take action. He’s breaking out of this episode, no matter what.

The down side: if he can do it, then so can the bad guys...


All of which spells trouble for TY LEWIS, young creator of Kip, the Sasquatch and other colourful characters in his adventure comic strips. They’ve been neglected: ever since Ty’s (Great) Uncle Ed fell ill, Ty hasn’t felt like drawing. Together, they shared stories and dreamed up ideas between them - and now, Ty wonders if he will ever get back to his cartoons. Returning from Uncle Ed’s funeral, he realises he’s not getting a choice in the matter.


Ty finds himself appointed Kip’s sidekick, pressed into action against the villainous FLYING SASQUATCH and his cohorts.


Juggling ordinary life with his new life of adventure – trying to keep Kip a secret from his mum – Ty must hurry before the Sasquatch redraws the real world in line with his own evil designs!

(Complete@55K)

 

EVIL UNLTD: THE ROOT OF ALL EV....

Simon A Forward

The Farce Of The Dark Side: Villains Are The New Heroes In This Epic Sci Fi Adventure


Evil UnLtd: on a mission of indefinite duration, to seek out new evil schemes and boldly go to depths and extremes where no super-villain has gone before.

Sinister supreme genius and super-villain, Dexter Snide, has floated Evil on the stock market and has gathered together a band of fellow villains, whose key challenge now is to ensure that Evil shows a consistent profit.

But Evil has its (some would say unfair) share of enemies: Heroes in all sorts of nauseating shapes and sizes, up to and including muscle-headed action man, Rolph Stengun; and, because Evil is a highly competitive field, rivals, such as the mysterious figure who has his Visigoyle minions shadowing their every move.

What begins as a heist to steal the greatest prize in the galaxy, draws Evil UnLtd into a devious plot to crash their enterprise before it's reached a fraction of its warped potential.

Full Novel now available on Kindle and in Paperback: see www.simonforward.co.uk for details!

 

WILD

Simon A Forward

Mama Nature has a bone to pick with Mankind. To save humanity, the world turns to a man called Wild. Coincidence? Maybe not.


Year Nought: The AlterNet, a World-Wide Web woven from ch’i, was founded. Something was awoken in young Jago WILD. Something more powerful than any child could contain. Year Twenty Six: Blood sports and trade in exotic animals continue underground. It's up to animal welfare cops 'Joker' Wild and his partner, MELANIE SKYE, each bonded to their animal familiars, to bring offenders to justice. But Joker is recruited by the all-powerful Geomancers - who run the AlterNet. Mama Nature appears to be turning on them. And not even they can contain her wrath. As Wild trains to tap into those forces he has been afraid to confront within him, Melanie and her new partner, MICHAEL GLYNGARTH, work to break a major bloodsports ring, run by depraved crime boss, LEMUEL TENCREEK. Melanie and Wild keep in touch, supporting one another through their respective investigations. But one of them isn’t telling the full story. Wild is too scared of the truth. As the investigations merge and as death stalks Wild wherever he goes, he develops a troubling conviction: That the force within him and the savage force he is supposed to defeat are one and the same.

 

INDUSTRIAL WASTE

Simon A Forward

A Neuromance.


In the Year Nought the Geomancers founded the AlterNet, a World-Wide Web of ch’i. 24 years on, for AXEL RENCH, the resulting world is nowhere near as romantic as it sounds. Living on the Heap, his greatest romances have been with movies, nostalgia and, most of all, SISTER HONEY: actress, model and lead singer of his favourite band, INDUSTRIAL WASTE. So what does he do when she turns up on his doorstep and offers him a job on their tour of the Orient? So he's soon on the band’s Leyglider, riding the Earth’s energy streams East, where his past is lying in ambush for him. It was easier when Axel had only himself to look out for. Now Sister Honey and Industrial Waste are at the centre of a new battle. Someone is torturing Honey, invading her dreams via the AlterNet. Someone is killing top webspinners, turning their ch’i-driven software against them. And someone is murdering executives from the corporations sponsoring the Hong Kong gig. The key lies in the band's name. It is a key that will unlock a brand new Pandora’s Box – with Axel’s name written all over it.

 

Ice Cold In Alex's

Simon A Forward

How far must a man go, to what depths must he sink, to protect paradise?


A town on the Black Sea coast is the last vestige of civilisation for miles around. Alex's is a bar and restaurant at the heart of this community. One woman's attempt to build her own paradise in the aftermath of a War like no other. Alex wants an end to the violence and to see her dream grow out of the ashes. Victor wants that for Alex too. But in a world scoured by the War, haunted by demons and terrorised by those who will stop at nothing to take what they want and tear paradise down, he believes there will always be a need for violent men. When the town comes under threat from armed marauders, Victor will go to any lengths to save Alex and her dream. Even if it means destroying himself in her eyes.

 

HEAVENSEND

Simon A Forward

The Four Horsemen are coming. Who will be the Four to stand against them?


Rescued by a stranger, PAGAN SPYRES is confronted with a terrible truth: that she has been tainted by something in the rubble. But Pagan is going to have a hard time adjusting to vampirism. That's why the stranger, TROY, wants to help her, by welcoming her as a member of his team: HEAVENSEND. The rest of the team are in Scotland, investigating unusual concentrations of paranormal activity. SEB GREENGLASS, telekinetic, and SARA RAVEN, witch, interview locals over reports of ghosts gone missing, Black Dogs and other phenomena, while FAYN, clairvoyant ex-detective, ventures into the woods, where ancient forces have been unearthed and the locals are as hostile as any extraterrestrial. Troy himself is hunting a supernatural killer, whose victims are reduced to bloody shreds and lose more than their lives. These are all early omens of the coming Apocalypse. But these events are not according to any Bible. The pattern of this Apocalypse is being drawn to a different design. In which the Heavensend team are pawns, and not only Troy’s. And in which Pagan Spyres will be asked to face more than her own personal demons.

 

TORTENSCHLOSS

Simon Forward

Gormenghast with multi-coloured frosting, a cherry on top and dark sprinkles.


Tortenschloss is an everyday city in a once-in-a-blue-moon world. The perfect place to hang out between adventures.

It’s home to PEACHY KEANE, rollerskating newspaper delivery girl. And her friends: SHINVAR, fearless Amazonian Paladin; LEO DE LACEY, chivalrous Musketeer; KIALA, vexed and studious Apprentice to a Sorcerer who has been turned to stone. And SLUDGE, sewer demon from the Seventh Netherplane.

But the Tortenschloss Tribune is packed with the exploits of too many adventurers. Leo is ready to retire from adventuring. So their next quest needs to be for something different, something truly *novel*.

Riding in across the plains comes Genghis, a Fargolian warrior mounted on his fearsome war giraffe. Will he be a new friend? Or foe? For now, he brings the opportunity for adventure: the search for his missing village.

Meanwhile, trouble brews. Roguish jeopards wreak furry havoc in the streets. Gryseult, Pirate Queen, returns from the North with her Ice Armada, set to leave no stone standing. Except those who meet her petrifying gaze. Darkness threatens to engulf the city.

The end of Tortenschloss is nigh. And the only heroes who can save it have gone in search of adventure.
Complete@90K

 

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