As he carries on with these lies, designed to humanise himself before me, I remain abstract, detached from his plans, and I say what needs to be said. ‘The Swimming of Witches was probably the most famous of all the trials carried out by your brethren. Innocent girls and women, dubbed witches, because they were…
Author: Tom Harris Writes
I write edgy Middle Grade, Young Adult & New Adult Fantasy Fiction.
My Sketches: Black Cerva
Sketching nature has had a profound influence in imagining some of the beasts, monsters and hybrids, I depict in my books. Here is a pencil sketch of a hybrid stag, known as a Black Cerva, a nocturnal creature that roams the grounds of an orphanage in my forthcoming YA Novel – The Sweep… Did you…
THE CROW STONES: LOCATIONS – BLACK LARCH WOOD
This is sheer, abject terror. The worst kind of fear. The unknown. It is when we are at our most vulnerable… I recognise fear and my amygdala is activated. It has alerted my nervous system, which has set my body’s fear response into motion. Cortisol and adrenaline are released. Blood pressure and heart rate increase….
My Sketches: Grey Heron
Sketching nature has always been a bit of a hobby of mine, just to help me chill out on those days when the words just won’t come. I sketch from photos, or from pages of classic books, and images that resonate with me. So I thought I’d share a few of these with you and…
THE CROW STONES: LOCATIONS – JACKDAW HILL
Mr. Olyphant has lived all his life in relative isolation, in his ancestral home atop Jackdaw Hill. Like a king atop his throne, he lords over us, from this quaint cottage-castle in the sky on the outskirts of the village. I’ve always thought of him as more of a handsome black bear, than beast, but…
THE CROW STONES: COMING SOON
As the image sharpens, it develops the detail of a figure stood at the rock of obsidian, swamped in a purple robe and hood. The stranger’s identity is obscured to me, but from this new angle, I notice that Callie’s knife is dripping…not crimson with blood, but a grey slurry, reminiscent of a grotesque gruel,…
THE AMBER MOON PART TWO: OF MOSAICS & MONSTERS KINDLE EXCERPT & PROMO POSTER
Dr. Tan glanced back and smiled before he strode forward and held both swords in the firewall on board the fire chariot. He whistled as if waiting for an egg to boil, and then withdrew the molten hot blades and rushed forward. Tan swung the swords so hard that when the blades met, they took…
THE AMBER MOON PART ONE: OF SHADOWS & DRAGONS KINDLE EXCERPT & PROMO POSTER
Fairy Eight moved across the stage to where a Thief Trials volunteer with Memorabilia etched across his uniform was nervously clutching a large, grey sack. Fairy Eight snatched it from him and the volunteer ran off screaming. She grinned as she dumped the sack at North’s feet. “Tell Seven, that’s from me.” She leaned in…
THE CROW STONES: COMING SOON
What stands before me is something born from the annals of monstrosity. A hybrid beast, an amalgam of human and animal form. There are six of them, torchbearers, stretching up on hind legs, standing in a hierarchical pyramid; one at their lead, two behind and three at the rear. “What are you? Why did you…
THE AMBER ANTIDOTE KINDLE EXCERPT & PROMO POSTER
“It happened okay. If it hadn’t been you, it would have been someone else. But in the end you came back. You saved my life. Tan used you, like he used me. He threatened your dragons. You had no choice.” Despite his words, Rosie’s betrayal stabbed at him like an eternal knife in his side….
Tom Harris Writes 