My Story (The Making Of)

The best thing about a story is that you have the power of the pen, or in this case the keyboard.

I started thinking of this story in 2003, after i saw Lord Of The Rings: Return Of The King, a movie which opened my eyes to the epic fantasy world, i like to think that i have drawn inspiration from the biggest movies, games and books that were released over the last decade, a list follows.

Movies: Chronicles Of Narnia, Lord Of The Rings, Harry Potter
Games: Prince Of Persia, Assassin's Creed, Tomb Raider
Books: The Chronicles Of Prydaim, Lord Of The Rings

You get the idea.

Now, Temple King originally started out as a school project, to write a short story of whatever you wanted to, so i wrote Ice Kingdom, which has not changed in 6 years.

Temple King was originally titled "A Kings Path" which kinda sounds like it was written by a 10 year old, so on a trip in egypt i saw the pyramids, so i called it pyramid king, then i searched google back in 2007 and found temple's, so i thought to myself, Temple King, sounds great.

It originally was going to be 4 books long, but instead of jumping forward i thought i would create 7 books to the story, spread over four numbers, list follows.

Temple King: Quest For The Sword
Temple King II: Tomb Of The Dread
Temple King II: Fire Skull Of Light
Temple King III: Clash Of The Kings
Temple King III: Trident Of Atlantis
Temple King IV: Revelation Of The Past
Temple King IV: Dagger To The Throne

You get the idea that 2 will be split into 2 parts, 3 into 2 parts and 4 into 2 parts, the 1st stands alone.

So after thinking of a main name i started writing, the first draft ended up being 48 chapters long, then i thought to myself that doing an epic story in one book, isn't enough to warrant a medal of epicness, so i decided to spread it out.

Temple King originally slated for 1 book has turned into 7.

After the process of finding the right subtitles (Quest for the sword etc.) i started working with some new ideas for character names, Orion was originally called Fastras, Maralda was Penelope and Milo was Edwin, Wesirt and Tebek are the only one's to keep there original names.

So after half the cast was dealt with i decided to go with the bad guys, the original bad guy was Draagon, but now it's Ahriman, Draagon is still a part of the book, but he is the second in command of bad guys.

This book had to be a good one, otherwise you guys or girls WON'T buy the next installments, now i know it is written differently but i needed to give it a feel of brilliance, something that has not been done before, so instead of the traditional writing, i decided to go with a film script, now hold up, it's not gonna be a bad adaptation or anything, like some films, this is only going to be a book, maybe in the future we might be able to make a movie out of it, but for the time being, it's a book with a movie feel.

Temple King has fights, romance, horror, adventure, monsters, myth, legends, gods, wizards, magic, death, action, drama and a little thrill.

Expect it on store shelves July 2010, after it was delayed from the original release of march, due to some error's with the covers, it is available in paper and hardback at the retail sale price of £4.99 Paperback
£6.99 Hardback

And a limited Collector's edition, of which only 2,000 copies were made which shall cost
£8.99

I hope you enjoy the book and i hope to see you all at some signings in the new year.