Guest: Nick Wilford Cover Reveal RECKONING

 Exciting news from Nick Wilford, a fellow Insecure Writers Support Group friend. We've all been waiting for his newest release in September. You can get a taste of Reckoning today with a cover reveal. Reckoning is the 3rd book in Nick's Black & White series.

cover design: germancreative

Is that cover evocative or what?

Here's the blurb.

The time has come for those who perpetrated wrongdoing and suffering on the land of Loretania to face their judgement. Lord Histender and the other members of the deposed Reformers’ Government are in jail awaiting trial for keeping that country in a state of disease-ridden deprivation, alongside other heinous crimes.

 

Wellesbury Noon and Ezmerelda Dontible, the kind and benevolent new rulers of Harmonia, are looking forward to seeing justice finally being done. But nothing is that simple. Lunkin, the psychotic former Chief Scientist, has one more trick up his sleeve and is wreaking havoc even from behind bars. Soon, Loretanians who have come to make a new life in Harmonia are falling victim to hate crimes and brutal attacks. And things take a turn for the desperate when Wellesbury himself becomes compromised.

 

Can Welles and Ez turn the tide of public opinion and secure justice for the people of Loretania before it’s too late?

Release date: September 19, 2022

Pre-order links: Amazon US / Amazon UK / Smashwords / Kobo / Apple Books

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You can also download the first part of the trilogy, Black & White, for free here, while part two, Corruption, can be found here.

About Nick Wilford:

Nick Wilford is a writer and stay-at-home dad. Once a journalist, he now makes use of those early morning times when the house is quiet to explore the realms of fiction, with a little freelance editing and formatting thrown in. When not working he can usually be found spending time with his family or cleaning something. He has four short stories published in Writer’s Muse magazine. Nick is also the editor of Overcoming Adversity: an Anthology for Andrew. Visit him at his blog or connect with him on twitter, goodreads, facebook, or amazon.

GUEST: Nick Wilford's CORRUPTION Blog Tour #YA @NickPWilford

I'm happy to welcome Nick Wilford as he stops by on his blog tour today. Nick's new release is a Young Adult story that sounds terrific. Here's Nick.

Hi Diane! Thanks for hosting me on my tour. I'd like to change pace a bit today and offer your readers a bit of a more thoughtful topic.

Dealing with Difficult Subjects in a Young Adult Book

I’ve been having a lot of fun on this blog tour up to now, but I’d like to get serious for a second and talk about the complications of dealing with sensitive subject matter in a young adult book – and why it can ultimately be worthwhile.

Corruption contains references to a rape, as well as other instances where the act is attempted. That wasn’t something I set out to confront when I started writing this series – I didn’t even  know what would happen in the second and third books at that point. I’ve never been much of a planner. It was something that developed as a byproduct of one of the ideas in the first book – when the series begins, sex has been eradicated in Harmonia, and babies are grown in a lab environment using DNA from both parents. That decision gets overturned as part of the drive to return to a more natural way of life, but this new edict is then abused. It’s part of the corruption referred to in the title of the second book, which centres principally around one of the scientists, Harold Lunkin.

So having included such an element, how can it be justified? Well, one of the main purposes of fiction is to reflect life as we know it, even if the book takes place in a totally different world or society. A writer shouldn’t pretend that certain things don’t exist. Of course, going about this in the right way can be a delicate matter, but that doesn’t mean we shy away from it. We know that everything we include should be there to serve the story and keep it moving forward, but you’re dealing with a bit more than a narrative device when it comes to something like this. Do proper research into the effect on victims, even talk to some people if possible.

Even if it wasn’t something you thought about at the start, you never know if something you write might end up helping someone who’s been through such an experience. Let them know that it’s alright to speak out and seek help and that no one can just get away with this.

Do you cover difficult subject matter in your writing? How do you go about it?

Title: Corruption

Author: Nick Wilford

Genre: YA dystopian Series: Black & White Series #: 2 of 3

Release date: 11th February 2019

Publisher: Superstar Peanut Publishing

Blurb:

Wellesbury Noon and Ezmerelda Dontible have found themselves in a position where they can make their native land somewhere that lives up to its name: Harmonia. However, they’re setting their sights further afield for their number one task: eradicating the disease that has plagued the neighbouring country of Loretania for generations and allowed the privileged Harmonians to live in a sterile environment.

After dispatching a team of scientists to Loretania, armed with cratefuls of an antidote and vaccine and headed up by their friend, Dr George Tindleson, Welles, Ez, and Welles’s brother Mal – who grew up in that benighted nation – start to worry when they hear nothing back, despite what they had agreed. Commandeering a fishing boat to follow the science team over the sea, they soon find that, while the disease may be on the way out, a new kind of infection has set in – the corruption they thought they had stamped out in Harmonia.

Can they get to the root of the problem and eliminate it before even more damage is done to an innocent people?

*** Warning – this book contains themes that some sensitive readers may find upsetting. ***

Purchase Links:

Amazon US / Amazon UK / Smashwords / Barnes & Noble / Kobo / iBooks

Add it on Goodreads

Meet the author:

Nick Wilford is a writer and stay-at-home dad. Once a journalist, he now makes use of those early morning times when the house is quiet to explore the realms of fiction, with a little freelance editing and formatting thrown in. When not working he can usually be found spending time with his family or cleaning something. He has four short stories published in Writer’s Muse magazine. Nick is also the editor of Overcoming Adversity: An Anthology for Andrew. Visit him at his blog or connect with him on Twitter, Goodreads, Facebook, or Amazon. 

#CoverReveal: Corruption by Nick Wilford @NickPWilford

I'm helping my friend, Nick Wilford, share the cover for his upcoming release. Corruption is the second book in the Black & White series. Here's the info. Doesn't this sound interesting?

Corruption (Black & White #2)

Release Date: 11th February 2019

Cover design: germancreative

Blurb: Wellesbury Noon and Ezmerelda Dontible have found themselves in a position where they can make their native land somewhere that lives up to its name: Harmonia. However, they’re setting their sights further afield for their number one task: eradicating the disease that has plagued the neighbouring country of Loretania for generations and allowed the privileged Harmonians to live in a sterile environment.

After dispatching a team of scientists to Loretania, armed with cratefuls of an antidote and vaccine and headed up by their friend, Dr George Tindleson, Welles, Ez, and Welles’s brother Mal – who grew up in that benighted nation – start to worry when they hear nothing back, despite what they had agreed. Commandeering a fishing boat to follow the science team over the sea, they soon find that, while the disease may be on the way out, a new kind of infection has set in – the corruption they thought they had stamped out in Harmonia.

Can they get to the root of the problem and eradicate it before even more damage is done to an innocent people?

*** Warning – this book contains themes that some sensitive readers may find upsetting. ***

Pre-order links: Amazon US / Amazon UK / Smashwords / Barnes & Noble / Kobo  

Add it on Goodreads

Black & White, the first book in the series, is free. Good holiday gift for yourself and a great way to prepare for Corruption.

Black & White (Black & White #1)

Cover design: germancreative

Blurb: What is the price paid for the creation of a perfect society?

In Whitopolis, a gleamingly white city of the future where illness has been eradicated, shock waves run through the populace when a bedraggled, dirt-stricken boy materialises in the main street. Led by government propaganda, most citizens shun him as a demon, except for Wellesbury Noon – a high school student the same age as the boy.

Upon befriending the boy, Wellesbury feels a connection that he can’t explain – as well as discovering that his new friend comes from a land that is stricken by disease and only has two weeks to live. Why do he and a girl named Ezmerelda Dontible appear to be the only ones who want to help?

As they dig deeper, everything they know is turned on its head – and a race to save one boy becomes a struggle to redeem humanity.

Buy links: Amazon US / Amazon UK / Smashwords / Barnes & Noble / Kobo / iBooks

Add it on Goodreads

About the Author

Nick Wilford is a writer and stay-at-home dad. Once a journalist, he now makes use of those rare times when the house is quiet to explore the realms of fiction, with a little freelance editing and formatting thrown in. When not working he can usually be found spending time with his family or cleaning something. He has four short stories published in Writer's Muse magazine. Nick is also the editor of Overcoming Adversity: An Anthology for Andrew.

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