Front cover and a release date! Exciting times.

Isn't it pretty?

The book will be released next week, Friday August 12th 2011! How exciting, right? Right!

Few details still to be ironed out in the formatting department, but generally everything is ready to go.

Title: The Unseen Chronicles of Amelia Black

Price: £2/$3.20*

Available on: Amazon's Kindle Market and Smashwords.com

Don't have a kindle? Kindle apps available for free: HERE

Hardcopy version? Coming soon for a very limited time. Watch this space.

*U.S. price not confirmed, relevant to current exchange rates.

New illustration preview - fly my pretty!

"The King ushered his honoured guests into the beautiful royal courtyard, where docked the most magnificent airship ever conceived."

I know, I know, I've been saying this a lot over the past month, but I mean it this time! It's really not long now until the book is ready to launch. I'm so excited, terrified and hyper just thinking about it. Thank you all for your patience.

Two ladies I'll be thanking again and again over the next while is Gillian for her wonderful illustrations - once again, see above, below, right, but not left! And Laura Gray for the countless hours of her own time put into editing and cleaning the whole thing up. Both have helped make this reality, and I doubt I'll ever be able to truly repay them for it.

IT'S COMING

No Kindle? No Problem!

IDEAL SCENARIO ::

So come the end of the month, and The Unseen Chronicles of Amelia Black will hopefully be available on Amazon's Kindle site for your reading pleasure. I've managed to convince you to part with those two pounds. Excellent. Your kindness will never be forgotten.

HANG ON ::

Eh, one problem. You don't own a Kindle e-reader and quite rightly don't want to break out at least £111 for one. That's okay, I completely understand. Nor should you! Obviously if you're well versed in this area you'll already know this, but might as well explain here and now that there's alternative ways you can read this book come the end of July, start of August!

THE ALTERNATIVES ::

Thankfully if you own the following, you'll have absolutely no problem reading my book - I hope. Amazon have smartly developed Kindle reading applications on the following platforms, for FREE!! ::

• IPHONE/IPOD TOUCH
• WINDOWS OS
• APPLE MAC OS
• IPAD
• ANDROID PHONES
• WINDOWS 7 PHONES

If you're visiting this blog then you're most likely visiting it on those aforementioned platforms. Unless you're visiting it on a Blackberry. Then I'm sorry about that.

For more information visit Amazon's own website here :: http://amzn.to/oC8MAg

The Unseen Chronicles of Amelia Black Synopsis

Any frequent visitors of Gillian's blog will have undoubtedly seen this teaser image already, but here it is again!

The release date still hasn't been 100% decided upon, but felt it was time to release the official synopsis for The Unseen Chronicles of Amelia Black!

Amelia Black is a kind, curious and wonderful soul. Like her dear mother and father, who were equally kind, curious and wonderful, she was a keen explorer of the unknown. When her parents vanish without a trace, she finds herself swept into another universe. An Unseen Universe.

In the Unseen Universe, Amelia discovers a power within herself, which will change her life forever. Under the watchful eye of her faithful butler and lifelong friend, Julius E. Dawson and an ill-tempered pixie (just don’t call him a fairy) named Sid, watch as the extraordinary girl ventures into a magical universe full of pure goodness and unrivalled darkness.

Revelations of her past lie with a mysterious King of the Unseen Light, while her destiny may lead her to what lurks in The Dark.

Something Wicked This Way Comes - Another teaser!

Who is this evil monstrosity?! All will be revealed soon...

IT LURKS IN THE DARK

Teaser images!

Here's a devilishly sneaky teaser at the first three illustrations from The Unseen Chronicles of Amelia Black, courtesy of my dearest creative partner, Gillian Reid! I've personally been truly blown away and overwhelmed at what I've seen so far. If you scroll down to the next one you'll see a dodgy photograph of the top one as present on the Kindle, however I'll leave showing the high-res versions for now.

Spread the word! It's all getting very exciting!

{A.G.R Moore}

I believe in Amelia Black....

This photo, taken from my desk, makes me smile every time I see it.

I've already posted this image on Facebook and Twitter to such amazing support and such a positive response - thank you all - so thought it was a good idea to use it as a post it here too - still not sure what I'm using this blog for yet. This illustration above of my novel's heroine, Amelia Black, brought to you and I by the amazing Gillian Reid, is the first you'll see when you open the book at the first chapter. The feeling I got when I saw this on my own Kindle for the first time, was a truly special moment for me. If I could find the words I would place them here. This got me thinking about something. I apologise now for the the amount of sentimental nonsense this might sound to most readers...

This character, this little girl, this magical soul was created out of thin air. Out of some place in the back of my mind one November evening back in 2009 and now I can't believe I'm on the verge of sharing her adventure with you all. Maybe it's naive optimism, but I'm starting to let myself get excited about it.

She exists because of this book, she exists because of Gill's illustrations.

I hope from next month she will exist because of each and every one of you who reads this book, and enjoys it.

I BELIEVE IN AMELIA BLACK. WILL YOU?

Sincerely,

{A.G.R. Moore.}