Sea Change - an introduction
a novel serialisation
Happy New Year to all you lovely people. I hope you all had a wonderful holiday season and weren’t plagued by banshees, imps, goblins, or a visit from the Christmas Bone Man.
As promised I’m going to begin serialising my YA novel Sea Change for paid supporters. I’ve included a short blurb at the end of this email.
I’m going to share the prologue (today) and then the first chapter (on Sunday) for everyone, after which it will continue for paid subscribers every Sunday. A regular tide rolling in, rather than a sudden deluge.
Nothing else is changing. The usual Maps content will continue for everyone on here in strange Notes, and in the January edition of the newsletter with five more stories.
Stay eerie, and keep an eye on the edge of things. It’s where they get in. Thanks, as ever, for reading.
When John comes to stay for the summer with his sister in a village on the North Yorkshire coast, he hopes for a chance to leave tragic events behind him. But Saltcliff is a place shaped by old stories and older silences, and threatened by what moves in the mist.
John is watched and followed by something that has been waiting for a long time for someone just like him.
As past and present begin to blur, running away is no longer enough. What’s coming for Saltcliff won’t wait, and John has to find the courage to stop it.
Sea Change is a YA novel about grief, courage, and what happens when you can’t outrun your past or your future. Or what moves in the mist.