Blog Tour: THE PATH OF REDEMPTION by Tom Haward

 

THE PATH OF REDEMPTION

Tom Haward

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GENRE:  Alternate History

 

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BLURB:

 

With Grand Protector Faust missing and Caesar dead, Senator Frigus is trying to hold the fraying threads of the Empire together by keeping this information secret. The Empire is already fragile, and if the truth spills onto the streets of Rome and beyond, the Empire could crumble.

 

Faust is prisoner of the giant Bjorn Askå and his cellmate is the rebel leader, Boatman King. Abducted by Askå, they’re now part of his grand plan to rule the entire world, with the Empire his next target. Can Faust and Boatman forge an alliance or are their own ambitions stronger than any desire for a truce?

 

A continent away, Bella, Maverick and the other rebels have escaped to the RIA where they lick their wounds from the disaster of Faust and Askå’s attack on their underground headquarters. They believe they have covered their tracks and hope the 35, leaders of the RIA, will equip them to take the fight to Rome again, this time with the advantage of surprise.

 

Olivia King, though, she is tired of the fight. Traumatised from being tortured at the hands of Maximus Nero and conflicted about her husband’s relentless desire to crush Rome, she is unsure whether she has the energy to keep fighting those who have caused her so much pain.

 

With the world and its people in turmoil, one thing is for certain: chaos remains in a world needing redemption.

 

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Excerpt Two:

 

Maverick was told that the fight was a global spectacle, so to ensure it stayed that way and to go easy on Francesco, to prolong the fight and therefore the coverage, Maverick was also reminded that the man he was fighting was an amateur and under no circumstances was he to kill him. Maverick thought about how he had been dragged from his family home to become a gladiator, tortured by one of the most deprived men in existence in the hellscape of Aestii and then paraded around the world like an object. He decided the powers that be could go fuck themselves and he would fight as he wanted to. For poor Francesco, that was a mixed outcome. The negative was that within thirty seconds of trying to show off his newly acquired sword skills he was skewered with Maverick’s, but the positive was that he died so quickly he didn’t feel any disappointment in his debut gladiator performance.

 

Marcus had watched in horror as his dad was butchered, and he nurtured that horror for years and years so that it became pure hatred for the man that murdered his father.

 

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 What are some of your best writing practices?

 

Being a writer is all about discipline. Discipline that you will even put one word on paper and discipline that you will keep writing even when you doubt your ability to the point you want to throw your laptop out of the window.

 

I would think discipline of sticking to the task has been my best writing practice in the past four years. When Cinnabar Moth signed me to write a trilogy, I asked my wife if I was mad to do it. It has always been my dream to write stories for the world to read and when Cinnabar showed their faith in me and offered to help me take my stories to the world, I couldn’t refuse. I signed a contract committing to write three books in three years. After doing so I asked my wife if that was possible and if I was stretching myself too thin. I’m a business owner and run a small business with twenty staff. It’s busy and I have a lot of responsibilities, but the dream of being a published author has been with me since I was a child, so I was honoured and keen, but then worried I had agreed to something beyond my capabilities. My wife reassured me I had the skills to do it, but I needed to be disciplined.

 

And that’s the thing. My best writing practices over the past few years has been discipline and determination.

 

At the end of a work day when I am tired and I still have work to do for the business, my greatest achievement has been having the discipline to keep writing through an evening. I have placed where I write best and I would take myself off to them to ensure I was in my most creative space. And that helped me, even when I had major things to contend with for work, to focus solely on the books I have been crafting all this time. That’s what keeps writers sharp and keeps them producing good quality stories: discipline.

 

AUTHOR Bio and Links:

 

Tom was born in Essex and at 4 months old he and his identical twin were adopted into an oyster farming family. Tom now runs the business as generation eight of Haward oyster farmers.  He has a fiancée, baby daughter and a cockapoo.

 

Tom has an MA in Creative Writing and has loved telling stories since he was a child, whether verbally or through prose.

 

The Path of Chaos was his debut novel. He is also working on a six episode comedy screenplay and tweets passionately about his family’s industry and the challenges it faces.

 

Website: https://tomhaward.co.uk/

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https://www.amazon.com/Path-Redemption-Tom-Haward/dp/1962308375/ref=sr_1_1

 

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