It’s that time of the year again, and so I’d like to present a preview of my upcoming novel, tentatively entitled The Typist – I’m getting REALLY geared up for it :D.

Something strange is going on on Earth – rolling blackouts are sweeping the planet, causing countless firms to close and mankind to worry about its future. Not one to panic, James Graham calmly buys an old manual type writer from a local garage sale and begins work on a story. It’s all he can think to do with his time now that he’s out of electricity – and a job.

After loading paper into the old machine, he sits down to write – only to notice that the keys are moving without his intervention. Slowly, words form on the blank page…

“Hello,

I am your friend.”

Against his will, Graham is suddenly pulled through space, between dimensions, and into another world not like Earth – the world of Talos, where the word “technology” has an entirely different meaning. It is a world where the streets shimmer golden brass, where steam-powered robots aid humans daily, and gargantuan locomotives carry parcels and people through the sky. And although it’s like nothing Graham has ever seen, there’s ever so much the feeling that it isn’t the perfect utopian society it at first appears to be. And hidden underneath the civil unrest and martial law is a much greater a secret – a secret that could destroy both Talos and Earth.