Ruth Fox’ ‘The White Pavilion’ – now available for pre-order (released 4 Dec)

Imre is a Dancer of the White Pavilion and a courtesan in training. When she falls when performing the Dance of a Thousand Steps, a dance that has been performed every year for the past 500 years, she believes she has disrupted the will of the Pattern and is responsible for the disasters befalling her world.
Called to the Citadel by the Principe Thaniel she believes she is to be punished for her mistake. But at the Citadel, Imre finds the prince is both more and less than he seems. And even as Imre adjusts to her new life, the Brotherhood tightens its grip over the rotting, rusting metal city from their pedestal in the sky, and Imre finds her heart and loyalties torn between the Prince and Senor Grath, his Adviser.
But on a broken world that moves to the ticking of the Pendulum and the spinning of the Wheel, can Imre prevent her world from being torn apart?

‘PETRICHOR’ by Melanie Rees, to be released 15 October 2021.

Cover of Petrichor, boy on parched paddock, fox spirit and dust demonThe ARCs are out (Advanced Reader Copies)  and we’re busily liaising with Henry Roi PR to get the news out there about the book before the release date.

Between them, the death of Clayton’s older brother, and the drought’s Red King, has almost broken Clayton’s father. Guided by the magical creature Waringa, Clayton embarks on a quest to free the rain spirits captured by the Red King. But his efforts draw the ire of his father, even as memories of Clayton’s role in his brother’s death begin to emerge.

A sample of the book, information, and reviews is available at: https://www.haguepublishing.com/sample/Petrichor.html, and pre-order is now available for both the ebook and paperback.

15% of the publisher’s revenue from the sale of this book will be donated to the charities: Rural Aid and Beyond Blue

 

Cover Reveal: ‘The Wall Between the Worlds’ by Ruth Fox

To lift everyone’s spirits on this very wet and windy Monday in Perth – the cover reveal for Ruth Fox’ ‘The Wall Between the Worlds’, the last in her ‘Bridges Trilogy’. Available mid-August.
Cover of 'The Wall Between the Worlds' showing young man playing a guitar in a park“Mikhal knows his friends, Jake and Keira, are hiding something from him. He’s got his own problems, though – he’s failing pretty much everything at school, he just punched his best friend, and all he wants to do is play his guitar.
When Sharna Devon is assigned to tutor him, he can’t think of anything worse. Until his mum decides he needs to help out with her charity work. But soon he and Sharna are dragged into the mystery Jake and Keira are working so hard to conceal. Cari is still trapped between the worlds, and Cassidy Heights is in terrible danger. It seems this unlikely group of friends are the only hope that balance between the worlds can be restored.
It’s not going to be easy. What exactly does Mikhal’s music teacher know about Shar, the City of Silver Light? And can they stop the boundaries between the worlds eroding before it’s too late?”
AND as a special bonus all three books will be reissued as paperbacks around the same time.

Our November update (newsletter) is now available

Nov2015webpagethumbnailOur second newsletter for the year is now available. The newsletter includes information on:

  • Coming soon
    • ON by Jon Puckridge
  • Recent releases
  • Other news
    • The latest book trailer for ON by Jon Puckridge
    • The latest book trailer for Cold Faith by Shaune Lafferty Webb
    • Artwork reveal for Frontier Defiant, the last in the Frontier series by Leonie Rogers
    • Lesley Truffle’s Hotel Du Barry to be released by Harper Collins in January
    • Hague Publishing on Social Media.

For the complete newsletter see here.

What tagline works best?

ON-cover-strap2We have the new cover design for Jon Puckridge’s ON and we need your help with the tagline. At the moment we have six options but which one do you prefer? Let us know.
  1. Your identity is history.
  2. I think, therefore I am not.
  3. There’s no ‘I’ in network.
  4. The last thing you’ll see is the future.
  5. The latest product development is you.
  6. Everyone is no-one.

OneWorld, a planet orbited by thousands of satellite cities (SAT islands), and home to a civilization of 23 billion humans. A place where governments, police forces and law courts compete for business within a wholly privatised system. A place where: murder rape and torture are merely extra items on your insurance policy, a corporation owns the license for time, scientific fact has been replaced by ‘consumer information’, and history is traded on the stock exchange. Here; every product is wirelessly linked to the grID – a source of both data and geo-electric power, and humans spend most of their scheduled ‘waketime’ moving through various overlapping realities, via their grID visors.

But now the precarious balance of OneWorld is tipped when CoolGlobalGiant, the largest of the global corporations, launches the next phase of networking: One Network – or ‘ON’.

Cover Reveal: “Cold Faith” by Shaune Lafferty Webb

Cover of Cold Faith - Sunny's face against a frozen background with two figures

Cold Faith by Shaune Lafferty Webb will be released May/June 2015.

A protracted volcanic winter has devastated Earth, leaving only isolated pockets of survivors. With food becoming scarcer and the air growing toxic, Rab sees just one chance for survival: a perilous journey north in search of a fabled city where ships were rumoured to have been launched, ferrying the people of Earth to a salvation planet.

But Rab didn’t count on being forced into taking the last three children from his dying village, or on coming across the hostile and sceptical Sunny living with her grandfather in comparative luxury among a large band of refugees in an underground sanctuary. When her grandfather begs to join Rab’s party, Sunny, to Rab’s dismay, insists on coming with them. Years ago, Sunny had been the lone survivor of a similar quest. The reason behind the failure of that quest is something Sunny has never revealed, not even to her grandfather. And Rab is now to discover why.