I began thinking about little Annabel over the weekend, and was wondering why she seemed so familiar to me. It is often the case that when you endeavor to produce something unique and from your individual imagination, it later becomes an amalgamation of memories. These memories could be from a magazine, art gallery, TV advert, a book - you name it. The same occurs with music; one minute you're jamming away to your own tune and it suddenly occurs to you that you've slipped into the chord sequence of the National Anthem.
Well.... Annabel is familiar to me because she is exactly how I imagined the child-heroine of a fantasy novel I read a few months ago. "The Toy Sorcerer" by Laura Hart features Alice - a head strong protagonist which has to battle through various vistas in the Dream Realms in order to save the Modern World. Humankind has been ensnared by nightmares - everyone's worst fears become real once they succumb to slumber, leaving people scared to sleep. This is a very clever weapon to wield against Mankind as sleep-deprivation makes light work of undoing ones sense of reality, grasp on emotions, and physical control. Rendering us useless, and vulnerable to attack.
Although Alice is young, she has had to grow up fast after losing her mother and brother in a horrific car accident just a year before the book starts. She is a strong person, but with her she carries a lot of pain.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Toy-Sorcerer-Book-Ancient-Knowledge/dp/0957099800
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Well.... Annabel is familiar to me because she is exactly how I imagined the child-heroine of a fantasy novel I read a few months ago. "The Toy Sorcerer" by Laura Hart features Alice - a head strong protagonist which has to battle through various vistas in the Dream Realms in order to save the Modern World. Humankind has been ensnared by nightmares - everyone's worst fears become real once they succumb to slumber, leaving people scared to sleep. This is a very clever weapon to wield against Mankind as sleep-deprivation makes light work of undoing ones sense of reality, grasp on emotions, and physical control. Rendering us useless, and vulnerable to attack.
Although Alice is young, she has had to grow up fast after losing her mother and brother in a horrific car accident just a year before the book starts. She is a strong person, but with her she carries a lot of pain.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Toy-Sorcerer-Book-Ancient-Knowledge/dp/0957099800
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The second book in the series has a competition attached to designing the next book cover and I intend to try my hand at this by adapting my Annabel into Alice. To do this I will pose her in the foreground against a disturbing background of London in disrepair.
Below are some images I will work from to form the background;
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