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Blog Promo: Aliens in my Garden by Jude Gwynaire

10/12/2020

Photo credits: 9699186 (pixabay), Jude Gwynaire
Edited by Vaishali

Title: Aliens in my Garden
Author: Jude Gwynaire
Genre/Themes: Sci-Fi, YA Fantasy, Fantasy Fiction
Publication Date: October 2018
Publisher: Prodigy Gold Books

December is upon us! Winter white flakes eager to fall, the frigid cold fusing with festive promise, fretful socially distanced chatter crossing the frosty grapevine, and forthcoming relief for both an anxious year meeting its end and a holiday that rests in the worth of giving and trading well-meaning wishes.

Winter, as always, is a season to pander in the warm comforts that make this time of year both festal and perfectly anxious, juggling to keep up and tie down loose ribbon wrappings; to fill our bellies with fragrant food and balmy reads while the frost freezes our limbs and fingertips to the bone.

A fantastic time, you might think, to turn to make-believe wonder. If Winter is a wonderland that welcomes a youthful spirit, then fantasy is the sorcerous wand that stirs it to life. A fitting way to invite fantastical frenzy at a time that could decidedly do with softening some rough and rusty edges.

A brawny dose of fantasy, I find, can easily claim the reins of escapism. Aliens in my Garden written by Jude Gwynaire might be the remedy of witty adventure you’re looking for, primed and packaged for your December delight! Aliens in my Garden is first in an YA Fantasy series bound in some magic, marvel and wonder. A Sci-fi novel praised by readers for probing the extraordinary in a very ordinary setting, a suburban garden.

With themes of friendship, acceptance, humour, social pressure and the might of community, Aliens in my Garden presents a seemly narrative built for fantasy seekers and fantasy watchers. Nestled in children’s fiction, it’s a treat for any fantasy-starved mind…

The back of the book

The story takes ALDITHA the witch and her familiar, HARPER the talking (though not terribly bright) owl from their usual business serving the residents of the Garden on a path that pits them against SKOROS, the would-be evil wizard (useless at magic, great at engineering, has a brass wand, a smart alec talking raven familiar, an enormous wind-up computer running Mirrors 2.0 and controls a flock of cyber-bats), who plans to take over the Garden.

When a giant teacup lands in their world, they are introduced to CELESTE, a teenaged alien girl (who’s really much older than she looks) and ALPHA, her bio-mechanoid co-pilot, who looks like a typical ‘Grey’ alien. They’re ASTARIANS, their scout ship is merely disguised as a teacup so as not to alarm the natives, and they’re searching for ‘The Sleepers’ – a long-lost Astarian expedition to find a new home planet. The Astarians’ original home world was lost many thousands of years before, and now the entire species lives in a fleet of spacecraft, travelling through the galaxies. Thousands of years ago, the Sleepers reported they’d found a suitable uninhabited world, but then stopped transmitting. Celeste and Alpha are here to try and find them.

The Garden is a world where magic and nature are commonplace – it has no rulers, but it has an amazing effect – things which would not be alive elsewhere are alive in the Garden, alongside folkloric figures like THE GREEN MAN. So you have The CREMINI FAMILY of intelligent mushrooms, led by MAMA REDCAP, you have OLD TOM, a potato with a passion for digging, RAGBAG the scarecrow, JASPER the reclusive living spellbook, alongside more traditional fantasy elements like wizards, trolls, goblins and particularly SAGAR, the Blue Dragon. When Celeste and Alpha arrive, some of their flying spherical droids, known as Orbs, go haywire, and eventually are reprogrammed by Skoros (really, very good at engineering), allowing him to quickly put down resistance and take over the Garden.

The central point of the Garden is a monument to the nearest thing the Gardenfolk have to a god (Ven Tao, the Great Gardener). The monument is Stone Hedge, and it’s actually the petrified drive system of The Sleepers’ dimension-hopping ship. When Celeste accidentally wakes The Sleepers from thousands of years of cryogenic sleep, into which they went when their ship went into meltdown, the battle is on, not only to defeat Skoros and free the Garden from his malign and polluting influence, but also to defeat the leader of The Sleepers, who decides to make the planet uninhabited again, as it was when he originally found it.

It takes the united efforts of all kinds of Gardenfolk, as well as Celeste, Alpha and some of the Sleepers to overcome both threats before the main Astarian fleet arrives, and a deal can be brokered to co-exist with the Garden’s newest residents.

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ALIENS IN MY GARDEN

- B Y J U D E G W Y N A I R E

A huge thank you to Jude for getting in touch to share a fun and vibrant YA adventure with me!
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A b o u t J u d e G w y n a i r e

Jude Gwynaire is a UK based musician, composer and writer.

Jude was born in the UK and lives in Suffolk, where he combines a love of writing with that of music and composing. Drawing inspiration from history, folklore, and the natural world, Jude has written science-fiction and fantasy stories for children and adults.

Jude has been able to pursue his passion for music free from constraint, and indulge in an atmosphere of unbridled creativity.

Jude's first published novel, 'Aliens In My Garden', a 12+ children's sci-fi/fantasy novel set in 'The Garden', a micro-universe of magic and wonder, hidden in an ordinary suburban garden, is now available in paperback and on Kindle from USA publisher Prodigy Gold Books. The novel is also available from Amazon, Waterstones, and most online bookshops. Aliens In My Garden will shortly be published as an audio book, too.

As a self-taught musician, working from his own studio at the peripheries of the industry, Jude draws on his many interests and influences to create new and diverse soundscapes that span the genres of Electronica, Ambient, New Age and Rock.

By embracing the Internet as a means of promotion, his maverick approach has enabled him to reach an audience through channels other than mainstream.

Favourite films: The Village, Bladerunner, The Wicker Man, Sunshine.
Favourite books: Le Grand Meaulnes (Alan Fournier), The Magic Toyshop (Angela Carter).

W H E R E Y O U C A N F I N D J U D E A N D H I S W O R K

● Website: www.judegwynaire.com
● Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show...
● Twitter: @judegwynaire
● Email: [email protected]

● Amazon: https://www.amazon.co.uk/s?k=aliens+in+
● Prodigy Gold Books: https://prodigygoldbooks.com/

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