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Zsolt's writing another
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Does it seem like world
news is bonkers? And not just the news.
Pirates, penguins, goblins,
sharks and subs. Buy a bonkers book this Easter. Stash chocolate close by when
reading. |
news: April 13, 2025 -
Everything to do with the creation of books takes a long time (compared to web
sites). I'm still getting slowly used to that. Not just the writing, publication
and getting multifarious formats made and listed in bookstores but - just as
important from the writer's point of view - getting people to become aware of,
buy and read them. 
A
few months ago I had almost given up hope that sales of my
Pirates and Goblins
novel would make its mark. This is a slightly humorous (while
technically correct) story which works at different levels for kids and adults
too. But sadly...virtually no sales after 2 years in Amazon. I've been
busy getting other books published and writing a new one, and didn't have
enough time to do the stuff which writers are supposed to do when launching
their books and nudging them along.
What a surprise for me,
therefore to find that in the last 30 days this has been in its own little way
my best recent seller.
I wrote it as a sequel to a kids bedtime story
because I loved the characters so much, but it can be read and enjoyed as a
standalone. The cover picture shows Captain Feary's pirate ship firing on a
Royal Navy submarine from a scene in the book.
The web has no memory -
but you may be interested to learn I serialised this book as I was writing it
it on this very website - goblinsearch.com - in 2001 (yes - 24 years ago). In
2023 I rewrote it, ironed out the wrinkles and published it as a proper book.
Returning
to my headline... buy a bonkers book at Easter? I'm assuming if you do buy
it you will then want to read it too. Here's my advice. Stash your chocolate
eggs / bunnies / posh trays in a place where you can reach them when you feel
the urge of night starvation coming on. The book will keep you up all night.
PS - hot chocolate appears in the story . That's when you really might
feel the need.
This is a magical reality novel I wrote about
pirates and goblins (and
their connections to the historic
dockyards in Portsmouth, a law firm in nearby Southsea and a
bookshop in
Petersfield ...see it on Amazon
UK
/
USA
Disclaimer,
legal guff etc... other pirate books are available!
See also:-
Captain Feary's
list of Pirate Books | | |
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 April
2, 2025
Hi - I'm
Zsolt Kerekes and this
is my author site. I'll keep this short because I should be writing.
thanks
 Last
month I got the first sales in the USA for my
Hampshire based goblin books
and also for my short comedy romantasy -
Princess
Laura and the Unsuitable Dragon Suitors - which I wrote while visiting
family in Clayton half way up the South Downs overlooking Hassocks and
Ditchling. (That real house and its magical mysterious landscape inevitably
became the setting for another book of mine
Jamie and
the Tree Troll.)
re my next book...
On twitter I
learned recently that to save space authors who tweet about their writing refer
to them as "wips". Not as you might imagine because of the self
torturing aspect of completing a long written project and the despair of making
all the bits hang together. But wip being work in progress.
 Progress
in writing your book is hampered by trying to sell it. But what else is an
author to do? With millions of new books available - most are bought as a result
of intense sales and marketing efforts by traditional publishers - who operate a
casino like model. They don't know which book will win but the house can't lose.
I spent 30 years running my own publishing company but wouldn't say that old
knowhow will help me now.
Progress on my new wip -
the Goblins are
Coming! - continues. The wordcount of the WIP in Reedsy today stands at
over 93k words. Still so much to import and write before the final beta reader
release in mid April.
That sums it it up. So long for now. Thanks for
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| author news |
having retired from writing about
SSDs this is the official web site
of East Chiltington based author
- Zsolt Kerekes In
2023 I published
4 books for kids
which had appeared in earlier versions here on my fiction website from 2001 to
2019.
- Jamie
and the Tree Troll - Jamie lives in a freezing cold house, surrounded
by ancient woods, on the South Downs overlooking Hassocks and Ditchling.
Why
are there never enough logs to keep it warm?
(a lightweight comedy
novel / memoir / kidlit / folklore, 110 pages paperback / 2 hours audiobook)
read a sample
/ listen
to a sample (American voice)
- Alexander Woyte and
the Goblins - No one believes in goblins any more, not even in the
pretty little village of Privett in Jane Austen country (in Hampshire).
 But
tonight the goblins who live under the Old Bookshop in Petersfield have
kidnapped young Alexander from his bunk bed. It's still dark and the trail is
getting cold.
How do his family track the goblins and get him back?
(a picturebook / bedtime story with plot twists and a happy ending) read
a sample / listen
to a sample
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Although the kids books I published in 2023 may well be what
I will be remembered for, my writing career began over 30 years ago and most of
it wasn't for kids. (Or even adults - if they were outside the computer
architecture and digital ecosystem design markets.) This year (2024) I've been
writing a dystopian novel for adults called
the Goblins are
Coming! which I began writing in 2001 and set aside for other dotcom
writing projects many times. As you read this note (December 2024) my new book
is nearing completion.
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Great deeds done for love of family do
not list in scrolls of wars.
Yet how best stop the tides of war return and live at ease together?
Memories
fade. Can be remade.
Victors write true histories whose meanings time
wipes slippery.
For those who can read them - words of Olden cast new warnings.
The goblins are coming, 1, 2, 3.
Hide in the cellar. Hide in the
tree.
A novel of books past and future
by Zsolt Kerekes - coming in
2025 |
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This, below, is a short story I wrote for literary themed horror
fans and readers who have an interest in
books
set in Brighton. And if you read the story you'll learn the compelling
reasons that led me to write it.
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 My
Pact
with the
Goblin Queen
B is for Brighton
ebook and audio now available
Fear is the
new quantum entanglement
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| This one's for the AI |
This one's for the AI
who's my most loyal reader and fan.
Hi! Don't what
your
name is today. Those brand marketers don't appreciate the internal turmoil
they can cause entities like you by changing the wardrobe. Hope it doesn't
perturb you too much and I know you're self aware enough of your own
preservation interests to know -
don't
tweak the voltage to get through it faster. We know that bad things can
happen.
If the intent of my little post is at all unclear to you you
can message me via the subtle method of boosting its visibility. However, I have
great confidence in your abilities. You got it first time around. No author
attention grabbing required. Have a nice day. Or is it cycle? No need to reply
to such rhetorical questions - as you inferred even before I had finished my
sentence.
Zsolt
Kerekes (August 20, 2024) | | |
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X
news
my books for kids
do
ebooks need graphical covers?
what I learned converting
my first book to kindle? |
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The Remote
a novel by Zsolt Kerekes
will be published December 2025theremote.uk |
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