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this is the author website of
Zsolt Kerekes
news - October 30, 2026
 For
the last 3 years I've been writing an entirely new novel called -
The Last Book - to
which I'm putting the finishing touches now.
My book formatting
software informs me it will be over 1,100 print pages - which is too much of a
brick to produce using the print on demand technology of Amazon (for whom 800
pages is the recommended limit) and it'd be a strain to hold in your hands (even
if your purse would survive it) so I'll have to give some thought to splitting
it in two. The ebook version, however, will be a single volume - as it's all one
interleaved story. And the ebook will be published first. Sampling will begin
November 15, 2026.
What shall I read next? As a writer I'm
thinking about this all the time. But the approach of Christmas stirs up book
buying thoughts in nearly everyone. Last December was the worst month for sales
of my kids books
- which may be explained by the fact I'm not a tv personality, have never
published a cookery book, and write the wrong sort of books for that market.
However as I still get orders for stories I wrote over 20 years ago I shouldn't
complain about the book market's ebbs and flows of seasonality.
New
titles from me in 2026 were: a novella
the Goblins are Coming!, and
translations into 5 languages of all 4 of my kids books. Among the translations
- the German
editions seem to be doing the best in terms of reader reviews, but as it's
been less than 6 months since they became available - it's still early days. | |
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confession time - a long
time ago I wrote a bunch of books for kids
In 2023 I published
4 books for
kids which had earlier appeared as web pages here on goblinsearch
(in the period from 2001 to 2022). These new rewritten print books,
audiobooks and ebooks are influenced by the magic of the English countryside
where I lived when I wrote them. |
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update on my next book
I
don't want to be remembered only as a writer of kids books.
That's
what I said to myself in 2001 - when I published the first Alexander goblins
story here on goblinsearch.com, already anticipating at that time that this
bedtime story and the follow up pirates novel which I began to serialise here
would outlast in reader interest whatever I had written before or would write in
future in my day job as a chronicler and evangelist of computer design and the
revolutions reshaping digital architecture. Old computer design problems - I
reckoned - would be about as interesting to the general reading public as the
design of steam engines. Perhaps less so. I must write a story for adults too!
And so it was in late 2001 I wrote the first 4 words and then the
first four pages of a draft story which I thought would do the job. In 2005 I
got as far as completing a draft of it as a short story
the Goblins are Coming!
which I shared with a group of friends. Make it longer - they said. We'd like
to know what happened before, what comes after, and more about that world. OK -
I will. But I had other priorities.
I had already spent over 23 years
thinking about it when, in November 2023, I made myself a promise that I would
return to that 16,000 word short story and rewrite it. Now (in October 2026 as I
update this)
the Last Book (as
it is now called) is already over 255,000 words long (3x as long as a typical
novel) and is available to pre-order on Amazon.
I have no doubt that
will change the way that readers will think about me. And how I think about
about myself. But had it not been for those delightful kids stories I wouldn't
have started it. It's funny how the writing life goes. In parts as plans and
other parts as reactions to what has been written before. | |
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why did I choose goblinsearch.com as the name
of my author site?
- In 1998 (already 6 years into my unexpected self publishing career) I was
running the world's leading data storage publication called storagesearch.com
(which I sold when I retired 20 years later). Hang onto that thought.
- In 2000 I wrote a bedtime
story which featured goblins for my godson Alexander. And a year later I
commissioned some artwork to illustrate the story (from the same graphics design
company which was doing my computer sites) with the intention of putting the
story online.
Also in 2001 I had begun work on a
novel
featuring some of the same characters in which they use a search engine to
narrow down the whereabouts of some missing goblins.
That's how
goblinsearch.com was born. The domain name became part of its own story. And it
was in keeping with what I'd done before. If you're curious to see how I
inflicted that surprise on the world take a look the 2001 launch
press release here.
- when I retired from writing about the computer market and chip design I
didn't want to proliferate a new website for each book - so I chose this one -
as the launchpad for my other writing (although - like all good plans that one
had some exceptions).
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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.) In the last 2 years or so
(November 2023 to February 2026) I've been writing a dystopian novel for
adults called
the Last Book!
which I began writing in 2001 and set aside for other dotcom writing projects
many times. As you read this note my new book is nearing completion.
author news
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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.
the Last Book
A novel of books past and future
by
Zsolt Kerekes - coming in 2nd half 2026 |
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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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