hi this is the author website of July 3, 2026author news:- for the 250 years celebration weekend  My
novella - the Goblins are
Coming! - was published yesterday and is available for immediate
reading from Amazon. It was the inspiration for the novel I'm writing now -
The Last Book.
Writers' brains are very scrambled in their content creation and delivery
processes. These stories have recognisable connections for me but are very
different in plot and delivery. Either or both may be read and enjoyed on its
own merits and attendant with its own limitations. (Not everyone's going to
read a 900 page book! Takes 2 - 3 sleepless days and nights even for my
enthusiastic beta reader.)The Goblins are Coming! was also published this week in German as - Die Kobolde kommen!  And
if you live in Germany or maybe are living elsewhere and are comfortable
reading in German - then you may already be aware - or be interested
to learn - that my illustrated childrens bedtime story -
Alexander
Woyte und die Kobolde is on offer FREE this weekend on kindle. I'm pleased to see the number of readers of this German edition of a very Hampshire tale has already this week exceeded the total number of the English edition sold in Germany in the past 3 years. I wrote a new author profile for the German book buying market on Amazon too, which may have been a helpful factor. Please tell your friends if you think that any of my book links may be of interest. I don't have a reader mailing list. Have never had one. And don't intend to start a list now. I rely on readers accidentally finding my writing on the web. Which they don't do by typing my name into google search. Otherwise books by "Zsolt Kerekes author" would be too easy to find. earlier author book news |
 about the author: - I published my first book in 1992. Since then I've never stopped writing. Some of you may know me from the computer market guides I published for 30 years related to the server and storage markets. Others may know me from the kids books I originally wrote for friends and family, or the local community blogs (pre social media) about the rural lanes among which I live. My current project, a long novel - The Last Book, is nearing completion. You can see a longer, rambling autobiography and a publishing timeline (of sorts) on my bio page here. So which of my works can I suggest you look at today?  The
best selling of my books in recent months (January to June 2026) has been the
kindle edition of Princess
Laura and the Unsuitable Dragon Suitors - with readers in the UK, US and
Germany.In Germany - the new translation - Prinzessin Laura und die ungeeigneten Drachenfreier (published in May 2026) has already surpassed my expectations with respect to new readers acquired in such a short space of time. Due to recent market changes you can now buy any of my ebooks from Bookshop.org and nominate that a bookshop of your choosing gets the commission - if they participate in that scheme. I checked. The local kids bookshop in my nearby town of Lewes does. That doesn't mean to say that any bookshops will stock it, however. Waterstones in the UK lists the paperback on their wesbite which means you can buy it online and collect it in the shop but they rarely stock any independently published books. As for libraries - although my books have been in the Libby system for years - I only learned last Autumn that it's the policy of most UK county libraries to ban independently published books. They admit no discussion of the matter. See my tweet about it. So until the law changes to lift that administrative censorship you'll have to live outside the UK to borrow my books from a library. My Princess Laura book is also available as an audiobook from Apple, and in print editions online from various outlets. ...click here to see the book description and all buying links |
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say more about books didn't I? 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 April 2026 as I update this) the Last Book (as it is now called) is already over 204,000 words long (twice as long as a typical novel) and will be 230,000 words (about 800 print pages) when it is published later this year. 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. |
why did I choose goblinsearch.com as the name
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having retired from writing about SSDs this is the official web site of East Chiltington? based author - Zsolt KerekesIn 2023 I published 4 books for kids which had appeared in earlier versions here on my fiction website from 2001 to 2019.
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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.
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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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The Remotea novel by Zsolt Kerekeswill be published December 2025theremote.uk |
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