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A Cast of Stonesby Patrick Carr
Paperback, 400 pages
Expected Publication: February 1st 2013 by Bethany House Publishers
Premise:
In the backwater village of Callowford, Errol Stone's search for a drink is interrupted by a church messenger who arrives with urgent missives for the hermit priest in the hills. Desperate for coin, Errol volunteers to deliver them but soon finds himself hunted by deadly assassins. Forced to flee with the priest and a small band of travelers, Errol soon learns he's joined a quest that could change the fate of his kingdom.
Protected for millennia by the heirs of the first king, the kingdom's dynasty is near an end and a new king must be selected. As tension and danger mount, Errol must leave behind his drunkenness and grief, learn to fight, and come to know his God in order to survive a journey to discover his destiny.
Available 2/1/13:
About the Author:
Patrick Carr was born on an Air Force base in West Germany at the height of the cold war. He has been told this was not his fault. As an Air Force brat, he experienced a change in locale every three years until his father retired to Tennessee. Patrick saw more of the world on his own through a varied and somewhat eclectic education and work history. He graduated from Georgia Tech in 1984 and has worked as a draftsman at a nuclear plant, did design work for the Air Force, worked for a printing company, and consulted as an engineer. Patrick’s day gig for the last five years has been teaching high school math in Nashville, TN. He currently makes his home in Nashville with his wonderfully patient wife, Mary, and four sons he thinks are amazing: Patrick, Connor, Daniel, and Ethan. Sometime in the future he would like to be a jazz pianist. Patrick thinks writing about himself in the third person is kind of weird.
Awards: ACFW Genesis Competition 2010 Finalist for “A Cast of Stones” in Speculative Fiction.
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The clergy.
Creation:
When I first started the
research for “A Cast of Stones” I’d planned on making the story an
alternate-history of 14thcentury Europe. I purposely chose a time
period that was prior to the Reformation because I couldn’t include that scope
of chaos and conflict within the parameters of a reasonable word count. My
writer’s group had coached me, rightly, that as a new author few publishers
would be willing to let me run wild for anything over 150k words.
I later rejected the idea
of an alternate history, but I kept quite a bit of the parameters of the time
period. One of those was to use a powerful, somewhat monolithic church. I put a
fair amount of research into the organization of the Roman Catholic church at
that point. There was a built in mythos there that I knew quite a few of my
readers would connect with; the intrigue, the power struggles, and the efforts
of individuals to change some of the doctrine.
For simplicity sake, I
kept my church hierarchy to three levels (the Roman Catholic church is far more
complicated). The archbenefice is the head, but operates more on the basis of a
first-among-equals rather than as an absolute ruler. Beneath him are the rest
of the benefices, men who are attached to a specific geographic region and
oversee a number of parish priests. I decided to name the collection of
benefices the judica. In Latin, judica means judge. So the catch phrase of the
benefices became “Judica me Deas” which would be the equivalent of “Judge me, O
Lord.”
Tour-Wide Giveaway:
Grand Prize (USA & Canada): Print copy of entire series of three books (#2 & #3 as they are published) + A Cast of Stones Mug + Lend your name to a character in book #3!!
2nd Prize (USA & Canada): Print copy of A Cast of Stones
International Entries: eCopy of A Cast of Stones
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