The Stone of the Seer Series, Interview with Simon Rose

My guest today is Calgary author Simon Rose, who has published eighteen novels for children and young adults, including the historical fantasy Stone of the Seer series, eight guides for writers, more than a hundred nonfiction books, and numerous articles on a wide range of topics.

Your most recently published books were those in The Stone of the Seer series. Remind us again of what it’s all about.

The Stone of the Seer is young adult historical fantasy series, featuring The Stone of the Seer, Royal Blood, and Revenge of the Witchfinder. The exciting story is mostly set in the mid-seventeenth century during the English Civil War. In The Stone of the Seer, Lady Elizabeth Usborne, Kate, and Tom encounter a magical stone, mysterious parchments and manuscripts, and an incredible time viewing device. In Royal Blood, Lady Elizabeth, Kate, and Tom are in London, witnessing the political turmoil at the time of the Civil War, including the king’s trial and execution. Revenge of the Witchfinder takes place in multiple time periods. The story features weird dreams, disturbing visions, parallel lives, and a bewildering identity crisis, as the lead characters discover to their horror that not even the passage of centuries can prevent a bloodthirsty witchfinder from the 1640s from seeking his deadly revenge.

Do you have any current projects?

I recently completed another historical fantasy novel series, this time set in the early years of World War II, that I’m hoping to publish next year. I’ve also recently finished another story that takes place in the later stages of World War II, potentially for publication later this year. Yet another series is currently in development in the same paranormal genre as my previously published Flashback series, which you can learn more about on my website.

I’ve also been working on the script for a film project and continue to work on the adaptations of my Shadowzone series into screenplays for movies and TV shows. You can learn more about my work writing screenplays for clients and creating adaptations of my own work here on my website. 

Anyone interested in keeping up to date with the projects that I’m working on is always welcome to subscribe to my monthly newsletter, which you can do on my website.

You certainly seem to be very busy. You also do other work related to writing and publishing, right?

Yes, I offer coaching, editing, consulting, and mentoring services for writers of novels, short stories, fiction, nonfiction, biographies, and in many other genres, plus work with writers of scripts and screenplays.

I’m also a writing instructor and mentor at the University of Calgary and have some courses coming up in the spring, including Writing for Children and Youth. My own online courses, including Writing Historical Fiction and Writing for Children and Young Adults, are also always available. You can learn more about my various coaching, editing, and consulting services, for all age groups and genres, on my website, as well as my services for business writing projects. 

So where can people buy your books, including the Stone of the Seer series?

People can buy The Stone of the Seer, Royal Blood, and Revenge of the Witchfinder, as well as all my other books, at Amazon and all the other usual places online, which you can link to on my website at www.simon-rose.com I also make personal appearances at local events, where people can buy autographed copies of all my novels.

Thanks Simon, for being my guest here today.

You can learn more about Simon and his work on his website at www.simon-rose.com where you can also link to him on social media and at other locations online.

To read an earlier interview with Simon Rose, you can go here.