Coming Soon- Mike Evers- "The Chaosifier"

The release date for the full length novel from Mike Evers and Trestle Press is November 24th:

The Chaosifier:

The basic idea behind the story is that sometimes when we sneeze, it signifies a change in our fortunes.  This was the original premise, and it's quite surprising where you can go with it.   

The heroes in the book are a small team of  magical creatures, whose day to day job is finding unfortunate people, making them sneeze and changing their luck for the better.  At the start of the tale they go about their daily business in small-town Yorkshire doing fairly routine work.  The creatures are very much like you or I - with personalities and issues you will easily recognise.  It's fantasy (or perhaps real?) within a modern day setting and the locations expand throughout the different acts, leading us, eventually, to fairly dark places.

The villain of a book is a figure from central European legend, called Rubezahl. He is temperamental, mischievous, and has issues with the 'luck goblins'.  Perhaps not entirely meaning to, he sets of a chain of disastrous events which eventually threaten the whole of mankind (which is no mean feat).  Our heroes, of course, rise up to deal with the threat.

The influences behind the story are fairly mind-boggling at times - and are largely stuff I read when I was young. I guess I'm trying to bring back a sense of magic that I used to feel as a teenager and young adult.  I've borrowed from The Hobbit, LOTR and Huckleberry Finn, the notion of a journey with trials and tribulations along the way. My characters and dialogue are influenced by Terry Pratchett, Douglas Adams, James Herriot (yes, the vet) and the TV show Red Dwarf, among others.  You may even spot Tom Clancy-esque situations when military hardware is involved. Oh, and it's a rip-rollicking adventure and philosophical treatise on cause and effect too. I'd say the layers and complexity of the book lends itself to the older spectrum of young readers - teens and young adults.

Mike Evers:

I was born in Singapore in a British military hospital way back in 1970.  Soon after, my father left the navy and my family moved to Australia as 'Ten Pound Poms'.  However, due to various reasons, we didn't stay in Oz and I found myself in my mum's old neck of the woods in the autumn of 1976- cold, damp, grimy, industrial South Wales.  This is where I happily grew up until I was 18. I have been to lots of places ever since, though I am yet to see attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion.  I was even found in Poland at one time, working (or was is hanging out?) with fellow Trestlers Paul D Brazill and Frank Duffy.  

When I'm not concocting mind-bending fantasy adventures, I'm often found teaching English to adults in a college in West Yorkshire. I also spend a lot of time changing nappies (diapers) and helping out my lovely wife, Joanne, with our baby son, Joseph.  My interests include reading just about any type of thing I can find, and getting obliterated by European teenagers on PS3 and PC (if you meet a gamer called Two2Dog, please be nice).