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Allan Guthrie is an award-winning Scottish crime writer. His debut novel, Two-Way Split, was shortlisted for the CWA Debut Dagger award and went on to win the Theakstons Crime Novel Of The Year in 2007. He is the author of four other novels: Kiss Her Goodbye (nominated for an Edgar), Hard Man, Savage Night and Slammer; and three novellas, Kill Clock , Killing Mum and Bye Bye Baby. When he's not writing, he's a literary agent with Jenny Brown Associates.

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<p><strong><em>Have you ever awoken from a vivid dream and wondered which side of waking was real?</em></strong></p><p>Burt Higgins' retirement is not going well. His children have grown, and his wife has gone off to earn a late-life degree, leaving him alone in his sprawling suburban home. With too much time on his hands, he broods on the state of the world, obsessively following the worst of cable news and the Internet. Increasingly angry at the state of affairs, he nurtures a fantasy that a dark lord from another realm has foisted these problems on humankind. If only he could transport to that world, he'd confront the demon and use the magic found there to defeat the beast and end despair forever.</p><p>On a particularly bad news day, while housebound in the midst of a snowstorm, he retreats to his study to shut out the world and immerse himself in his books. When, on a whim, he lights a candle purchased in an obscure Prague curiosity shop, a magical guide appears and offers to take him on whatever quest he chooses. When he asks to become a hero in a fantasy realm, he discovers a more complex world than he expected, and battling evil with magic turns out to be far from his greatest challenge.</p><p><strong>EVOLVED PUBLISHING PRESENTS</strong> a specualtive fantasy adventure sure not just to entertain you, but to make you consider your life, your dreams, your goals. [DRM-Free]</p><h2><strong>Books by David Litwack:</strong></h2><ul><li><em>Along the Watchtower</em></li><li><em>The Daughter of the Sea and the Sky</em></li><li><em>The Time That's Given</em></li><li><em>The Children of Darkness</em> (The Seekers - Book 1)</li><li><em>The Stuff of Stars</em> (The Seekers - Book 2)</li><li><em>The Light of Reason</em> (The Seekers - Book 3)</li></ul><h2><strong>More Great Fantasy Fiction from Evolved Publishing:</strong></h2><ul><li><em>The Awakening of David Rose</em> (David Rose #1) by Daryl Rothman</li><li><em>Shadow Swarm</em> by D. Robert Pease</li><li><em>Kingdom in Chains</em> by J.W. Zulauf</li><li>The "Grims' Truth" Series by Isu Yin & Fae Yang</li></ul><p> </p>

Story Behind The Book

Towards the end of February 2008, I was invited to write a short story for Shattered: Every Crime Has A Victim, an anthology of crime stories for the charity, Victim Support Scotland. The remit was to write a story written from the perspective of the victim. For a long time, I'd been looking for an opportunity to explore a very unusual idea, one that I wasn't sure would work, and this seemed like a great chance to try it out. The story turned out pretty well. At least, I was happy with it, the editor was happy with it, and once the book was published, I received more positive feedback on it than any other story I've written. I realised there were a lot more possibilities for telling this story, particularly if it was narrated from an outsider's perspective. So I approached Barrington Stoke, an Edinburgh-based publisher, to ask if they'd like to see a novella based on the original idea. They said yes, and I set about writing it. I found I had to make several changes to the original for the longer version to work. Changing the perspective was only a small part of it. But the premise remains the same. What follows is the novella. The original short story it was based on is included afterwards for those who might be curious to see how the central premise unfolds from a different perspective.

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<span style="line-height:21px;font-family:'Lucida Grande', 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, sans-serif;color:#343434;font-size:12px;"></span> <div><span style="line-height:21px;font-family:'Lucida Grande', 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, sans-serif;color:#343434;font-size:12px;">"The approach is so fresh that it makes the whole thing feel like the first time I've read a police story" <a style="text-align:left;padding-bottom:0px;line-height:1;border-right-width:0px;font-style:normal;margin:0px;padding-left:0px;padding-right:0px;font-family:inherit;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;color:#343434;font-size:12px;border-left-width:0px;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:underline;padding-top:0px;" href="http://dosomedamage.blogspot.com/2010/08/bye-bye-baby-allan-guthrie.html">Do Some Damage</a><br /></span></div><br /><div><span style="line-height:21px;font-family:'Lucida Grande', 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, sans-serif;color:#343434;font-size:12px;">"...a purely original, funny, sharp piece of writing. It has a plot that develops in an unorthodox, non-linear fashion--hardly resembling many of the police procedurals I've read. It's often noted that Guthrie is one of the top working mystery writers, and he certainly lives up to that reputation..." <a style="text-align:left;padding-bottom:0px;line-height:1;border-right-width:0px;font-style:normal;margin:0px;padding-left:0px;padding-right:0px;font-family:inherit;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;color:#343434;font-size:12px;border-left-width:0px;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:underline;padding-top:0px;" href="http://death-by-killing.blogspot.com/2010/09/bye-bye-baby-by-allan-guthrie.html">Death By Killing</a><br /></span></div><br /><div><span style="line-height:21px;font-family:'Lucida Grande', 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, sans-serif;color:#343434;font-size:12px;">"A story that moves quickly, in short chapters of crisp prose, with plenty of plot turns to hold the attention, and characters you can love and others you can hate... Like Guthrie's full-length novels, <em>Bye Bye Baby</em> is sly, noir as all hell (more noir than some, actually), and it just might bring a tear of pity to your eyes. It's a police procedural filled with incident and back story, and man, what an ending." <a style="text-align:left;padding-bottom:0px;line-height:1;border-right-width:0px;font-style:normal;margin:0px;padding-left:0px;padding-right:0px;font-family:inherit;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;color:#343434;font-size:12px;border-left-width:0px;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:underline;padding-top:0px;" href="http://detectivesbeyondborders.blogspot.com/2010/08/bye-bye-baby-fast-hard-cheap-and-good.html">Detectives Beyond Borders</a> <br /></span></div> <div><span style="line-height:21px;font-family:'Lucida Grande', 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, sans-serif;color:#343434;font-size:12px;"><br /></span></div>"...a dark, clever, funny and sad story which races along to reach a smart conclusion. A tough and lovely slice of the hard side of life." <a style="text-align:left;padding-bottom:0px;line-height:1;border-right-width:0px;font-style:normal;margin:0px;padding-left:0px;padding-right:0px;font-family:inherit;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;color:#343434;font-size:12px;border-left-width:0px;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:underline;padding-top:0px;" href="http://pdbrazill.blogspot.com/2010/11/bye-bye-baby-by-allan-guthrie.html">You Would Say That, Wouldn't You?</a>

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