ShadowWalk by Amos Keppler

   656 tightly spaced pages. Pocket edition. ISBN 82-91693-02-1

   Final release date 29. February 2003. Yes, I know that there was no such date that year, but that is absolutely PERFECT... ;)

   Sales price Norway 125 NOK, US $14 (the same in Euro), UK £9. I am a bit pissed because I, as a minor publisher must set such an inflated price, at least compared to international prices (everything is expensive in Norway), but at least I take comfort in the certainty that the novel is 305000 words, and would have been over thousand pages if I had used the spacing most established publishers do.

   Most of you must probably buy the book directly from the publisher (me), as world distribution will be near impossible, at least in the short term.

   Skipping and handling outside Europe add US $18. Within Europe UK £6 or Euro €10

   I am at a constant lookout for distributors in United States, Great Britain, Europe and all over the world really.

   And also places to print my books in the respective countries as this will be much less expensive than do skipping of loads of books everywhere.

   I'll keep you updated on distribution developments throughout the world, of course.

   You have now gotten a glimpse of the life and quandries of an indpendent publisher/artist...

   And another:

   "SW may break all the rules of novel writing, but it works.
   And it makes sense if you aren't too brainwashed to understand and experience it. I never found it jumpy or disjointed. And I believe that it flows quite nicely and seems effortlessly elegant in the way it works.
   When a stream flows around rocks in a very not straight line, we still find it beautiful. It will be full of back eddies and undercurrents and twist and turns. But it is still flowing. It is making sense within its own environment.
   And just because it doesn't flow at one speed in one direction, you can't say that's wrong. What the stream does is right for the stream. What SW does is right for SW."

THE STORYTELLER    Amos Keppler was born on earth, not so long ago. He has lived most of his adult life on the edge of society, opposing its inhuman, life hostile system of things it's creating. He has no formal education, no one has taught him writing or anything else. He has taught himself everything he knows, something he's very pleased with. Already at the age of eight he started his career as a gambler by playing Poker, Black Jack and a host of various games. In addition to being an artist full time he's also a practicing witch and rebel (a 48 hrs day is never sufficient). He's a Nomad, making many Journeys. In his opinion human beings are natural nomads and that this should ever be an integrated part of their life.    His first novel, The Defenseless (now rewritten and scheduled for publication in 2004), he began at the age of sixteen. He has recently started his own publishing company because he wants independence, and because he has been convinced a long time ago that no publisher will publish his works, at least not anywhere near how he wants it published.    In his former job as a freelance journalist he has personally met several members of The Janus Clan and Phoenix Green Earth.    His first English novel, ShadowWalk, one of the most controversial and offensive novels ever written is published these days.    Artistic freedom is no longer a distant dream.

THE BOOK    The world is changing. They know this, in their core of cores, where everything moves and shifts. Night and fire have followed them all the days of their lives.    What they carry inside has always scared them, always intrigued them...    They have always felt different, apart from the crowd. And here, now they get the confirmation they have always wanted, always yearned for, that they are truly different, a breed apart. The metamorphosis begins. Their minds, their bodies are changing in shocking and unpredictable ways, as what's on the inside are brought to the outside. And as they themselves are changing they are also changing the world.    Danger awaits them, Life awaits them, in the small, backward New England town. Magick and Mystery may be found beneath unturned stones.    People, young and old, are descending on the small, insignificant town of Northfield, New England.    Boys and girls, students at the school of Life, Seekers, yearning for what's different, what's hidden.    They're seeking within and without, high and low.    And here, in this dusty, remote place they're finding it, turning the stone, finding the strength within themselves to be themselves, to break out of confines, to the world beyond. And in time, after the initial, tentative steps pushing down paths new and undreamed of.    And the present day order sees them for what they are... Agents of Change, a threat to any establishment, any imposed reality. The heatwave, the worst in living memory, is nothing compared to the boiling within the human heart. The Indian Summer heralds the twilight of mankind.

   ShadowWalk is also one story in the triology of stand-alone stories, "Life", "Death" and "Power". The other two are Dreams Belong to the Night and Footprints on the Water. You decide which is which.