The Change - Strange Books by Guy Adams

Now look, I'm cringing...because this sort of blatant self-promotion makes me die a little inside. BUT... I've been trying to get this series of books off the ground for about ten years off and on and, frankly, they're going to need all the help they can get if they're to survive. SO PLEASE FORGIVE ME.

The lovely publishers have put this up: The Change.

Basically: one morning terrible things appear in the sky. Those who saw them died instantly, the rest found themselves in a world that had gone mad. The series takes the culture and geography of certain locations to weave monsters and magic. London now has cat/human hybrids fighting roller-booted gangs in the West End; Paris is besieged by The Impressionists, strange beings made from paint; New York's Coney Island is now full of the ghosts of sideshows gone by.

Simply: I look at a place and wonder how I can make it nuts. There are six books coming thus far, two set in London, two set in New York (both of which feature ongoing characters) plus one in Paris and one in Tokyo. If the series actually sells, my hope is to keep expanding it, furthering the ongoing adventures for London and New York plus more one-offs in other cities. A global bit of world building.

They're sort of aimed at the Young Adult market but, honestly, they're mainly just aimed at me! Having wanted to do this for so long I just got carried away and let rip. The New York books in particular are the strangest -- and yet, I hope, most fun -- things I've ever written.

Anyway, any help members can offer spreading the word about the series is hugely appreciated. And again, sorry to be beating my own drum so ruthlessly. I know it's AWFUL.