![]() ![]() I'd been planning the trip for weeks and now everything depended on the role of a die, literally. I wanted to believe otherwise, but my survival now rested only in the hands of Lady Luck. The crew were a motley bunch, mostly useless in the chaos and I wasn’t convinced the ship could take the strain. Inevitably, not everything goes to plan… But that’s for book 2.Fabled Lands: The MMO that Never WasIn 1995 I was on a boat, drifting carefree across a violet ocean on my way to an island, when a massive storm formed around me and began tossing my barge about like a bit of candlewax in a Jacuzzi. The fact that he’s trapped in the puny body of a schoolboy doesn’t help.Īnd so begins Dirk’s battle to recover his dignity, his power, and his lands… Along the way he faces the inconvenience of being fostered by a do-gooding family, the Purejoies the torture of endless hours of drudgery at the Whiteshields Brainwashing Centre (aka school) a vengeful Headmaster two interfering Psychotic Persecutors (psychotherapists) and constant laughter and disrespect when he attempts to marshall his lackeys and lickspittles (friends) to do what he wants them to.ĭirk makes friends with the son of his foster family, Christopher, and the local Goth Girl, Sooz, and together they attempt to cast a spell that will transport Dirk back to his homeland. And when he is found, and tries to explain that he is the Dark Lord, people think he means Dirk Lloyd. At the bottom of the Pit lies…a supermarket car park in the municipal town of Whiteshields, somewhere in modern day England. ![]() Following a colossal final battle between the forces of good and evil, the Dark Lord was defeated and hurled by his arch-foe’s spells into the Pit of Uttermost Despair. Dirk – according to his own account – is the earthly incarnation of a Dark Lord, supreme ruler of the Darklands and leader of great armies of orcs and warriors, intent on destruction and bloody devastation. Thirteen-year-old schoolboy, Dirk Lloyd, has a dark secret – in fact he is a dark secret. To find out more about those on his Fabled Lands site. Jamie has also written a lot of choose your own adventure style game-books. Jamie does a lot of school and festival visits with his Dark Lord Travelling Roadshow! If you want to arrange a visit to your school or festival, you can contact his publisher, Orchard Books or message Jamie via his website. He’s got to get back home to Croydon in time for tea – except he’s stuck on the Wrong Side of the Galaxy, and he doesn’t even know where the planet earth is, let alone home! Let the adventures begin. He wakes up on a strange spaceship to find all the aliens are dead and he’s left in charge with a broken super-computer and some freaky alien stowaways. It’s about Harry, a thirteen year old boy who walks out of his house one day only to be abducted by aliens. ![]() Jamie has a new series out in October 2014, the first of which is called ‘The Wrong Side of the Galaxy’. The first in the series, Dark Lord the Teenage Years won the Roald Dahl Funny Prize, 2012 which is of course, awesome! The Dark Lord books are out now in all good book shops, dungeons, dark towers and evil emporiums. ![]() He lives in the dungeons below his Master’s Iron Tower, chained to a desk, where he spends every day writing for his overlord. He is now the minion and slave of the Dark Lord, Dirk Lloyd. Jamie Thomson has been a writer of books and computer games for many years. ![]()
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