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The Reaches - The Storytellers Quest #1

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The quiet town of Avan with its port, its provincial university and its conservative seafaring folk would hardly be the place you'd expect to run into an adventure and frankly neither Brent nor Sally nor Keira were going out of their way to have one. At least nothing more than the occasional torrid love affair and the awkward self-questioning typical of many young adults like themselves. Sally was finishing her studies in the Theosophy Department of the University hoping to become Professor Rafter's assistant. Keira, Sally's best friend and lover, was a young librarian who occasionally sang in a popular folk group. And Brent was a would-be writer who couldn't quite get his act together. When he wasn't exploring his dreams, he spent hours wandering the streets and lanes in and around the town in search of inspiration. Yet unbeknown to them forces had long been at work that would throw them together in a series of adventures that were going to tax them to the extreme forcing them to discover gifts and to develop abilities that went way beyond what would seem possible. Their's would be a voyage from the real world to the realm of dreams and on into another world called the Reaches that at first sight looked deceptively like their own.

The Reaches is the first book of The Storyteller's Quest by Alan McCluskey. The second and third books, The Keeper's Daughter and The Starless Square, will be published in the near future.

From The Reaches

• The Prologue
• Brent
• Sally
• Keira
• Professor Rafter
• Tweets

The Keeper's Daughter - The Storytellers Quest #2

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It wasn't Brent's fault if he was stuck in the form of Jake the Owl, at least he didn't think it was as he sat on a branch preening despondently. The threads of all his stories had become inextricably muddled in his owlish head. To think that he'd once prided himself on being a storyteller. His stories had become adventures and some of those adventures had become nightmares, and now he was stuck with them. He'd flown in search of his friend and lover, Mia. She'd been dragged off by a band of thugs just when it was time for them all to return to their world. Only Sally, their mutual friend and lover, had made it back from the world of the Reaches to their home town of Avan. Hearing her story, despite the dangers she'd had to face, her friends suggested Sally teach them to travel to the Dream Realm and beyond to the Reaches. The idea appealed to everybody. Not that Sally knew how to get back to the Reaches, but the idea of a 'dream class' as they called it pleased her and, above all, she wanted to return to the world where her newly-found half-sister lived and where her two friends had so abruptly disappeared.

The Keeper's Daughter is the second book of The Storyteller's Quest by Alan McCluskey. The third book, The Starless Square, will be published in the near future.

From The Keeper's Daughter

• The Prologue

The Starless Square - The Storytellers Quest #3

In final edit.

The Starless Square is the third book of The Storyteller's Quest by Alan McCluskey. The fourth book of the series is currently being written.

From The Starless Square

• About The Lodge from book 3.

Twisted Paths - Beyond the Face of the World #1

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Twisted Paths is the first book of Beyond the Face of the World by Alan McCluskey.

From Twisted Paths

• A brief description of Twisted Paths the first book of Beyond the Face of the World.
• An extract from the first chapter of Twisted Paths entitled Tammie.

Story Five (code name)

Story Five is the code name for a novel that began life as a Twitter experiement called Tellers Quest. I discontinued Tellers Quest when I began re-writing it as Story Five. Having undergone major restructuring, I wrote sixty-three chapters of the seventy the book was to have. That's nearly 150'000 words. A number of the chapters were written during NanoWrimo in 2010. As I felt the book needed to be re-written before I could finish it, I set it aside to continue with The Storyteller's Quest series.

• You can read the Prologue and other material here.
• All existing episodes of Tellers Quest are available on Secret Paths.

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