Running parallel to our world, there’s another world most people could never even dream of—a world at once familiar and yet utterly fantastical. It is a land of elves, dwarves, trolls, goblins, tooth fairies, talking animals and dragons. This is the Underworld; this is a place where anything and everything can happen.
Taking us into the Underworld for the first time is While You Are Sleeping, a tale of high adventure, lashings of fun and irreverent humour, and a smattering of blink-and-you’ll-miss-them pop culture references.
Our reluctant hero in this caper is Eric the Elf, sock-thief for a team of Chaos-makers, a ragtag team of creatures sent to wreak havoc in our homes—in the Overworld, as they like to call it—each night while we sleep.
Eric, however, is an elf with a gambling problem—a problem that others are all too keen to exploit.
Cue all manner of shenanigans as Eric and his friends get involved in kidnapping, dangerous encounters with Underworld criminals, brushes with the law, and a courtroom drama like no other, as they battle to keep a very special object—and a very special Underworld visitor—from falling into the wrong hands.
Follow Eric in his race against time, and an assortment of bad guys, to save his friends, himself and—frack’s sake—all life as we know it.
While You Are Sleeping is a fun and feel-good book for all ages, with a plot suitable for younger readers, although the choice of language might be a little too ripe in some places for the very young.
Story length:
Approximately 119,000 words or 350 of your old-school paperback pages.
Warning(s):
While You Are Sleeping is not suitable for people without a sense of humour. And goblins—it’s not suitable for goblins either.
This book is written in British English, which differs from American English in some areas of spelling, punctuation and grammar. It also differs greatly from French, for obvious reasons.
This novel contains some fairly obvious synonyms for swear words, so if you don’t like the odd swear word or two, even faked swear words, then this book is not for you.
Finally, it is recommended you try the sample before buying. For a longer sample, several chapters can be read online for free via WattPad. For a link, please feel free to contact the author via the details below.
About the Author:
Paul M. Craig is a human being and lives in a shoe box in Lung-Dung... London. He can be tracked down online via Twitter (@paulmcraig) or his blog The Written Words of Madmen. He is not mad... at least, not yet.
Taking us into the Underworld for the first time is While You Are Sleeping, a tale of high adventure, lashings of fun and irreverent humour, and a smattering of blink-and-you’ll-miss-them pop culture references.
Our reluctant hero in this caper is Eric the Elf, sock-thief for a team of Chaos-makers, a ragtag team of creatures sent to wreak havoc in our homes—in the Overworld, as they like to call it—each night while we sleep.
Eric, however, is an elf with a gambling problem—a problem that others are all too keen to exploit.
Cue all manner of shenanigans as Eric and his friends get involved in kidnapping, dangerous encounters with Underworld criminals, brushes with the law, and a courtroom drama like no other, as they battle to keep a very special object—and a very special Underworld visitor—from falling into the wrong hands.
Follow Eric in his race against time, and an assortment of bad guys, to save his friends, himself and—frack’s sake—all life as we know it.
While You Are Sleeping is a fun and feel-good book for all ages, with a plot suitable for younger readers, although the choice of language might be a little too ripe in some places for the very young.
Story length:
Approximately 119,000 words or 350 of your old-school paperback pages.
Warning(s):
While You Are Sleeping is not suitable for people without a sense of humour. And goblins—it’s not suitable for goblins either.
This book is written in British English, which differs from American English in some areas of spelling, punctuation and grammar. It also differs greatly from French, for obvious reasons.
This novel contains some fairly obvious synonyms for swear words, so if you don’t like the odd swear word or two, even faked swear words, then this book is not for you.
Finally, it is recommended you try the sample before buying. For a longer sample, several chapters can be read online for free via WattPad. For a link, please feel free to contact the author via the details below.
About the Author:
Paul M. Craig is a human being and lives in a shoe box in Lung-Dung... London. He can be tracked down online via Twitter (@paulmcraig) or his blog The Written Words of Madmen. He is not mad... at least, not yet.
