 After three designers, a head full of ideas and concepts, I finally have my book cover for
'THE SWEAT'. TRUST ME, THIS ISN'T A RUN-OF-THE-MILL ZOMBIE STORY! I wrote THE SWEAT in 2015; however, I didn't write a run of the mill zombie-themed book. I wrote about an overworked, underpaid Errol Jackson, who, after thirty years, is struggling to find the spark in his life and marriage but is reticent. I wrote about his wife Naomi, who's sick of his infidelity, but biding her time till her daughter is of age so she can leave with half. I wrote about their daughter Rubie, navigating school life and adolescence whilst approaching womanhood. I wrote about their son Shaq struggling to find decent work after finishing his degree, questioning his ethnicity's impact on his job prospects. I wrote about your family and my family and the neighbours next door. I then took the Jackson's reality and shattered it. I introduced an illness that affects two-thirds of the UK population. A condition that eats away at the rational and empathetic portion of the human mind turning the infected into lucid, cunning killers, able to think and deceive survivors. I removed all official authority and forced the population to govern themselves. I infected family members and friends and brought the threat into homes and onto their roads. I pushed the Jacksons and other families out into the streets. I pitted the English weather against them, the infected against them and desperate everyday people and added a shortage of food and clean water. I forced vulnerable survivors into joining ruthless warring gangs frantically trying to find and control essential resources, fuel, shelter, vice - and eventually the water and motorways going in and out of the capital. I gave liberty to some of the UK's bizarre subcultures now able to express themselves without persecution. I put the Jacksons up against all of this and ultimately made Errol and Naomi realise how much their union and family unit meant to them all along. I gave them hope of salvation in Brighton, and when they were close to getting out of the city, I split them down the middle and left Rubie in her father's care and a question mark over Naomi and Shaq's survival. THE SWEAT is a series of three books and is an original, thought-provoking, entertaining, essential piece of survival drama set in London. Follow me on Instagram: @Rpfalconer Follow me on twitter: @Rpfalconer Stay up-to-date with my blog by joining my mailing list >Here< Check out my books here: Amazon |