Unpublished (so far) novels:
# Empire of Dust
# Sea Witch and Rowan-Kind
# The Ballad of Tom Ling
# The Outsiders (Red Man's Shadow / Dancing With the Past)
Published stories:
The Jet Set
The Urbane Fox
Mirror Mirror
Baron Boscov's Bastard
The Jewel of Locaria
Aunt Agatha's Agency
Unpublished Stories
I don't write all that many. You can read a sample if you are brave enough
Jacey Bedford - Writer
You can contact me at jacey at jaceybedford dot co dot uk.
These are novels currently in submission or under construction.
I've always written, but I didn't get really serious about the craft until about ten years ago, just before I sold my first short to an anthology in the USA. Since then I've been writing and refining (and selling more shorts). The Outsiders duo, the first two novels that I wrote, may not ever be publishable. You make your mistakes on the first one and hopefully fewer mistakes as you write and learn. They started out as one book, got too big and ended up being split into two. There's a potential third one in my head if they ever sell. I feel that Empire of Dust, and The Ballad of Tom Ling are much more likely to find (and worthy of finding) a publisher, as is the novel I'm currently working on, Sea Witch and Rowan-Kind , a magic pirate adventure quest novel which is shaping up really well.
The following are short blurbs for works in submission and works in progress. I write mostly fantasy and science fiction, mostly for adults with one YA novel doing the rounds.
What I'm working on :
# Empire of Dust
# Sea Witch and Rowankind
# The Ballad of Tom Ling
# The Outsiders (Red Man's Shadow / Dancing With the Past)
Sea Witch and Rowankind
This is the book I'm currently working on
92,000 word novel
Status: First draft complete - out to beta readers
- Revision begun.
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A magical pirate adventure quest novel in which cross-dressing, widowed pirate captain Rossalinde Tremayne, known to her enemies as 'Redbeard,' inherits a brother she didn't know she had a quest that she doesn't want. A magical elf-oak box has to be opened, but how and why? What's inside it? What does it do? The answer lies hidden behind skeletons in her family cupboard and Ross must uncover dark secrets before she can free herself from a ghost, learn to trust a shapeshifter and right an ancient wrong.
Unpublished (so far) novels:
# Empire of Dust
# The Elf Oak Box
# The Ballad of Tom Ling
# The Outsiders (Red Man's Sahdow / Dancing With the Past)
Empire of Dust
by Jacey Bedford
135,000 word novel.
Status: Complete.
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Forget the oil wars. In the future, platinum is what everyone needs.
The Trust and Alphacorp, rival, mega-corporations with economies bigger than whole planets, are expanding. Their colony specialists are an elite task force of psi-techs, implant-enhanced humans with abilities ranging from telepathy to the meshing of mind and machine.
When psi-tech, Cora Carlinni, uncovers corruption in Alphacorp she ends up on the run from a neural readjustment facility, believing that she's made her break before they started messing with her mind... but did she? Hoping to find a bolt-hole for a couple of years by signing on for the new Galileo colony set-up mission she hooks up with Trust Commander Ben Benjamin, however she not only takes her old troubles with her but also finds a host of new ones when she gets there and it turns out that the planet is heavy-metal-rich - a target for pirates.
If only she could work out who to trust, she might be able to steer out of trouble, but trust is something that's in short supply all-round. The settlers don't trust the psi-techs. The psi-techs don't tust their boss. Ben doesn't trust Cora. Cora doesn't trust anybody, especially herself, but if she doesn't learn to trust somebody, soon, the Galileo colony is going to get wiped out and all the psi-techs along with it.
This is a fast-paced novel of cross and double cross spanning star systems.
When it comes to the final confrontation Cora must face her fears and her trust issues. With her mind unravelling like an old cardigan and enough false memories surfacing that she doesn't know whose side she's on any more, Cora has to sort out reality from construct to save Ben and the colony. Of course, saving the colony doesn't necessarily mean she can save herself.
Unpublished (so far) novels:
# Empire of Dust
# The Elf Oak Box
# The Ballad of Tom Ling
# The Outsiders (Red Man's Shadow / Dancing With the Past)
The Ballad of Tom Ling
by Jacey Bedford
A YA novel, 76,500 words.
Status: Completed.
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When eighteen year old Jenny unwisely attends a drunken campfire party on New Year's Eve and meets an unusual young man she doesn't realise that she's already stepped over the line between Middle England and Faery. But the underworld of Faery is a long way from Walt Disney and the young man is not as young as he looks. Jenny's caught between two worlds and struggling. Until now she's been cocooned in the safety of home, loving parents, music and final exams, but all of a sudden her best friend wants an abortion, her mother is diagnosed with terminal cancer and her boyfriend's bound for Hell unless she starts taking advice from a very shady gypsy lady. Can she solve everyone's problems or is two out of three the best she can hope for? Maybe she might have stood a better chance if she hadn't got pregnant herself... and anyway, is her baby even human?
Unpublished (so far) novels:
# Empire of Dust
# The Elf Oak Box
# The Ballad of Tom Ling
# The Outsiders (Red Man's Shadow/Dancing with the Past)
The Outsiders —Volumes I & II
Red Man's Shadow and Dancing with the Past
by Jacey Bedford
108,000 word and 111,000 word linked novels
Status: Complete as a pair
Possible third book on hiatus until Books One and Two find a publisher
Book One
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Book Two
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Book Three
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The story of Ria, a foundling who proves to be 'different' in a very dangerous way. Ria is one of the 'esper' a small group of people linked by their telepathic bond in a world where psi-abilities are rewarded by death in the firepits.
Despite shrouded origins she makes her way in the world through a country torn apart by war. Meeting, losing and finally settling with the love of her life, Coriam, and producing a preciciously talented esper daughter. But eventually her past catches up with her in the shape of the Red Man. He knows who her real father is and wants to use her, and her daughter, to destroy him.
In the meantime Coriam is trying to build a refuge for the hunted espers of Jamundi. Something has to be done to protect them from stupid and cruel laws and if he can't work inside the system then he'll attack it from the outside. But when is terrorism justified?
This pair of books comes to a climax with Ria and Coriam's final struggle against the Red Man to save their daughter and to keep the espers' growing organisatation secret. These are complete in themselves.
In the third possible book - not yet written - Ria and Coriam will take their struggle for justice all the way to the ruler's court. Ria will confront her past, face down her father and Coriam with broker a deal for the espers to give them a new chance to live free of fear.