Within the First Edition pages of The Fallen Kind Vol. I: Ghosts of Nunchi are a series of illustrations that help to further envisage the dystopian world of the book. The fantasy images were the combined effort of the novel’s author and a very talented painter: Nida A. Hashmi. Nida was born in Multan, Pakistan…
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A huge thanks to Carmen at the Tranquil Reader blog, who kindly read and reviewed The Fallen Kind Vol. I: Ghosts of Nunchi. With Carmen, the dystopian novel has now excitingly reached South Africa. Carmen’s thoughts can be found on her blog, Goodreads and Amazon. To check out her thoughts on the first installment of…
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A big thank you goes out to The Tattooed Book Geek blog, who hosted M. Almelk this week to discuss a variety of things: from the inspiration for writing The Fallen Kind Vol. I: Ghosts of Nunchi to the mindset behind the dystopian fantasy trilogy and it’s undercurrent of sci-fi, romance and adventure. As well…
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“The Fallen Kind is something that I rarely say about books, let alone books that could fall in the self-pub category. The Fallen Kind is very, very good. The writing and plotting is masterful. Each character gets his or her due, and I didn’t feel like any character was stereotyped or pigeonholed. A rare, artful…
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M. Almelk recently took some time out from writing Vol. II of The Fallen Kind series to discuss the post-apocalyptic, dystopian world of the book in a little more depth. Questions focused on the mysterious characteristics of Beveridge, the inspiration behind the fantasy novel and even the themes that drive the end of the world…
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