This story will continue in additional volumes of the Wood Cow Chronicles now in development. Helga: Out of Hedgelands is divided into three books which introduce the epic saga of the Wood Cow clan and their role in overturning centuries of slavery and tyranny. Helga's unusual story will take readers to worlds they never imagined-definitely a whole new ride.Time and again, the unconventional heroine and her eccentric comrades overcome ominous tyrants and black-hearted slavers, not by battling to the last beast standing, but by being the first beast to think differently. As an author, I'm drawn to eccentric, unexpected characters: those who surprise because they hear a distant galaxy, see a different music, create their own fragrance rather than get hooked on a soundtrack the child who has her own ideas about how the emperor is dressed the lunatics and rebels who tell stories on the boundaries. Beginning on a dangerous quest to solve some mysteries in her own past, Helga leads her quirky comrades on a journey that will not only forever change them, but upset ancient civilizations. It just sort of happened because she wouldn't go along with the "rules of normal" that keep tyrants in power and entire societies enslaved. Helga never intended to lead a revolution. But what do you expect when you are a young beast who just can't see the stupid rules of the world making any sense? Helga can't accept things as they are and ends up taking on not just one, but two all-powerful, supreme tyrants in two different realms. A dangerous quest to solve mysteries in her own past leads Helga and her comrades on a journey that will forever change them, and upset ancient civilizations.Helga has more danger in her life than most beasts her age-Wrackshee slavers after her, a vicious attack by bandits that nearly kills her, a race against dragons pursuing her, and leading a daring rebellion to save her life and rescue friends and family from the insidious WooZan. The difference between winning and losing is a hair's breadth," said the writer, who lives in Carrickfergus, Northern Ireland.Helga has more danger in her life than most beasts her age-Wrackshee slavers after her, a vicious attack by bandits that nearly kills her, a race against dragons pursuing her, and leading a daring rebellion against the insidious WooZan. I'm sure it will hit me on the way home, when I will bemuse all around me by performing a victorious knee-slide across the concourse at Gatwick."ĭavid Logan said he felt "very lucky" to win the prize. "The full impact of attaining a lifelong goal has yet to fully sink in. "Ever since I wrote my first short story at the age of eight, it has been my dream to become an author – although the idea for a novel about sex-crazed zombie cows did come a little later," said Michael Logan, who lives in Kenya but was born in Scotland. Half Sick of Shadows is "a darkly atmospheric, richly written coming-of-age novel in the spirit of Iain Banks's The Wasp Factory", said Transworld, while Apocalypse Cow is the story of a group of social misfits thrown together after the government accidentally unleashes an experimental bioweapon, "with peculiar repercussions for Britain's farm animals". " Half Sick of Shadows and Apocalypse Cow both stood out in their different ways and I wish their creators the best of luck in their writing careers." "It was a long deliberation and although to some it might seem a cop-out to split a prize, we decided that since the existence of the prize was to find new talent then this was the happiest decision to make," said Pratchett, who judged the prize with Tony Robinson and experts from Transworld and Waterstone's. Both will receive a publishing contract from Pratchett's publisher Transworld, with the prize money to be split. More than 500 writers submitted entries, with Michael Logan and David Logan (no relation) chosen as the joint winners from a shortlist of six "after hours of debate" yesterday evening.
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