'Ffotographica' on eBay is run by Jasper Fforde himself, as my garage is pretty much full of obscure or outdated versions of my books. Everything comes with a free random postcard (as usually given away with all my signed books)
Default option is signed only, but dedications can be requested when you buy the book/audio/hat/whatever. Just fill out the 'message to buyer'.
German language edition 'Eis Welt' meaning 'Ice World', published by Heyne. On occasion I do 'First Signed' stamps, and this has one. There is a reference number, too, 'FG-591' and these also appear on any giveaways, postcards and the like. They are logged on my website. Go to the 'Fforde Grand Central' page and look for 'Giveaways'.
Early Riser is one of my Standalone books, of which I eventually hope to write more, and sits with 'Constant Rabbit' as a Satirical fantasy book. I think.
This is also the only book I've ever managed to sum up easily and in a single sentence: 'It's a thriller set in a world in which humans have always hibernated'
From the blurb on my website:
Every Winter, the human population hibernates.
During those bitterly cold four months, the nation is a snow-draped landscape of desolate loneliness, and devoid of human activity.
Well, not quite.
Your name is Charlie Worthing and it's your first season with the Winter Consuls, the committed but mildly unhinged group of misfits who are responsible for ensuring the hibernatory safe passage of the sleeping masses. You are investigating an outbreak of viral dreams which you dismiss as nonsense; nothing more than a quirky artefact borne of the sleeping mind.
When the dreams start to kill people, it's unsettling.
When you get the dreams too, it's weird.
When they start to come true, you begin to doubt your sanity.
But teasing truth from winter is never easy: You have to avoid the Villains and their penchant for murder, kidnapping and stamp collecting, ensure you aren't eaten by Nightwalkers whose thirst for human flesh can only be satisfied by comfort food, and sidestep the increasingly less-than-mythical WinterVolk.
But so long as you remember to wrap up warmly, you'll be fine.
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Next Publication: Red Side Story, UK Feb 2024, USA, May 2024
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