H M Sealey
Kingdom Rising
The
Series
About me -
Heather Morag Sealey (nee Saunders) was born in North Wales in 1974 and has been living in her own little fantasy world ever since. Some of her earliest memories involve folding pieces of paper into books and writing about sea-shells with legs. She is the author of dozens of one-act-plays, the occasional two and three act play, and no end of odd little scripts, many written for school assemblies, children or vulnerable adults as part of "drama-therapy."
She adores the countryside, a passion shared by her husband and three children. In 2015 she was one of the ten winners of The British Theatre challenge with her one-act play, "On Your Walls."
Heather maintains that the Kingdom Rising series wrote itself and she just tagged along for the ride, writing about the situations and the characters she saw along the way.According to Heather, the first three books in the series (Warrior, Eternity and Deva) function as a prologue (just a very long prologue) setting the stage for the rest of events. She enjoys writing what she calls "jigsaw stories" - stories told from multiple viewpoints that mesh together as the book progresses. Because no story belongs to just one person.
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"I wrote the Kingdom Rising series for the same reason I breathe oxygen. I couldn't not write it. The more I wrote, the more I needed to follow the characters on their journeys. I needed to know more about the King, about the Malkhut, about Ish's strange worlds and whether or not there was any hope for humanity when the demonic kingdom held so much power.
But there is hope. Sometimes there is darkness in these stories, darkness that I find traumatic and harrowing to write. Nina Sweetapple's tale of abuse and misery, for example,, caused me to collapse in tears on many occasions at the thought, not only of man's inhumanity to man, which is bad enough, but of the true depravity of cruelty towards a child.
Yet Nina survives. Writing her character and painfully aware that real abuse goes on out there in the world, I could not heal her of her past at once, for such healing is not easy or swift. But, I hope with all my heart, it is possible.
And that, I hope, is a theme of these books. That the world can be dark, cruel, evil and bleak. Yet there will always be a sunrise, always be light to pierce the darkness, always be hope."
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Novels -
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Warrior Rising
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Eternity Rising
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Deva Rising
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Hades Rising
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Antiquity Rising
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Victory Rising
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Temple Rising
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Camelot Rising
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Pentecost Rising
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Lawlessness Rising
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The King's Story
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Deception Rising
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Freedom Rising
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This Broken Land
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The Privileged Few
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Exiles From Heaven
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For younger readers -
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Time Flies
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Plays -
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The Rats of Hamelin
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Rumpelstiltskin
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On Your Walls
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When The Gods
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And Deliver Us From Evil
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Emma's World
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The Christmas Story
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Defective Me
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Past Perfect
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Deadlysinsdotcom
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Ouija Vu
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The Girl With Two Lives
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Non-Fiction
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Overcoming Eating Disorders In Jesus
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