TEMPLE, Texas, June 2, 2004 (PRIMEZONE) -- If he had not been terminated from his job of seven years, Richard W. Abel would not have had the freedom to write Shadowflight, his new book exploring a fantastical realm fraught with foreboding philosophical implications. Sometimes, a curse truly can be a blessing.
For millennia, the Sentients, a race of god-like beings, have warred over the fate of the mortals of Jegathar. One of them has taken on the flesh in order to recover the Arms of Authority, arcane keys that can be used to access the Well of Making in order to alter creation's pattern. An entity known as the Walker is being used as a tool in this twisted scheme, invoking his dark gift in the name of conquest to travel unseen through a lightless realm called the Everdark, parting the veils of time to rewrite history. That gift is called Shadowflight.
In the book, Abel successfully pities the concept of power versus control with darkly imaginative literary dexterity. Page after brilliant page, the reader is pulled into a world of the author's wildest imaginings as heroes and villains alike must discover their true destinies. In the end, Shadowflight becomes an unforgettable journey that will linger in the reader's mind long after the last page has been turned.
About the Author
Richard Wayne Abel was born on February 2, 1975, in the city of Temple, Texas. A single father of two, he has spent more than four years realizing his ambition to become a published writer. He thanks his family for the support they have shown him over the frustrating journey that publishing a book can entail, most notably his brother Don without whose input, critiques, and suggestions the story would have suffered greatly. Lastly, and the greatest of which, he thanks God who has given him the freedom to create, even if it was with the stroke of a key and not the wave of a cosmic hand.
Shadowflight by Richard W. Abel
Publication Date: 4/30/2004
Trade Paperback; $31.99; 701 pages; 1-4134-3916-0
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