BLOG NUMBER 6: 29th December 2025
The last days...
December has been an interesting month. Besides my usual duties and my real job... I have been typing furiously to finish the now complete and self-published novella 'The Legend of Zuluzog', which is available in digital bookstores everywhere, free of charge.
For those of you in Kindle Land, however, I have to sincerely apologise as the novella is not free on the Amazon platform as intended. To offer the book for free (or discount) on Amazon requires that I submit it to the Kindle Unlimited subscription service. Unfortunately, to do this I must adhere to the 3 month exclusivity rules of Amazon as I did with The Book of Mook. This would prevent me in offering the book free anywhere else. As I wanted the book out as a Christmas present for you all, I had to say no to K.U. because, even if I did, they only allow up to 5 days a month when your book can be free, regardless. It's all a bit complicated. at least to my feeble brain... but it basically boils down to the book being 99 pennies or your equivalent, on Amazon. Feel free to purchase if you are a person who is kind of heart and wishes to support me, or otherwise just get it another platform - all of which are here!
The Legend of Zuluzog is a side story in the mookeyverse, one that has been fermenting in my mind for a long time, since before I started seriously putting together The Book of Mook. I remember asking my friend Mark Bartlett, narrator of the fables, to inform me of some unanswered questions regarding Fiffle's origins... and Higblig... where did she come from? But no answers could he give me, only informing me that whoever was telling him the tales had not yet informed him, though perhaps they would tell me directly!
Well, none of my above queries are answered in the new novella, but those Legends of Zuluzog's origins do clear up some other quandaries regarding the zogs who lived in the trees during that period in 'his stories'. I did try and sync with Mark's conduit to fill in the blanks as I wrote it, while referring to scraps of notes and text files from online conversations and emails with Mark. If justice has been done, that is up to you to decide.
On that note, getting the novella written and out on time also probably means there are a few more errors or typos than usual. I did my best to go through it and have already sent a latest update to all platforms, most of which have applied them, but if you do find any mistakes, rest assured they should all be corrected in due course. of course, feel free to shout at me in the contact section and inform me of any wrongdoings, naturally.
As for my immediate and distant future, I am having a few days off to recover my sore limbs before I begin the second mookey book The Book of Fiffle, which I am planning to release on August 22nd, the same date I published The Book of Mook this year. That promises to be another enlightening and interesting story of the first mookey's quest to find Higblig, venturing into new dangers, facing new and old enemies and revisiting the land beyond the mountains once more. This, alongside new interims detailing my life at the time I was told these tales, should result in another interesting addition to the mookey lore.
I thank you for taking the leap and coming on this journey with me. I look forward to our continuing travels and travails as we forge further forth into the unknown together.
Wishing you the very best,
Philip Wyatt